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Aug 1, 1981 · A product of a symposium held in 1974 under the auspices of the Center for Inter-American Relations, this volume summarizes the principal political and economic developments under Colombia’s National Front regime (1958-74) and evaluates the National Front’s achievement both as a means of developing long-term political stabilization and as a generator of economic and social policy.
The National Front Presidents were Alberto Lleras Camargo (Liberal), Guillermo León Valencia (Conservative), Carlos Lleras Restrepo (Liberal), and Misael Pastrana Borrero (Conservative). National Front was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, agreed to rotate ...
The Consequences of the National Front Of Colombia were social (appeasement of political violence, beginning of guerrilla forces), politics (reformism and populism) and economic (growth of inflation). The National Front (1958-1974) was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties of the country, the liberal party ...
National Front ( 1958-1974) was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties; Liberal Party and Conservative Party agreed to let the opposite party govern, intercalating for a period of four presidential terms.
Colombia. COLOMBIA’S unique formula of government is a controlled democracy planned and administered by a traditional oligarchy. Since 1958, the National Front — a coalition between the ...
Colombia Table of Contents The Erosion of Partisan Affiliations. The PL and PC were weak, divided into factions, and inadequately organized at the end of the existence of the National Front. Because the political parties were not eager to engage in intense competition, Colombia achieved a peaceful transition to an open system.
There seems to be at least one point in which he allowed himself to be led astray by National Front propaganda, namely, that NF is a way of “breaking the shackles of oligarchical elitist rule.” Most informed Colombians rather view NF as an alliance of elitist groups (sobeit with patriotic intentions) which formalized in the Constitution the ...
