Colombia
1565 – British slave ships African
slaves men, women and children. (UK slave trafficking. Nick Hazlewood
©2004).
7 Dec 1580 – Recorded eruption of
Galeras volcano. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).
1945-55 – Mid 1940s in the decade
ending in the 1950s, 300,000 people were killed, hacked to death with
machetes. (Drug Barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)
1948 – Since 1948, when as a young
student, Fidel Castro participated in the violence that rocked
Colombia and distributed anti-US propaganda.
April 1948 – In Bogota Colombian,
trained guerrillas for Latin America. Three day conference anti-US,
violence and a riot called the Bogotazo, Fidel Castro. (The Havana
mob. TJ English ©2007 UK).
7 April 1948 – Fidel Castro went to
Bogota Colombia. He met with Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, two days later
Geitan was murdered and riots broke out in the city. Riotingwent on
for 3 days, called the Bogotazo. (Red heat. Alex von Tunzelmann
(c)2011 UK).
1968-75 – Castro began supporting and
training M19, a Colombian group that captured the Dominican embassy
and justice building in Bogota and assassinated several Colombian
judges.
1970s – 2010 – Aunty. Australian
cocaine imports. A Colombian woman in her 50s who moved to Australia
in the 1970s. Tonnes of cocaine every 18 months, a syndicate. (Smack
express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).
1980s – Cocaine in Australia. Juan
Guillermo Diez Orozco was a Colombian and Australian citizen. Cocaine
importer. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).
1981 – US drugs Mexico timeline 14
Jan 2010. Drug boss Pablo Escobar forms Medellin cartel with other
Colombian traffickers, tonnes of cocaine into Miami Florida via the
Caribbean. Reuters.
8 Feb 1982 – Miraflores Colombia,
under aircraft explosion one person was killed and four wounded.
1983 – BCCI got 49% of Banco
mercantile, a 24 branch Colombian bank, later renamed Banco de
Credito y Comercio de Colombia. One of the board members was Rodrigo
Llorente who was one of the richest politicians in Colombia.
1983 – BCCI got its Colombian bank
and added seven new branches over the next four years while its
assets grew to $213 million. Drug money in Colombia and BCCI one
client was Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gadha, a cartel leader who stashed
millions in BCCI.
31 March 1983 – 5,000 people were
killed in Popayan. Timeline of earthquakes.
1984 – By 1984 FARC and M19 got $150
million a year from the business of protecting drug smugglers and
traffickers. Colombian terrorist groups.
1984 – Minister of Justice, Rodrigo
Lara Bonilla, was shot dead by hitmen hired by the Medellin cartel.
Byron de Jesus Velasquez was arrested. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline
history).
10 March 1984 – Tranquiliandia a
large cocaine processing lab in the jungles of Caqueta, for the
Medellin cartel, was destroyed by the Colombian police and DEA.
(Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).
Jan 1985 – Aldrich Ames sat in a KGB
safe house in Bogota. Ames was a senior CIA officer, an American
traitor. Spy. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).
6 Nov 1985 – M19 guerillas, 100
victims and many more missing. He army is blamed for forced
disappearances of civilians. (Wikipedia timeline history Colombia).
6 Nov 1985 – 35 M-19 guerrillas
attacked the Colombian palace of justice in Bogota. They held 250
hostages, many justices of Colombia. When govt troops took over the
site 25 hostages were dead and all the guerrillas. By 1990 more than
200 court officials and 40 Colombian judges had been murdered. (Drug
barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
6 Nov 1985 – M-19 guerrillas occupied
the palace of justice Bogota in Colombia. (Chch Star NZ. Today in
history. 6 Nov 2015).
13 Nov 1985 – Armero city in Tolima
was destroyed, flooding, and the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano.
The Armeno tragedy. 20,000 dead and many made homeless. (Wikipedia
Colombia timeline history).
13 Nov 1985 – Colombia’s Nevado del
Ruiz volcan,o in the town of Armero erupted, spewing hot ash onto
glaciers, which formed a river of debris and black ash, nearly 13
feet deep, burying the town of Armero, and killing 22,000 people,
about 90% of the population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker
©2001 US).
19 Dec 1985 – 71 bodies found in mass
graves in Colombia. The Irish Times.
