Manuel Marulanda founded Farc, Latin America’s oldest guerrilla movement, in 1964 and spent all his adult life waging war against successive governments from camps in remote areas of rural Colombia.

Born Pedro Antonio Marín into a poor peasant family in Génova, western Colombia, he left home at 13 and scraped a living as a builder, sweet seller and baker. He became a guerrilla fighter in the early 1950s, fleeing to the mountains in order to “survive” a bloody civil war known as La Violencia.