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...blocks down the street, a short, muscular lawyer with piercing black eyes stepped briskly out of his office. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, rabble-rousing leader of Colombia's Liberal Party, was also luncheon-bound. As he crossed the sidewalk, a man with a pistol in his hand slipped up behind him, fired four shots into his neck and shoulders...
Like a man who had been bludgeoned, Gaitán fell, face down, and bloodstains widened on the sidewalk. A lottery vendor, standing in the doorway, dropped his book, grabbed the assassin and shouted: "This is the man." A café patron ran from another door, smashed a chair over the gunman's head...
...snatched from ragged urchins, kicked his face and head into a bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...
...Flags. To Colombia's working classes, Gaitán had been an enshrined hero. For a month, they had burned with resentment because Conservative Party Leader Laureano Gómez had kept him from being a delegate to the International Conference. As Gaitán lay on the surgeon's table, his hysterical supporters stormed the Capitolio, screaming, "Death to Laureano...
...anything more had been needed to cement Gaitán's position as Liberal leader, the municipal elections did it. They also proved-680,438 votes to 524,974-that Conservative political power is still minority power. Conservative President Ospina Pérez, who already had Liberals in his Government, got ready to move in further...