1986 – 20,000 civilians murdered by
the Colombian military since 1986.
4 Feb 1987 – Drug dealer Carlos
Lehder was arrested at a farm near Medellin. Extradited to the US on
a DEA plane. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).
1988 – Yair Klein in Colombia, an
Israeli security company called Spearhead ltd, training hit squads of
the Medellin cocaine cartel in assassination and bombing. Klein was
in Antigua. Medellin chief Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. (Global
research. Peter Dale Scott. 6 Sept 2008).
13 Jan 1988 – A huge bomb exploded
outside the Monaco eight storey apartment building owned by Escobar
in Medellin. The blast killed two nightwatchmen and dug a 13 foot
hole in the street. The blast shattered windows in nearby buildings.
The war of the cartels had begun. (Drug barons Paul Copperwaite ©2010
US UK).
1989 – People were arrested and
detained without being charged with a crime. Bogota Colombia and the
Medellin cartel. Fortune magazine listed the cartel’s leader as the
richest man in the world. Jose Rodriguez Gacha, worth $5 billion.
(Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)
25 May 1989 – A 220 pound car bomb
exploded near a convoy carrying Masa and his bodyguards travelling
to Bogota. Killing 6 people and injuring more than 50. (Drug barons.
Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
18 Aug 1989 – Pablo’s killed
presidential candidate Luis Galan. Hit men killed PNC colonel
Waldenar Franklin . Medellin cartel. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite
©2010 US UK).
27 Nov 1989 – Avianca flight 203
exploded with 107 people on board. A bomb was planted by the Medellin
cartel. No survivors. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).
1990s – Colombian drug trafficking in
the early 1990s was a producer and distributor of heroin. By 1992
Colombia was producing heroin. Carli cartel drug heroin in the early
1980s. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
1990-92 – In Aug 1990 Cesar Gaviria
became president of Colombia. 41 traffickers had been extradited from
Colombia to the US. June 1992 Miguel Maza Marquez was chief of DAS,
Colombian intel, implicated in trafficking. (Drug barons. Paul
Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
1990-94 – Sir Keith Morris was the
British ambassador to Colombia. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010
US UK).
April 1990 - “Operation polar cap”
was a US money laundering investigation. It involved hundreds of
millions of laundered cocaine profits. LA Times reports April 1990.
US 754 accounts in 173 banks in the US were frozen “Opeation polar
cap” Bank of America, Security Pacific national bank. (The paradise
conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).
1991 – The height of Escobar’s
fight with the Cali cartel. There were 7,081 murders in Colombia, the
worlds murder capital for that year. More than 500 police were killed
by poor youth. (Drug barons Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
1992 – Colombian drug lords move high
grade heroin into the US. PBS frontline.
March 1992 – April 1993 – The
collapse of the Colombian national electricity generation system
caused power blackouts, 18 hours a day with no power. (Wikipedia
Colombia timeline history).
15 Feb 1993 – Bombings by Mafia
druglords killed 14 people in Bogota. (Timeline internet).
1994 – Roberto Pannunzi Italian mafia
was arrested in Colombia. He had links to Colombian cartels for trade
in cocaine. He was extradited to Italy and released. Heart attack,
and disappeared in 2009. (Timeline internet).
1994 – A decree was issued to
regulate private vigilante groups with the army. Called CONVIVIR, or
special vigilante and privatre security services. Mancuso was head of
Convivir horizonte. (Zero zero zero. Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).
6 June 1994 – 6 earthquake in
Cualande Toez 1,000 people were killed Cauca. Timeline of
earthquakes.
3 July 1994 – Pele and the mafia
shoot of Colombia. Paul Wilson. The Observer. UK.
Oct 1994 – Corruption. Antanas Mockus
was elected mayor of Bogota. Crime was rampant, the murder capital of
the world. There were more than 4,200 murders in 1993 alone. The
government was corrupt. Poverty widespread. The new mayor closed down
the transit police department with 2,000 bribe taking cops. (Economic
gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).
8 Feb 1995 – 6.4 earthquake 46 people
were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
July 1996 – Juan Guillermo Diez
Orozco went to Colombia from Australia. Cocaine network in Sydney.
(Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).
1997 – Colombia altered the
constitution to re-introduce extradition to the US. (Zero zero zero.
