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Manuel Marulanda
POLITICIAN
1930 - 2008
Manuel Marulanda
Pedro Antonio Marín Marín (13 May 1930 [disputed] – 26 March 2008), known by his "nom de guerre" Manuel Marulanda Vélez, was the founder and main leader of the Marxist–Leninist FARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo"). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Marulanda has received more than 251,268 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Manuel Marulanda is the 7,835th most popular politician (down from 7,337th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Colombia (down from 24th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Colombian Politician.
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Among politicians, Manuel Marulanda ranks 7,835 out of 19,576. Before him are François Certain de
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Manuel Marulanda: Commander of the Farc guerrilla army during four decades of insurgency against the Colombian state
Pedro Antonio Marín, the septuagenarian leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Farc, better known as Manuel Marulanda Vélez, stamped his personality for better or worse on Colombia more effectively than any of his compatriots in the 20th century. He was also known as Tirofijo ("Crackshot"), a nom de guerre which he claimed was too violent for one whose aims were social and not militaristic.
He was born in 1930 the eldest of five children of Pedro Pablo Marí*Gallego, a small landowner and a supporter of the Liberal Party, and his wife Rosa Delia at Génova in the Colombian coffee-growing department (province) of Quindío. Until his death, Marulanda retained the characteristics of a Colombian peasant, cautious, stubborn, resilient and distrustful – particularly of city folk, a fact which made it difficult for the Farc ever to make much progress in the country's main centres of population.
As a teenager he gave evidence of strength of character, acc
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Manuel Marulanda
Leader of the Marxist–Leninist FARC-EP (1930–2008)
Pedro Antonio Marín Marín (13 May 1930 [disputed][2] – 26 March 2008), known by his "nom de guerre" Manuel Marulanda Vélez, was the founder and main leader of the Marxist–LeninistFARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo"). Marulanda was born in a coffee-growing region of west-central Colombia in the Quindío Department, to a peasant family politically aligned with the Liberal Party during conflicts in the 1940s and 1950s.
Marulanda was nicknamed "Tirofijo" (Spanish: Surefire or Sureshot) by his comrades, apparently because of a reputed ability to accurately aim firearms.[citation needed]
Marulanda himself changed his political and ideological inclinations to the Communist Party (PCC) during "La Violencia" (roughly 1948 to 1958) that followed the assassination of the Liberal Party's leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
In March 2006, Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the United States, announced in conjunction with Drug Enforcement Administr
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