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The Spark
to 2:30 Jorge Eliecer Gaitán went to have lunch with friends, while Gaitan went for the streed surround for a crowd, Juan Roa Sierra shoot 3 times to the head and half body -
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delinquency
Part of the crowd, taking advantage of the riots, forgot the murder and their fury was unloaded in the facilities of the city center, where they carried out several looting, burned and destroyed the trams, churches, important buildings and assaulted premises. The city was half destroyed. -
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The Violence
The general consequences of the Bogotazo was the beginning of a military escalation between liberals and conservatives, in a civil war not declared in a period of history known as "La Violencia". At that time, the first groups of communist armed self-defense groups emerged, which would become the future guerrillas of the FARC and the ELN. -
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Consequences
Juan Roa Sierra, the material author of the assassination, was chased and lynched by a crowd that later dragged his corpse to the Casa de Nariño. -
The Beginning
The immediate consequences of the Bogotazo of April 9, 1948 were the siege by three days of violent protests, disorder and repression. A popular uprising in arms went to the National Capitol to demand the resignation of the conservative president, Mariano Ospina Pérez. -
What left us
The balance of victims varies between 500 and 3,000 people; the material damages by the fires were of 142 constructions, including private houses. and hotels in the center of Bogotá. Some buildings, such as the National Astronomical Observatory and the Santamaría Cultural Plaza, were saved thanks to being far from the center of the demonstrations.
