Word: cundinamarca
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...afternoon the word spread: Gaitán was dead. The mob, which had quieted under the efficient handling of federal troops, went mad. Its members drove into the Cundinamarca building (provincial capitol), set fire to Gómez' Conservative newspaper El Siglo. They hurled stones through the windows of the President's palace. Across the city (pop. 400,000) smoke swirled from mob-struck buildings. Federal troops and police were powerless...
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