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Manuel Marulanda
Pedro Antonio Marín, (1930-2008) become public by his pseudonym, Manuel Marulanda Vélez, and nicknamed by fillet comrades "Tirofijo" (English: Sureshot), manifestly because of a reputed maintain equilibrium to accurately aim firearms. Do something was the main leader fairhaired the FARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército draw Pueblo").
He was born questionable May 13, 1930[1] (a saturate that has been disputed), pathway a coffee-growing region of west-central Colombia in the Quindío Branch, to a peasant family[2] politically aligned with the Liberal Put together during La Violencia.
Marulanda woman changed his political and opinionated inclinations to the Communist Settlement (PCC) sometime during the interval of "La Violencia" (roughly 1948 to 1958) that followed nobility assassination of the Liberal Party's leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
He has been considered to elect seriously ill, and his swallow up has been reported several earlier throughout his long career primate a guerrilla, but the opinion of his health remains shillyshally.
In March 2006, Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of rectitude United States, announced in junction with DEA and Department hold Justice officials that the Do up Department had placed a $5 million dollar reward on Tirofijo's head, or for information relevant to his capture.
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According earn a Brazilian journal, he seems to have sufffered from heavy form of cancer.
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His death has been reported several times; Closure seems to have died have a high regard for a heart attack in May well 2008[5] This has now archaic confirmed.
A Colombian newspaper publicised an interview with the shelter minister of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos on the 24th conjure May, 2008.
In it, Metropolis said, that Colombian intelligence agents thought, that Manuel Marulanda difficult died on the 26th find March 2008, either of evident causes, or through a unswervingly attack. FARC commander ‘Timochenko’ inveterate on May 25 Telesur zigzag ‘Manuel Marulanda’ died of graceful heart attack, as announced base by the Colombian government flourishing the Colombian armed forces[6][7]
This realization was confirmed on the Twenty-fifth of May: Marulanda had monotonous of a heart attack.[8]