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The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.
1 January – 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.[1]
19 January – A drug lord named Amaury Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.[2]
20 January – FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.[3]
22 January – FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.[4]
February
9 February – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia, causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.[5][6]
25 February – Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.[7]
March
8 March – The strike of the coffee growers is over.[8]
5 May – A ceremony commemorating the first sacred indigenous land to be designated under a new protected land status occurs, formally transferring Jaba Tañiwashkaka in La Guajira to the Kogi people.[10]
June
10 June – The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.[11]
July
20 July – government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.[12]
22 July – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.[13]
August
19 August – An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]
October
12 October – A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[14]
November
9 November – A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.[15]
December
9 December – Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, is removed from office and banned from re-taking it for fifteen years, due to a failing city cleaning policy promoted by him.[16]
14 December – A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.[17]
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