...J. Leon Helguera Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 El pensamiento filosófico de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán . By Perez Luis Carlos . Bogotá , 1954 . Editorial Los Andes. Pp. 69 . ...

...G.A.B. Gaitán: Enfoque histórico . By Aristizábal Horacio Gómez . Prologue by Plata Horacio Rodríguez . Bogotá , 1975 . Editorial Cosmos . Bibliography. Appendix . Pp. xv , 275 . Paper. Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The life and death of Jorge...

...James D. Henderson Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Gaitán of Colombia: A Political Biography . By Sharpless Richard E. . Pittsburgh , 1978 . University of Pittsburgh Press . Illustration. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vii , 229 . Cloth. $11.95...

.... While rehabilitating the rioters, he treats the convivialistas with objective sympathy, and the Gaitan that emerges is not a superhero but a man flawed by ambition and egomania. Best of all, Braun has captured the drama of these tumultuous events. At the cry “¡Mataron a Gaitán!” he thrusts the reader...

...David Bushnell Gaitán: vida, muerte y permanente presencia . By Osorio Lizarazo J. A. . ( Buenos Aires : Ediciones López Negri , 1952 . Pp. 321 .) Copyright 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ...

...W. John Green Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 T he allure of Gaitanismo, the populist political movement led by Colombian politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, sometimes seemed otherworldly to contemporary observers. Juan Manuel Valdelamar, an influential labor leader, remarked...

...James L. Payne Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was a Colombian political leader best remembered for his vociferous left-wing position-taking, and for his assassination in 1948, which touched off the rioting known as the bogotazo . In the introductory...

... party and the government of Colombia, has written a volume that is part chronicle, part memoir, covering the agitated years from 1942 through 1949. Despite the title, the book deals only in part with the career of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, with whom Ortiz Márquez was closely associated. Rather...

... Colombia’s oligarchy and its two-party political system. By using previously unexamined letters written by Gaitán and his followers, as well as interviews and Gaitanista press, Green traces the historical and political conditions that gave rise to Gaitanismo as a left-liberal mobilization. Green contends...

...James D. Henderson Colombia: La lucha por la tierra en la década del treinta. Génesis de la organización sindical campesina . By Gaitán Gloria . Bogota , 1976 . Ediciones Tercer Mundo . Graphs. Tables . Pp. 102 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978...

... examined segments or aspects of Colombia’s history (coffee, labor, the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán)—not the least of them by a new generation of Colombian historians—no general history of Colombia has appeared that would be comparable in scope to those of other major Latin American countries...

... regarded as an idiosyncratic case of partisan violence and social breakdown. This neglect surprises, given the key role of this period in Charles Bergquist’s influential Labor in Latin America (1986) and Herbert Braun’s masterly study of the era’s political culture, The Assassination of Gaitán (1985...

... indígena del Oriente venezolano: la visita a la provincia de Cumaná de don Luis de Chávez y Mendoza (1783-1784) . By Gaitán Antonio Ignacio Laserna . Caracas : Academia Nacional de la Historia , 1993 . Maps. Graphs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 416 pp. Paper . Sobre...

..., “The Pueblo and the Politicians of Colombia: The Assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and the Bogotazo” (Ph.D. Diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983). Also, Arturo Alape, El Bogotazo (Bogotá, 1983); and Gonzalo Sánchez, Los días de la revolución: Gaitanismo y el 9 de abril en provincia (Bogotá...

...J. Leon Helguera Documentos para una biografía . Compiled by Salcedo Alberto Figueredo . Bogotá , 1949 . Registro Municipal. Suplemento. Colección Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, 1. Illustrations. Pp. 398 . Paper. 5 pesos. Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...David M. Pletcher El Liberalismo y la Reforma en México . By Medina Hilario , Caso Alfonso , Gaitan Ricardo Torres , Camara Francisco Lopez , . Mexico City , 1957 . Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . Escuela Nacional de Economía . Pp. viii , 789 . Paper...

...Sanford A. Mosk La constitución de 1917 y la economía mexicana. Cursos de invierno 1957. Conferencias . By Baez Antonio Martínez ; Gaitan Ricardo Torres ; Jiménez Manuel Bravo ; Adame Julian Rodríguez ; Heuer Federico ; Bustamante Eduardo ; Suárez Eduardo...

... since 1945. The assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948, according to the author, was “promoted by international communism . . . for the purpose of taking power in Colombia” (p. 156). Similarly, in accord with Conservative party doctrine, the Violencia that afflicted Colombia from about 1948...

... conclusions. Referring to the abortive social revolution of 1948, he exaggerates, I think, the difference that Gaitán’s survival would have meant to Colombian history. The reader of Colombia: A General Survey will be disappointed if he expects to read a flowing integrated analysis, but he will find...

... the assassination of Jorge Gaitán. It is unfortunate that the ambassador did not devote more space to all of these experiences, but that is something like saying that he should have written a different book. This short work stems from a series of lectures given by Ambassador Willard Beaulac when he was serving...