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Manuel Cepeda Vargas
Manuel Cepeda Vargas
Member, Senate of Colombia
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Born	April 13, 1930; Armenia, Colombia
Died	August 9, 1994 (aged 64); Bogota, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Political party	Patriotic Union
Other political; affiliations	Colombian Communist Party
Spouse	Yira Castro
Children	Iván Cepeda Castro; Maruja Cepeda Castro
Alma mater	Universidad del Cauca
Occupation	Politician, lawyer, journalist

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Manuel Cepeda Vargas (1930-1994) was a Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist. He was assassinated in Bogota on August 9, 1994 within the framework of the genocide to Patriotic Union (Colombia).

Biography

Early life and education

Manuel Cepeda Vargas was born April 13, 1930 in Armenia, Colombia. While studying at the Universidad del Cauca, he joined the Colombian Communist Party in 1952.

Career

In 1958, at the VIII Congress of the Colombian Communist Party, he was selected to the party's Central Executive Committee. He was assigned the reconstruction of Colombian Communist youth, JUCO, and made that group's general secretariat. In his work with JUCO, he worked with Jaime Bateman Cayón, Hernando González Acosta, Yira Castro (his future wife), Loyal Brown Jaime and Miller Chacón.

Cepeda Vargas was jailed for revolutionary activity in 1964. While imprisoned in La Modelo, he wrote the poetry book Venceras Marquetalia ("You will overcome Marquetalia"), a tribute to the Marquetalia Republic.

He was a columnist for the weekly Proletarian Voice (later known as the Weekly Voice), which he later directed. The paper continuously denounced the political genocide against the Colombian Communist Party, National Union of Opposition and Patriotic Union.

Cepeda Vargas was named Secretary General of the Colombian Communist Party in 1992, succeeding Alvaro Vásquez. He was elected as a Patriotic Union senator to the Columbian senate.

Marriage and children

He married Yira Castro in 1960. (She passed away in 1981.) The couple had two children: Iván Cepeda Castro and Maruja Cepeda Castro.

Death and afterward

Manuel Cepeda Vargas was assassinated in the streets of Bogota on August 9, 1994.

A school of Bogota and a Western Bloc of the FARC-EP front are named in his honor, although his son Iván Cepeda Castro has repudiated the use of his father's name on the part of FARC and has repeatedly condemned the actions of that guerrilla, reiterated who “ a right and democratic society, like which it loved my father, is not constructed to end of indiscriminate attacks against the civil populace ".^{[citation needed]}

Published works

Venceras Marquetalia (1964)
Yira Castro : i bandera es la alegría (1983)
Balada de los hombrecitos anónimos (Fondo Mixto de Promoción de la Cultura y las Artes del Cauca, c. 1995)

References

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-'''Manuel Cepeda Vargas''' he was a politician, lawyer and journalist Colombian been born in Armenia the 13 of April of 1930 and assassinated in Bogota the 9 of August of 1994 within the framework of the genocide to [[Patriotic Union (Colombia)]].
+==Biography==
-In 1952, while it made right studies in the University of The Cauca, it decides to enter to Colombian Communist party during the Campaign of Growth that oriented this one after the murder in Cali of the popular leader Julio Corner. In 1958, in VIII the Congress of the PCC, it is chosen its Committee Central and ordered of the reconstruction of Colombian Communist youth, JUCO, of which it occupies the general secretariat. In its work of reconstruction it militates next to Jaime Bateman Cayón, Hernando González Acosta, Yira Castro (its future wife), Loyal Brown Jaime and Miller Chacón.
+===Early life and education===
+Manuel Cepeda Vargas was born April 13, 1930 in [[Armenia, Colombia]]. While studying at the Universidad del Cauca, he joined the [[Colombian Communist Party]] in 1952.
+===Career===
-In 1960 house with Yira Castro, with whom it will have two children: Iván Cepeda Castro and Maruja Cepeda Castro.
+In 1958, at the VIII Congress of the Colombian Communist Party, he was selected to the party's Central Executive Committee. He was assigned the reconstruction of Colombian Communist youth, JUCO, and made that group's general secretariat. In his work with JUCO, he worked with [[Jaime Bateman Cayón]], Hernando González Acosta, Yira Castro (his future wife), Loyal Brown Jaime and Miller Chacón.
-In 1964 it is jailed by its revolutionary activity, and in the Jail Model of Bogota it writes the poem book You will overcome Marquetalia, tribute to the resistance armed farmer who oriented the PCC in the Tolima and who would end at the foundation of The CRAF.
+Cepeda Vargas was jailed for revolutionary activity in 1964. While imprisoned in [[La Modelo]], he wrote the poetry book ''Venceras Marquetalia'' ("You will overcome Marquetalia"), a tribute to the [[Marquetalia Republic]].
-He was columnista of the weekly Proletarian Voice (soon Weekly Voice) soon to happen to direct it, already like member of the Central Executive Committee of the PCC. It continuously denounced the political genocide against the PCC, National union of Opposition and Patriotic union.
+He was a columnist for the weekly ''Proletarian Voice'' (later known as the ''Weekly Voice''), which he later directed. The paper continuously denounced the political genocide against the Colombian Communist Party, National Union of Opposition and Patriotic Union.
+Cepeda Vargas was named Secretary General of the Colombian Communist Party in 1992, succeeding Alvaro Vásquez. He was elected as a Patriotic Union senator to the Columbian senate.
-In 1981 it publishes Yira Castro: my flag is the joy, posthumous tribute to its wife who passes away that year.
+===Marriage and children===
-In 1992 Secretary General of the PCC is named, in replacement of Alvaro Vásquez of the Real one. He was senator of the Republic by the UP, and as so it were assassinated in the streets of Bogota the 9 of August of 1994.
+He married Yira Castro in 1960. (She passed away in 1981.) The couple had two children: Iván Cepeda Castro and Maruja Cepeda Castro.
+===Death and afterward===
-In their honor, a school of Bogota and a guerrilla front of the CRAF take their name, although its son [[Iván Cepeda Castro]] it has repudiado the use of the name of its father on the part of the CRAF and has condemned in several occasions the actions of that guerrilla, reiterated who “ a right and democratic society, like which it loved my father, is not constructed to end of indiscriminate attacks against the civil populace ".
+Manuel Cepeda Vargas was assassinated in the streets of Bogota on August 9, 1994.
+A school of Bogota and a [[Western Bloc of the FARC-EP]] front are named in his honor, although his son Iván Cepeda Castro has repudiated the use of his father's name on the part of FARC and has repeatedly condemned the actions of that guerrilla, reiterated who “ a right and democratic society, like which it loved my father, is not constructed to end of indiscriminate attacks against the civil populace ".{{citeneeded}}
+==Published works==
+*''Venceras Marquetalia'' (1964)
+*''Yira Castro : i bandera es la alegría'' (1983)
+*''Balada de los hombrecitos anónimos'' (Fondo Mixto de Promoción de la Cultura y las Artes del Cauca, c. 1995)
+==References==
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+[[Category:1994 deaths]]
+[[Category:Assassinated Colombian politicians]]
+[[Category:Colombian journalists]]
+[[Category:Colombian lawyers]]
+[[Category:Colombian politicians]]
+[[Category:Members of the Senate of Colombia]]
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