Word: laureano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...
...most tragic occurrence of the campaign windup involved the Liberal Party's ex-candidate himself. Echandia had been making a point of strolling about downtown Bogota unguarded, in silent contrast to Laureano Gómez' self-imposed seclusion in his son-in-law's tightly barred home. On the first day of the general strike he set out accompanied by his brothers, Vicente and Domingo, and 19 Liberal politicians...
...they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...
...force. Liberals, having healed the division that cost them the presidency in 1946, used their congressional majority to push the election date seven months forward in expectation of victory. The Conservative reply, in an atmosphere hot with political passion, was to choose their most inflammatory rightist, Franco-loving Laureano Gomez, as their nominee, and to throw every government resource into his campaign...
Most Hated. For his kind of peace, Laureano was prepared to fight with the government's full power. Even before the convention began, an old Laureano henchman took over the key Interior ministry from a non-political army officer. Two Laureano men assumed governorships, more were ticketed for other crucial states. The Liberals in Congress countered with a law allowing citizens to vote anywhere. This would enable Liberals to vote in other towns if run out of their homes in Conservative-bossed villages...