# 2025 in Colombia

List of events, including those predicted and scheduled, of 2025 in Colombia.

## Incumbents

* President: Gustavo Petro (2022–present).
* Vice President: Francia Márquez (2022–present).

## Events
### Ongoing

* Colombian conflict
** Catatumbo campaign
** United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia

### January

* 1 January – The minimum wage in Colombia is raised from 1.3 million to 1.4 million Colombian pesos per month, a 9.54% rise.
* 3 January – Thirteen people die and 28 are injured after a bus carrying 42 people falls into a gorge while traveling on a road connecting Ipiales with Pasto in Nariño Department.
* 8 January – A Cessna 402 operated by Pacifica de Aviación (registered as HK-2522) crashes in Antioquia Department, killing all 10 occupants on board.
* 10 January – Venezuela closes its border with Colombia ahead of President Nicolás Maduro's third inauguration.
* 17 January – 2025 Catatumbo clashes: The government suspends peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) following separate clashes between the group and dissident Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members in Norte de Santander Department and the Clan del Golfo in Bolívar Department that leaves at least 39 people dead.
* 21 January:
** 2025 Catatumbo clashes:
*** The death toll of the ELN attacks in northeastern Colombia rises to at least 80 people, with thousands more displaced.
*** The government officially declares a state of internal commotion and launches a military offensive against ELN guerillas. The National Police begin evacuating people from affected areas.
*** Fourteen FARC dissidents from the 33rd front surrender to the National Army to avoid attacks by the ELN in El Tarra and Tibú municipalities of Norte de Santander.
* 22 January:President of Colombia Gustavo Petro visiting Haiti (22 January 2025)
** 2025 Catatumbo clashes: The Attorney General reactivates arrest warrants for 31 ELN leaders, including some who had represented the ELN during peace talks.
** President Petro travels to Haiti in an official state visit and meets with members of the transitional government.
* 24 January – 2025 Catatumbo clashes: President Petro issues a decree giving himself emergency powers to restore order in the Catatumbo region for a period of 270 days.
* 25 January – 2025 Catatumbo clashes: Eight-four ELN combatants surrender to authorities and 20 child soldiers are rescued from the ELN's 33rd Front. Fifty-five rifles, five machine guns, a sniper rifle, 25 pistols, 80 mortar shells, explosives, 300 anti-personnel mines, 20,327 rounds of ammunition and communications equipment are also seized.
* 26 January – US President Donald Trump threatens to impose sanctions, tariffs, a travel ban, and visa revocations against Colombia as retaliation for not accepting two U.S. military deportation flights. President Petro says that the country will not accept any deportation flights until the United States creates a process that treats the migrants with "dignity and respect," and that civilian aircraft flights would be accepted. Later in the day, the White House announces that Colombia had agreed to accept deportees.
* 29 January –The first leg of the 2025 Superliga Colombiana is held at Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín.

### February

* 4 February – President Petro orders the cancellation of a joint petroleum production venture between the state oil company Ecopetrol and the US firm Occidental Petroleum, citing concerns over the usage of fracking.
* 6 February –The second leg of the 2025 Superliga Colombiana is held at Estadio Américo Montanini in Bucaramanga. Atlético Nacional wins 4–3 on penalties, winning their fourth title.
* 9 February – President Petro asks his entire cabinet to resign amid an ongoing internal dispute.
* 18 February – The ELN launches a three-day "armed strike" in Chocó Department.
* 20 February – A police officer is injured in a bomb attack on a police station in Cucuta.

### March

* 6 March – Twenty-eight soldiers and a police officer are abducted in an attack by FARC dissidents in El Plateado, Cauca Department. They are released on 8 March.
* 11 March – Five soldiers are killed in an roadside bombing on their vehicle by FARC dissidents in the Micay Canyon, Cauca Department.

## Scheduled events

* 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifications:
** 20 March – Match 63: Brazil v. Colombia.
** 25 March – Match 66: Colombia v. Paraguay at the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in Barranquilla.
** 4 June – Match 71: Colombia v. Peru at the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in Barranquilla.
** 9 June – Match 80: Argentina v. Colombia.
** 9 September – Match 82: Colombia v. Bolivia at the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez in Barranquilla.
** 14 September – Match 87: Venezuela v. Colombia.
* 29 January – 2025 Superliga Colombiana.
* 13–16 February – The Bonanza Festival will take place in Santa Marta at El Rio hostel.
* 1-4 March – The Barranquilla Carnival.
* 25-27 March – The World Health Organization's (WHO) Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health will be held in Cartagena.
* 16-21 April – The Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival (FICCI).

## Arts and entertainment

* List of 2025 box office number-one films in Colombia

## Deaths
### January

* 1 January – Bayardo Ardila [es], 55, actor and voice actor (b. 1969).
* 4 January:
** Elver Cerón, politician and mayor of Mocoa (2004–2007, 2012–2015), shot.
** Víctor Manuel Zapata [es], 39, footballer (b. 1985).
* 5 January:
** María Páramo, 61, paleontologist and geologist (b. 1963).
** Orlando Cabrales Martínez, 85, politician and chemical engineer (b. 1939).
* 8 January – Jorge Cáceres, 77, Argentine-born footballer.
* 9 January – Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, 78, immunologist, pathologist, and academic (b. 1946).
* 10 January – Nelson Silva Pacheco, 80, Uruguayan-born footballer (b. 1944).
* 11 January – Vanessa "Galena" Ochoa, 33, radio journalist (found).
* 14 January – Rubén Ardila [es], 82, psychologist.
* 16 January – Miguel de la Espriella, 77, painter and sculptor (b. 1947).

### February

* 2 February – Gabriel Melo Guevara, 85, judge and politician, associate justice of the supreme court (1972–1978), senator (1991–1994) (b. 1939).
* 10 February – Fabio de Jesús Morales Grisales, 90, Roman Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1934).