"Longtime Columbian rebel leader dies" from AP repoports that FARC's Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda whose guerilla tried but failed to foment a communist revolution in Columbia for half a century, is dead.
Old-School FARC commander dies, possibly from myocardial inFARCtion (and/or bombs)
The "comandante maximo" of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, died March 26 of a heart attack, senior rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez said in a video broadcast Sunday.
He did not specify where Marulanda died, though military officials say his death coincided with bombings in southern jungles where he was believed to be holed up.
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