Sources: Xinhua
Nine people are killed during a shootout between Gulf Cartel gunmen and the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Montelibano, Córdoba Department, Colombia. 2025-01-17
Ángel Barajas wins the silver medal in Men's horizontal bar, earning Colombia its first ever medal in gymnastics. 2024-08-5
Finland reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Mu variant, which was first detected in Colombia. 2021-09-18
Two Venezuelan Army troops are killed and nine others are wounded by a land mine, near the border with Colombia, during operations against FARC dissidents and other "irregular armed groups". [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-colombia-venezuela-venezuela-says-two-soldiers-killed-by-land-mine-near-colombia-border-idUSKBN2BP05P?il=0 (Reuters)]2021 Apure clashes2021-04-1
Colombia grants emergency use authorization for the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. 2021-03-25
Colombia formalizes its membership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), becoming the 37th nation in the organization. 2020-04-28
Sixty Venezuelan National Guard personnel defect to Colombia; three of them defect after smashing a barrier at the Simón Bolívar International Bridge on the Colombia–Venezuela border in two armored vehicles, leaving some injured. A video posted on social media shows the men with their guns above their heads in a sign of surrender. 2019-02-23
At least nine people are killed and about 30 others are missing after their multi-story tourist boat, carrying about 170 people, sinks in a reservoir in northwest Colombia near Medellín. 2017-06-25
Colombian government and FARC representatives meet in Havana, and President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with presidential predecessors Álvaro Uribe, the accord opposition leader, and Andrés Pastrana Arango, to continue negotiations to end the 52-year war that has killed around a quarter of a million people. 2016-10-4
Colombia plans to legalize medical marijuana in a further shift in drug policy after suspending aerial fumigation of illicit crops. A decree approving the therapeutic use of marijuana will be signed in the coming days. Growing, distributing and selling cannabis will remain illegal. 2015-11-13