Human Death in Colombia - Cemeteries in Colombia, Deaths by Firearm in Colombia, Massacres in Colombia, Murder in Colombia (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 142. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cemeteries in Colombia, Deaths by Firearm in Colombia, Massacres in Colombia, Murder in Colombia, Natural Disaster Deaths in Colombia, Suicides in Colombia, Pablo Escobar, Luis Carlos Galan, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, Banana Massacre, Antonio Jose de Sucre, Consuelo Araujo, Campo Elias Delgado, Andres Escobar, El Aro Massacre, Villatina Massacre, Mapiripan Massacre, Bojaya Massacre, Macayepo Massacre, Helmer Herrera, Massacre of Trujillo, Omayra Sanchez, Albeiro Usuriaga, Ricardo Londono, Tomas Medina Caracas, Elson Becerra, Chet Bitterman, Bahia Portete Massacre, San Jose de Apartado Massacre, Jose Asuncion Silva, List of Massacres in Colombia, Villanueva Massacre, La Gabarra Massacre, Jamundi Massacre, Alfonso Florez Ortiz, Central Cemetery of Bogota, Pozzetto Massacre, Lucio Espana. Excerpt: Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento (born on September 29, 1943 in Bucaramanga, Santander died on August 18, 1989 in Bogota, Cundinamarca) was a Colombian journalist and liberal politician who ran for the presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time representing the Liberal Party in 1982 which he lost to Belisario Betancur. These adverse results encouraged him to focus his aspirations in his political movement called "Nuevo Liberalismo" (New Liberalism) that he had founded in 1979. The movement was initially the offspring of the mainstream Colombian Liberal Party but, with the mediation of former president Julio Cesar Turbay, Galan returned to the party in 1987 and intended to win the party nomination for official candidate. Galan declared himself enemy of the dangerous and influential Colombian drug cartels, mainly the Medellin Cartel led by Pablo Escobar (who had been part of his New Liberalism Movement) and Gonzalo Rodriguez aka "El Mexicano," that were corrupting the Colombian society at all levels...