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	United Fruit Company - Jorge Eliecer Gaitan
		Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was a Colombian political leader.
		He was born in Bogotá; a son of a bookseller father and a schoolteacher mother.
		Gaitán has filled the role of a Liberal martyr since then, and his writings and speeches of the banana workers' strike against United Fruit are still quoted in all the historical studies of this company in Colombia.
	www.unitedfruit.org /gaitan.htm (690 words)

	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943-1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and chief of the Colombian Liberal Party (1947-1948).
		He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as La Violencia (approx.
		He had an initial conversation with Jorge Eliécer and was advised to write a letter to the President, which he did, but still did not get a job.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n (1649 words)

	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (January 23, 1898 - April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943-1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and chief of the Colombian Liberal Party (1947-1948).
		Gaitan was active in local politics as early as 1919, when he was part of a protest movement against president Marco Fidel Suarez.
		Gaitan increased his nationwide popularity following a banana workers' strike in Magdalena in 1928, in which strikers were fired upon by the army, allegedly on the orders of the United Fruit Company.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n (1364 words)

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		Gloria Gaitan proposes that she believes an ad hoc independent international tribunal in which are released the files of the CIA, the original film of the confession of Espirito and the papers of Scotland Yard with the purpose of establishing once and for all, "and who may fall, may fall," who killed Gaitan.
		Gaitan was assassinated in the afternoon of the 9th of April in a central street of Bogota by Juan Roa Sierra, who was lynched hours afterwards by frenzied crowds.
		Roa Sierra, illegitimate son of the father of Jorge Eliecer, would have killed his half brother in envy, according to one; according to another, jealousies moved the criminal, so the stepbrother killed him for their girlfriend; and according to a third, Roa was crazy.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001med/FBI_has_650_page_file_on_Jorge_Eliecer_Gaitan (4221 words)

	Jorge Eliécer Gaitán - Wikipedia Light!
		Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (January 23, 1903 - April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943-1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and chief of the Colombian Liberal Party (1947-1948).
		Gaitan increased his nationwide popularity following a banana workers' strike in Magdalena in 1928, in which strikers were fired upon by the army, allegedly on the orders of the United Fruit Company, resulting in numerous deaths.
		Gaitan commanded large audiences when he spoke and was one of the most influential men in the country.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php/Jorge_Eliecer_Gait%C3%A1n (1630 words)

	Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Biography / Biography of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Main Biography
		Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Biography / Biography of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Main Biography
		Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1898-1948) was a Colombian political leader.
		Born to an impoverished family on Jan. 23, 1898, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was forced to struggle for his livelihood from an early age.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jorge-eliecer-gaitan (558 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Gloria Gaitan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For more than 40 years, Gloria Gaitan, who is now the director of the Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Foundation, has been searching for clues to learn who was behind the killing, traveling to Cuba and the United States to interview intelligence officers and seeking to declassify documents.
		Gaitan, a mestizo of humble origins, rose to prominence in the 1940s with a populist left-leaning message against Colombia's conservative and European-descended elites.
		After Gaitan was killed, his widow took the body to the family home and vowed the corpse would not leave the house until the government was removed from office.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Gaitan_Gloria_129901942.htm (894 words)

	Communism in Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The conference was organized to achieve the two major goals, the first one was to fight against the Communism in the American continent and the second one was to form the Organization of American States (OAS) to strengthen the United States economic and political influence through out the region.
		After the death of Dr. Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, riots were started in Bogotá, the angry mob killed his murderer Juan Roa Sierra and dragged his body in the streets of the way to presidential palace and hanged it publicly.
		Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was a politician and a leader of a populist movement in Colombia also a member of the Liberal Party's pro-communist faction and was born on January 23, 1898.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communism_in_Colombia (5348 words)

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