2000 in Colombia

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See also:	Other events of 2000; Timeline of Colombian history;

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.

February

3 February – The United States' Clinton Administration proposes aid to Colombia which would become Plan Colombia.
5–6 February – The 2000 South American Cross Country Championships and Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships take place in Cartagena de Indias.
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.
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.

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.

May

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.

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 – 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.

November

1 November – The Museo Botero opens to the public in La Candelaria, Bogotá, available free of charge.
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.
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 (Spanish: 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.

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.

Births

10 September – Ela Taubert, singer and songwriter
November – Loraine Lara, vallenato accordionist.

Deaths

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).
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

↑ "Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention". United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Archived from the original on 14 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
1 2 3 4 "Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Colombia: Human Rights Developments". Human Rights Watch (HRW). 2001. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "The Clinton Administration's Aid Proposal". Center for International Policy. 3 February 2000. Archived from the original on 15 November 2001. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Cross Country (in Spanish), Confederación Atlética del Uruguay, archived from the original on 4 January 2014, retrieved 23 August 2024
↑ Brody, Daniel (23 February 2010). "Ten years on, no justice for El Salado massacre victims". Colombia Reports. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ Evans, Michael (24 September 2009). "Conspiracy of Silence? Colombia, the United States and the Massacre at El Salado". National Security Archives at George Washington University. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "Articles on Aid Passage in the House". ClombiaSupport.net. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "32 Reclusos Muertos en La Modelo" [32 Prisoners Died in La Modelo]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 29 April 2000. Archived from the original on 18 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ Toro, Cristian (29 August 2003). Toro Sánchez., Cristian Giovanny (ed.). "Condenan a 40 Años por Masacre en Bar Reminiscencias". Samaná Caldas (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
1 2 "Colombia's attorney general proposes prisoner exchange with rebels". CNN. 27 September 2000. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "Macayepo, from the ashes of death to hope". Unidad para las Víctimas. Gobierno de Colombia. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2024.^{[dead link]}
1 2 "Museo Botero, Bogotá". Google Arts & Culture. Archived from the original on 3 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
1 2 "Guide/City Bogotá/ Museums/Museo Botero". Artnexus. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "World - Bomb discovered in Colombia before visit of U.S. senator, ambassador". CNN. 1 December 2000. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "Colombia: Fear for Safety: Wilson Bora Diaz, trade union leader". Amnesty International. 20 December 2000. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ de Birbragher, Celia Sredni (1999). "Botero - Donates his Collection to Colombia". Art Nexus (34). Arte en Colombia 80. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
↑ "¿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], El Universal (in Spanish), 15 November 2024, retrieved 23 October 2025
↑ Giancarlo Calderon (27 July 2019), "Loraine Lara Mercado: la reina del acordeón" [Loraine Lara Mercado: the queen of the accordion], El Espectador (in Spanish), retrieved 17 August 2026
↑ "Graciela Arango de Tobón: 90 años de su natalicio" [90 years since her birth], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), 7 March 2021, retrieved 9 April 2025

External links

Media related to 2000 in Colombia at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention". United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Archived from the original on 14 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[:2-2] 1 2 3 4 "Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Colombia: Human Rights Developments". Human Rights Watch (HRW). 2001. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[3] "The Clinton Administration's Aid Proposal". Center for International Policy. 3 February 2000. Archived from the original on 15 November 2001. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[uru_01-4] Campeonato Sudamericano de Cross Country (in Spanish), Confederación Atlética del Uruguay, archived from the original on 4 January 2014, retrieved 23 August 2024

[5] Brody, Daniel (23 February 2010). "Ten years on, no justice for El Salado massacre victims". Colombia Reports. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[6] Evans, Michael (24 September 2009). "Conspiracy of Silence? Colombia, the United States and the Massacre at El Salado". National Security Archives at George Washington University. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[7] "Articles on Aid Passage in the House". ClombiaSupport.net. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[8] "32 Reclusos Muertos en La Modelo" [32 Prisoners Died in La Modelo]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 29 April 2000. Archived from the original on 18 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[9] Toro, Cristian (29 August 2003). Toro Sánchez., Cristian Giovanny (ed.). "Condenan a 40 Años por Masacre en Bar Reminiscencias". Samaná Caldas (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[:3-10] 1 2 "Colombia's attorney general proposes prisoner exchange with rebels". CNN. 27 September 2000. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[11] "Macayepo, from the ashes of death to hope". Unidad para las Víctimas. Gobierno de Colombia. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2024.^{[dead link]}

[:0-12] 1 2 "Museo Botero, Bogotá". Google Arts & Culture. Archived from the original on 3 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[:1-13] 1 2 "Guide/City Bogotá/ Museums/Museo Botero". Artnexus. Archived from the original on 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[14] "World - Bomb discovered in Colombia before visit of U.S. senator, ambassador". CNN. 1 December 2000. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[15] "Colombia: Fear for Safety: Wilson Bora Diaz, trade union leader". Amnesty International. 20 December 2000. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[16] Birbragher, Celia Sredni (1999). "Botero - Donates his Collection to Colombia". Art Nexus (34). Arte en Colombia 80. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

[17] "¿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], El Universal (in Spanish), 15 November 2024, retrieved 23 October 2025

[18] Giancarlo Calderon (27 July 2019), "Loraine Lara Mercado: la reina del acordeón" [Loraine Lara Mercado: the queen of the accordion], El Espectador (in Spanish), retrieved 17 August 2026

[19] "Graciela Arango de Tobón: 90 años de su natalicio" [90 years since her birth], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), 7 March 2021, retrieved 9 April 2025

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