* What was happening in the Jiménez Avenue
In the third floor of the Agustin Garzón building, on the Seventh with Fourteen street, was operating the office of the prestigious attorney and political Jorge Eliécer Gaítán, the Commander of the People, the "Negro" (as were saying his friends). To that of the one of the afternoon took the elevator with some friends to attend the invitation to have lunch of one of them. Upon assigning the threshold of the door that gave to the street, was found of front with his hangman, his name: Juan Roa Siena, son of Incarnation lady dowager of Gnaw and who days back, is the had devised to obtain a revolver that in that moment had his straight hand, with the one which fired four times so that the missiles entered in the gizzard of the Commander and finished withhis life.
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Fotos tomada el 9 de abril de 1948
durante el llamado
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| The people that work in the street was the first in shouting: - !!the doctor Gaitán is death, killed to the doctor Gaitán!. Then the uncertainty crushed the life from Bogota. The agonizing body of the leader liberal was carried in a taxi to the Central Clinic. To that of the an and forty already the news was official. The Commander of the People had been murdered. The multitudes that already they had been agglutinated opposite of the Agusrin Grazón building and of the Clinic were rioted, and began what years afterwards were gone to recall as the untoward Bogotazo. First, the enraged crowd |  |
| captured to Gnaw Saw, that was refugee in a drug store, and gave to him death to blows . The body of this found serious man thoroughly disfigured on account of the beating and with two ties in his neck that they were his only pledge of geting dressed. After the demonstrators, armed with sticks, machetes, daggers and one that other gun that achieved to remove to the Police, attempted be taken thePresidencial Palace. The commissioned battalion with the safety did not doubt in opening fire against the revolutionaries that they were "prestos" to to ambush. Here they fell the first dead. For that moment the streets were beginning to be cover with hundred of from Bogota that they died that day due to the desperation, by a fury, by be of azul... Because that day killed to Gaitán. | |
| * Taken fragment of the magazine Agenda Cultural de Bogota April 1998 | |
