Jorge Eliecer Gaitan

Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Cucunuba Bogot, January 23, 1903, April 9, 1948 was a
Colombian politician and jurist, Mayor of Bogot in 1936, minister,

congressman and presidential candidate of the Liberal Party for President of
the Republic for the period 1946-1950. His assassination in Bogota produced
huge popular nationwide protests known as El Bogotazo, and the beginning
of a period known in the country's history as the time of the Violence.
It was an important Colombian political leader whose assassination

triggered the popular movement known as "The Bogotazo". He was born on
January 23, 1898 in Cucunuba. He graduated from high school the Martin
Restrepo Mejia College and in February 1920 joined the Faculty of Law and
Political Sciences of the National University, where four years later earned a
law degree with his controversial and important thesis "Socialist ideas in
Colombia ".
From a young age, he actively participated in politics supported the
candidacy of coalition Guillermo Valencia in 1918; was speaker in
demonstrations against Marco Fidel Suarez in March 1919; He received the
advice Alfonso Villegas Restrepo gave young people in the offices of his
newspaper; and organized literary society Ruben Dario, who was also the
Liberal University Center.
With great effort, in July 1926 he travelled to Italy to study at the Royal
University of Rome, where he earned a doctorate degree in jurisprudence.
Back in Colombia, he led the Congress a debate between 3 and 6
September 1929 for the murder of workers of the United Fruit Company. He
managed compensation for families of the fallen, earning him the title of
"People's Tribune" and conceived his figure popular leader.
In 1931 he was elected president of the House of Representatives and also
served as Professor of Criminal Law at the National University and as rector
at the Free University. Two years later, he founded the political movement
"National Union Leftist Revolutionary" (UNITE) and his journalistic organ "The
Unirismo", where he raised the need for land reform.
He was sworn in as mayor of Bogota in 1936 and its management forward
social reforms, promoted the decentralization of public services and tried to
establish restaurants or school cafeterias. By 1940, he was elected Minister
of Education President Eduardo Santos Montejo and launched a literacy
campaign and introduced free school shoe.
Since then, Gaitan begin a successful political career that only stopped with
his assassination on April 9, 1948. After defending Lieutenant Corts, and
when he went to lunch at the Continental Hotel, a man (Juan Roa Sierra)
shot and it had to be taken to the Central Clinic, where he died that
afternoon. The murder provoked a violent popular reaction and government

repression known as "The Bogotazo", which destroyed 142 buildings.
-born on February 8, 1931 and died on September 30, 1955

-was an American actor
-He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement
-Dean's enduring fame and popularity rest on his performances in only these three films
Dean's father left farming to become a dentist and moved the family to Santa Monica, California,
where Dean attended Brentwood Public School. Several years later, Dean's mother, whom he
was very close to, died of cancer, and Dean's father sent him back to Indiana to live on his aunt
and uncle's Quaker farm. During this time, Dean sought counsel from his pastor, the Rev.
James De Weerd, who influenced his later interest in car racing and theater. The two formed an
intimate relationship that is rumored to have been sexual.
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other
two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch
hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rest on his performances
in only these three films.
In 1954, Dean became interested in developing an auto racing career. He purchased various
vehicles after filming for East of Eden had concluded, including a Triumph Tiger T110 and a
Porsche 356 Just before filming began on Rebel Without a Cause, he competed in his first
professional event at the Palm Springs Road Races, which was held in Palm Springs, California
on March 2627, 1955.
An inquest into Dean's death occurred three days later at the Paso Robles City Hall, where a
coroner's jury delivered a verdict that he was entirely at fault due to speeding, and that
Turnupseed was innocent of any criminal act. However, according to an article in the Los
Angeles Times of October 1, 2005, a former California Highway Patrol officer who had been
called to the scene, Ron Nelson, said the "wreckage and the position of Dean's body indicated
his speed at the time of the accident was more like 55 mph".

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Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Cucunuba Bogot, January 23, 1903, April 9, 1948 was a

Colombian politician and jurist, Mayor of Bogot in 1936, minister,

It was an important Colombian political leader whose assassination

afternoon. The murder provoked a violent popular reaction and government

-born on February 8, 1931 and died on September 30, 1955

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