2002 in Colombia

none August 2024 November 2024 November 2024 2002Events from the year 2002 in Colombia. Incumbents President: Andrés Pastrana Arango (1998 – 7 August 2002).East Roger Thomas Richard J. Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders 3 June 2014 Routledge 978-1-317-63940-4 108 https://books.google.com/books?id=5VO4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 en Álvaro Uribe Vélez (7 August 2002 – 2010).How President Alvaro Uribe changed Colombia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10841425 BBC News 20 August 2024 4 August 2010 Vice President: Gustavo Bell (1998–7 August 2002). Francisco Santos Calderón (7 August 2002 – 2010).Publications Europa South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2003 2002 Taylor & Francis 978-1-85743-138-4 271 https://books.google.com/books?id=kw5W8m87FpkC&pg=PA271 enKline Harvey F. Historical Dictionary of Colombia 2012 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7813-6 196 https://books.google.com/books?id=BJbjM7yYKmkC&pg=PA196 en Events Ongoing Colombian conflict January 9 January – The Colombian government announces it is suspending peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and plans to enter the demilitarized zone.12 March 2002 Peace Timeline: 2002 https://adamisacson.com/files/old_cip_colombia/timeline.htm 20 August 2024 The Center for International Policy's Latin America Security Program 30 January – Journalist Orlando Sierra Hernández is shot in the head twice while walking with his daughter in Manizales, Caldas. He dies in the hospital the following day.The Case of Orlando Sierra Hernández https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/the-case-of-orlando-sierra-hernandez/ 20 August 2024 Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University en-USOrlando Sierra Hernández https://cpj.org/data/people/orlando-sierra-hernandez/ 20 August 2024 Committee to Protect Journalists en-US February 20 February – Four FARC members hijack a commercial plane flying from Neiva to Bogotá. The president, as a result, decides to halt the peace process.20 February 2002 Colombian peace talks suspended after hijacking, kidnapping http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/02/20/colombia.hijack/index.html 19 August 2024 CNN 23 February – Presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt and her campaign manager Clara Rojas are kidnapped by the FARC near San Vicente del Caguán.Begg Kirsten 13 July 2010 Betancourt's arrogance got her kidnapped: Ex-hostage https://colombiareports.com/betancourts-arrogance-got-her-kidnapped-ex-hostage/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20220920171434/https://colombiareports.com/amp/betancourts-arrogance-got-her-kidnapped-ex-hostage/ 20 September 2022 26 September 2024 Colombia Reports en March 10 March – 2002 parliamentary elections are held.July 2002 Colombia Cracks Down https://www.wola.org/sites/default/files/downloadable/Andes/Colombia/past/Colombia%20monitor_july02.pdf 20 August 2024 Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Colombia Monitor 15 March – Football player Jairo Zulbarán is murdered while at a public market in Santa Marta.January 2006 EL FINAL TRISTE DE MUCHOS FUTBOLISTAS The sad end of many players http://www.elcolombiano.com/proyectos/capsulas/historico/2006/enero/9.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120704203322/http://www.elcolombiano.com/proyectos/capsulas/historico/2006/enero/9.htm 4 July 2012 20 August 2024 El Colombiano Spanish April 11 April – Ancízar López López is kidnapped, allegedly by the National Liberation Army (ELN).2005 la FIDH condena el secuestro y la muerte del ex gobernador Ancízar López López. https://www.fidh.org/es/region/americas/colombia/la-FIDH-condena-el-secuestro-y-la 26 September 2024 Federación Internacional por los Derechos Humanos (FIDH) es 12 April – Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis: 12 Deputies of the Valle del Cauca Department Assembly are kidnapped by FARC members with the goal of prisoner exchange.Ex diputados piden acuerdo humanitario Former deputies ask for a humanitarian agreement http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/notas/Septiembre242006/exdipua.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070927015533/http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/notas/Septiembre242006/exdipua.html 27 September 2007 20 August 2024 El País es 26 April – Apartado massacre: FARC members kill nine workers and place explosives at the Villa Lucía banana plantation27 April 2002 Incrementan seguridad en Urabá, tras masacre de nueve personas Security increased in Urabá after massacre of nine people https://caracol.com.co/radio/2002/04/27/judicial/1019858400_080893.html 20 August 2024 Caracol Radio Spanish16 October 2019 Masacre de Apartadó 2002 Apartado massacre 2002 https://rutasdelconflicto.com/masacres/apartado-2002 20 August 2024 Rutas del Conflicto Spanish May thumb|Bojayá Church after being hit (May 12, 2002). thumb|184x184px|2002 presidential election results by department purple Uribe| red Serpa. 