Roberto Saviano (c)2013 UK).
1999 – By 1999, 85% of heroin sent to
the north east US was of Colombian origin. (Drug barons. Paul
Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
19 Jan 1999 – Armenia earthquake over
2,000 people dead and 3,000 people were missing. Quarter of a million
people were made homeless. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).
25 Jan 1999 – 6 earthquake in Valle
del Cauca, 273 people were killed and 900 people were injured, 2,000
people died in Armenia state. Timeline of earthquakes.
2000 – Australia, Juan Guillermo Diez
Orozco and Australian Cornwell, Medellin Colombia. Adolpho Zapata and
the cocaine trade. John Lawrence in Sydney Australia. Dominic
Brokenshire. “Mr Carlos” was an alias for Orozco. (Smack express.
Clive Small ©2010 Australia).
2000 – In several cities in Colombia,
libraries were destroyed by the civil war razing the country. (A
universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004
US).
2000-2001 – Liechtenstein based
financier Rudolf Ritter laundered one million from the Colombian Cali
cartel drugs. SPAG board a Russian company. (Deception. Edward Lucas
(c)2012 UK).
31 Oct 2001 – Colombia sends drug
lord to the US. Cocaine. Herald Sun.
2002-2008 – Colombia's top brass are
implicated in extrajudicial executions. Murders. Unpublished evidence
shows army generals and colonels from 2002 to 2008 (Human rights
watch 25 June 2015).
2003 – Arms trafficking in Colombia.
Kim Cragin. Bruce Hoffman. US DIA Santa Monica RAND Worldcat
database.
2004 – Aerial spraying fails to
reduce coca cultivation in Colombia. Washington office on Latin
America. Coca and opium poppy production in South America ONSCP. 2004
coca and opium poppy Colombia and Andes. US office of national drug
policy ONDLP.
April 2004 – In the first 10 months
of 2004 Colombia extradited 250 people to the US for drug related
crimes. In April 2004, 400 US military and 400 US contractors were
operating in Colombia. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
2 Aug 2004 – US listed Colombian
president Uribe Colombian drug trafficking in 1991. Medellin cartel
and govt.
22 Oct 2004 – A bomb explosion at a
government building injured six people.
28 March 2005 – Smugglers submarine
caught in Colombian drug net. The Australian.
21 Aug 2006 – Car bomb kills one
person and wounds eight.
11 Oct 2006 – Major heroin shipment
seized in Colombia. 56.8 kilos of heroin. BBC UK.
2007 – Drug trafficking, Cocaine and
the CIA. Just like in the Asian golden triangle. (The secret history
of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).
18 Jan 2007 – Colombian ring smashed.
Smuggling. The Australian.
29 March 2007 – Implicated, Colombian
govt in Chiquita terror scandal. The Nation.
23 Dec 2007 – Colombian police seized
42 kilos of heroin in the biggest haul of 2007.. BBC UK.
2008 – In Haiti drug traffickers from
Colombia have laundered money through property in Haiti in the last
decade. Called an investment. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin
Skinner ©2008 UK).
13 April 2008 – Missing person when
17 years old. Andry Julieth Escobar Rojas. Now 25 years old Spanish.
Interpol.
30 Oct 2008 – Colombian army troops.
Poor, unemployed and homeless people were taken to isolated areas and
murdered. 3,350 cases were recorded. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline
history).
7 Jan 2009 – Body count. Colombian
scandal declassified, a history of abuses by the Colombian army.
2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children
under 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been registered.
In Brazil 25 million people do not have a birth certificate. Three
million babies in Colombia have not been registered. In Mexico’s
Chiapas 25,000 children do not have a birth certificate. A person
with no ID, those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho
(c)2010 UK)
July Aug 2011 – Buenaventura
Colombia. Kelly Nicholl. Mass graves. Gimena Sanchez Garzoll. NACLA.
8 Sept 2011 – Drug mule dies in New
Zealand. A Colombian drug mule died after cocaine pellets burst
inside. Telegraph UK.
2012 – Colombia Catholic church
records 1600-2012. Deaths and child recognition. Family search LDS
Wiki. Missing people in Colombia.
