Life Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and the Bogotazo

 ACTS PARALLEL JORGE ELIECER GAITAN

“The frustration of a hope”

LIFE

Jorge Eliecer Gaitán a man dark was born on January 23 of 1898, in Bogotá.  He started their studies in a public school where her mother worked. For her academic excellence studied scholarship in a very good school of Bogotá. One year after of his graduate started to study in the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Nacional. Since his graduation of the Universidad Nacional as lawyer in 1924, incursioned into political product of his early interest in the situation of country.

Dates important in his life.

-       1924-1925 : He occupied the charge the deputy of the Assembly of Cundinamarca

-       1928: He was elected as representative to the Cámara.

-       1936: In June of this year he was named mayor of Bogotá.

-       1940: He was named as Minister of education. For then president Eduardo Santos.

-       1942: He was named senator.

-       1944: He presented his candidacy for the presidency.

-       1948: This is a date very important since Jorge Eliecer Gaitán was nominated only candidate the party liberal and presidential candidate of 1950. However, on April 9, Juan Roa Sierra died him.

LEGACY

“I am not a man, I am a people”. Jorge Eliecer Gaitán

For social justice: “Ensuring that the rich are less rich and the poor are less poor”

Jorge Eliecer Gaitán from a humble family. His father Eliecer Gaitán and his mother Manuela Ayala of whom he learned a profound lesson: We must to respect the men for their dignity and merits, and not by their social and economic condition.

He was very important because with his way of thinking gave a hope for oppressed people and ignored by the Conservative government of the moment.

He was loved by his interesting in the vulnerable population and discriminated against because he taked as their own social causes of the poorest people and marginalized.

Achievements

-       He pot to work the national literacy and shoes for poor students.

-       He created the school restaurants; he supported rural school and founded new schools.

-       He denounced for equally the liberal and conservative oligarchy and stood next to the most humble.

Goals

-       Democratize the land, make obligatory the vote, to encourage public education, culture and health for the population, promoting popular savings, to finance small businesses and to recognize the equal rights of women.

DEATH

The death of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan made ​​rivers of blood that flooded the streets and cities of Colombia.

On April 9, 1948, it was near the one pm while he left his office in society of their friends. He taked the mean of lunch with Plinio Mendoza Neira, but suddenly rang three bream and Gaitán fell at the floor mortally wounded.

The shots came from Juan Roa Sierra, he trayed to escape, but the angry crowd killed with blows and kicks Juan Roa Sierra.

 

CONSEQUENCES

The Bogotazo

The crowd made ​​up of artisans and peasants took to the streets of Bogota began confrontation between the armed forces and people pained by the death of Gaitán. Many police Gaitán followers endowed the multitude of weapons, many people converged on the Plaza de Bolivar that became the epicenter of the conflict.

The city burned in fire, too  a group of students from the Universidad Nacional of liberal and communist took over the national radio and from there began to call the revolution and to the formation of popular assemblies.

This is considered one of the first acts of the era city known as La Violencia

What did Gaitán mean  death him ?

The death of Gaitán meaned the beginning of the named Violencia. The death of Gaitan's death was the spark that increase bipartisan war.

Gaitan's death was the spark that increase bipartisan war
After the death of Gaitan, thousands of peasants and artisans gaitanistas moved closer to the guerillas to convatir a regime they considered illegitimate (Ospina's regime).
These multitudes repressed demostraror the government will have the strength to overthrow the regime so that at the point of fire and blood, began to eliminate all the country everything that smacked of opposition.

Specific consecuences:

-       The Bogotazo sparked off that political ruling to take a cautious attitude to the rise of populism and suppress any social movement and political dissidents.

-       The leaders of peasant groups liberals thought that the chances for them were locked and up arms creating guerilla columns.

This episode of violence that Colombia in 1948 lived only decreased slightly in 1954.

To finish in the words of Gaitán: “No hand of the people rise up against me and the oligarchy does not kill me because it knows that if you do the country turns and the water delayed fifty years in return to normal”.