floundersgreatadventure

Let’s try some more history 1930-1974 Soon after; Colombia achieved a relative degree of political stability, which was interrupted by a bloody conflict that took place between the late 1940s and the early 1950s, a period known as La Violencia de Los Putos (“the Violence of the bastards”). Its cause was mainly mounting tensions between the two leading political parties, which subsequently ignited after the assignation of Liberal presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitan on 9 April 1948. This ensuing riots in Bogota, known as El Bogotazo, spread throughout the country and claimed the lives of at least 180,000 Colombians. From 1953 to 1964 the violence between the two political parties decreased first when Gustavo Rojas deposed the President of Colombia in a coup d’état and negotiated with the Guerrillas, and then under the military junta of General Gabriel Paris Gordillo. After Rojas deposition the Colombian Conservative Party and Colombian Liberal Party agreed to create the “National Front”, a coalition which would jointly govern the country. Under the deal, the presidency would alternate between conservative and liberals every four years for 16 years; the two parties would have parity in all elective offices. The National Front ended “La Violencia”, and National Front administrations attempted to institute far-reaching social a n economic reforms in cooperation with the alliance for progress. In the end, the contradictions between each successive Liberal and Conservative administration made the results decidedly mixed. Despite the progress in certain sectors, many social and political problems continued, and guerrilla groups were formally created such as the FARC, ELN, and M-19 to fight the government and political apparatus. Emerging in the 1970s, powerful and violent drug cartels further developed during the 1980s and 1990s. The Medellin Cartel under Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel, in particular, exerted political, economic and social influence in Colombia during this period. These cartels also financed and influenced different illegal armed groups throughout the political spectrum. Some enemies of these allied with the guerillas and created or influenced paramilitary groups. Hope you learned something to day I have to get out of here Jeff has been playing Disco music while we have been doing this and I’m ready to go out and kill somebody, so before I pull all mt hair out Ciao.