2000 in Colombia

none 2000November 2024November 2024 August 2024 Events of 2000 in Colombia. Incumbents President: Andrés Pastrana Arango (1998–2002) Vice President: Gustavo Bell (1998–2002) Events January 13 January – President Pastrana signs the Ottawa Convention, a United Nations treaty banning the use, production, and transfer of personnel landmines.Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention https://disarmament.unoda.org/anti-personnel-landmines-convention/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240814083411/https://disarmament.unoda.org/anti-personnel-landmines-convention/ 14 August 2024 23 August 2024 United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) en-US February 3 February – The United States' Clinton Administration proposes aid to Colombia which would become Plan Colombia.3 February 2000 The Clinton Administration's Aid Proposal http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/aidprop4.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20011115080339/http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/aidprop4.htm 15 November 2001 23 August 2024 Center for International Policy 5–6 February – The 2000 South American Cross Country Championships and Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships take place in Cartagena de Indias.Campeonato Sudamericano de Cross Country http://atletismouy.wikispaces.com/file/view/CrossSam%5B1%5D.doc 23 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20140104004752/http://atletismouy.wikispaces.com/file/view/CrossSam%5B1%5D.doc 4 January 2014 dead Confederación Atlética del Uruguay es 16-20 February – El Salado massacre: The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) indiscriminately torture and murder more than 100 residents of El Salado, supposedly with the goal of intimidating and punishing those they suspect of being sympathetic with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As this occurred, members of the Colombian Navy were reportedly present and aware of the slaughter, doing nothing.Brody Daniel 23 February 2010 Ten years on, no justice for El Salado massacre victims https://colombiareports.com/ten-years-later-little-justice-in-the-el-salado-massacre/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240823214551/https://colombiareports.com/amp/ten-years-later-little-justice-in-the-el-salado-massacre/ 23 August 2024 23 August 2024 Colombia Reports enEvans Michael 24 September 2009 Conspiracy of Silence? Colombia, the United States and the Massacre at El Salado https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB287/index.htm live https://web.archive.org/web/20240613014813/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB287/index.htm 13 June 2024 23 August 2024 National Security Archives at George Washington University2001 Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Colombia: Human Rights Developments https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k1/americas/colombia.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20240418203025/https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k1/americas/colombia.html 18 April 2024 23 August 2024 Human Rights Watch (HRW) 27 February – The Colombia national football team plays Canada's in the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup final in Los Angeles, United States. March 31 March – The United States House of Representatives passes a 1.3 billion dollar military aid package to Colombia aimed at combatting drug trafficking operations.Articles on Aid Passage in the House https://colombiasupport.net/archive/200003/misc-aidapproval-0331.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20240823215002/https://colombiasupport.net/archive/200003/misc-aidapproval-0331.html 23 August 2024 23 August 2024 ClombiaSupport.net April 26 April – A confrontation between AUC members and other prisoners inside La Modelo prison in Bogota escalates to fighting which results in 32 deaths and 17 injuries. 29 April 2000 32 Reclusos Muertos en La Modelo 32 Prisoners Died in La Modelo https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1291524 live https://web.archive.org/web/20240818021734/https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1291524 18 August 2024 23 August 2024 El Tiempo es-CO May thumb|217x217px|Jineth Bedoya Lima testifying at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about her 2000 abduction 25 May – El Espectador reporter Jineth Bedoya is abducted by paramilitaries while inside La Modelo maximum security prison in Bogotá. She is driven to a city three hours away and beaten, tortured, threatened, raped, and dumped. June 11–26 June – The 50th Vuelta a Colombia starts off in Cartagena. 