History of Guateque

c problem that brought the country to the collapse of capital, after the Great Depression of 1929, which was worldwide and had repercussions in Colombia and other Latin American countries. Olaya Herrera started in the thirties the cycle of national protectionism, which fostered the development of Colombian industry with national capitals, to make it the basis of developmental stimuli. It printed an inward development, based on the domestic market and the expansion of domestic demand. There was a noticeable drop in imports and a great stimulus to the domestic industry.Coffee prices on the international market plummeted, and suspended suddenly foreign capital in Colombia, which fled abroad again.This protectionist trend generated a nationalist consciousness that did turn the country of free trade to protectionism nineteenth thirties. During the administration of President Alfonso Lopez, who succeeded Olaya, strengthened this trend.

In the first two years, the government said the violence in parts of Colombia, especially in Boyacá and Santander, initially motivated by political factors. The biggest problem villages were Chiquinquirá and western Boyacá, in the northern region Guicán, García Rovira province in some towns of Santander and Norte de Santander, the conservative bureaucracy defended provincial public office against the new authorities Liberals. President Enrique Olaya Herrera completed his term in 1934, and continued his public life as foreign minister in 1935, the government of President Alfonso Lopez. After he was appointed ambassador to the Holy See in Rome, where he died on February 18, 1937, in this capacity. His remains moved to Bogota, were thrilled to honor his memory. As a leading exponent of the generation of the Centennial, Enrique Olaya Herrera Colombians bequeathed his conciliatory spirit and unity Republican, whose