* 1900 – Thousand Days ' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.

During the war there were at least three attempts by Panamanian Liberals to seize control of Panama and potentially achieve full autonomy, including one led by Liberal guerrillas like Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo, each of whom was suppressed by a collaboration of Conservative Colombian and U. S. forces under the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty.

The sixteen-year extension of the bipartisan power-sharing agreement permitted the Liberal and Conservative élites to consolidate their socioeconomic control of Colombian society, and to strengthen the military to suppress political reform and radical politics proposing alternative forms of government for Colombia.

The UP sought political reforms ( known as Apertura Democratica ) such as constitutional reform, more democratic local elections, political decentralization, and ending the domination of Colombian politics by the Liberal and Conservative parties.

Lizcano, a Colombian Conservative Party congressman, was kidnapped 5 August 2000.

* Colombian Conservative Party

Belisario Betancur Cuartas ( born on February 4, 1923 ) is a Colombian statesman, who as a member of the Colombian Conservative Party was President of Colombia from 1982 to 1986.

Category: Colombian Conservative Party politicians

The Party was founded in 1848 and, together with the Colombian Conservative Party, subsequently became one of the two main political forces in the country for over a century.

Category: Colombian Conservative Party politicians

La Violencia refers to an era of civil conflict in various areas of the Colombian countryside between supporters of the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, a conflict which took place roughly from 1948 to 1958.

Category: Colombian Conservative Party politicians

Luis Mariano Ospina Pérez ( November 24, 1891-April 14, 1976 ) was a Colombian engineer and political figure, member of the Colombian Conservative Party.

Upon his return to Colombia in 1914 Ospina contacted the leadership of the Colombian Conservative Party and was nominated to run for the office of Counselor to the City Council of Medellín, representing the Conservative Party.

Category: Colombian Conservative Party politicians

Category: Colombian Conservative Party politicians

During his second term as president ( 1861 – 1863 ), Mosquera enacted a number of decrees aimed to control the power of Catholic Church, selling a lot of its properties-to impulse the economy giving them to the poor Colombian people -, and banning Jesuits from the country for their open support for the Conservative faction.

He was criticized by the more orthodox sectors of the Colombian Liberal Party ( who considered him too unruly ), most of the Colombian Conservative Party, the leadership of the Colombian Communist Party ( who saw him as a competitor for the political affections of the masses ).

It has usually been Colombia's second largest party, with the Colombian Liberal Party being the largest.

In 1964, the FARC – EP were established as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC ), after the Colombian military attacked rural Communist enclaves in the aftermath of The Violence ( La Violencia, ca.

The Colombian Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC ) was formally accredited by the Comintern in 1930.

Shortly after the end of talks, the FARC-EP kidnapped Oxygen Green Party presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was traveling in Colombian territory.

In the 2010 Colombian presidential election a green party has been created under the name Colombian Green Party, with former Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus being the leader.

Three years later he became co-chair of the Colombian Liberal Party.

Returning to Colombia in early 2005 after several visits in late 2004, Gaviria once again became active in politics, and was proclaimed as the sole chief of the Colombian Liberal Party in June 2005.

Category: Colombian Liberal Party politicians

Lehder boasted to the Colombian media about his involvement in drug trafficking at Norman's Cay and about giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs to the ruling Progressive Liberal Party, but Pindling vigorously denied the accusations, and made a testy appearance on NBC to rebut them.

After his father's death, Álvaro Uribe focused his political career and became a member of the center-left Colombian Liberal Party.

His running mate was Francisco Santos, a member of the Santos family, who have a long-lasting tradition as members of the Colombian Liberal Party and as owners of Colombian daily newspaper El Tiempo.

Category: Colombian Liberal Party politicians

Jiggy Drama collaborated with Colombian Party Cartel on the urban merengue track " Chico Malo ".

* On the international stage Aztek Escobar based in Houston, Colombian Party Cartel based in Nashville, Tres Coronas based in New York, Adassa based in Miami and 3 of the seven-man group of Culcha Candela in Berlin, Germany are representing Colombian urban music worldwide.

Pan American Airways, Incorporated ( PAA ) was founded as a shell company on March 14, 1927 by Air Corps Majors Henry H. " Hap " Arnold, Carl A. Spaatz, and John H. Jouett as a counterbalance to the German-owned Colombian carrier SCADTA, operating in Colombia since 1920.

ACES ( Spanish acronym: Aerolíneas Centrales de Colombia ) was an airline with its headquarters in the Edificio del Cafe in Medellín, Colombia and founded on August 30, 1971 by a group of 13 Colombian entrepreneurs, amongst them, most notably Orlando Botero Escobar and German Peñaloza Arias from Manizales and Luis H. Coulson, Jorge Coulson R., Alberto Jaramillo and Hernán Zuluaga from Medellín.

According to Medios para la Paz, a group founded by Colombian journalists, Colombian guerrilla groups kidnapped a total of 1, 000 people, ( 300 a year, 25 a month ) in the Cesar Department, between 2000 and 2003.

Macondo was founded in the remote jungles of the Colombian rainforest.

It was founded in 1930, as the Colombian section of the Comintern.

During this later term, he founded the Colombian Institute for Agrarian Reform ( INCORA ), with the intention of implementing a needed degree of land reform in the country.

The National Liberation Army of Colombia ( Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN ) was founded in 1964, by Fabio Vásquez Castaño and other Colombian rebels trained in Communist Cuba ; upon the Vásquez Castaño death, the ELN was headed by a series of Roman Catholic priests, exponents of Liberation Theology.

In 1999, Team Rentería founded the Colombian Professional Baseball League.

Club Atlético Nacional S. A., also known as Atlético Nacional, is a proffesional Colombian football team based in Medellín, Colombia that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Atlético Nacional was founded in 1947 by Julio Ortiz, Jorge Osorio Cadavid, Jorge Gómez, Arturo Torres, Gilberto Molina, Alberto Eastman, Raúl Zapata Lotero y Luis Alberto Villegas Lopera.

The university was founded by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, and was the first university in the country to be nonsectarian, that is, independent of political parties or influence from the state or the church.

The Colombian Liberal Party, founded in 1849, still exists as a dominant party, usually achieving the largest voter turnouts and electoral victories in congress and regional elections.

* 1849: The Colombian Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal Colombiano ) is founded

Colombian politician Luis Carlos Galán founded the Nuevo Liberalismo ( New Liberalism ) in 1979, as a dissident force of the Colombian Liberal Party.

* the Patriotic Union ( Colombia ), the political party founded by Colombian FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Communist Party in the 1980s.

This Colombian historical city was founded on August 6, 1539 by the Spanish captain, Gonzalo Suarez Rendon, in the domain of " El Zaque ", one of the chiefs of the Muiscas tribe.

The federation was founded in 1927 as a business cooperative that promotes the production and exportation of Colombian coffee.

The Patriotic Union or UP ( in Spanish: Unión Patriótica ), was a leftist Colombian political party founded by the FARC and the Colombian Communist Party in 1985, as part of the peace negotiations that the guerrillas held with the Conservative Belisario Betancur administration.

The UP was founded in May 1985 and several prominent FARC members were among the party's original founders, as well as members of the Colombian Communist Party ( PCC ).

The EPL was founded by the Communist Party of Colombia ( Marxist – Leninist ), PCC ( ml ), a 1967 offshoot of the main Colombian Communist Party that disagreed with the Soviet ideological tendencies then displayed by the latter.