Positioned Colombian Troops After Political Riots
(Original Caption) Colombian government troops take up a strategic position in Bogota after Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez declared the nation to be in a state of siege. The drastic action was taken after bloody political riots in opposition to the administration had claimed the lives of an estimated 1,000 people.
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Bettmann
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November 11, 1949
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