3 Oct 2012 – Italian prosecutors say
Canada is too lax on the Mafia. Ndrangeta has a presence in Toronto’s
Thunder bay. Money laundering and Colombian drugs. CBS news.
5 Nov 2012 – Insight organised crime
in the Americas. Colombia detains major heroin trafficker. By Laura
Gomez. Carlos Mario Agudelo. Colombia had 3,950 hectares of poppy
cultivation in 2004. Heroin into the US from Colombia.
26 Nov 2012 – Samanti Andrade
Vanegas. Missing person. Interpol.
27 Nov 2012 – The Carabinier in Milan
arrested 53 Italians and a Colombian for drug trafficking, weapons,
stolen goods and money laundering. The network had in Cesano.
Boscone, carpets with liquid cocaine. (Zero zero zero. Roberto
Saviano (c)2013 UK).
21 Dec 2012 – Lifting the veil on
Colombia’s Emerald Czar. Documents Victor Carruza 1997 Miraflores
massacre.
27 Dec 2012 – Carlos Ernesto Arango
Laguado. Missing person Interpol.
18 Feb 2013 – Missing person when 4
years old. Now 6 years old. Diego Jose Uriana Ipuana. Male. Spanish.
Interpol.
24 March 2013 – Carmen Arleth Arias
Solipa. Missing person Interpol.
8 April 2013 – Chiquita block release
of files on Colombia’s terror. Banana giant.
22 May 2013 – Danni Alejandro Bedoya
Castaneda missing person . Interpol.
23 May 2013 - Adoption scandal.
Orphanage dumped. Poor families lost children to the state. Child
trafficking.
4 June 2013 – Missing person at 15
years old. Now 17 years old. Female. Leidy Carolina Ballen Martinez.
Spanish. Interpol.
16 June 2013 – Nicolas Andres
Avellaneda Rodriguez. Missing person. Interpol.
20 June 2013 – Paula Alejandra
Cifuentes Florian. Missing person. Interpol.
9 July 2013 – Juan Carlos Alvarez
Calle. Missing person. Interpol.
11 Nov 2013 – Luz America Alfardo
Diaz. Missing person. Interpol.
15 Dec 2013 – Mario Arismendi
Izquierdo. Missing person. Interpol.
19 Dec 2013 – Child soldiers being
identified from mass graves. Talking About Colombia. The Colombian
institute for forensic medicine has identified the remains of
children from mass graves.
27 Dec 2013 – Jose Angel Alon Misa.
Missing person. Interpol.
19 Feb 2014 – Maria Nancy Anaya.
Missing person. Interpol.
24 April 2014 – Maria Lucerno
Alvarado Sanabria. Missing person. Interpol.
18 July 2014 – Who controls
Medellin’s fragile peace in Colombia’s model city. James Bargent.
Christian Science monitor.
19 July 2014 – Gina Victoria Arias
Canacho. Missing person. Interpol.
12 Aug 2014 – Missing person at 4
years old. Now 5 years old. Sofia Guerrero Camargo. Spanish. Female.
Interpol.
13 Aug 2014 – Missing person at 13
years old. Now 14 years old. Salyda Vanesa Caldar Mendez. Female.
Spanish. Interpol.
29 Aug 2014 – What happened to 92,000
disappeared people in Colombia. Bogota. More than 92,000 Colombians
have disappeared over 50 years. ICRC. Newsweek. Reuters.
1 Sept 2014 – Deadly silence. 92,000
Colombians are still missing. Tens of thousands of people are missing
in Colombia. Catholic online.
17 Sept 2014 – 97,000 people have
disappeared in Colombia, 70,000 people are still missing. Colombia
reports.
19 Sept 2014 – Virgins for sale in
Colombia. The worlds biggest brothel. Channel 4 news. Criminal
organisation “The office”.
20 Sept 2014 – Medellin as the world
largest brothel. Sex trafficking and Pablo Escobar. Fox news Latino.
23 Sept 2014 – Police. Mexican
cartels are trafficking cocaine directly from Colombia. VOA Bogota.
Trustlaw.
26 Sept 2014 – Colombia needs more
prosecutors for sex trafficking. Bogota. Identify and investigate sex
trafficking crimes. Low conviction rates, an invisible problem.
Reuters.
