Uribe introduces "massacre with social criteria"

[Judi Lynn]

4. It certainly is. They aren't being very concerned with concealing it, either, apparently.

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Colombia has been described as being a "feudal state" for a very long time, treating African-Colombians, indigenous Colombians, and the vast poor class like trash, ignoring them always unless they protest their worsening conditions, then they get slaughtered. That's why the civil war has been going on since the 1940's, when they assassinated a beloved progressive official who hoped to work for the betterment of the working class.

Wikipedia:

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943–1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party. He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo[2] and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as La Violencia (approx. 1948 to 1958).

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Early political career
Gaitán was active in politics in the early 1920s, when he was part of a protest movement against president Marco Fidel Suárez.

Gaitán increased his nationwide popularity following a banana workers' strike in Magdalena in 1928.

After U.S. officials in Colombia, along with United Fruit representatives, portrayed the worker's strike as "communist" with "subversive tendency", in telegrams to the U.S. Secretary of State,[11] the government of the United States of America threatened to invade with the U.S. Marine Corps if the Colombian government did not act to protect United Fruit’s interests. Strikers were fired upon by the army[12] on the orders of the United Fruit Company, resulting in numerous deaths.

Gaitán used his skills as a lawyer and as an emerging politician in order to defend workers' rights and called for accountability to those involved in the Santa Marta Massacre.[12] Public support soon shifted toward Gaitán, Gaitán's Liberal Party won the 1930 presidential election.[12]

In 1933 he created the "Unión Nacional Izquierdista Revolucionaria" ("National Leftist Revolutionary Union" ), or UNIR, as his own dissident political movement after breaking with the Liberal Party.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n

(It's so hard to imagine who would have wanted him murdered.....)







Many photos of this man before and after his assassination. He was semi-immortalized in statues all over the country, and on currency and stamps, etc.

http://tinyurl.com/y4s6trb8