FARC leader "sureshot" dies.

[BIG BROTHER]

Colombian rebel leader dies of heart attack

For 40 years, Manuel 'Sureshot' Marulanda led the guerilla group FARC

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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's largest rebel group says its top leader has died of a heart attack.
A senior rebel commander known as Timochenko tells the Venezuela-based Telesur network that Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda died "in the arms of his companion, surrounded by his bodyguards."
Timochenko confirmed an announcement by Colombia's Defense Ministry yesterday that Marulanda died in March.

Marulanda was believed to have been about 78 years old, and led Latin America's most powerful insurgency since it was formed 44 years ago

Timochenko said the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is now led by its chief ideologist, Alfonso Cano.


source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24816550/

the loses just keep hitting FARC, comments?

[Dean]

source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24816550/

the loses just keep hitting FARC, comments?
He led a good, long life, nothing to be sad about.

[bootleg42]

R.I.P. Tirofijo

[gla22]

FARC looks like it is done for.

[R3V0LUTI0N(A)RY]

A wonder they still function after loosing so many key members lately. At least he died naturally 78 years old, they didn't get the pleasure of killing him.

[Faux Real]

FARC looks like it is done for.After 40 years of guerilla warfare you really think a militant organization as large as FARC will dissolve after its leader, who's been under threat of assassination for decades, doesn't have a groomed leadership ready to replace him?

[anti_fa01]

Ahh, who wanna bet us that we don't touch leathers
Stack cheddars forever, live treacherous all the et ceteras
To the death of us, me and my confidants, we shine
You feel the ambiance, y'all commies just rhyme
By the ounce dough accumulates like snow
We don't just shine, we illuminate the whole show; you feel me?
Factions from the other side would love to kill me
Spill three quarts of my blood into the street, let alone the heat
Fuck em, we hate a fascist lovin this life
In all possible ways, know the Feds is buggin my life
Hospital days, reflectin when my man laid up
On the Uptown high block he got his side sprayed up
I saw his life slippin, this is a minor set back
Yo, still in all we livin, just dream about the get back
That made him smile though his eyes said, "Pray for me"
I'll do you one better and slay these commies faithfully
Murder is a tough thing to digest, it's a slow process
and I ain't got nothin but time
I had near brushes, not to mention three shots
close range, never touched me, divine intervention
Can't stop I, from drinkin Mai-Tai's, with Ta Ta
Down in Nevada, ha ha, Poppa, word life
I dabbled in crazy weight without capitalism, I was crazy straight
Potnah, I'm still spendin money from eighty-eight... what?
Geyeah, know what? I'll make..
you and your wack mans fold like bad hands
Roll like Monopoly, ad-vance you copy me
like white crystals, I gross the most
at the end of the fiscal year than these commies can wish to
The dead presidential, canidate
with the sprinkles and the presidental, ice that'll offend you
In due time when crime fleas my mind
All sneak thieves and revolutionary's can shine
But until then I keep the trillion cut diamonds shinin brilliant
I'll tell you half the story, the rest you fill it in
Long as the capitalist's win
I spend Japan yen, attend major events
Catch me in the joints, convinced my iguanas is bitin
N-A-Z-I hyphen, controllin, manipulatin
I got a good life man, pounds and pence
Nuff dollars make sense, while you ride the bench
Catch me swinging for the fence
Dead Presidents, ya know
Uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh, so be it
The Soviet, The Unified Steady Flow
You already know, you light I'm heavy roll, heavy dough
I might macheted your hoe, your paper falls slow
like confetti, mines a steady grow, bet he glow
Pay five dead it from blow, better believe I have
eleven sixty to show, my doe flip like Tae-Kwon
NSM The Icon, baby, you like Dom, maybe this Cristal's
to change your life huh, roll with the winners
Heavy spenders like hit records: NSM
Don't get it corrected this shit is perfected
from chips to chicks just drivin a Lexus
Make it without your gun, we takin everything you brung
We cake and you commies is fake and we gettin it done
Crime Family, well connected NAZI
And you fake Commies is Unplugged like MTV
I empty three, take your treasure, my pleasure
Dead presidentials, politics as usual
Bla-ouw!

[Colonello Buendia]

the FARC will continue fighting, the captured leader should concern them more than the loss of sureshot, who in all likelyhood remained simply as a figure head, I mean a 78 year old couldn't lead a revolutionary armed struggle

[metalero]

It'd be silly to believe FARC would go the shining path way, which disintegrated after its supreme leader was arrested. The FARC’s rigid hierarchical structure, with apparent lines of succession and highly visible second-tier leaders, is unlike that of the Shining Path under Abimael Guzmán.
Alfonso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Cano) Cano, founder of the ideological support for FARC, the Clandestine Colombian Communist Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_Colombian_Communist_Party) and the urban popular FARC front,the Bolivarian Movement, will replace Manuel Marulanda, who possibly hadn't been actively involved in running the FARC in recent years - he may have been convalescing for some time, leaving most command duties up to other leaders. It will also be interesting to see whether Cano, who is thought to lead the more moderate, “political” faction of the FARC, takes steps to improve the guerrillas’ image among poor Colombians. For years, the FARC has appeared to believe that drug money and military capabilities could somehow substitute for hearts and minds. Will Cano seek to reverse this by reducing the guerrillas’ international humanitarian-law violations, releasing hostages and putting themselves in the true search for a political solution to the armed conflict? this could lead to a better political image for FARC, greater cohesion and if the group’s decision-making process becomes less hidebound and sluggish, it may pose more of a threat on the battlefield to the U.S backed paramilitary government.

[nvm]

Rest In Peace commadante.
That won't affect FARC alot. What affected FARC were the recent loses of high officials.
A 78 year old man cannot lead an insurection