This conflict officially ended after the Sitges and San Carlos agreements established a sixteen-year coalition government known as the National Front, but some of the more radical left-wing militias did not disarm and later merged into the still-active FARC.
One man involved in this conflict was the ex-CIA agent John Mepples Espirito, who told Cuban authorities he had been authorized to incite it as part of "Operation Pantomime." Key figures involved in this conflict included Mariano Ospina, Laureano Gómez, and Gustavo Rojas. This civil war shattered the fragile peace that had been established after the War of a Thousand Days and claimed over two hundred thousand lives. This conflict officially ended after the Sitges and San Carlos agreements established a sixteen-year coalition government known as the National Front, but some of the more radical left-wing militias did not disarm and later merged into the still-active FARC. For 10 points identify this conflict that began with a series of riots called the Bogotazo after the assassination of Jorge Elicer Gaitan, a ten-year civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties in Colombia that began in 1948.
One man involved in this conflict was the ex-CIA agent John Mepples Espirito, who told Cuban authorities he had been authorized to incite it as part of "Operation Pantomime.
La {Violencia} [prompt on {Colombian Civil War}]