Eduardo Franco Isaza
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Eduardo Franco Isaza (1920 - July 13, 2009) was a Colombian politician and guerrillero. He was a member of the Colombian Liberal Party guerillas in the Eastern Plains of Colombia during La Violencia.[1]
He was born in Sogamoso, Boyacá Department and studied at the Colegio de Boyacá in Tunja. After his parents' death he joined the Liberal guerillas.[2]
He led the Liberal guerillas, alongside others such as Guadalupe Salcedo, during La Violencia, against soldiers of both the National Colombian Army and guerillas of the Colombian Conservative Party.[3][4] Amongst his most notable military actions was the ambush of El Turpial on July, 1952, which was a major victory for the Liberals during the period. They also wrote the Law of the Plains signed by 42 Liberal officials of the Colombian Eastern Plains, on September 11, 1952.[5] Following the amnesty for Liberal guerillas negotiated by general Alfredo Duarte Blum in September 1953,[6] which Franco considered to be a treason to the Liberal cause,[7] Franco entered self-imposed exile in Venezuela. There, he married Inés Mendoza García, daughter of the Liberal politician Plinio Mendoza Neira, and he worked as a journalist. He wrote his memoirs, titled Las guerrillas del llano: testimonio de una lucha de cuatro años por la libertad, which was censored in Colombia. He died in 2009 in Bogotá of heart disease.[8][9]
Books
- Las guerrillas del llano: testimonio de una lucha de cuatro años por la libertad, 1955
References
- ↑ Henderson, James D. (2006). La modernización en Colombia: los años de Laureano Gómez, 1889-1965 (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. ISBN 978-958-655-965-2. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ "HOMENAJE PÓSTUMO A EDUARDO FRANCO ISAZA". Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ "1949-1953 LA GUERRILLA LIBERAL". Revista Credencial (in Spanish). 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ Isaza Franco, Eduardo (1953-08-15). "Carta a Guadalupe Salcedo enviada por Eduardo Franco Isaza, agosto 1953". Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ "El sacrificio de Guadalupe Salcedo". Eje21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ "Venezuela y la guerrilla". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). 2009-07-25. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ Martínez, Orlando Villanueva (2012-01-01). Guadalupe Salcedo y la insurrección llanera, 1949-1957 (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de Colombia. ISBN 978-958-761-864-8. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ "Murió Eduardo Franco Isaza, histórico jefe de la guerrilla liberal de los años 40 y 50". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2009-07-13. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ↑ "Murió legendario guerrillero liberal". llanera.com. Retrieved 2021-02-22.