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...truth be told, the tradition of the fatigue-clad Latin American guerrilla, striking and vanishing through mountainous jungle terrain with a raised fist and a Marxist slogan, died years before Pedro Antonio Marin - known by his nom de guerre, Manuel Marulanda - passed away two months ago in a remote Colombian forest. But Marulanda's death by heart attack, confirmed over the weekend by the rebels he commanded for 44 years, makes it official: the Che Guevara era, like that of the hemisphere's military dictatorships, is over. And so, for all intents and purposes, is Marulanda's once feared...
Also known as Tirofijo, or Sureshot, Marulanda, who was believed to be between 78 and 80 years old, was the most powerful and resilient guerrilla leader the world had never heard of. In contrast to the flamboyant lives of rebel colleagues like former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Marulanda's was as thickly veiled as the Colombian jungle he occupied for half a century. But he built what was, at its apex a decade ago, one of the world's largest and fiercest insurrection forces. At the turn of the century, the Marxist-inspired FARC numbered some 20,000 fighters...
...location in remote southwestern Colombia, near or across the Ecuadoran border. Bogota has also begun extraditing FARC leaders to the U.S., and two of them were recently convicted and handed lengthy federal prison sentences. It's not even certain if the FARC's 77-year-old leader, Manuel Marulanda (known as Tirofijo, or Sureshot) is still alive; and morale among the rebels' rank and file is said to be crumbling...
...president, if he is to survive politically, badly needs some concessions from Marulanda on issues such as prisoner exchanges, and a tangible effort to restart a peace process. But for Marulanda, there's no great hurry. Business has probably never been better for peasant-turned-Maoist-turned-tycoon...
...FARC), it's usually because he's been kidnapped. But while Pastrana chose to stay overnight of his own free will Thursday, he is indeed captive to a political dilemma few would wish on their worst enemies. The president began a second day of talks Friday with Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the 72-year-old leader of the 17,000-strong Maoist guerrilla army that controls almost half of his country. And while Pastrana isn't quite begging, it's plain to see that Marulanda holds all the cards...