2020 in Colombia

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Events in the year 2020 in Colombia.

Incumbents

• President: Iván Duque Márquez
• Vice President: Marta Lucía Ramírez

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]
• June 25 – Seven soldiers confess to raping a 12-year-old girl from the Embera Katio indigenous group, in the northwestern Risaralda Department.[10]
• August 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: There are more than 400,000 confirmed cases and 13,500 deaths.[11]

Sports

Culture

• January 7 – The telenovela Amar y vivir premiered on Colombian television.[12]

See also

• 2020 in the Caribbean
• 2020 in Central America
• COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
• 2020 in politics and government
• 2020s
• 2020s in political history
• List of George Floyd protests outside the United States

Deaths

Carlos Cuco Rojas

Efraín Sánchez

• 10 January – Carlos Cuco Rojas, harpist (b. 1954)[13]
• 16 January – Efraín Sánchez, footballer (b, 1926)[14]
• 6 February – Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, hitman, drug dealer and extortionist (Medellín Cartel); esophageal cancer[15]
• 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[16]
• 27 February – Juan Diego González, 39, soccer player (Once Caldas, La Equidad, Philadelphia Union)[17] (body discovered on this date)
• 4 May – Álvaro Teherán, 54, basketball player (Baloncesto Málaga, Fort Wayne Fury, KK Olimpija); kidney failure[18]
• 5 July – Alexander Balanta, 42, footballer; COVID-19.[19]
• 24 July – El indio Rómulo, 89, poet; COVID-19.[20]
• 15 August – Marcedes Barcha, 87, widow of writer Gabriel García Marquez, dies in Mexico City.[21]

References

1. "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.
2. "Venezuelan migrants block Bogota road, demand ability to travel home". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved Apr 29, 2020.
3. "Two dozen people deported to Colombia on U.S. flight found to have coronavirus: sources". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
4. de 2020, Por Jorge Cantillo7 de Mayo. "Por primera vez Colombia exportará marihuana legal a Estados Unidos". infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved May 9, 2020.
5. "Colombia registró récord de 752 casos diarios de coronavirus". infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved May 25, 2020.
6. 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 Spanish). Retrieved May 25, 2020.
7. "U.S. unit to arrive in Colombia to help fight drug trafficking". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
8. 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 Spanish). Retrieved June 8, 2020.
9. "Policía se quita el uniforme y da su arma cuando le ordenan que desalojar a campesinos". wapa.pe. wapa. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
10. Pozzebon, Stefano; Arias, Tatiana. "Colombian soldiers confess to sexually abusing indigenous girl, says Attorney General". CNN. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
11. "Colombia supera 400 mil casos de covid, muertes rondan 13 mil 500". Excélsior (in Spanish). 12 August 2020. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
12. "¡De estreno! Amar y vivir, la historia que quiere robarse el corazón de los colombianos". bluradio.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
13. "Murió el arpista Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, director de Cimarrón". elcolombiano.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
14. "Muere a los 93 años 'el Caimán' Sánchez, leyenda del arco de la Selección Colombia". pulzo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2020.
15. Décès de Jhon Jairo Velásquez, alias «Popeye», tueur à gages le plus célèbre de Pablo Escobar (in French)
16. Falleció Clementina Vélez, reconocida exconcejal de Cali (in Spanish)
17. Former Philadelphia Union player brutally killed in Colombia, police say
18. Falleció Álvaro Teherán, leyenda del baloncesto colombiano Archived 2020-05-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
19. Muere por coronavirus exfutbolista Alexander Balanta (in Spanish)
20. Falleció el Indio Rómulo, uno de los mejores declamadores del país (in Spanish)
21. Osorio, Camila (15 August 2020). "Muere Mercedes Barcha, la mujer que hizo posible el éxito de García Márquez". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved August 16, 2020.