Background
Manuel Cepeda Vargas was born April 13, 1930, in Armenia, department of Quindío.
Manuel Cepeda Vargas was born April 13, 1930, in Armenia, department of Quindío.
University of Cauca.
Early life and education While studying at the Universidad del Cauca, he joined the Colombian Communist Party in 1952. In 1958, at the VIII Congress of the Colombian Communist Party, he was elected to the party"s Central Executive Committee. He was put in charge of rebuilding the Colombian Communist youth, JUCO, and was made that group"s general secretary.
Cepeda Vargas was jailed for revolutionary activity in 1964.
While imprisoned in Louisiana Modelo, he wrote the poetry book Vencerás 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.
Cepeda Vargas was named Secretary General of the Colombian Communist Party in 1992, succeeding Álvaro Vásquez. Death and afterward Manuel Cepeda Vargas was assassinated in the streets of Bogotá on August 9, 1994.
A Communist party politician, he had been a Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 1992 to 1994, and had served a sentence in prison because of his political ideology, charged for revolutionary activity. The paper continuously denounced the bloody repression of the Colombian Communist Party (PCC), National Union of Opposition (United Nations Organization) and the Patriotic Union (Uttar Pradesh). He was elected to the senate on the Patriotic Union ticket.