The called “Casa Liberal massacre” in Cali and the “assault to Ceilán” are two acts of violence that occurred in Valle del Cauca in October 1949 and which are part of a long list of massacres, fires and assaults that took place in this department during this period. These two events have been taken up and analyzed by different academic studies from distinct historical perspectives. For this reason, the present thesis analyzes proposes a historiographic balance on the academic production of the events of the Casa Liberal in Cali and Ceilán, Valle del Cauca, elaborated between 1962 and 2019. It seeks to make a critical reflection on the approaches, points of view, analytical frameworks and the aspects that are privileged in the investigated studies. It is also intended to review the primary and secondary sources used in the reconstruction of the events and observe the causal explanations that each of the authors give to the “Casa Liberal massacre” and the “assault on Ceilán”.
