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Widow's Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial...
Thin-lipped Rightist Gómez, Foreign Minister, president of the conference and backbone of the government of gentle President Mariano Ospina Pérez, was not there. But the rioters poured in anyhow. They threw typewriters out of windows, splintered furniture, tore up records...
Hangover. Fifteen minutes after Gaitán died. Don Fabio Lozano y Lozano, Liberal who had been War Minister until Conservative Ospina Pérez scrapped his coalition cabinet last month, knocked at the door of the Presidential Palace. Soon other Liberals arrived. The result was a new coalition cabinet in which Liberals held half the seats. Its strong man: Darío Echandía, vigorous middle-of-the-roader and new Liberal leader, who took the key post of Minister of the Interior. Laureano...
President Ospina Pérez went on the radio, denounced Gaitán's assassination, blamed the Communists for the upheaval that had stained Colombia's longtime reputation for orderly and democratic rule. This week, as a postscript, Colombia broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...anything more had been needed to cement Gaitán's position as Liberal leader, the municipal elections did it. They also proved-680,438 votes to 524,974-that Conservative political power is still minority power. Conservative President Ospina Pérez, who already had Liberals in his Government, got ready to move in further...