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It was the separation of Panama from Colombia was a fact on November 3, 1903, after the War of a Thousand Days.
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The Panama Canal reduce costs and obtain more profits and it has been developed for new ships and new forms of navigation
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The 1953 Colombian coup d'état was the coup followed by seizing of power, by Colombia's commander in chief Gustavo Rojas Pinilla on June 13, 1953. He ruled as dictator until 1957.
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Thousands of mutilated bodies, twisted irons, debris and an endless souls lost between pain and fear.
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The FARC was a guerrilla movement that involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict from 1964 to 2017. The FARC–EP was formed during the Cold War period as a Marxist–Leninist peasant force promoting a political line of agrarianism and anti-imperialism.
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The Palace of Justice siege (Toma del Palacio de Justicia in Spanish) was a 1985 attack on the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of the M-19 Marxist guerrilla group took over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia, and held the Supreme Court hostage, intending to hold a trial against President Belisario Betancur.
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The Armero tragedy was one of the major consequences of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz in Tolima, Colombia, on November 13, 1985. Lahars covered the town of Armero. Killing 25.000 people
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Escobar was responsible for an enormous number of deaths, massacres and narcoterrorist attacks as he maintained his grip on the cartel. In one instance, Escobar ordered the bombing of an aircraft which was supposed to be carrying César Gaviria, a presidential candidate opposed to the cartels. The plane was not carrying Gaviria and all 107 aboard died.
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Moments before Alvaro Uribe is sworn in as president, suspected Farc explosions rock Bogota. Twenty people are killed. Days later, Uribe declares state of emergency
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On this occasion, it is a 'Chiva bomb' that the FARC activated against the police station. A hundred of the wounded and the 400 houses have been destroyed
