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...Liberals lost. Mariano Ospina Perez, the Conservative candidate, won. Gaitan ran third. But he polled a stupendous vote (about 358,957), mostly in the cities where the workers liked his brand of rabble-rousing. In Bogota, Colombia's capital, which calls itself the South American Athens, and in the ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla (but not in Medellin -see below), Gaitan received more votes than Ospina and Turbay together...
When Conservatives nominated him for President last March, Millionaire Businessman Mariano Ospina Perez moved from his Norman castle in Bogota to a modest, two-story bungalow near by. Last week he prepared to move again. His address after Aug. 7:Palacio Presidencial. Elected when two candidates split the Liberal vote,* Ospina Perez would be Colombia's first Conservative President in 16 years...
...Results (with only 29 villages unreported): Ospina Perez, 523,523; Turbay (official Liberal), 401,121; Gaitan (independent Liberal...
With two Liberal candidates in the field, the Conservatives stood their best chance of regaining power since they lost it in 1930 by just such a division. Their nominee: coffee-rich Mariano Ospina Pérez, whose uncle and grandfather had been Colombian Presidents. Put up at the last minute by wily old Conservative Leader Laureano Gomez, ultra-respectable Candidate Ospina Perez had shrewdly sat tight in Bogota, made a few well-bred radio speeches, and waited for the divided Liberals to knock themselves...
...February, 1922, Pedro Nel Ospina was elected...