El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation) was a massive outbreak of rioting after the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of...
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and frontrunner for the 1949 November election. His murder provoked the Bogotazo rioting, which lasted ten hours and resulted in around 5,000 casualties...
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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...
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assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history...
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Communism in Colombia (section El Bogotazo (1948))
defense of Colombian society.[citation needed] Following the events of "El Bogotazo", a decade long civil war broke out among the Conservative and Liberal...
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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...
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National Front (Colombia) (section El Bogotazo)
intention was to bring to an end the political violence generated by El Bogotazo and Jorge Eliecer Gaitan's assassination. Rojas Pinilla introduced an agrarian...
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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...
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confusion and anger triggered by Gaitán's assassination provoked the huge Bogotazo riots that extended throughout the Colombian capital Bogotá and extended...
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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...
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to cover most of the city and its surrounding suburbs. But during the Bogotazo riots of 1948, the system suffered heavy damage and was forced to close...
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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...
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writing, he continued with law in 1948 to please his father. After the Bogotazo riots on 9 April following the assassination of a popular leader Jorge...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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La Violencia Prelude Murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán El Bogotazo Political parties Liberal Party Conservative Party Colombian Communist Party Presidents...
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Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo) and a further 10 years of violence (La Violencia) across Colombia. The...
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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...
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader His assassination sparked the Bogotazo and served as a catalyst for La Violencia 1984 Carlos Toledo Plata, early...
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Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia. 1948 – Fighters from...
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was expanded and operated four lines. The riots of April 1948, known as Bogotazo, caused the destruction of several tram vehicles. Bogotá's tramway provided...
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led up to the civil war known as la Violencia, which started with the El Bogotazo riots of April 9, 1948. The army then became involved in the restoration...
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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...
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The building housing the offices of El Siglo was destroyed during the Bogotazo in the aftermath of the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán in 1948....
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán 1948 9 April Mayor of Bogotá Bogotá Colombia El Bogotazo Julien Lahaut 1950 18 August Belgian Republican politician Seraing Belgium...
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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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