Events from the year 2003 in Colombia .
15 January – President Uribe requests military assistance from the United States similar to that of the Iraq War .[ 5]
5 March – Seven people are killed in Cucuta when a car bomb explodes.[ 10]
18 March – The football club Bogotá F.C. is founded.[ 11]
30 August – The FARC releases a second proof of life to the family of kidnapped French -Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt .
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3 February – Fulgencio Berdugo , football player (b. 1918).
6 April – José Emeterio Rivas , radio journalist (b.1957/8).[ 12]
25 April – Jaime Silva Gómez , football player (b. 1935).
30 July – Carlos Lemos Simmonds , politician, former vice president (1996–1998) (b. 1933).
21 October – Juan Harvey Caicedo, actor and radio personality (b.1937).
12 November – Jesús Manuel Estrada, Vallenato singer (b. 1963).
15 November – Alejandro Durán, accordion player, composer, and Vallenato singer (b. 1919).
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^ "How President Alvaro Uribe changed Colombia" . BBC News . 4 August 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ Publications, Europa (2002). South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2003 . Taylor & Francis. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-85743-138-4 .
^ Kline, Harvey F. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Colombia . Scarecrow Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-8108-7813-6 .
^ "Uribe pide a E.U un despliegue militar en Colombia "similar" al de Irak" [Uribe asks U.S. for military deployment "similar" to Iraq]. Agencia de Noticias e Información Alternaiva(ANIA), URCM (in Spanish). 21 January 2003. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ "At least 32 killed in Colombia club blast" . CNN . 8 February 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ "Security Council condemns 7 February bomb attack in Bogotá, says act of terrorism threatens peace, security" . United Nations . 13 February 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ "Explosion in Southern Colombia Kills 16" . Fox News. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2018 .
^ McDermott, Jeremy (15 February 2003). "CIA agents killed or captured in Colombia" . Telegraph. Retrieved 14 July 2018 .
^ "CNN.com - At least 6 die in Colombia blast" . CNN . 5 March 2003. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ "BOGOTÁ FC" . Dimayor . 28 June 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ a b Cardona, Libardo (22 January 2009). "Stiff sentence in Colombian journalist's murder" . 20 August 2024. Associated Press .
^ Ayala Osorio, Germán (18 March 2023). "¿A Eudaldo Díaz lo asesinaron los paramilitares o un 'sarraceno' del siglo XXI?" [Was Eudaldo Díaz murdered by paramilitaries or by a 21st century 'Saracen'?]. La Orejaroja (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2024 .
^ Kraul, Chris (6 February 2009). "Deaths cloud Colombian ex-governor's trial" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on 21 August 2024. Retrieved 21 August 2024 .
^ "Remarks by President Bush and President Uribe of Colombia in Photo Opportunity" . georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov . Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ "XIV Consejo Presidencial Andino / Declaración de Quirama" . Sistema de Información sobre Comercio Exterior, OAS . Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ Dwan, Renata; Gustavsson, Micaela (2004). "Major armed conflicts" . SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security . Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . pp. 95–131. ISBN 978-0-19-926570-1 . Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023 .
^ Rodríguez-Torres, María Natalia (2019). "Manuel Octavio Bermúdez "el monstruo de los cañaduzales" " . Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad Católica de Colombia. Facultad de Derecho. hdl :hdl.handle.net/10983/23196 . Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ "Ciudad Perpida Kidnappings and Modern History" . La Ciudad Perpida . Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
^ Dongen, Rachel Van (17 November 2003). "Grenades Hit Two Bars in Bogota" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 20 August 2024 .
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