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When the students' initiative was taken and with the participation of most of the country's political, economic and social forces, the National Constituent Assembly was formed, which reformed the Constitution of 1886.
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when Gustavo de Greiff becomes the first Attorney General of the Nation. Its management returns the credibility to the Colombian justice.
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Ernesto Samper was the president in Colombia.
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The crisis that Brazil faced caused panic in all international financial markets.
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The Colombian government suspends the peace process after guerrilla Arnobio Ramos hijacked an airplane in which he was transferred and forced him to land in San Vicente del Caguán, where he took refuge with the FARC. The FARC refused to hand it over to the government.
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negotiations between the government and the FARC are resumed, after a committee is created to solve the problem caused by the hijacking of the plane.13
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October 23: iPod players are created
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in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, former President Joaquín Balaguer died.
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when the presidents of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe and Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, meet in El Tablazo, Venezuela to sign an interconnection agreement for the gas pipeline system between the two countries.