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LA PATRIA BOBA
It was characterized by the formation of many independence government boards and the bloody conflict between centralist patriots like Antonio Nariño and federalists like Camilo Torres.
On July 20, 1810, the Bogota citizens overthrew Viceroy Antonio Amar y Borbón and formed a Governing Board chaired by José Miguel Pey. -
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THE WAR OF THE SUPREME
The first internal conflict that took place in independent Colombia, began for religious reasons, since during the government of José Ignacio de Márquez a law was enacted that ordered the suppression of convents that housed less than eight religious to convert them into public schools. This rebellion started by religious leaders was taken advantage of by the caudillos of the south, known as the Supreme, who sought to oppose the Márquez government. -
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THE WAR OF A THOUSAND DAYS
Colombia suffered several events during the nineteenth century, political instability was the factor that most contributed to this civil conflict, since it revealed the excesses of federalism, in the period of the radicals. -
END OF THE WAR
This bipartisan war was aimed at delegitimizing the constitutionality of the liberal rulers.
This war left around 180,000 dead, and at that time around $ 25,000,000 million gold pesos were lost. -
THE BOGOTAZO
The assassination of the liberal leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903-1948) occurred on April 9, 1948 in Bogotá by Juan Roa Sierra (1921-1948), unleashed popular uprisings throughout the country. In Bogotá, massive looting occurred and several buildings in the center were reduced to rubble. -
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THE NATIONAL FRONT
The National Front was a pact or political agreement between liberals and conservatives to end the political party of General Rojas Pinilla in force in Colombia between 1958 and 1974. By extension it also refers to the historical period of those years. -
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BIRTH OF THE ANAPO
ANAPO was a Colombian political party founded as a movement in 1961 by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and disappeared in 1998. Today, several of its leaders and militants are part of the left-wing parties Polo Democrático Alternativo and Colombia Humana. -
BIRTH OF THE FARC
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army was an insurgent and terrorist guerrilla organization of the extreme left, based on the ideology and principles of Marxism-Leninism, and Bolivarianism in Colombia. -
ELN APPEARANCE
The National Liberation Army, also known as the ELN, is a Colombian far-left insurgent terrorist and guerrilla organization with a revolutionary orientation that operates in Colombia and Venezuela. He defines himself as having a Marxist-Leninist and pro-Cuban revolution orientation. -
ELECTORAL FRAUD
On Sunday, April 19, 1970, the votes to elect President of the Republic were held in Colombia, in which Misael Pastrana Borrero was proclaimed the winner. Around these elections, there has been debate about alleged irregularities that favored the winning candidate, which was initially denounced by members of the defeated candidate's campaign, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, and later by people outside his political movement. -
BONANZA DRUG TRAFFICKING
The marimbera bonanza was a period during which large amounts of dollars entered Colombia as a result of the activity of drug gangs dedicated to the illicit cultivation and export of marijuana on the Colombian Caribbean coast. -
TAKE THE JUSTICE PALACE
The reason why the M-19 entered the Palace of Justice is because they denounced that months ago the army had breached the ceasefire, after according to them, the government of Belisario Betancur Cuartas did not comply with the Corinth Accords signed on 24 August 1984. -
DEATH OF GALÁN
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian lawyer, economist, journalist and politician, candidate for the Colombian presidency in 1982 for the New Liberalism and in 1989 for the Colombian Liberal Party. He was assassinated during the 1989 campaign. -
DEMOLIZATION OF THE M-19
After its demobilization on March 8, 1990, it became a political movement, as a democratic left, known as the Democratic Alliance M-19 (AD-M-19), it was one of the most important political forces in the National Constituent Assembly of 1991. -
DEATH OF PABLO ESCOBAR
Escobar was cornered by the armed forces and by threats against his family. He tried to negotiate his surrender, conditioning it on the departure of his wife and his children from the country, but this time his proposal did not find an echo among the Executive power. Although he managed to evade the Search Block for six more months, the death of his security chief El Angelito (León Puerta Muñoz), in October 1993, left him unprotected, already in command of rank-and-file hitmen. -
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THE MAPIRIPÁN MASSACRE
The Mapiripán Massacre is the name given to the events that occurred between July 15 and 20, 1997, in the Mapiripán municipality of the department of Meta, Colombia, which cost the lives of approximately 49 people, victims of groups paramilitaries from different parts of the country. -
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PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
The Peace Dialogues between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the National Liberation Army refers to a series of conversations and negotiations that were carried out in the government of the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the ELN and FARC guerrillas.
