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Independence from Spain
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Coffee Exporting
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United States of New Granada
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United States of Colombia
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Republic of Colombia
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Period: to
War of a Thousand Days
Brutal civil war
conservatives were accused of maintaining power through fraudulent elections -
Period: to
La Violencia
conservatives and liberals
assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán -
First football team
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Cocaine
drug cartels. mafia grows into power and becomes #1 distributer to today -
Colombian Constitution
included key provisions on political, ethnic, human and gender rights