Manuel marulanda velez biography of mahatma gandhi

Pedro Antonio Marín, (1930-2008) known by his pseudonym, Manuel Marulanda Vélez, and nicknamed by his comrades "Tirofijo" (English: Sureshot), apparently because of a reputed ability to accurately aim firearms.

Manuel marulanda velez biography of mahatma gandhi

He was the main leader of the FARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo"). He was born on May 13, 1930^[1] (a date that has been disputed), in a coffee-growing region of west-central Colombia in the Quindío Department, to a peasant family^[2] politically aligned with the Liberal Party during La Violencia.

Marulanda himself changed his political and ideological inclinations to the Communist Party (PCC) sometime during the period of "La Violencia" (roughly 1948 to 1958) that followed the assassination of the Liberal Party's leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.

He has been considered to be seriously ill, and his death has been reported several times throughout his long career as a guerrilla, but the stat