their relevance by not being a necessary
step towards Cúcuta . During the April 9, 1949 there were no disorders in the
village and in the era of violence in the fifties of the twentieth century
relative calm was maintained. But on January 29, 1960 the worst tragedy that
has taken the new Sativanorte is lived, had parties at his sister population Sativasur
and many of its inhabitants left them. Upon returning, they took different
means to arrive. One of these means was to use a truck and left Sativasur a
truck fully loaded with about 70 people plus their luggage. In the place known
as the bridge of Fatima this truck lost control, apparently by a brake failure,
it left the track at high speed and hit the divider bridge to finally drop to
the creek that ran through the bridge. A fall of about 20 meters. The result
was the death of 38 people in Sativanorte, including the almost total
disappearance of the Lizarazo family. At the site of the tragedy there are
headstones who remember this event, and their victims.
In recent years, Sativanorte was the victim
of the violence of the guerrillas of the FARC-EP . A beginning of the XXI
century had two guerrilla raids that destroyed the police station and some
houses in the village. The November 24, 2002 showed the corpse of the mayor
Arturo Hernán Baez Gomez, in the village of La Chupa Susacón , the mayor was
killed by the FARC-EP after being secuentrado last Friday in the region known
as "Aguas Calientes "of Sativanorte
