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    Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (23 January 1903 – 9 April 1948) was a liberal with nationalist ideals in Colombia and also a politician and leader of the Liberal...
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    in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948 during the government of President Mariano Ospina...
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  • producer Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1898–1948), Colombian politician Martín Gaitán (born 1978), Argentine rugby union footballer Nicolás Gaitán (born 1988)...
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    Colombian Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on April 9, 1948. After he shot Gaitán three times, mortally wounding him, a mob chased...
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    dedicated to the life of assassinated politician Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. The house Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala lived in from the beginning of the 1930s until...
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  • Argentine-born ballet dancer Jorge Ebanks, Cayman Islands basketball player Jorge De La Rosa, baseball pitcher Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician assassinated...
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    considered to have begun with the assassination on 9 April 1948 of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate and frontrunner for the 1949...
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  • Colombian footballer Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903–1948), left-wing Colombian politician and charismatic leader of the Liberal Party Jorge Eliécer Julio (born 1969)...
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    charismatic lawyer Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, despite the antipathy it provoked among party members and liberal leaders. In the rural area, Gaitanism faced a bloody...
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    division in the opposing Colombian Liberal Party between supporters of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and those of Gabriel Turbay. With only three weeks remaining for...
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    Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2020. Gloria Gaitán talks about her father, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on YouTube Schultes, Richard Evans (1963). "Jaime...
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  • Some important figures in the history of communism in Colombia are Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Jaime Pardo Leal, Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa...
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    1958) that followed the assassination of the Liberal Party's leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. In March 2006, Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the United...
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    triggered by the 1948 assassination of liberal political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and in the aftermath of the anti-communist repression in rural Colombia...
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    in 1982. Gloria Gaitán was born in Bogotá on 20 September 1937, the daughter of the Colombian Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. She was 10 years...
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  • Roa Sierra, the man who was blamed for the 1948 assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the charismatic liberal candidate for president. The film depicts...
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    This position was strongly criticized in the Senate, especially by Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, who argued that those same bullets should have been used to stop...
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  • of kids playing inside and a tortured woman who was killed there. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theatre: Built in 1938, its story is full of events of cultural,...
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    000 pesos 130 × 65 mm   Orange Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (upper-half body) and a crowd Jorge Eliécer Gaitán August 7, 2001 November 17, 2001...
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    apprehended by Colombian military forces. They take their name from Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a former Colombian activist leader. According to a November 2021...
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    Turbay and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, neither of whom could gain a majority. Political violence had been on the rise during Ospina's term, and Gaitán became a...
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    presidential office again in 1948, after the killing of liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Bogotá's downtown was virtually destroyed as violence reigned. From...
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    Argentine government. There, the assassination of popular leftist leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala led to widespread rioting and clashes between the governing...
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    and its organizers were Communist revolutionaries. Congressman Jorge Eliécer Gaitán claimed that the army had acted under instructions from the United...
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    Juan Perón, Argentina Germán Busch, Bolivia Augusto Pinochet, Chile Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rica Fidel Castro, Cuba Rafael...
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    of a failed assassination attempt. It is widely speculated that Jorge Eliécer Gaitán would likely have been elected President had he not been assassinated...
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  • Two years after the election, the second Liberal Party candidate, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala, was assassinated. This in turn sparked a ten-year civil war...
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    in the aftermath of the assassination of the populist politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, there occurred a decade of large-scale political violence throughout...
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    1890 and operated there until its demolition and transfer to the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater in 1952. President Rafael Núñez learnt of the impact of the...
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  • tradition of cooperativism early in his life, such as that practiced by Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Salvador Allende. Other key influences...
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