memory "The Bogotazo 63 years reviving the popular movement 
About 300 people gathered in downtown Bogota to remember the popular uprising of April 9, 1948 after the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. torchlight march
On Friday April 8 about 300 people gathered to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of Bogotazo. The mobilization meeting point was the Plaza de las Nieves (or Eduardo Umaña Mendoza Plaza as it is called the demonstrators), place of departure for the journey they had planned. Jorge Eliecer Gaitán was Liberal Party candidate for President of Colombia for the period 1950-1954 with a good chance of winning the election by the popular support it enjoyed.
amplify After a few speeches Gaitán and that some of the participants made some reflections started the seventh race walk towards the spot where Gaitán killed in the same race and Avenida Jiménez. At the head of the mobilization was a giant banner with the face of Gaitán, which stated "De Laureano Santos, 63 years of state terror, and popular resistance organization," followed by the crowd that stood flaming torches as happened on 18 July 1947 in a march organized by Gaitán in which more than 100,000 people attended. During the tour were handing out press releases and pamphlets alluding to the date that is commemorated with reflections that gave life to what happened that April 9. Among the speeches that were exclaiming: "Gaitán, Gaitán," people power "against the oligarchy: Charge!" The people is greater than their leaders, "among others. As they moved, read the text just curious to find out the reason for the event, others joined the speeches and some were added to the route. In the seventh race Avenida Jimenez with the marchers were planted at the memorial to pay tribute Gaitán him and the thousands of murders committed by state repression for more than six decades. However, about 50 riot police between transit and assistants were present cordoning off the march.
The event ended at the same location starting with a cultural event, there was grassroots youth expressed their complaints against the police and military repression by the hip-hop, speaking out against capitalism and its dead and, finally, also inviting the youth struggle for a different company today. The police did not allow further activity and physically and verbally abused some people who were helping to collect the waste to leave the place clean, so did the group of people who were packing up the sound to go. Despite the provocations by the police, the marchers could be removed normally.
April 9, 1948
'They killed Gaitan! "Shouted the crowd 63 years ago, where the people outraged by the killing of a person who could become President and which saw their interests listed were frustrated, because in its commitment to policy, are excluded for economic and social system were great possibilities for a just society. Beyond the character, the protagonist is Bogotazo, the popular uprising that took place throughout the country as envisioned outrage in neighborhoods, villages and mountains hidden and expressed their opposition to the government that oppressed them . There were cities and in Barrancabermeja, where it became visible actions organized and displays of power in the hands of the people.
taken from: http://notiagen.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/el-bogotazo-63-anos-reviviendo-el-movimiento-popular/
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