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Republic of Colombia

By etcurry

  • Independence from Spain

  • Coffee Exporting

  • United States of New Granada

  • United States of Colombia

  • Republic of Colombia

  • Period: to

    War of a Thousand Days

    Brutal civil war
    conservatives were accused of maintaining power through fraudulent elections
  • Period: to

    La Violencia

    conservatives and liberals
    assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

  • First football team

  • Cocaine

    drug cartels. mafia grows into power and becomes #1 distributer to today

  • Colombian Constitution

    included key provisions on political, ethnic, human and gender rights