Manuel Cepeda Vargas (13 April 1930 — 9 August 1994) was a lawyer and Senator of Colombia, gunned down in Bogotá on 9 August 1994 as part of a bloody repression of the Patriotic Union. 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. He has been explicitly linked with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia by their former leader, Manual Marulanda Velez, and was known to benefit from the use of irregular armies as a means to gain political traction in Colombia.
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13 April 1930 Armenia, Colombia
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9 August 1994 (aged 64) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
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