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5 unusual facts about Jorge Eliécer Gaitán


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The film is set during el Bogotazo, a violent rioting that erupted in Bogotá after the assassination of presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on April 9, 1948.

Newsreel footage shows Colombian Presidential candidate, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán speaking to a large crowd.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

While attending, the chair of his department, Professor Enrico Ferri, appreciated the innovative ideas of Gaitán and incorporated some of his work into a volume on Criminology.

He had a history of job instability and considered that he could get a position worthy of his status as a reincarnation of Santander and Quesada.

García Márquez discusses this day at vivid length in the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale.



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