Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
"The people are superior to their leaders"
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento grew up in the home formed by Dr. Mario Galán Gómez, politician and president of Ecopetrol for once years, and Cecilia Sarmiento Suárez; He was the third of twelve children. He attended high school at the Antonio Nariño departmental school, where he held first place during all his studies. During his youth he participated in student demonstrations against the military regime of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. He alternated the study seasons with vacations in Bucaramanga and Charalá, establishing a close friendship with his cousin Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento, later the nation's attorney general.
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento grew up in the home formed by Dr. Mario Galán Gómez, politician and president of Ecopetrol for once years, and Cecilia Sarmiento Suárez; He was the third of twelve children. He attended high school at the Antonio Nariño departmental school, where he held first place during all his studies. During his youth he participated in student demonstrations against the military regime of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. He alternated the study seasons with vacations in Bucaramanga and Charalá, establishing a close friendship with his cousin Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento, later the nation's attorney general.
Most relevant and important points in the life of Jorge Gaitan
• Gaitán has always been seen as a popular leader, he is the leader par excellence in Colombia.• He has been remembered as a leader who gave a voice to people who did not have it before, by manipulating the oligarchs who simply silenced them with violence.
• Gaitán’s ideals were focused on reconciliation between the “two Colombias,” which he spoke about in a famous speech in 1946.• “The national country,” made up of peasants, workers and small plot holders: a poor country, poorly educated and hungry, which needs the dignity of better social conditions, but also has the duty to cultivate its own virtues.• The other country of which he spoke was the “political country,” that of a ruling political and economic class which acted only in defense and preservation of its own interests. Gaitán condemned the actions of that “political country,” also called an “oligarchy,” pointing out that it was not exclusively liberal or exclusively conservative. Gaitán proposed that a ruling class should be based on merit, and be conscious of people’s needs, so that it ruled for the benefit of everyone.
• Gaitán has always been seen as a popular leader, he is the leader par excellence in Colombia.
• He has been remembered as a leader who gave a voice to people who did not have it before, by manipulating the oligarchs who simply silenced them with violence.
• Gaitán’s ideals were focused on reconciliation between the “two Colombias,” which he spoke about in a famous speech in 1946.
• “The national country,” made up of peasants, workers and small plot holders: a poor country, poorly educated and hungry, which needs the dignity of better social conditions, but also has the duty to cultivate its own virtues.
• The other country of which he spoke was the “political country,” that of a ruling political and economic class which acted only in defense and preservation of its own interests. Gaitán condemned the actions of that “political country,” also called an “oligarchy,” pointing out that it was not exclusively liberal or exclusively conservative. Gaitán proposed that a ruling class should be based on merit, and be conscious of people’s needs, so that it ruled for the benefit of everyone.
"An ignorant people is the victim of misunderstanding and laziness"
• The meaning of Gaitán, beyond the image as a popular leader who tragically fell to the bullets of the oligarchy’s dark forces, to summarize what people think about his murder, has faded.
• As an intellectual, he was one of the first to carefully study the emergence of socialist ideas in Colombia; as a criminal lawyer, the same day of his death, he had his last triumph as a defense lawyer; as a statesman, he held various public positions.
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• The meaning of Gaitán, beyond the image as a popular leader who tragically fell to the bullets of the oligarchy’s dark forces, to summarize what people think about his murder, has faded.
• As an intellectual, he was one of the first to carefully study the emergence of socialist ideas in Colombia; as a criminal lawyer, the same day of his death, he had his last triumph as a defense lawyer; as a statesman, he held various public positions.
Audiovisual support:
Search Sources:
https://thebogotapost.com/jorge-eliecer-gaitan-significance-april-9/5677/
https://www.semana.com/amp/las-frases-gaitan/256155-3
https://www.google.com
Sofia Almario
Luna Arias
Nicolás Perea
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