Background
Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa was born into a poor family in Manizales.
Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa was born into a poor family in Manizales.
Not much is known of his early life, but he did graduate with degrees in law and political science. Following the murder of Pardo Leal he took the chair of the Uttar Pradesh. He tried to give greater breadth to the Uttar Pradesh, accused by its critics of being a political arm of the FARC. Jaramillo then ran for the presidency of Colombia. He was planning an alliance with Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, demobilized leader of the 19th of April Movement (M-19) and also a candidate for the Presidency.
Jaramillo was murdered while campaigning in Bogotá on March 22, 1990.
He refused to wear a protective vest. Once he was in the terminal, he waited for his flight to Santa Marta, where he would go on vacation.
A guard pushed the wife to avoid impacts received while other guards chased after the murderer. Estos hijueputas me mataron, me voy a morir.
Abrazame y protegeme.
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After being taken to the car he lost consciousness and was taken to the clinic Cajanal (National Provident Fund). Before being taken to the operating room, he died after a delay in the elevator at the clinic. After his assassination other members in or related to his party were also killed.
On February 11, 2010, Alberto Romero, an ex director of the Directory of American Scholars (Colombian Security Service), was charged as being linked to the murder, together with Carlos Castaño, the chief of the AUC (paramilitary forces).
Bernardo Jaramillo is portrayed by the Venezuelan actor Orlando Valenzuela in the Colombian television series Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal.
Jaramillo started working primarily in the Urabá Antioquia region until 1987 when he assumed the presidency of the Patriotic Union Party (Uttar Pradesh) after the assassination of Jaime Pardo. Jaramillo Ossa made efforts to link the movement with the Socialist International, which earned him the nickname "perestroika". Jaramillo intended to separate the suspected relationship between his party and the FARC by approaching the Socialist International.
