1992 in Colombia

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See also:	Other events of 1992 Timeline of Colombian history

Events of 1992 in Colombia.

Incumbents

• President: César Gaviria (1990–1994).
• Vice President: N/A.^{[n 1]}

Events

Ongoing

• Colombian conflict
• Massacre of Trujillo.

January

February

• 22 February – A military convoy is attacked with dynamite in a jungle region near the border between Remedios and Puerto Berrío in Antioquia while guarding a vehicle apart of the construction of an oil pipeline. 13 people are killed, one being a civilian driver.^[1]

March

• 31 March – The 42nd Vuelta a Colombia begins in Pereira, Risaralda.

April

• 12 April – The 42nd Vuelta a Colombia ends in Bogotá. Fabio Parra of Seguros Amaya wins.

May

• 2 May – The 1992 Colombian energy crisis begins.

June

• 3 June – Local municipal officials belonging to the Patriotic Union María Mercedes Méndez, William Ocampo Castaño, Rosa Peña Rodríguez, and Ernesto Sarralde and their driver, Armando Sandovaz, are targeted and killed in El Castillo, Meta.^[2][3]

July

• 22 July – President Gaviria announces that Pablo Escobar had escaped from La Catedral prison in Medellín.^[4][5]

August

• 5 August – Ximena Restrepo wins bronze for Colombia in the Women's 400-metres event at the Barcelona Summer Olympics.
• 16-30 August – The 1992 South American U-20 Championship is held in Medellín; Brazil wins, while Colombia comes in third.

September

• 18 September – Judge Miriam Rocío Vélez Pérez and two of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) bodyguards assigned to her are assassinated by a group of men suspected to have been hired by Pablo Escobar. Judge Vélez was overseeing the murder case against Escobar of journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza in 1986. The previous judge in the case was also murdered, while two other past judges ended up fleeing the country.^[6]

October

• 9 October – Roberto Escobar, brother of Pablo Escobar, Juan Jairo Velasquez, and Otoniel Gonzalez of the Medellín Cartel surrender to Colombian authorities after escaping during a prison transfer along with 6 other Medellín Cartel lieutenants.^[7]
• 18 October – 1992 Murindó earthquake.

November

• 9 November – President Gaviria declares a national state of emergency.^[8]
• 15 November – Villatina massacre.
• 16 November – Miss Colombia 1992.

December

• 30 December – The Ministry of Transport is established.

Uncertain

• The Old Boots sculpture in Cartagena is demolished for the construction of the Heredia Bridge.

Births

• 7 October – Karl Triana, baseball player.

Deaths

• 11 April – Alejandro Obregón, artist (b. 1920).
• 5 November – Carlos Sanz de Santamaría (b. 1905).

Notes

1. The Office of the Vice President was officially abolished by the 1905 National Constituent Assembly on 28 March 1905, and it was only reinstituted after the ratification of the new 1991 Constitution and filled in the following presidential elections in 1994.

References

1. "Asesinados doce militares y un civil" [Twelve Soldiers and One Civilian Killed]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 23 February 1992. Archived from the original on 8 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
2. Escobar Moreno, David (3 June 2017). "Caño Sibao, un escenario de muerte de la Unión Patriótica" [Caño Sibao, a Scene of Death of the Patriotic Union]. El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 September 2024.
3. "Un lucha comunitaria que resiste apesar del dolor" [A Community Struggle That Resists Despite the Pain]. Comisión de la Verdad, Gobierno de Colombia. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
4. "Today in history: 1992 - Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison". Aol. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
5. Treaster, Joseph B. (23 July 2024). "Colombian Drug Baron Escapes Luxurious Prison After Gunfight". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
6. "Human Rights Watch World Report 1993: Colombia". Human Rights Watch. 1 January 1993. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
7. "3 Who Escaped With Colombia Drug Lord Give Up". The New York Times. 9 October 2024. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
8. "Emergency is Declared in Colombia". The Washington Post. 9 November 1992. Archived from the original on 12 September 2024. Retrieved 12 September 2024.

External links

• Media related to 1992 in Colombia at Wikimedia Commons
• Human Rights Watch World Report 1993: Colombia