- El
Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo
suffix of
violent augmentation) was a m****ive
outbreak of
rioting after the ********ination 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...
- ********inated
during his
second presidential campaign in 1948,
setting off the
Bogotazo and
leading to a
violent period of
political unrest in
Colombian history...
- Roa
Sierra down and
killed him. The ********ination of
Gaitan triggered El
Bogotazo,
riots that
partially destro****
Bogota and led to La Violencia, a period...
-
confusion and
anger triggered by Gaitán's ********ination
provoked the huge
Bogotazo riots that
extended throughout the
Colombian capital Bogotá and extended...
- 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...
-
intention was to
bring to an end the
political violence generated by El
Bogotazo and
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan's ********ination.
Rojas Pinilla introduced an agrarian...
- 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...
-
defense of
Colombian society.[citation needed]
Following the
events of "El
Bogotazo", a
decade long
civil war
broke out
among the
Conservative and Liberal...
