Abstract
The paper analyzes the military rule of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla as an attempt to establishment a populist government. Using the approach proposed by Ernesto Laclau, this paper examines a historical and philosophical mobilization of the Colombian popular national symbols like the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Liberator Bolivar, and National Unity that were monitored by the General Rojas Pinilla. The author pays a particular attention to those elements in the discourse of the General that articulate historically unmet demands of the Colombian people with their new leader, but luck the real meaning. The paper concludes with an assessment of reasons why the populist mobilization, which intended to use symbols, failed in Colombia.
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