hello let's talk about the bogotazo that occurred in 1948
It is known as the Bogotazo to a series of riots that occurred in the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, which were the result of the assassination of the leader of the Liberal Party, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, which occurred on April 9, 1948.
As a result of Bogotazo, the government presided over by Ospina chose to increase repression. Among the measures taken were the prohibition of public meetings and the dismissal of all liberal Party governors. Finally, the Congress was closed.
Since its very proclamation as an independent country, Colombia had suffered several civil wars led by its main parties: the Liberal and the Conservative. Both political forces had been alternating in power, always in the midst of great tension and with frequent armed clashes.
The 1946 elections saw the Conservatives return to power, partly because of the internal split in the Liberal Party. Within this there were two different currents, one led by Alberto Lleras Camargo and the second by Gaitán, further to the left than the previous one.
Two major parties, the Liberal and the Conservative, had dominated Colombian political life since the nineteenth century. The first had been born as a representation of the mercantile class and proposed a decentralized organization of the country, the separation between Church and State and a free market economic system.
Liberals and conservatives had alternated in power, with prolonged periods of government in each case. Between 1886 and 1930 there was the so-called Conservative Hegemony, with a government of that sign. During this stage there was the Thousand Days War that pitted both sides against each other.
The two liberal sectors in dispute were the moderates, representative of the commercial elites, and the radical, led by Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, further to the left and with great popularity among the most disadvantaged classes.
Although the trigger for El Bogotazo was gaitán's murder, historians claim that there were preconditions that contributed to the outbreak. Colombia had a society in which economic and social inequality was very pronounced. Moreover, the popular classes considered that neither party had bothered to solve their problems.
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