MOST ACCLAIMED COLOMBIAN DOCUMENTARY ON THE ASSASSINATION  

 OF JORGE ELIÉCER GAITÁN  AND THE  BLOODY AFTERMATH

A HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIOLENCE AND ANTI-GOVERNMENT SUBVERSION IN COLOMBIA AFTER APRIL 9, 1948 

  Saturday, May 3rd - 7:00 PM 

 Peace Center  - 8124 W. Third St., Los Angeles 90048

Directed by : Maria Valencia Gaitán

Spanish with English subtitles,  59 minutes

Door donation: $ 7                      

Door benefits will be destined to help buy a hearing medical device to a bolivarian activist who lost 60% of her hearing due to being ran over by a car.

Space limited,  RSVP at:   (323) 556-1932

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The origin of the FARC is different from that of other militant or insurgent  groups. Jorge Believer Gaitán, a Liberal and populist leader detested by the intransigent Colombian oligarchy, was assassinated in 1948. The murder of this famous figure led  to a major popular revolt, "El Bogotazo", and to La Violencia (the Violence), a long period of warfare between Liberals and Conservatives that took the lives of 200,000 people. Persecuted ferociously by the State, the Liberals and Communists took shelter in remote and inaccessible regions and resisted for more than a decade. Eventually, many of them regrouped in what would become the "Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia "(FARC) when it was founded on May 5, 1966, as a popular response to the state violence and social injustice that Colombia was living prior to, and after 1948.