Around this time President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla loses power, and the Condor loses his political protection.
He became dissatisfied with the army and in 1924 he requested permission to retire from active service so that he could study civil engineering in Tri-State Normal College, in the United States where he obtained the title of civil engineer in 1927.
Gustavo Kuerten | Gustavo Bergalli | Marcus Rojas | Cookie Rojas | Gustavo Rowek | Tito Rojas | Gustavo Garzón | Clare Rojas | Gustavo Santaolalla | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla | Gustavo Machado | Gustavo Dudamel | Gustavo Chacín | Gustavo Romano | Gustavo Palafox | Gustavo Napoles | Gustavo Madero Muñoz | Gustavo Esteva | Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | Gustavo Cochet | Gustavo Cadile | Gustavo Arias Murueta | Cristóbal de Rojas | Bruno Rojas | R. P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological Museum | Roberto Rojas | Roberto "Cóndor" Rojas | Pinilla | Mel Rojas | Mauricio Rojas Toro |
On June 13, 1953 General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla led a bloodless Coup d'etat to the authoritarian conservative president Laureano Gómez to bring peace to the country after many years of civil war between liberals and conservatives.
The year of 1970 saw the electoral defeat of its presidential candidate, the former dictator General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, at the hands of the Conservative candidate of the National Front, Misael Pastrana Borrero, after a close April 19 election which ANAPO and several prominent figures of Colombian public opinion condemned as fraudulent at the time.