2 May – Bojayá massacre: An estimated 119 people are killed after a church is caught in the crossfire of fighting between the FARC and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), struck with a cylinder bomb.Grattan Steven Voge Cady Bojaya massacre: After 17 years, victims' remains returned https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/11/15/bojaya-massacre-after-17-years-victims-remains-returned live https://web.archive.org/web/20240203032607/https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/11/15/bojaya-massacre-after-17-years-victims-remains-returned 3 February 2024 19 August 2024 Al Jazeera en 26 May – The 2002 Colombian presidential election is held; Álvaro Uribe of the Colombia First movement wins, earning 53% of the vote. June 18 June – President-elect Álvaro Uribe meets with United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers in Washington, D.C.31 August 2020 The Friends of "El Viejo": Declassified Records Detail Suspected Paramilitary, Narco Ties of Former Colombian President Uribe https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/colombia/2020-08-31/friends-el-viejo-declassified-records-detail-suspected-paramilitary-narco-ties-former-colombian 20 August 2024 National Security Archive at George Washington University July 15 July – Amnesty International issues a 'fear for safety' public statement on SINTRAELECOL Human Rights officer Rodrigo Acevedo and other union members. This came after multiple apparent attempts on his life and the murders of at least 160 trade unionist murders in 2001.15 July 2002 PUBLIC https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/amr230712002en.pdf 20 August 2024 Amnesty International August 7 August – Álvaro Uribe and Francisco Santos Calderón are inaugurated as the 31st president and 8th vice president of Colombia. 7 August – 14 people are killed in a FARC missile attack on the Casa de Nariño during Uribe's inauguration.14 Dead At Colombian Inauguration http://www.cbsnews.com/news/14-dead-at-colombian-inauguration/ 2017-04-08 en September 23–26 September – President Uribe meets with U.S. President George W. Bush.Visits By Foreign Leaders of Colombia https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/visits/colombia 20 August 2024 U.S. Office of the Historian 24 September – The U.S. Department of Justice unseals indictments against AUC members, including Carlos Castaño-Gil, for cocaine trafficking.Ashcroft John John Ashcroft 24 September 2002 United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) Indictment https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/inl/rls/rm/13663.htm 20 August 2024 Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs en thumb|Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela being captured. November 7 November – Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, a drug lord from the Cali Cartel is granted early release after serving 7 years in prison on the basis of good behavior, despite efforts by the U.S. government to stop his release. 8 November 2002 Drug Lord Is Released From Prison https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-08-fg-colombia8-story.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20240222083051/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-08-fg-colombia8-story.html 22 February 2024 20 August 2024 Los Angeles Times en-US October 16–18 October – Operation Orion: the 4th Brigade of the Colombian military, the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), and police special forces conduct a military offensive within Comuna 13, Medellín with the stated mission of fighting FARC, ELN, and People’s Armed Commandos (CAP) members.pbicolombia 2017-01-10 Operation Orion https://pbicolombia.org/2017/01/10/operation-orion/ 2025-05-05 PBI Colombia (English) en-GB December 11 December – Police discover a number of cars rigged with remote control steering and explosives, believed to be prepared for attacks in Bogotá. They manage to defuse five cars bombs.Bogota Colombia RC Car Bombs 2002 https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/incidents/bogota-colombia-rc-car-bombs-2002 live https://web.archive.org/web/20230123225146/https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/incidents/bogota-colombia-rc-car-bombs-2002 23 January 2023 20 August 2024 Collective Awareness To UXO (CAT-UXO) en 24 December – At a check-point in Paime, Cundinamarca, councilman José Alirio Macías is killed by the FARC-EP. 25 January 2013 Lo que hizo las Farc en Cundinamarca What the FARC did in Cundinamarca https://verdadabierta.com/los-crimenes-de-las-farc-en-cundinamarca/ 21 August 2024 Verdad Abierta es Deaths 9 January – Maruja Hinestrosa, pianist and composerhttps://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1364453 Murió la Compositora de El Cafetero The composer of El Cafetero has died es El Tiempo 2002-02-11 2025-07-04 1 February – Orlando Sierra Hernández, columnist and journalist (b. 1959). 15 March – Jairo Zulbarán, football player (b. 1970). 16 March – Isaías Duarte Cancino, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1939). 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