Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (Colombia)

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ('National Confederation of Labour') was a central

peronista unions, and CNT was affiliated to the Agrupación de Trabajadores Latinoamericanos Sindicalistas (ATLAS, which was led by the Peronista unions of Argentina).^[2] CNT received financial aid from ATLAS. Moreover, CNT received direct support from the Colombian Ministry of Labour through the minister Aurelio Caicedo Ayerbe.^[1] CNT was given access to issue propaganda through public radio stations.^[3]

CNT was actively involved in building the political movement constructed to support the rule of Rojas Pinilla, National Action Movement (MAN).^[1] CNT and MAN were projected as the constituents of a 'Third Force' in Colombian politics, confronting the two old dominant parties of the country.^[4] With a strong anti-oligarchical discourse, Rojas Pinilla sought to utilize CNT and MAN to mobilize popular opinion against the traditional elites and their political parties.^[5]

At the same time as the government mobilized support to CNT it curbed the activities of the two main trade union centres of the country, the

Roman Catholic Church, the Conservatives and UTC forced the government to close down the CNT.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ladino Orjuelo, Wilson Hernando. Régimen Político Colombiano 2^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Henderson, James D. La modernización en Colombia: los años de Laureano Gómez, 1889-1965. Medellin, Colombia: Universidad de Antioquia, 2006. p. 495
^ ^a ^b Benavides L, Eduardo. ADIDA, 50 años de lucha^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Alba, Víctor. Politics and the Labor Movement in Latin America. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1968. p. 272
^ Osterling, Jorge P. Democracy in Colombia: Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare. New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction, 1989. p. 94
^ Cambridge History of Latin America 8. Latin America Since 1930. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996. p. 625
^ Palacios Rozo, Marco, and Frank Robinson Safford. Colombia, país fragmentado, sociedad dividida: su historia. Colección Vitral. Bogotá [u.a.]: Grupo Ed. Norma, 2002. p. 594

[cnt-1] Ladino Orjuelo, Wilson Hernando. Régimen Político Colombiano 2^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] Henderson, James D. La modernización en Colombia: los años de Laureano Gómez, 1889-1965. Medellin, Colombia: Universidad de Antioquia, 2006. p. 495

[adida-3] Benavides L, Eduardo. ADIDA, 50 años de lucha^{[permanent dead link]}

[4] Alba, Víctor. Politics and the Labor Movement in Latin America. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1968. p. 272

[5] Osterling, Jorge P. Democracy in Colombia: Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare. New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction, 1989. p. 94

[6] Cambridge History of Latin America 8. Latin America Since 1930. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996. p. 625

[7] Palacios Rozo, Marco, and Frank Robinson Safford. Colombia, país fragmentado, sociedad dividida: su historia. Colección Vitral. Bogotá [u.a.]: Grupo Ed. Norma, 2002. p. 594

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