On april 9, 1948, jorge eliecer gaitan, then a popular political leader likely to become the next president of colombia, was shot and killed by a drifter whose. Jorge eliecer gaitan colombian politician britannica. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. Centro cultural jorge eliecer gaitan, 1983, though he, too, ignores the northern. In death he incited uprisings in bogota and other cities by passionate followers.
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