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    Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro (20 February 1889 – 13 July 1965) was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 18th President of Colombia...
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    d'état against Ospina's successor as president, the extreme right-wing Laureano Gómez Castro, imposing martial law. Seeking to reduce political violence,...
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    The Laureano Gómez bridge (Spanish: Puente Laureano Gómez), popularly known as Pumarejo bridge (Spanish: Puente Pumarejo) after its promoter Alberto Pumarejo...
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    member of the Colombian Conservative Party. Gómez was a son of the former President of Colombia, Laureano Gómez. He is mostly remembered for being one of...
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  • artistic gymnast Andrés Gómez (born 1960), Ecuadorian tennis player Arthur Gómez (born 1984), Gambian footballer Beatrice Luigi Gomez (born 1995), Miss Universe...
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    leader and senator. The Conservative party was relying on candidate Laureano Gómez to become the official candidate for the presidency of Colombia. Ospina's...
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    presidential election of 1950, which was won by the radical conservative Laureano Gómez. Gómez became the leader of the most radical faction of the Conservative...
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    Villavicencio. In 1950, Laureano Gómez was elected president of Colombia, but it was a largely manipulated election, leading Gómez to become the new Conservative...
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    The election of President Laureano Gómez in 1950 sparked renewed interest in building up Colombia–United States relations. Gómez wanted greater U.S. economic...
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  • Chief's daughter) Laureano Gómez, the President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953 Laureano López Rodó, Spanish lawyer and politician Laureano Leone, a former...
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    President of Colombia from November 1951 until June 1953, while President Laureano Gómez was absent due to health issues. Urdaneta was born in Bogotá on 27 June...
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    Nations and was appointed Colombia's Ambassador to Spain by President Laureano Gómez Castro. In 1949 he was appointed by President Mariano Ospina Pérez as...
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  • Colombia from 1950 to 1953 as wife of the 18th President Laureano Gómez Laureano Gómez was elected president of Colombia in the 1949 presidential elections...
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    Gustavo Rojas Pinilla against Manuel Antonio Sanclemente Sanclemente and Laureano Gómez Castro respectively), two permanently resigned from office (Rafael Reyes...
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  • military coup in 1953 toppled the right-wing government of Conservative Laureano Gómez and brought General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to power. Initially, Rojas...
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    1925 to 1940. Other members of this group were Alfonso López Pumarejo, Laureano Gómez, Eduardo Santos, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez, Luis...
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    were Laureano Gomez and Estefania Jaro. This pedigree makes him a member of the prominent Sarino clan of Bacoor and the historically significant Gomez family...
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    came in second. Enrique Gomez Martinez. Presidential candidate for the 2022 elections by MSN. Unionsː Gomez-Hurtado Laureano Gómez married María Hurtado...
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    parties Liberal Party Conservative Party Colombian Communist Party Presidents of Colombia Mariano Ospina Pérez Laureano Gómez Gustavo Rojas Pinilla v t e...
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    of at least 180,000 Colombians. Colombia entered the Korean War when Laureano Gómez was elected president. It was the only Latin American country to join...
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  • general, he mounted a successful coup d'état against incumbent President Laureano Gómez Castro (1889–1965), imposing martial law and establishing a dictatorship-style...
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    only 8 years old, he joined a rally against Conservative president Laureano Gómez and intended to support the Liberal guerrillas. Two years later he was...
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  • of October 5, 1957. Following Ospina's presidency, the conservative Laureano Gómez was elected president. His authoritarianism divided the Conservative...
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    James D. Henderson (1 December 2001). Modernization in Colombia: The Laureano Gómez Years, 1889–1965. University Press of Florida. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-8130-3124-8...
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  • Ramón Raimundo Gómez Portillo (1874–1948) Poet and journalist born in Ocaña, North of Santander, Colombia. Son of Ramón Gómez Garcia and Anselma Portillo...
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    Laureano Vallenilla Lanz (November 10, 1870 – November 16, 1936) was a Venezuelan intellectual and sociologist who occupied the presidency of the congress...
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    director of the OEA, Alberto Lleras Camargo and Conference organizer Laureano Gómez, two men who later became Presidents of Colombia. This mural of the...
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    and command was implemented during the administration of President Laureano Gómez, who by means of Decree 1956 of 1951, created the National Department...
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  • afterwards. The story started by events set in the past, when the landlord Laureano Gomez Acuña tricks Roque Sosa, his employee in his farm, into giving him the...
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  • described the conditions under the right-wing government of Conservative Laureano Gómez as the following: "There is more repression of individual freedom here...
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