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Events from the year 2003 in Colombia.

Incumbents

Events

January

  • 15 January – President Uribe requests military assistance from the United States similar to that of the Iraq War.[5]

February

March

  • 5 March – Seven people are killed in Cúcuta when a car bomb explodes.[10]
  • 18 March – The football club Bogotá F.C. is founded.[11]

April

  • 6 April – Radio journalist José Emeterio Rivas is murdered in Barrancabermeja after publicly accusing the local politicians of corruption, his body is found alongside that of Paolo César Montesinos, a student.[12]
  • 10 April – Mayor of El Roble Eudaldo Diaz's body is found beaten, tortured, and executed two months after he pleaded with President Uribe during a televised community meeting to save him from assassination. This came after he had accused Uribe's ally Salvador Arana and other politicians of paramilitary connections and corruption.[13][14]
  • 30 April – President Álvaro Uribe meets with U.S. President George W. Bush and press in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.[15]

May

June

July

August

  • 30 August – The FARC releases a second proof of life to the family of kidnapped French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.

September

October

November

December

  • 28 December – A judicial assistant for the Prosecutor's Office in Chiquinquirá, Dora Inés Rodríguez, is murdered in her sleep.[21]
  • 30 December – A 50 kilograms (110 lb) car bomb is neutralized in the Puerto Jordán district of Tame, Arauca by the 18th Brigade of the Military Forced of Colombia.[22]

Uncertain

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ East, Roger; Thomas, Richard J. (3 June 2014). Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-317-63940-4.
  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.
  21. ↑ "ASESINADA ASISTENTE JUDICIAL:". El Tiempo (Colombia) (in Spanish). 30 December 2003. Archived from the original on 13 May 2025. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  22. ↑ Tiempo, Redacción El (30 December 2003). "DESACTIVAN CARRO BOMBA:". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 May 2025. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  23. ↑ "Falleció el compositor Rafael Mejía Romani" [Songwriter Rafael Mejía Romani has died], Caracol Radio (in Spanish), 19 June 2003, retrieved 19 May 2025
  24. ↑ Leonardo Herera Delghams (18 July 2003), "Murió el Tigre de la Montaña" [The Tiger of the Mountain has died], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 22 May 2025
  25. ↑ "20 años sin Colacho Mendoza y su influencia en la música vallenata" [20 years without Colacho Mendoza and his influence on vallenato music], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), 25 September 2023, retrieved 23 October 2025
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