La Violencia
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La Violencia was a ten-year wave of civil conflict and unrest in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, mainly fought in the countryside.
Tram on fire in front of the Congress during the Bogotazo
In September 1949, Senator Gustavo Jiménez was assassinated mid-session, in Congress.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala was a Colombian politician and statesman who was the leader of the Liberal Party. A nationalist, he served as the mayor of Bogotá from 1936–37, the national Education Minist
La Violencia
…and the Colombian Liberal Party, mainly fought in the countryside. La Violencia is considered to have begun with the assassination on 9 April 1948 of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate and frontrunner for the 1949 November election. His murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting, which lasted ten hours…
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Memorial to Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in front of the place at which he was assassinated in Bogotá
Monument to Gaitán, in Medellín, Colombia