"Condors Are Not Bury Every Day"

The Bible says' he who lives by the sword dies by the sword, I believe that this applies also for those who live in violence and abuse of power. Nothing can be more terrible than the power into the wrong hands especially in those who were always subordinate. Dazzled by the power come to commit atrocities that never thought they would be able to perform. Is an effect of the law of action and reaction that any act brings its own consequences, if we do good we will have our reward but if we act with malice, we will be victims of our own behavior and eventually receive a lesson by our mistakes. AlI this was learned too late for Leon Maria Lozano "The Condor" who starred one of the bloodiest events in the history of Colombia known as the Bogotazo, which began an era of political violence where thousands of people were killed in events spread across the country.

On April 9, 1948 was assassinated the leader of the Liberal Party Jorge Elieser Gaitan presidential candidate which was considered a hope for change for working people; from that moment began a terrible confrontation between the two existing parties, Liberals and Conservatives who had always struggles to perpetuate their power. The Liberal Party accused the Conservative Party have killed him. This was the day that Leon Maria Lozano, a seller of cheese from the market place in the municipality of Tulua became a hero when they prevented the mob murdered the priests of town armed with rifles without bullets and a stick of dynamite.

For a moment “The Condor” had a notion of power that never lose gain, but a great act of courage like that became power abuse, started to appear every day corpses in the streets with bullets in their heads and without any identity document that were not identified. The dead were from both sides, but more killing was against the Liberals, which were attributed to “The Condor“. Leon Maria had formed a pseudo- secret police sponsored by influential conservatives from the city.

The people from Tulua had to bury many dead before being convinced that this killing was led for Leon Maria Lozano former cheese salesman and a devout Catholic bean will become a cold and vicious man who led a band of snipers nicknamed birds. The government never process him had perhaps because politicians involved, but obeying the opulent clamor was forced to leave town. Took refuge in the city of Pereira, but there was overtaken by the vengeance of one of the many families which that went into mourning for his crimes. Leon Maria Lozano "the Condor" was killed in the street and died as he lived there in the middle of blood and violence, he and his family paid for the hatred and pain that he planted, people say he was responsible for the slaughter of the El Recreo town when was killed much of the civilian population of the Liberal Party. Now the widow was his wife who had to dress in mourning and his children who were orphans, but the worst is that will be remembered in the history of Colombia without any glory for shameful acts that he committed which were immortalized in a book and a movie entitled "Condors Are Not Bury Every Day". A very sad legacy for their descendants to be remembered as one and the most bloody and cruel men in the history of country.

No more reason to kill that belong to different political ideology so he paid with blood, the blood he shed. There were many birds (snipers) in Colombia at that time but Leon Maria Lozano was not a bird but a "condor."