24 June – Reminiscencias dance club shooting: Juan de Jesús Lozano Velásquez kills 11 people and injures seven at the Reminiscencias dance club in Bogotá after opening fire with a machine gun.Toro Cristian 29 August 2003 Toro Sánchez. Cristian Giovanny Condenan a 40 Años por Masacre en Bar Reminiscencias https://www.samanacaldas.net.co/notiver.php?idnoticia=521 live https://web.archive.org/web/20230528042717/https://www.samanacaldas.net.co/notiver.php?idnoticia=521 28 May 2023 23 August 2024 Samaná Caldas es-ES July 26 July – The Independent Movement for Absolute Renovation (MIRA) party is founded. August 11–20 August – 2000 Clásico RCN 15 August – Colombian armed forces indiscriminately shoot at people in Pueblo Rico, Antioquia for 40 minutes, killing numerous civilians including six elementary school children on a field trip. September 9 September – Former FARC member Arnubio Ramos hijacks an airplane, landing it in rebel territory.27 September 2000 Colombia's attorney general proposes prisoner exchange with rebels http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/09/27/colombia.prisoners/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240823224004/http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/09/27/colombia.prisoners/ 23 August 2024 23 August 2024 CNN 27 September – Colombian Attorney General Alfonso Gomez Mendez advocates for the government to legally allow prisoner exchanges with FARC. October 14 October – Macayepo massacre: The Héroes de los Montes de María of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) attack the corregimiento Macayepo, Bolívar, killing 15 residents and displacing over 200 families.14 October 2020 Macayepo, from the ashes of death to hope https://www.unidadvictimas.gov.co/en/noticias/59253-2/ 23 August 2024 Unidad para las Víctimas Gobierno de Colombia en August 2026 InternetArchiveBot November alt=A photo of the courtyard at the Museo Botero in Bogotá, taken from a balcony |thumb|Museo Botero in Bogotá 1 November – The Museo Botero opens to the public in La Candelaria, Bogotá, available free of charge.Museo Botero, Bogotá https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-botero-bogota live https://web.archive.org/web/20240803010022/https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museo-botero-bogota 3 August 2024 23 August 2024 Google Arts & CultureGuide/City Bogotá/ Museums/Museo Botero https://www.artnexus.com/en/guide/Institutions/see/5beb5ba25662fe54fe804643/5b8ebe413a2fd5c4ec21a5d0 live https://web.archive.org/web/20240823141843/https://www.artnexus.com/en/guide/Institutions/see/5beb5ba25662fe54fe804643/5b8ebe413a2fd5c4ec21a5d0 23 August 2024 23 August 2024 Artnexus 4–5 November – The 15th South American Youth Championships in Athletics are held in Estadio El Salitre in Bogotá. 12 November – Miss Colombia 2000 is held in Cartagena de Indias. Miss Cartagena, Andrea Nocetti, wins. December 1 December – Authorities announce the discovery of a bomb along a road before a visit by United States politicians; later deemed unrelated to the following visit.1 December 2000 World - Bomb discovered in Colombia before visit of U.S. senator, ambassador http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/12/01/colombia.wellstone.03/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20040803203503/http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/12/01/colombia.wellstone.03/ 3 August 2004 23 August 2024 CNN 15 December – Hitmen under the instruction of an Army officer conspiring with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) attacks Wilson Borja, the President of the National Federation of State Workers (es Federación Nacional de Trabajadores al Servicio del Estado), wounding him in the leg. A bystander dies in the crossfire between his bodyguards and the gunmen, as did a hitman.Colombia: Fear for Safety: Wilson Bora Diaz, trade union leader https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr23/104/2000/en/ 2024-08-23 Amnesty International 20 December 2000 en Uncertain Fernando Botero donates 123 of his own art pieces and 85 by international artists to the Bank of the Republic, creating the Museo Botero.de Birbragher Celia Sredni 1999 Botero - Donates his Collection to Colombia https://www.artnexus.com/en/magazines/article-magazine-artnexus/5e99eb8316ee64e15c3f2de5/34/botero Art Nexus 34 Arte en Colombia 80 23 August 2024 Births 10 September – Ela Taubert, singer and songwriterhttps://www.eluniversal.com.co/farandula/2024/11/15/quien-es-ela-taubert-la-colombiana-que-canto-con-joe-jonas-en-los-grammy/ ¿Quién es Ela Taubert? La colombiana que cantó con Joe Jonas en los Grammy Who is Ela Taubert? The Colombian that sang with Joe Jonas at the Grammys es El Universal 2024-11-15 2025-10-23 November – Loraine Lara, vallenato accordionist.https://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/musica/loraine-lara-mercado-la-reina-del-acordeon/ Loraine Lara Mercado: la reina del acordeón Loraine Lara Mercado: the queen of the accordion es El Espectador Giancarlo Calderon 2019-07-27 2026-08-17 Deaths alt=Rodrigo Lloreda (Right) with U.S President Ronald Reagan (Left) in 1985|thumb|155x155px|Rodrigo Lloreda (Right) with U.S President Ronald Reagan (Left) in 1985 2 January – Ramiro Better, singer-songwriter (b. 1963). 13 January – Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo, politician and lawyer (b. 1942). 11 February – Graciela Arango de Tobón, songwriter (b. 1931).https://www.radionacional.co/musica/graciela-arango-de-tobon-90-anos-de-su-natalicio Graciela Arango de Tobón: 90 años de su natalicio 90 years since her birth es Radio Nacional de Colombia 2021-03-07 2025-04-09 1 March – Andrés Landero, composer and musician (b. 1932). 6 March – Germán Castelblanco, actor (b. 1957). 3 April – Hernán Castrillón Restrepo, news anchor (b. 1937). 28 April – Teresa Pizarro de Angulo, businesswoman (b. 1913). 8 May -- Mario Galán Gómez, politician and lawyer (b.1900s) References External links Colombiacollapsed 2000 in collapsed Category:2000 in Colombia Category:2000 by country Category:2000s in Colombia Category:Years of the 20th century in Colombia Category:2000 in South America