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Colombian passport (Spanish: Pasaporte colombiano) is a travel document which is issued to nationals of Colombia for the purpose of international travel. Since September 2015, a biometric passport has been issued, but the previously issued machine-readable passport can be used until its expiration date.
Visa requirements for holders of ordinary passports travelling for tourism purposes: Colombia is an associated member of Mercosur.As such, its citizens enjoy unlimited access to any of the full members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) and other associated members (Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru) with the right to residence and work, with no requirement other than nationality.
The events that followed Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination in 1948 provoked a violent riot in Bogotá, now known as the Bogotazo, which also started a further ten years of violence in all of Colombia known in Colombian history as La Violencia. These events also brought in a Military Government headed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
Prior to September 2021, Colombia had fixed line subscriber numbers that comprised a single digit dialing zone and a 7-digit local number. These were converted to the new format by inserting "60" before the dialing zone. There were various dial plans, with different access prefixes depending on the type of service. All such prefixes have been ...
Ordinary Passport (Spanish: Pasaporte ordinario) – issued for ordinary travel, such as vacations and business trips; Collective Passport (Spanish: Pasaporte colectivo) – issued for the occasion of pilgrimages, excursions and other acts of analogous nature, whenever reciprocity with the destination country exists; its validity is limited a single trip, whose duration will not be able to ...
Gran Colombia was the union of the territories that comprised the Viceroyalty of the New Granada under the uti possidetis principle, and it included the political entities that had formed in the New Granada after the initial wars of independence of 1810 against the Kingdom of Spain under King Joseph I; those included the Second Republic of ...
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The politics of clientelism in Colombia: Democracy and the state (Routledge, 2017). Murillo, Mario A., and Jesus Rey Avirama. Colombia and the United States: war, unrest, and destabilization (Seven Stories Press, 2004). Phelan, John Leddy. The People and the King: The Comunero Revolt in Colombia, 1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1978.