Tragically, he was murdered during his second presidential campaign. It is rumored that the killer was a member of the Conservative Party and the motive of the homocide was that Gaitán was very likely to the win the upcoming presidential elections. As a result of his assassination, an uprising was set off; leading to a civil war between the Colombian Conservative Party, the Colombian Liberal Party and plenty groups of citizens who had their own political ideals and considered violence to be the only way to grab the goverment's attention and be finally heard. (It is importand to point out that several of these groups gave rise to the communist guerrillas later. However, we want to avoid wandering off the subject, so that we will come back to this in a future entry.
For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n
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