Refers to the massive riots that followed the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on April 9, 1948 during the government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez. The 10 hours riot left a death toll of 3,000 to 5,000 people and thousands injured, and left much of downtown Bogotá destroyed. The aftershock of Gaitan's murder continued extending through the countryside and triggered a period in the history of Colombia known as La Violencia ("The Violence") that lasted until approximately 1958, and laid the foundations for the civil conflict that continues to this day.
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