{"id":342,"date":"2012-08-09T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/modernlatinamerica\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2012-08-09T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:16:10","slug":"figures-in-colombian-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-7-colombia\/figures-in-colombian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Profiles and Personalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_1350\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2012\/08\/Jorge_Eliecer_Gaitan_1936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1350\" class=\" wp-image-1350 \" title=\"Jorge Eliecer Gaitan (1936)\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2012\/08\/Jorge_Eliecer_Gaitan_1936.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Eliecer Gaitan (1936)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jorge Eli\u00e9cer Gait\u00e1n (January 23, 1903 &#8211; April 9, 1948) <\/strong>Gait\u00e1n was a maverick liberal who cultivated a mass following among the\u00a0disadvantaged\u00a0sectors of Colombian society. A former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943-44), as mayor of Bogot\u00e1 (1936) he built a populist movement that attacked the nation\u2019s \u201coligarchy\u201d and called for Colombia\u2019s moral restitution. His assassination by an\u00a0unknown\u00a0assailant in the\u00a0center\u00a0of Bogota prompted massive riots throughout the city that became known as <em>bogotazo<\/em>. The assassination closed the way to centrist and reformist solutions, and led to a sharp acceleration in\u00a0political\u00a0violence as Colombia entered the era known simply as La Violencia (1946 &#8211; 1964).<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_1351\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2012\/08\/lvaro_Uribe_V\u00e9lez1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1351\" class=\" wp-image-1351 \" title=\"\u00c1lvaro_Uribe_V\u00e9lez\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2012\/08\/lvaro_Uribe_V\u00e9lez1.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00c1lvaro Uribe V\u00e9lez<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00c1lvaro Uribe (July 4, 1952 &#8211; )<\/strong> Uribe campaigned as a dissident liberal who vowed to crush the guerilla movement within Colombia upon his election in 2002. A former Medell\u00edn mayor and governor of Antioquia, Uribe embarked on an ambitious plan to manage the internal conflict. With $573 milllion in aid from the United States, Uribe bolstered counternarcotics and counterinsurgency operations. His success against the FARC and ELN won him tremendous support: he pushed through a constitutional amendment permitting reelection, and in May 2006 he triumphed in a landslide, winning 62 percent of the vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Jorge Eli\u00e9cer Gait\u00e1n (January 23, 1903 &#8211; April 9, 1948) Gait\u00e1n was a maverick liberal who cultivated a mass following among the\u00a0disadvantaged\u00a0sectors of Colombian society. A former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943-44), as mayor of Bogot\u00e1 (1936) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-7-colombia\/figures-in-colombian-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":335,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}