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.

 
 
Street cars were overturned and churches burnt.

 
 
Bogota firemen at work.

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan
Colombian Presidents
Rafael del Pino
La penetracion sovietica en America y el 9 de abril (Francisco Fandiño Silva)
Antecedentes y secretos del 9 de abril (Alberto Niño Heredia)
La batalla contra el comunismo en Colombia (Jose Maria Nieto Rojas)