Colombia

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 the Bogotazo, Fidel Castro. (The Havana mob. TJ English ©2007 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 – Reuters. 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

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 killed 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, is destroyed by 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).

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).

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).

13 Jan 1988 – A huge bomb exploded outside the Monaco 8 storey apartment building owned by Escobar in Medellin. The blast killed 2 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).

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).

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).

6 June 1994 – 6 quake Cualande Toez 1,000 killed Cauca. Timeline of earthquakes.

3 July 1994 – Pele and the mafia shoot of Colombia. Paul Wilson. The Observer. 1901-2003 UK.

8 Feb 1995 – 6.4 quake 46 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).

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 dead and 3,000 missing. Quarter of a million people homeless. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

25 Jan 1999 – 6 quake Valle del Cauca 273 killed 900 injured 2,000 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).

2000-2001 – 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 US. Herald Sun Melbourne Vic. Cocaine.

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 Canberra ACT.

21 Aug 2006 – Car bomb kills one person and wounds eight.

11 Oct 2006 – Major heroin shipment seized in Colombia. BBC London. 56.8 kilos of heroin.

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. The Australian Adelaide, Smuggling.

29 March 2007 – Implicated Colombian govt in Chiquita terror scandal. The Nation.

23 Dec 2007 – Colombian police seize 42 kilos of heroin in the biggest haul of 2007. BBC London.

2008 – In Haiti drug traffickers from Colombia laundered money through property in Haiti in the last decade. Called an investment. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

30 Oct 2008 – Colombian army troops. Poor, unemployed and homeless people were taken to isolated areas and murdered. 3,350 cases recorded. (Wikipedia Colombia timeline history).

7 Jan 2009 – Body count. Colombian scandal declassified history of abuses by Colombian army.

2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under 5 in Latin America and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people do not have birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas 25,000 children do not have birth certificates. A person with no ID, those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK)

2012 – Colombia Catholic church records 1600-2012. Deaths and child recognition. Family search LDS Wiki. Missing people in Colombia.

3 Oct 2012 – CBS news. Italian prosecutors say Canada is too lax on the Mafia. Ndrangeta has a presence in Toronto Thunder bay. Money laundering and Colombian drugs.

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. Interpol.

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 Interpol.

24 March 2013 – Carmen Arleth Arias Solipa. Missing Interpol.

8 April 2013 – Chiquita block release of files on Colombia’s terror. Banana giant.

22 May 2013 – Danni Alejandro Bedoya Castaneda missing. Interpol.

4 June 2013 – Carolina Ballen Martinez missing. Interpol.

16 June 2013 – Nicolas Andres Avellaneda Rodriguez. Missing. Interpol.

20 June 2013 – Paula Alejandra Cifuentes Florian missing. Interpol.

9 July 2013 – Juan Carlos Alvarez Calle. Missing. Interpol.

11 Nov 2013 – Luz America Alfardo Diaz. Missing. Interpol.

15 Dec 2013 – Mario Arismendi Izquierdo. Missing. Interpol.

27 Dec 2013 – Jose Angel Alon Misa. Missing. Interpol.

19 Feb 2014 – Maria Nancy Anaya. Missing. Interpol.

24 April 2014 – Maria Lucerno Alvarado Sanabria. Missing. Interpol.

18 July 2014 – Who controls Medellin fragile peace in Colombia’s model city. James Bargent. Christian Science monitor.

19 July 2014 – Gina Victoria Arias Canacho. Missing. Interpol.

29 Aug 2014 – What happened to 92,000 disappeared in Colombia? Newsweek. Bogota. Reuters. More than 92,000 Colombians disappeared over 50 years of war at the hands of drug. ICRC.

1 Sept 2014 – Deadly silence. 92,000 Colombians named as missing. Catholic online. Tens of thousands of people missing in Colombia.

17 Sept 2014 – 97,000 disappeared in Colombia 70,000 still missing. Colombia reports.

19 Sept 2014 – Virgins for sale in Colombia. Worlds biggest brothel. Channel 4 news. Criminal organisation “The office”.

20 Sept 2014 – Medellin world largest brothel. Sex trade in Pablo Escobar. Fox news Latino.

23 Sept 2014 – Police. Mexican cartels trafficking cocaine directly from Colombia. VOA Bogota. Trustlaw.

26 Sept 2014 – Colombia needs more prosecutors for human trafficking. Reuters. Bogota. Identify and investigate human trafficking crimes. Low conviction rates, an invisible problem.

23 Oct 2014 – Nestle workers in Colombia protest with unions. Colombia reports. Edgar Paez leader of the national food industry union. Sinaltreinal.

29 Oct 2014 – Santos, ongoing corruption battle. Colombia Reports. Pres Juan Manuel Santos.

11 Nov 2014 – 20 girls held as sex slaves by Bogota by human traffickers. Colombia Reports. 3 police raids in the city centre. Police find drugs and alcohol.

14 Nov 2014 – Bogota police shut down human trafficking operation. Colombia reports. Three people were arrested in Bogota. Underage girls were raped by paedophiles.

21 Nov 2014 – 15 Colombian police were arrested in internal corruption crimes. Colombia reports.

21 Dec 2014 – NZ Herald. 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.