La Violencia – zbrojna konfrontacja Partii Liberalnej i Partii Konserwatywnej w Kolumbii trwająca od 1948 do 1958 roku. Walki zbrojne toczyły się głównie w wiejskich regionach krajuStokes, Doug (2005). America's Other War : Terrorizing Colombia. Zed Books. . s. 68, Both Livingstone and Stokes quote a figure of 200,000 dead between 1948–1953 (Livingstone) and „a decade war” (Stokes) * Azcarate, Camilo A. (March 1999). „Psychosocial Dynamics of the Armed Conflict in Colombia”. Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Azcarate quotes a figure of 300,000 dead between 1948–1959 * Gutiérrez, Pedro Ruz (October 31 1999). „Bullets, Bloodshed And Ballots;For Generations, Violence Has Defined Colombia's Turbulent Political History”. Orlando Sentinel (Florida): G1.“Political violence is not new to that South American nation of 38 million people. In the past 100 years, more than 500,000 Colombians have died in it. From the ‘War of the Thousand Days’, a civil war at the turn of the 20th century that left 100,000 dead, to a partisan clash between 1948 and 1966 that claimed nearly 300,000…”Bergquist, Charles;