Activity #1 / A TIMELINE by cesar caicedo

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was born in January 23, 1903 Bogotá-Colombia.

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After finishing his studies on October 29, 1924, he entered the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the National University, which granted him the title of lawyer in 1924.

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in 1926 He traveled to Italy to specialize at the Royal University of Rome, where his Ph.D. thesis, The Positive Criterion of Premeditation, obtained the highest academic honors.

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At the end of 1931 he had his famous debate in defense of the banana workers of the united fruit with which he decisively helped the defeat of the conservative regime

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in 1933 he founded the National Union of the Revolutionary Left (UNIR), and from then on he did not stop fighting equally the oligarchies of the two traditional parties

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In 1936 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was elected as mayor of Bogota

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In 1939 he made his first political advance when he was appointed as a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice

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launch of his candidacy for the presidency of the Republic of Colombia.

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In 1946 he was supported by the Colombian popular classes and protected by a recognized line of the left, elections in which he was unable to be elected as president of Colombia.

On April 9, 1948, Jorge Eleicer Gaitan was killed, which triggered protests and violence in the country.

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April 9, 1948The murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán is revealed who is the murderer of Jorge who was mortally wounded by bullets, he died minutes after arriving at the clinic the murderer is Juan Roa Sierra.

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Gaitán's legacy

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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, popular leader, remains alive in Colombia, through phrases such as: "I am not a man but a people, the people follow themselves when they follow me"
and he left his image on the 1000 peso bill