2009 in Colombia

Events in the year 2009 in Colombia.

Incumbents

 * President: Álvaro Uribe

February

 * February - FARC frees a former provincial governor along with five other high-profile hostages since 2001.

March

 * 18 March - FARC releases a Swedish engineer thought to be the rebel group's last foreign hostage.

November

 * November - President Alvaro Uribe signs a deal giving the US military access to seven military bases.

December

 * December - Marxist rebel groups intend to stop fighting each other and focus on attacking the Colombian armed forces.


 * December - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez orders 15,000 troops to the Colombian border.

Deaths



 * 10 January - Liliana Lozano, 30, Colombian actress and beauty queen, shot.


 * 16 March - Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987).


 * 13 May - Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.


 * 30 May - Alexander Obregón, 32, Colombian footballer, car accident.


 * 18 July - Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.


 * 29 August - Gustavo Martínez Frías, 74, Colombian archbishop of Nueva Pamplona.


 * 20 September - Herman Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.


 * 1 November - Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto.


 * 6 November - Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira.


 * 21 December - Jaime Agudelo, 84, Colombian comedian, respiratory failure.


 * 22 December - Luis Francisco Cuéllar, 69, Colombian politician, Governor of Caqueta, assassination by cut throat.