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| 1993, Dec. 2 |
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| Medellín drug cartel boss Pablo Escobar was killed by government forces. | 1 |
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| 1994, Jan. 12 |
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| Colombian military officials acknowledged that 250 U.S. troops, previously said to be on a humanitarian mission, were helping the Colombian government track guerrillas and drug traffickers. | 2 |
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| Jan. 17 |
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| In one of a series of attacks by leftist rebel groups, an assassination attempt was made against the Colombian finance minister in Bogotá. | 3 |
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| June 19 |
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| Ernesto Samper Pizano of the ruling Liberal Party won the presidency. | 4 |
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| July 2 |
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| The soccer world was stunned by the shooting death in Medellín of Andrés Escobar, the player who had inadvertently scored an “own-goal” for the U.S. in Colombia's World Cup match (June 22). | 5 |
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