Colombia’s Civil War: A Reminder of the Consequences of Divisive Politics
Seventy years ago, the Liberal populist leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was gunned down in downtown Bogotá, Colombia, as the hemispheric nations gathered in the same city to discuss the economic fate of the region as it geared away from the global war economy of the 1940s. His assassination sparked a long civil war that is […]