Colombia - Page loaded 21.11.2008 09:01:07 COT
A popular revolt in 1948, a peaceful march sixty years later. And politics remains as the rake sweeping the aspirations of men and women who only wish to live in peace, above the soil we happened to be born.
Most Colombians believe that if charismatic Colombian Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán had not been shot on 9 April 1948, he would have become President of Colombia in 1950, and maybe the fate of this troubled South American country would have been quite different. The local blogosphere also remembered this important day.
Today Colombians mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Party’s leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. This week, equinoXio will bring our English-language readers a small special tribute to his legacy, his ideas, and the consequences of his murder, regarded as one of the main causes to the subsequent violence which keeps storming our country.
