Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 3, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 June 1933 — Colombia Honors a Dead Hero [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Colombia Honors a Dead Hero

Scene in Bogota, capital of Colombia, when thousands gathered for the official funeral of Corporal Candido Leguizamo. Minister of War Carlos Uribe Gaviria, addressing the throng, told how Leguizamo, ambushed and mortally wounded by 27 Peruvian bullets, killed 6 and routed the remainder of a Peruvian patrol on the Putumayo river. Leguizamo, at his own insistence, was supported by two nurses and died “standing on his feet as a Colombian soldier should.”