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Bogotazo
(April 9, 1948) |
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Bogotazo
(April 9, 1948) |
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| The mob took to the street after Liberal politician
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was shot in the back by an assassin as he stepped out of his office building. |
Left to Right: Fidel Castro; Enrique Ovares, president of the
Cuban University Student Federation (FEU); and Jorge Menvielle Porte-Petit, a Mexican Communist student leader. |
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| Street cars were overturned and churches burnt. |
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| Bogota firemen at work. |
Jorge
Eliecer Gaitan
Colombian
Presidents
Rafael
del Pino
