The Bogotazo!
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- Grandpa, at school they gave me a homework about the Bogotazo, could you describe to me what happened?
- Grandpa, at school they gave me an assignment about the Bogotazo, could you describe what happened?
- well, the bogotazo was a period in which Colombia experienced one of the most impressive social and political episodes in its history that triggered profound transformations in the Colombian territory.
- Alright. It was a period in which Colombia experienced one of the most shocking social and political episodes in its history, which triggered profound transformations in the Colombian territory.
- It happened in the decade of 1948, when Jorge Eliécer Gaitán left his office in the center of Bogotá, Juan Roa Sierra, who was waiting for him with a revolver in hand. He shot the political leader three times, hitting him twice in the back and once in the head.
- Gaitán was taken to the central clinic, where he would die hours later.
- However, while Gaitán lay dying in the Clinic, a group of shoeshine boys in downtown Bogotá identified Roa and began shouting “Get the murderer”. Roa, for his part, was lynched and tied up with ties by a crowd of people that grew in a matter of seconds.
- after the caudillo's death, the wave of violence broke out throughout the country; The stations that were able to record the information narrated how the crowd looted commercial premises, shots, fires, massacres and a great destruction of public furniture.
- Later, the partial demobilization of these liberal groups gave way to the origin of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in 1958, and thus the Colombian armed conflict was inaugurated, which multiplied with the appearance of other guerrillas.
- it was horrible!
- In that same year I turned 18, I was part of that bloody and explosive period, that moment could have been the hardest for me, I felt a lot of fear and impotence due to the events.
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