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Events from the year 2003 in Colombia .

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Álvaro Uribe</span> President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010

Álvaro Uribe Vélez is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gilberto Echeverri Mejía</span>

Gilberto Echeverri Mejía was a Colombian electrical engineer, businessman and politician who on 21 April 2002 was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC-EP along with the then-Governor of Antioquia Guillermo Gaviria Correa among others while participating in a peace walk and held hostage until 5 May 2003 when he was murdered by the guerrillas during a botched rescue operation by government forces deep in the Colombian northwestern jungle, bordering between Antioquia and Chocó. A Liberal party politician, he had previously served as Ambassador of Colombia to Ecuador from 1975 to 1977 in the Administration of President Alfonso López Michelsen, Minister of Economic Development from 1978 to 1980 in the Administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala, Minister of National Defence from 1997 to 1998 in the Administration of President Ernesto Samper Pizano, and was working as peace advisor to Governor Gaviria before he was kidnapped.

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Lina María Moreno de Uribe is the wife of the 31st president of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 2002 to 2010.

The following lists events that happened during 2010 in Colombia.

The 2003 Neiva bombing was a major bomb attack carried out by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels in the city of Neiva, Colombia on February 14, 2003. Sixteen people died and a dozen others were injured after the explosion of a car bomb near Benito Salas Airport. Police claimed FARC tried to blow up a plane carrying President Álvaro Uribe who was flying overhead. Nine police officers were among those who died. The explosive charge of the blast was 330-440 pounds.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Álvaro Leyva</span> Colombian lawyer, economist, politician and diplomat

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  2. ↑ "How President Alvaro Uribe changed Colombia". BBC News. 4 August 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  3. ↑ Publications, Europa (2002). South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2003. Taylor & Francis. p. 271. ISBN   978-1-85743-138-4.
  4. ↑ Kline, Harvey F. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Colombia. Scarecrow Press. p. 196. ISBN   978-0-8108-7813-6.
  5. ↑ "Uribe pide a E.U un despliegue militar en Colombia "similar" al de Irak" [Uribe asks U.S. for military deployment "similar" to Iraq]. Agencia de Noticias e Información Alternaiva(ANIA), URCM (in Spanish). 21 January 2003. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "At least 32 killed in Colombia club blast". CNN . 8 February 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "Security Council condemns 7 February bomb attack in Bogotá, says act of terrorism threatens peace, security". United Nations. 13 February 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "Explosion in Southern Colombia Kills 16". Fox News. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  9. ↑ McDermott, Jeremy (15 February 2003). "CIA agents killed or captured in Colombia". Telegraph. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "CNN.com - At least 6 die in Colombia blast". CNN . 5 March 2003. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "BOGOTÁ FC". Dimayor. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  12. 1 2 Cardona, Libardo (22 January 2009). "Stiff sentence in Colombian journalist's murder". 20 August 2024. Associated Press.
  13. ↑ Ayala Osorio, Germán (18 March 2023). "¿A Eudaldo Díaz lo asesinaron los paramilitares o un 'sarraceno' del siglo XXI?" [Was Eudaldo Díaz murdered by paramilitaries or by a 21st century 'Saracen'?]. La Orejaroja (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  14. ↑ Kraul, Chris (6 February 2009). "Deaths cloud Colombian ex-governor's trial". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 21 August 2024. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  15. ↑ "Remarks by President Bush and President Uribe of Colombia in Photo Opportunity". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  16. ↑ "XIV Consejo Presidencial Andino / Declaración de Quirama". Sistema de Información sobre Comercio Exterior, OAS . Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  17. ↑ Dwan, Renata; Gustavsson, Micaela (2004). "Major armed conflicts". SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. pp. 95–131. ISBN   978-0-19-926570-1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  18. ↑ Rodríguez-Torres, María Natalia (2019). "Manuel Octavio Bermúdez "el monstruo de los cañaduzales"". Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad Católica de Colombia. Facultad de Derecho. hdl:hdl.handle.net/10983/23196 . Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  19. ↑ "Ciudad Perpida Kidnappings and Modern History". La Ciudad Perpida. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  20. ↑ Dongen, Rachel Van (17 November 2003). "Grenades Hit Two Bars in Bogota". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 20 August 2024.
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