2004 in Colombia

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See also:	Other events of 2004 Timeline of Colombian history

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Events from the year 2004 in Colombia.

• President: Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002 – 2010).^[1][2]
• Vice President: Francisco Santos Calderón (2002 – 2010).^[3][4]

• 2 January – Senior Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) member Simón Trinidad is captured in Quito, Ecuador.^[5]

• 21 February – The 2004 Barranquilla Carnival begins.^{[citation needed]}

• 4 March – President Uribe is in Doral, Florida, U.S.A speaking at U.S. Southern Command.^[6]

• 16 April – Carlos Castaño Gil, co-founder of the Peasant Self-Defenders of Córdoba and Urabá (ACCU) and leader in the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), is killed under uncertain circumstances.^[7]

• 5 May – Senior FARC member Simón Trinidad is sentenced to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and rebellion in Valledupar.^[5][8]

• 6 June – The Colombia national football team plays Uruguay's in Barranquilla in a FIFA World Cup CONMEBOL qualification game. Colombia wins 5–0.^[9]

• The AUC and Colombian Government begin peace talks; AUC leaders address Congress.^[8]

• 5 August – U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld receives a memo about recent reporting from the New York Times, Newsweek,^[10] and the Los Angeles Times on a declassified 1991 memo linking President Uribe to paramilitaries, drug trafficking, and Pablo Escobar.^[6]
• 5 August – Colombian soldiers assassinate union leaders Jorge Eduardo Prieto, Leonel Goyeneche, and Hector Alirio Martinez in Saravena, Arauca. The army initially claims that the victims were Marxist rebels killed in a battle.^[11]

• 6 September – The Attorney General's Office of Colombia admits that Colombian soldiers assassinated three union leaders on August 5 in Saravena. It orders the arrest of two soldiers, a civilian, and an army officer for the deaths of Jorge Eduardo Prieto, Leonel Goyeneche, and Hector Alirio Martinez.^[11]

• 12 November – Miss Colombia 2004 is held in Cartagena de Indias. Miss Atlántico Adriana Tarud is crowned the winner.^[12]
• 15 November – At 4:06 local time (9:06 UTC), a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits near Bajo Baudó, Chocó. There are no reported fatalities.^[13]

• 13 December – Rodrigo Granda affair: Foreign Minister of the FARC Rodrigo Granda is captured by Venezuelan Officials in Caracas, Venezuela and transferred to Cúcuta, Colombia.^[14]

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• 2 January – Hernando Caro Mendoza, music critic, journalist, and teacher (b. 1927).
• 11 February – Albeiro Usuriaga, footballer (b. 1966).
• 15 March – Amparo Arrebato, dancer (b. 1944).
• 1 April – Enrique Grau, painter and sculptor (b. 1920).
• 16 April – Carlos Castaño Gil, AUC leader (b. 1965).
• 26 April – Hernando Valencia Goelkel, critic and essayist (b. 1928).
• 27 April – María Teresa Benavídez Díaz, catholic nun (b. 1956).
• 19 May – Manuel J. Bernal, pianist, organist, composer, arranger, and orchestra director (b. 1924).
• 4 June – Tirso Vélez, poet, teacher, and politician (b. 1954).
• 27 July – Carlos Gustavo Arrieta Alandete, politician and lawyer (b. 1914).