Thousand Days War

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Thousand Days War
(La Guerra de los Mil Dias)

Child soldiers during the Thousand Days War.

Date	1899–1902
Location	Departments of Colombia and the then Province; Panama.
Result	Creation of the present day Republic of Colombia.
Casus belli	Plan of the Colombian Conservative Party to maintain power by force and corruption. The Colombian Liberal Party opposed.

Combatants

Colombian Liberal Party

Colombian Conservative Party

Commanders

Rafael Uribe Uribe
Benjamín Herrera

Próspero Pinzón
Ramón González Valencia
Pedro Nel Ospina

Strength

N/A

Casualties

KIA:N/A

N/A

The Thousand Days War (1899-1902) (Spanish: Guerra de los Mil Dias), was a civil armed conflict in the newly created Republic of Colombia, (including its then province of Panama) between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party with its radical factions. In 1899 the ruling conservatives maintained power through fraudulent elections. The situation was worsened by an economic crisis caused by falling coffee prices in the international market, which mainly affected the opposition Liberal Party, which had lost power. In 1899 a civil war called the Thousand Days War began in Colombia between the liberals and conservatives.^[1]

[edit] In Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1967, chronicles 100 years in Macondo, a fictional Columbian village. The novel describes the involvement of one of the village's residents, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, in the conflict between Columbia's Liberal and Conservative parties.

[edit] References

^ Azcarate, Camilo A. (March 1999). "Psychosocial Dynamics of the Armed Conflict in Colombia". Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution 2.1.