The Assassination of Gaitán: Public Life and Urban Violence in Colombia

Index

Index Abadia Mendez, Miguel: described, 16; and 1929 riot, 19; and labor unrest, 31; and banana workers massacre, 57 Abella, Arturo: on Gaitanistas, 228n44; on Gaitan, 231n99; on La Violencia, 255n3 Accibn Liberal, 58-59, 67 Accion Patriotica Economica Nacional (APEN),32 Afanador Salgar, Antonio, 242n21, 246n62 Africano, Heliodoro, 155 Albornoz Plata, Hernando, 149 Aldana, Climaco, 176 Alianza Nacional Popular (ANAPO), 256nlO Alzate Avendano, Gilberto: on Gaitan, 124 Amaya, Lazaro, 138 Andrade, Luis Ignacio, 142, 183 Angel, Bernardo, 229n55 Anzola Cubides, Hernando, 142, 183 Aragon Quintero, Alonso, 142, 183-84 Arango, Eliseo: as young leopardo, 17; background of, 24; and coalition government, 183 Arango Escobar, German, 115, 229n58 Arango Reyes, Samuel: and 1948 cabinet crisis, 129; and coalition government, 183 Arango Tavera, Alberto, 142, 253n103 Arango Velez, Carlos: as positivist, 56; and the UNIR, 63; as moderate, 221n51 Araujo, Alfonso: background of, 24; at Clinica Central, 142; as conciliator, 144; and crowd, 168, 178; on convivencia, 216n86 Araujo, Simon, 24, 41 Arciniegas, German: as young intellectual, 17; on the UNIR, 67; on Gaitan, 82, 83-84 Arendt, Hannah, 7, 214n60 Aries, Philippe, 214n60 Arriaga Andrade, Adan: and 1947 election, 113; as rebel, 175, 177, 186 Asociacion Nacional de Choferes (ANDEC),73 273 Asociacion Nacional de Industriales (ANDI),33 Assassin: action of, 134, 135; attacked by crowd, 136; death of, 136; dragged to palacio, 139; as common drifter, 186. See also Roa Sierra, Juan Ayala, Alvaro, 175 Azula Barrera, Rafael: on Bogota, v; attempts to recruit Gaitan, 81; on Liberal opposition to Gaitan, 98; on Gaitan's oratory, 103; on Gaitan's duality, 122-23; on Pan American Conference, 130; as Gaitan's friend, 132; trip to palacio of, 141; fear of crowd of, 149-50 Banana workers massacre: Gaitan on, 57-58; Gabriel Garcia Marquez on, 211n23 Banco de la Republica, 30 Banco Lopez, 14 Barbosa Barbosa, Pio Nono, 157, 230n94, 242n14, 246n62, 251n81 Barco, Virgilio (Coronel), 131, 133, 152 Beaulac, Willard L., 168, 188, 202, 244n48 Beccaria, Cesare, 46 Bejarano, Jorge, 183 Benavides, Ezequiel (pseudonym), 159-60, 167 Benavides, Guillermo, 250n64 Bentham, Jeremy, 46 Bernal, Jose Maria, 183 Bernal Cordovez, Cesar ("el flaco"), 249n57 Berrio, Ivan: defense of palaciO, 149 Betancourt, Romulo, 188 Black legend, of bogotazo crowd, 193-95 Bogota: Conservative views on, v, 31, 186, 191; Liberal views on, v, 31, 191; growth of, 31; beautification of, 71, 130-31; mobilization of, 89-93, 116, 127-28; effects of Gaitanismo on, 121; on April 9, 1948, 133; and news of assassination, 136-37; destruction of, 143, 152, 155-63 passim, 171; defense of, 150, 151; sack 274 Bogota (continued) of, 163-66; return to order in, 185-86 Bogotazo: defined, 6; and crisis of convivencia, 33-34; legacy of, 191-97 passim, 204, 251-52n85; use of word, 254n1 Bolivar, Simon: on public life, 23; as Mason, 213n43 Bonneville, Nicholas, 28, 230n89 Botero Jaramillo, Luis E., 168 Bourgeois ideals, 20, 25, 37 Bourgeois stage of history, 5 Bracker, Milton, 188 Braun, Herbert (Sr.), 240-41n86 Caballero Calderon, Luis Eduardo, 81, ll5 cachaco: described, 15 Cafe Windsor, 16 Cagua, Ana Maria E. vda. de, 238n37 Caliban: on Gaitan, 61-62, 69, 70, 98-99, 103, 108-9, ll2, ll8, 120-21; described, 62; on followers, 103; on Gabriel Turbay, 108-9; on 1946 presidential campaign, llO; on the crowd, 173; on convivencia, 195 Camacho Carreno, Jose, 17 Canetti, Elias, 4 Cano, Fidel, 18 Cano, Luis, 17, 178, 180 Cano Jacobo, Luis, 159 Canavera, Eugenio, 174 Capitalism: and dependency, 5; reification of, 5; as world economy, 5, 7; historical development of, 7; and leadership, 10; and public life, 21, 32, 34-35, 78; foreign investment of, 21, 29-30; Colombian integration into, 21-22, 29; growth of, 29-30; and Great Depression, 30; and World War II, 33, 77. See also Gaitan-ideas of; Labor; Privatization Cardenas, Lazaro, 8 Cardenas, Parmenio, ll5 Carranza, Eduardo, 81 Carvajal, Jaime, 147 Carvajal, Silvio, 147, 157, 162 Casa Museo Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, 255nl0. See also Gaitan, burial of Castro, Fidel, 134, 177-78, 256nlO Castro Gonzalez, Alfonso: 237n27 Castro Monsalve, Pedro, 183, 184 Casualties (of bogotazo), 147, 169, 170, 171, Index 194, 195, 246n61, 249n59 Casualties (of la Violencia), 199 Catholic Church: and 1930 election, 15; opposition to Lopez, 32; opposition to Gaitan, 74; and crowd, 161-62, 242n22; destruction of property of, 164-66; excommunication of looters, 194 Catholicism: and Iberian tradition, 4; and public life, 4-5, 22; and nationalism, 21 Caudillos: in history, 9-10; contrasted to civilistas, 19-20...