Word: echandia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial of the body in the house which would then become a national shrine. The block in which it stands would be converted...