2020 in Colombia
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Events in the year 2020 in Colombia.
Incumbents
Events
- January 22 – Colombia is seen as the most corrupt country in the world.[1]
- April 29
- 500 Venezuela migrants living in Colombia block a highway in protest of the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia. They say the makes it impossible for them to work. There are 1.8 million Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia.[2]
- Two dozen Colombians deported from the United States have been found to have coronavirus.[3]
- May 7 – Colombia legally exports marijuana seeds to Colorado, the United States.[4]
- May 20 – COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia: Colombia reports a record of 752 new cases of the infection in one day, bringing the total to 17,787 with 630 deaths. Most of the cases are in Cartagena de Indias.[5]
- May 24 – Two men on the radio program ‘Buenas Tardes con Fabio’ in Valledupar, Cesar Department joke about human trafficking and sexual slavery and may be prosecuted.[6]
- May 27 – The United States Army sends a Security Force Assistance Brigade unit to Colombia to train anti-drug forces for a period of four months.[7]
- June 4 – Indignation across social media due to the police beating to death of Anderson Arboleda, 21, for not wearing a facemask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Tejada, Cauca on May 19. His case is being compared to that of George Floyd in the United States.[8]
- June 9 – A soldier, Ángel Zúñiga Galicia, removes his uniform and puts down his gun in refusal of an order to remove peasants from their home in Pance, Valle del Cauca Department.[9]
Sports
Culture
- 7 January – The telenovela Amar y vivir premiered on Colombian television.[10]
See also
Deaths
- 10 January – Carlos Cuco Rojas, harpist (b. 1954)[11]
- 16 January – Efraín Sánchez, footballer (b, 1926)[12]
- 6 February – Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, hitman, drug dealer and extortionist (Medellín Cartel); esophageal cancer[13]
- 26 February 26 – Clementina Vélez, 73, doctor, academic and politician, MP (1990–1991, 1998–2002) and city councillor of Cali (1972–1986, 1992–1997, 2004–2019); heart attack[14]
- 27 February – Juan Diego González, 39, soccer player (Once Caldas, La Equidad, Philadelphia Union)[15] (body discovered on this date)
- 4 May – Álvaro Teherán, 54, basketball player (Baloncesto Málaga, Fort Wayne Fury, KK Olimpija); kidney failure[16]
References
- ^ "México es señalado como el segundo país más corrupto del mundo, a pesar del discurso de López Obrador" [Mexico is designated as the second most corrupt country in the world, despite López Obrador's speech]. Infobae (in Spanish). Jan 22, 2020.
- ^ "Venezuelan migrants block Bogota road, demand ability to travel home". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved Apr 29, 2020.
- ^ "Two dozen people deported to Colombia on U.S. flight found to have coronavirus: sources". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
- ^ de 2020, Por Jorge Cantillo7 de Mayo. "Por primera vez Colombia exportará marihuana legal a Estados Unidos". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved May 9, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Colombia registró récord de 752 casos diarios de coronavirus". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved May 25, 2020.
- ^ de 2020, Por Jorge Cantillo25 de Mayo. "Indignación en Colombia: un locutor de radio y un supuesto líder indígena bromearon sobre la compra de una niña aborigen como esclava sexual". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved May 25, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "U.S. unit to arrive in Colombia to help fight drug trafficking". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Jorge Cantillo (June 4, 2020). "Indignación en Colombia por un caso similar al de George Floyd: un joven negro murió tras una golpiza policial". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- ^ "Policía se quita el uniforme y da su arma cuando le ordenan que desalojar a campesinos". wapa.pe. wapa. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- ^ "¡De estreno! Amar y vivir, la historia que quiere robarse el corazón de los colombianos". bluradio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Murió el arpista Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, director de Cimarrón". elcolombiano.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ "Muere a los 93 años 'el Caimán' Sánchez, leyenda del arco de la Selección Colombia". pulzo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ Décès de Jhon Jairo Velásquez, alias «Popeye», tueur à gages le plus célèbre de Pablo Escobar (in French)
- ^ Falleció Clementina Vélez, reconocida exconcejal de Cali (in Spanish)
- ^ Former Philadelphia Union player brutally killed in Colombia, police say
- ^ Falleció Álvaro Teherán, leyenda del baloncesto colombiano Archived 2020-05-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)