Abstract

DIAZ JARAMILLO, José Abelardo. Anti-communism and defense of Catholicism in the student protests in Colombia (1945). Hist. Caribe [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.30, pp.145-177. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.30.2016.6.

This paper analyses the students demonstrations occurred in different parts of the country in the mid 1945 and identifies the causes that encouraged them as well as the consequences in the field of national political and the student activism. The hypothesis of the article is that the students 'non-conformity was incited by sectors of the clergy and the conservative leadership, addressing aspects of Alfonso López Pumarejo second term educational policy. While acknowledging that protests in different scenarios were developed and nurtured by local affairs, all of them had as a common factor the circulation of social imaginaries related to the defense of Catholicism and the containment of communism in the country. The reconstruction of events is done from the press consultation and documents of the same period.

Keywords : student protests; education; religion; communism and liberalism.

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