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2001
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Colombia, January 2001
Colombia, February 2001
Colombia, March 2001
Colombia, April 2001
Colombia, May 2001
Colombia, June 2001
Colombia, July 2001
Colombia, August 2001
Colombia, September 2001
Colombia, October 2001
Colombia, November 2001
Colombia, December 2001
FARC
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| Jan.10 |
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Car bomb wounds 15
| Jan.12 |
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President tours Medellin
| Jan.25 |
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Government urged to continue talks
| Jan.30 |
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Hijacker overpowered Crew & passengers overpower hijacker. 23 passengers and 4 crewmembers were unharmed
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| Feb.8 |
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President to meet rebel chief
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Talks with rebels President Pastrana will spend the night in rebel territory after talks with commanders failed to bring the agreement
| Feb.9 |
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Agreement with FARC leader President Pastrana reached an agreement with the rebel group to resume peace negotiations and aim for a resolution of civil war | |
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| Mar.1 |
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Bomb cause power outage
| Mar.10 |
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Rebel group suspends peace talks
| Mar.11 |
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Night Without Men
| Mar.16 |
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Bishop to remain in jail
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| Apr.6 |
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Mexican president presses rebels
| Apr.10 |
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FARC commander sought Prosecution service has ordered the arrest of a leftist rebel commander for drug trafficking
| Apr.16 |
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30 killed by paramilitaries Rightist fighters reportedly massacred 30 people in the the mountain hamlets
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Rebels kidnap oil workers Nearly 100 employees of the US oil company Occidental Petroleum kidnapped by National Liberation Army
| Apr.17 |
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Rebels free most kidnapped
| Apr.19 |
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Remaining hostages freed
| Apr.26 |
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Mine explosion kills 15
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| May.4 |
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Car bomb injures 32
| May.25 |
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Bomb blasts kill at least 4
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| Jun.2 |
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FARC inks landmark prisoner swap
| Jun.15 |
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Car bombs 2 Powerful car bombs exploded in rural Colombia wounding 16 people | |
| Jun.28 |
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Tournament to be moved
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Guerrillas free 242 war prisoners FARC made a gesture in front of U.N. to boost peace talks | |
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| Jul.5 |
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Copa America to be in Colombia
| Jul.20 |
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Union sues Coca-Cola
| Jul.24 |
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UN wants audit of cocaine spraying
| Jul.25 |
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Mexico gets to Copa America final
| Jul.26 |
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Colombia, Honduras, 2-0
| Jul.27 |
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Smugglers caught burying cocaine
| Jul.29 |
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Colombia wins Copa America Final: Colombia, Mexico 1-0
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| Aug.7 |
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Consulate standoff ends peacefully
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Pastrana cuts off talks with rebels
| Aug.13 |
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3 IRA members held
| Aug.21 |
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Colombia charges IRA members 3 men associated with the Irish Republican Army were charged with training FARC rebels
| Aug.24 |
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Powerful bomb explodes in Medellin A blast in an upper-class residential neighborhood injured 10 people and partially damaged 100 homes
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Colombia arrest 4th Irish man 48-years-old was arrested at a roadblock outside the rebel-controlled zone
| Aug.25 |
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Huge drugs cash haul $35m in cash from 2 apartments in Bogota was one of the largest seizures of drug money ever
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| Sep.27 |
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Clashes kill 17 people The fighting between Marxist FARC guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries erupted near the town of Briceno
| Sep.29 |
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President cancels FARC trip A. Pastrana has cancelled a visit to rebel-controlled territory
| Sep.30 |
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Murder strains peace The murder of C. Araujo, the attorney general's wife and a former culture minister, has shaken the peace talks with FARC | |
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| Oct.5 |
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Agreement with FARC Government has reached an agreement with the left-wing rebel group to rescue the peace process
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| Nov.7 |
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Drug ring broken up Secret police said it broke up a cocaine- and weapons-smuggling ring linked to right paramilitaries
| Nov.22 |
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Landslide at mine kills at least 23 50 are missing after mudslides, triggered by heavy rain, swept over an abandoned gold mine | |
| Nov.29 |
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12 people massacred Right-wing paramilitaries shot 8 victims after being taken from their homes. 4 bodies were found in nearby town
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| Dec.2 |
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Rightist admits 1990 assassination Carlos Castano confessed in a book that he was responsible for the killing of a presidential candidate
| Dec.18 |
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Colombia mourns tragic cancer boy Andres Felipe Perez, 12, has died after appealing in vain to see kidnapped father's face for one last time
| Dec.21 |
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Dialogue with rebels resumes Government is resuming formal talks with 5,000-strong National Liberation Army
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