Events in the year 2021 in Colombia.
Incumbents President: Iván Duque Márquez Vice President: Marta Lucía Ramírez
Events Continuous— COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia
January January 5 – General Luis Fernando Navarro says that illegal armed groups lost 5,120 members in 2020. The number includes deaths, capture, and desertions. He said the National Liberation Army (ELN) still has 2,450 members and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has 2,500. January 17 – Scientists say the cocaine hippos in the Magdalena river basin are breeding voraciously and are an increasing menace so they must be culled. January 25 FARC changes its name to Comunes ("Commoners"). Notorious paramilitary commander, drug trafficker, and sexual abuser of young girls Hernán Giraldo Serna ("El Taladro") finishes his sentence in the United States and returns to Colombia. January 29 – 647 Haitian nationals, 23 Cubans, and 19 migrants from African countries are stranded on a beach in Necoclí, Antioquia Department, hoping to pass through the Darién Gap to Panama and, eventually, the United States. January 31 – Seven adults and seven children are killed and 16 people are missing after two boats collide near Tumaco, Nariño Department.
February February 8 – Cuba warns of an attack on Bogotá by the ELN in the "next few days." Mayor Claudia López Hernández and Defense Minister Diego Molano Vega say they take the threat seriously.
March March 3 – Ten former members of FARC are killed in a military bombing on Calamar, Guaviare. Three "dissidents" are captured. March 10 – A 26-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter are killed in a landslide in Siloé, Cali. March 27 – A car bomb explodes in Corinto, Cauca, injuring eleven. A later report indicates 43 were injured. March 30 – The government sets up a camp in Arauquita, Arauca, Arauca for 4,700 refugees from Apure, Venezuela.
April April 28 – The 2021 Colombian protests against tax increases begin.
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September 27 -– Gásper, a rescue dog at the Bogotá Fire Department's Puente Aranda station, goes missing during a search operation at Guadalupe Hill. His disappearance receives much local, national news coverage and sympathy from the public. He is found 2 days later on the 29th.
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Deaths January
1 January – Pablo Hernández, racing cyclist (born 1940). 2 January – Laura Weinstein, transexual activist; respiratory complications. 11 January – Luis Adriano Piedrahita, 74, Roman Catholic bishop and theologian; COVID-19; (b. 1946) 12 January – Álvaro Mejía, long-distance runner (born 1940). 14 January – Antún Castro Urrutia, 74, musician and actor.Murió el compositor y actor chocoano Antún Castro 15 January – Gildardo García, chess player (born 1954). 21 January – Calixto Avena, 77, footballer; COVID-19.Calixto Avena, exportero de selección Colombia, falleció por secuelas del covid 26 January – Carlos Holmes Trujillo, 69, politician, Defense Minister; COVID-19. 27 January – Bertulfo Álvarez, 69, guerrilla fighter (Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP).Muere "Bertulfo Álvarez", miembro del antiguo secretariado de las FARC
February 2 February Héctor Epalza Quintero, 80, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Buenaventura (2004–2017).Bishop Héctor Epalza Quintero Yordan Guetio, social activist in Corinto, Cauca; murdered. 17 February – Beder Guerra Gutiérrez, 67, journalist.Falleció en Valledupar el periodista Beder Guerra Gutiérrez 21 February – Mireya Arboleda, 92, classical pianist.Obituario: Mireya Arboleda de Cruz 23 February – Herbin Hoyos, 53, journalist and broadcaster (Las voces del secuestro) who was in exile in Spain; COVID-19. February 25 – Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, 82, archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali (2002–2011); COVID-19.Monseñor Juan Francisco Sarasti, arzobispo emérito de Cali, falleció hoy a sus 82 años a causa de Covid 19 28 February – Jorge Oñate, 71, vallenato singer; complications from COVID-19.Murió Jorge Oñate, el Jilguero de América
March 2 March – Telma Barria Pinzón, diplomat (consul of Panama in Colombia); drowned 24 March – Pedro Saúl Morales, 61, racing cyclist; heart attack.El ciclismo colombiano está de luto: falleció Pedro Saúl Morales 29 March – Antonio Caro, 71, conceptual artist; heart failure.Falleció el artista conceptual colombiano Antonio Caro
April 11 April – Guillermo Berrio, 53, footballer; cardiac arrest 13 April – Morgan Blanco, 85, accordionist and songwriter 14 April – Eduardo Enríquez Maya, 72, politician; COVID-19
May 1 May – José Daniel Falla Robles, 65, bishop; COVID-19 13 May – Pablo Uribe, 90, Olympic fencer 17 May – Jesús Santrich, 54, revolutionary; murdered 26 May – Arturo de Jesús Correa Toro, 80, bishop; COVID-19
November 22 November – Abelardo Carbonó, 73, musician and songwriter; COVID-19 26 November – Michi Sarmiento, 83, saxophonist and bandleader
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