El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation) was a massive outbreak of rioting after the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of...

assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo  and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history...

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...

confusion and anger triggered by Gaitán's assassination provoked the huge Bogotazo riots that extended throughout the Colombian capital Bogotá and extended...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Liberal Party leader His assassination sparked the Bogotazo and served as a catalyst for La Violencia 1984 Carlos Toledo Plata, early...

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...

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...

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...

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...

of Leftist and Revolutionary organizations, which eventually led to the Bogotazo and the subsequent civil war La Violencia. That civil war would itself...

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...

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 ten years of violence in Colombia. 1948 – Fighters from...

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...

assassination occurred immediately prior to the armed insurrection or Bogotazo. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume...

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...

Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo) and a further 10 years of violence (La Violencia) across Colombia. The...

arrested on April 12, along with other Communist Party leaders, following the Bogotazo events. In the Viotá area, Merchán built up a communist-dominated enclave...

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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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...