political issues. There is a turning point in the movie: Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a very influential liberal leader killed by some conservatives. When this happens, the liberals decide to show how much they cared and started burning and destroying conservative symbols like the Catholic Church. This period of anger and violence was called ‘el bogotazo.’ Leon Maria does because he has to protect what he believes in and decides to get a conservative group to protect their church from the liberals. The next day Leon Maria was seen as a hero for his party; he stood up for what he believed no matter the cost. The conservatives now had the power, and the government sent money to the party, and the party used the money to pay people to get rid of the liberals. Leon Maria receives a telegram informing him that he had an urgent meeting with the conservative leaders. In this reunion, the conservatives tell Leon Maria that he was the man chosen to protect its party, and they gave him guns and money to start right away. During the rest of the movie, they show how Leon Maria kills, threatens, and tortures liberals to leave their homes and go far away. This only lasts until the liberal party regains its power and Leon Maria is killed. Throughout the movie, we can see how the political parties affect everyday life. It shows that the Violence in Colombia was mainly because of bipartisan conflicts that weren't really because of beliefs but instead inheritance. The real power in the town wasn't only wealth but also the amount of influence they had on the government and the amount of fear they provoked in the community. The name given to Leon Maria was the condor. This was because the people that killed liberals for the conservative party were called ‘pajaros’ or birds. A condor is a mighty and fearful bird, and this is what Leon Maria represented around the country, someone more powerful than just a simple bird. Frente Nacional With the military board (junta military) in the year 1958, the two political parties: liberals and conservatives, started the new era of peace and social development. Although everything was getting better, new problems started to come about, economically and socially. The liberals and conservatives were now sharing power equally, but it never came up to be a 50-50 percent equality throughout the