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La Violencia
''La Violencia'' (, The Violence) was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, fought mainly in the countryside. ''La Violencia'' is considered to have begun with the assassination on 9 April 1948 of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, a Liberal Party presidential candidate and frontrunner for the 1949 November election. His murder provoked the ''Bogotazo'' rioting, which lasted ten hours and resulted in around 5,000 casualties. An alternative historiography proposes the Conservative Party's return to power following the election of 1946 to be the cause. Rural town police and political leaders encouraged Conservative-supporting peasants to seize the agricultural lands of Liberal-supporting peasants, which provoked peasant-to-peasant violence throughout Colombia. ''La Violencia'' is estimated to have cost the lives of at least 200,000 people, almost 2% of the population of the country at the time. Deve ...
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Colombian Civil Wars
There have been several Colombian Civil Wars in Colombian history: *War of the Supremes (1839–1841) *Colombian Civil War of 1851 *Colombian Civil War of 1854 *Colombian Civil War (1860–1862) *Colombian Civil War of 1876 *Colombian Civil War (1884–1885) *Colombian Civil War of 1895 *Thousand Days' War (1899–1902) *La Violencia (1948–1958) *Colombian conflict (1964–present) See also

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Guillermo Leon Valencia
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Manuel Marulanda
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Jacobo Prias Alape
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Teófilo Rojas Varón
Teófilo is a given name. People with the name include: *Teófilo Barrios (born 1964), Paraguayan football (soccer) defender *Teófilo Benito (1966–2004), Spanish middle-distance runner *Teófilo Borunda (1912–2001), Mexican politician *Teófilo Braga (1843–1924), Portuguese politician, writer and playwright *Teófilo Carvalho dos Santos (1906–1986), Portuguese politician *Teófilo Chantre (born 1964), Cape Verdean musician *Teófilo Cruz (1942–2005), Puerto Rican professional basketball player *Teófilo Cubillas (born 1949), Peruvian former footballer *Teófilo Dias (1854–1889), Brazilian poet, journalist and lawyer, nephew of Gonçalves Dias *Teófilo Ferreira (born 1973), Brazilian international freestyle swimmer * Teófilo Forero (died 1989), Colombian politician and trade unionist *Teófilo Gutiérrez (born 1985), Colombian football player *Teófilo José Jaime María Le Guillou, the founder in 1823 of Vieques, Puerto Rico *Teófilo Marxuach, (1877–1939), ordered t ...
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Jacinto Cruz Usma
Jacinto is a Spanish and Portuguese name meaning Hyacinth, which can refer to Saint Hyacinth, a Roman martyr (Hyacinth and Protus), or the Hyacinth flower itself. Common English nicknames for "Jacinto" are "Chinto" and "Jesse". Jacinto has only a few equivalents in other languages such as the Polish "Jacek" and "Jacenty", the Italian "Giacinto" and the Hungarian "Jácint". References {{Reflist See also *Hyacinth * San Jacinto *Jacek *Jack Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, ... Spanish masculine given names Portuguese masculine given names ...
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Juan De Jesús Franco
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, the diminutive form (equivalent to ''Johnny'') is , with feminine form (comparable to ''Jane'', ''Joan'', or ''Joanna'') , and feminine diminutive (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc.). Chinese terms * ( or 娟, 隽) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women. * () The Chinese character 卷, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as 'fascicle', 'scroll', 'chapter', or 'volume'. Notable people * Juan (footballer, born 1979), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, born March 2002), Brazilian footballer * Juan (footballer, b ...
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Juan De La Cruz Varela
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Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator * Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer * Eduardo "Edu" Coimbra, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo Costa, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo da Conceição Maciel, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer * Eduardo Adelino da Silva, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo Gómez (footballer), Chilean footballer * Eduardo Gonçalves de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo Jesus, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo Martini, Brazilian footballer * Eduardo Ferreira Abdo Pacheco, Brazilian footballer Music * Eduardo (rapper), Carlos Eduardo Taddeo, Brazilian rapper * Eduardo De Crescenzo, Italian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Politicians * Eduardo Año, Filipino politician and retired army genera ...
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Dumar Aljure
Dumar Aljure (1928-April 5, 1968) was a Colombian guerrilla fighter and political figure. Early life In 1928, Dumar Aljure was born in Girardot, Cundinamarca, in Colombia. His father was a shopkeeper from Lebanon. He did not receive very much education, and spent some of his youth as a laborer in Bogotá. From an early age he was in conflict with the law, being jailed for theft in 1945 before joining the National Army of Colombia in 1950. This was the time of La Violencia, a conflict between the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party. Aljure's sympathies lay with the Liberal Party, and he soon deserted the army, which was affiliated with the Conservatives, in order to join the guerrilla forces fighting for the Liberals. He first joined a group called the Bautista brothers, but due to disagreements with the group leadership he switched to another group, the Fonseca brothers, before finally joining a group led by Guadalupe Salcedo. Salcedo gave Aljure com ...
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Guadalupe Salcedo
Guadalupe or Guadeloupe may refer to: Places Bolivia * Guadalupe, Potosí Brazil * Guadalupe, Piauí, a municipality in the state of Piauí * Guadalupe, Rio de Janeiro, a neighbourhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro Colombia * Guadalupe, Antioquia, a municipality and town * Guadalupe, Huila, a municipality and town * Guadalupe, Santander, a municipality and town * Guadalupe Hill, a hill in Bogotá Costa Rica * Guadalupe, Costa Rica, a suburb of San José, Costa Rica El Salvador * Guadalupe, San Vicente France * Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean Mexico * Guadalupe, Baja California * Guadalupe, Chihuahua * Guadalupe, Nuevo León, part of the metropolitan area of Monterrey * Guadalupe Etla, Oaxaca * Guadalupe, Puebla, see Municipalities of Puebla * Guadalupe, Zacatecas * Guadalupe de Ramírez, Oaxaca * Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua * Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City, a town near Mexico City, now a suburb incorporated into the city * Presa de Guadalup ...
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