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Banana Plantation Worker Rebellion, 1928
In November 1928 a strike broke out in the banana plantation region of Magdalena, Colombia, as almost ...
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Forty-five years of conservative hegemony ended in 1930 when Enrique Olaya Herrera won the presidential ...
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Colombia, Afro-Colombian movements and anti-racist protests
The term Afro-Colombians refers to Colombians of African ancestry. Their presence dates back to the first ...
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Colombia, anti-war movements, 1990–2008
The internal armed conflict in Colombia from 1964 to 2008 has caused more than 100,000 deaths and three ...
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Colombia, armed insurgency, peasant self-defense, and radical popular movements, 1960s–1970s
The 1960s in Colombia were marked by the aftermath of La Violencia (The Violence), a period of violent ...
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Colombia, armed insurgency, peasant self-defense, and radical popular movements, 1970s–1990s
The 1960s opened a dynamic era of communist-inspired guerilla movements in Colombia. The Colombian army, ...
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Colombia, indigenous mobilization
In Colombia there are approximately 85 indigenous communities who speak 64 different languages with a ...
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Colombia, insurrection of the Comuneros, 1781–1782
The insurrection of the Comuneros (common and poor people) was a crucial political episode during the ...
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Colombia, labor insurrection and the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1920s–1930s
Around 1900 Colombia began to industrialize, using compensation payments made by the United States for ...
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Colombia, Thousand Days' War, 1899–1902
Throughout the nineteenth century, liberal and conservative forces battled for power in Colombia, waging ...
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