By Eduardo Garcia Aguilar The day of April 9, 1948, when they killed the Liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, is marking 63 years after Colombia's history with his devastating presence of destruction , intolerance and hatred.
Every time the country emerged a figure as the "black" Gaitan represented a distinct alternative to the bipartisan power was eliminated or harassed violently, as happened also to Rafael Uribe Uribe and Bernardo Jaramillo and hundreds honest opposition personalities. Even an entire game Politically, the UP was recently wiped out entirely unpunished by the dark forces of national intolerance.
Like a bad nightmare, we must recognize that the country is still ruled today in the same exact positions for the grandchildren of some of the protagonists of April 9 that broke in half the country's history, which shows Colombian politics that usually remains the preserve of the old oligarchy that was expressed earlier in the trenches of El Tiempo and El Siglo and today it does for Caracol and RCN.
dynasties and queue one after another to increase indefinitely the power for ever and ever, as if Colombians do not we take our own destiny. Santos, López, Gómez, Rojas, Lleras, Barco, Pastrana, Peñalosa, Turbay still there firm in the same places of their ancestors, while new names dolphins Galán Gaviria are already preparing for divine dictation to assume the reins of power inevitably when their turn in a few decades. For eight years we had a crazy Santos vice president and now a wily Santos as president. And everything indicates that it is preparing to climb the throne of Bolívar's grandson Lleras Restrepo.
affects even the dynastic drama to the Left. The grandchildren of the dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, children the famous "Baby" Maria Eugenia, dominate the Democratic Pole and the mayor of Bogota but govern as Caligula's horse and even a Lopez leads the party of the people of course.
The main embassy of the country are fiefdoms of families. For the love López Gómez London and Paris are fascinated. If Virgilio Barco was ambassador to Washington, of course, her daughter Carolina I had to be someday. If Misael Pastrana was ambassador in Washington before he became president through fraud, of course, his son Andrew would have to fill those positions as well.
If it is a genealogical study of the top leadership of the country, can certainly conclude that Colombia is a country even more dynastic than an old Arab or European monarchy and members of some of those families, although they are almost silly, arrive late or early to the highest dignities.
No wonder then that when the "infamous mob", the "rabble", the "ignorant rabble" Colombians killed his "black" Gaitan, son of a radical bookstore in a modest neighborhood Bogota, which seemed to be heading for winning the 1950 presidential election, the city was devastated in a day of rage and destruction. Y that on the smoking ruins of Bogotá and the body of the inbred Gaitán top leaders agreed in its conservative and liberal Palace in exchange of "posts" to avoid the collapse of the government.
I have reviewed with attention to two books written in the heat of events by representatives of the various forces in conflict. One of the conservative Ospinista Joaquin Estrada Monsalve, entitled "On April 9 at the Palace. History of a coup ", published days after the tragedy, and one of the poet and journalist left Luis Vidales," The uprising collapsed. On April 9, its theory and praxis. "
Monsalve Estrada describes clear and vivid prose, the days of 9 to April 10, viewed from the perspective of Ospina Pérez, so live every minute history amid fears that the "rabble" would take the palace liberal .
also attended the final settlement between liberal and conservative leaders to save his skin. We emphasize the description of the protagonists, as the cold leader, descended in turn from presidents, to whom one of his servants, Augusto Ramírez Moreno, came to tell the next day was a "demigod." All figures are in the tragicomedy Dona Berta Hernandez with a gun in his belt, Guillermo León Valencia, Laureano Gómez, Darío Echandía, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, among others.
Luis Vidales, the famous author of "beeps" Gaitan who met in Europe and was his friend, described by its leading intelligent part of the popular, full of strange aura about him when playing his village and was on his way to the presidency, to the astonishment of Lleras and Santos and conservatives. His book is a desperate defense of the headless mob at the betrayal of their leaders and after the assassination of their leader.
And as you read these texts you realize that the country has changed very little. On one side the "infamous mob" decadent, manipulated, violent, criminal, outlaw, eternal child and the other naming the immovable scented few hereditary families, Santos, López, Gómez, Lleras, Ospina, Rojas, Barco, Turbay Pastrana, Samper, Holguín, Galan, Dolphin avorazados Gaviria and anointed by God's grace.
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