1948 riots in Bogotá, Colombia over the assassination of pres. candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
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La Violencia
Prelude
Murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
El Bogotazo
Political parties
Liberal Party
Conservative Party
Colombian Communist Party
Presidents of Colombia
Mariano Ospina Pérez
Laureano Gómez
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El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation) was a massive outbreak of rioting after the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948 during the government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez. The 10-hour riot left much of downtown Bogotá destroyed.
The aftershock of Gaitan's murder continued extending through the countryside and escalated a period of violence which had begun eighteen years before, in 1930, and was triggered by the fall of the conservative party from government and the rise of the liberals. The 1946 presidential elections brought the downfall of the liberals allowing conservative Mariano Ospina Pérez to win the presidency. The struggle for power between both again triggered a period in the history of Colombia known as La Violencia ("The Violence") that lasted until approximately 1958; the civil conflict that continues to this day originated from that event.
El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation) was a massive outbreak of rioting after the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of...
and frontrunner for the 1949 November election. His murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting, which lasted ten hours and resulted in around 5,000 casualties...
Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948. The ensuing riots in Bogotá, known as El Bogotazo, spread throughout the country and claimed the lives of at least 180,000...
anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and pro-democratic ideas. – Fidel Castro on the Bogotazo, 2009 In June 1947, Castro learned of a planned expedition to overthrow...
Roa Sierra down and killed him. The assassination of Gaitan triggered El Bogotazo, riots that partially destroyed Bogota and led to La Violencia, a period...
defense of Colombian society.[citation needed] Following the events of "El Bogotazo", a decade long civil war broke out among the Conservative and Liberal...
as the protection given to the president during the violent acts of the Bogotazo (April 9, 1948) and during the Palace of Justice Siege on November 6, 1985...
liberals upset; so, due to the murder of Jorge Elieser Gaitan the mobs of el bogotazo tried to burn the capitol, but the Colombian Army stopped them. Years later...
by agent Edgar K. Thompson. In 1948 when the civil unrest known as "El Bogotazo" broke out after the assassination of the popular presidential candidate...
by agent Edgar K. Thompson. In 1948 when the civil unrest known as "El Bogotazo" broke out, after the assassination of the popular presidential candidate...
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader His assassination sparked the Bogotazo and served as a catalyst for La Violencia 1984 Carlos Toledo Plata, early...
Violencia began, in which popular unrest in cities caused uprisings like the Bogotazo riots. In the rural areas, members of the Liberal Party formed peasant...
candidate for president of the Republic of Colombia his murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting and the imminent beginning of the bloody La Violencia The Pact...
was destroyed by a fire during the riots of 9 April 1948, known as the Bogotazo after the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. The building that replaced...
views. Traveling to Bogotá, Colombia, he fought for the Liberals in the Bogotazo before returning to Havana, where he embraced Marxism. In 1948 he married...
Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia. 1948 – Fighters from...
La Violencia Prelude Murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán El Bogotazo Political parties Liberal Party Conservative Party Colombian Communist Party Presidents...
Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo) and a further 10 years of violence (La Violencia) across Colombia. The...
name, Caracas, and "-azo", which stems from another historic event, the Bogotazo, was a massive riot in Bogotá, recognized as having a crucial role in Colombia's...
(collective called "cartucho" in Colombian Spanish). after the events of El Bogotazo, the neighborhood experienced a time of rapid decay during which much of...
working for the Department of State in 1941. In this role, he witnessed the Bogotazo riots in Bogotá, Colombia in 1948. Appointed to be Ambassador to the OAS...
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