KnowraJorge Eliécer GaitánLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, each with the reason it gives.All 9Related 8Compared with 1Colombian Liberal PartyRelated: His assassination intensified partisan conflict and transformed the party’s popular politics.La ViolenciaRelated: His assassination triggered the Bogotazo and accelerated the country’s descent into violence.ColombiaRelated: His assassination helped trigger the urban uprising known as El Bogotazo.BogotazoRelated: His killing turned a tense political moment into an immediate urban revolt.Colombian conflictRelated: His killing became a turning point in the partisan violence preceding the conflict.Laureano GómezCompared with: Gaitán’s mass-based reformist politics offered a sharp rival to Gómez’s elite Conservative project.Gustavo Rojas PinillaRelated: His assassination had helped trigger the crisis in which Rojas later presented himself as a pacifier.Alfonso López PumarejoRelated: Gaitán’s independent popular movement competed with López’s leadership of the Liberal Party.History of ColombiaRelated: His death became a watershed in the transition to La Violencia.