23 Oct 2014 – Nestle’s workers in
Colombia protest with unions. Edgar Paez leader of the national food
industry union. Sinaltreinal. Colombia reports.
29 Oct 2014 – Santos, ongoing
corruption battle. Pres Juan Manuel Santos. Colombia reports.
11 Nov 2014 – 20 girls were held as
sex slaves in Bogota by sex traffickers. 3 police raids in the city
centre. Police find drugs and alcohol. Colombia reports.
14 Nov 2014 – Bogota police shut down
a sex trafficking operation. Three people were arrested in Bogota.
Underage girls are being raped by paedophiles. Colombia reports.
17 Nov 2014 – In Colombia one third
of the sex slaves are under 14 years old. (Aangirfan).
21 Nov 2014 – 15 Colombian police
were arrested in internal corruption crimes. Colombia reports.
21 Dec 2014 – Dominican republic
seized half a ton of cocaine. Santo Domingo republic. 1,000 pounds
(454kg) of cocaine. 12 people were arrested including a police
officer. Drugs found on a fishing boat. The cocaine was from
Colombia. The police officer arrested had $10,000 cash. AP. NZ
Herald.
28 Dec 2014 – Missing person when 5
years old. Paula Nikol Palacios Narvaez. Female. Spanish. Interpol.
20 Jan 2015 – Italian police arrest a
mafia drug ring. Links to Colombian organised crime, 26 arrested in
Italy and 600kg of cocaine and hashish was seized. Telegraph UK.
27 Jan 2015 – Colombian orphans fed
restaurant scraps. Welfare agencies. Corruption allegations. Orphans
in care. Colombia reports.
8 Feb 2015 – A mass grave with 62
bodies was found in Colombia. Victims of a paramilitary group. New
Kerala.co.
9 Feb 2015 – Missing person when 18
years old. Female. Laura Vanessa Arbelaez Zapata. Spanish. Interpol.
6 March 2015 – FARC asks the
Colombian government to declassify archives. Commander Joaquin Gomez,
Declassifying state archives. Telesur.
19 May 2015 – Colombia landslides,
the death toll could rise as dozens of people are killed. At least 45
people were killed in landslides in the northeast mountain regions of
Colombia. Telegraph UK.
25 June 2015 – Colombia's top brass
are implicated in extrajudicial executions. Murders. Unpublished
evidence shows Colombian army generals and colonels. From 2002 to
2008. (Human rights watch. 25 June 2015).
29 July 2015 – World news report. A
5.9 earthquake shakes the Colombia Panama border. Robinspot.com
Twitter.
20 Aug 2015 – 341 images added to
Cementerio de Since San Luis de Since Sucre Colombia 4 days ago.
Billion graves activity.
16 Oct 2015 – Earthquake 3.2 in the
Panama Colombia border region. EMSC.
16 Oct 2015 – Earthquake 2.8
Colombia. EMSC.
18 Oct 2015 – Missing people. Tens of
thousands of missing people in Colombia. Yahoo news. Latin America
news dispatch. Swissinfo.ch.
27 Oct 2015 – 12 people killed in a
rebel attack in Colombia. Press TV. Twitter.
29 Oct 2015 – Colombians fear return
of FARC terrorists. Frances Martel. Breitbart.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/29/colombians-overwhelmingly-reject-former-farc-terrorists-as-new-neighbors/
9 Nov 2015 – ICRC forensics searches
for missing people in Colombia.
5 Dec 2015 – At least 16 women are
feared killed by the monster of Monserrate. The bodies of 9 women
have been found. The bodies were found on a hillside in Monserrate.
Serial killer 34 year old Fredy Armando Valencia admitted to killing
the women and burying them in Monserrate. Stuff.co.nz. NZ Herald.
Onenews. AP. Bogota.
10 Dec 215 – Police corruption in
Colombia. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. Illegal
surveillance and rape. Spying on journalists to cover up male rapes.
High ranking police from DIPOC police intel and rape of boys.
Telesur. Reuters.
25 Jan 2016 -
http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_29430043/un-oks-mission-monitor-future-cease-fire-colombia
28 Jan 2016 – New Zealander arrested
in Colombia on drugs charges.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/76330460/New-Zealander-Peter-Leaitua-arrested-in-Colombia-on-drug-charges
