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Workers began rioting and destroying the Colombian capital Bogota, leading to the death of 4,000 people. When news of the death of Gaitán reached the countryside, the local militias were furious and immediately started a civil war known as La Violencia.
11 sty 2017 · Civil conflict in Colombia, one of the United States’ closest allies in Latin America, has left as many as 220,000 dead, 25,000 disappeared, and 5.7 million displaced over the last half century.
The Colombian armed conflict was for a long time the world’s longest running active civil war. It officially began in 1964 with the creation of two guerrilla movements, but the violence had begun long before.
Colombians have endured more than 40 years of conflict as a result of civil war and the evolving organized criminal activity surrounding the drug market. Murders, forced displacement, torture, rape, “dis- appearances,” kidnapping and extortion are part of the social fabric.
1 gru 2015 · Colombia has been plagued by conflict since the national hero Simón Bolívar triumphantly entered Bogotá in 1819. After the War of Independence there followed eight civil wars, 14 local wars, countless minor uprisings, two wars with Ecuador and three coups during the 1800s alone.
Colombia had just lived through a decade-long civil war, known as La Violencia (1948–1958), during which fighting in the countryside between the Conservative and Liberal parties had left more than 200,000 people dead, the majority of the victims from rural communities.
27 paź 2014 · On March 1, a Colombian military raid on a FARC camp in Ecuador killed second-in-command FARC leader Raúl Reyes. The military also seized several computer devices that allegedly revealed financial ties between the guerilla group and Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador.
