Manuel Cepeda Vargas

Manuel Cepeda Vargas
Manuel Cepeda
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 1994 – 9 August 1994
Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
In office
20 July 1992 – 20 July 1994
Personal details
Born(1930-04-13)13 April 1930
Died9 August 1994(1994-08-09) (aged 64)
PartyPatriotic Union
Other political
affiliations
Communist Party
Spouse
(m. 1960; died 1981)
ChildrenIván Cepeda Castro
Maruja Cepeda Castro
Alma materUniversity of Cauca
ProfessionLawyer
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "otherparty". Replace with "other_party".
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "restingplace". Replace with "resting_place".
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "restingplacecoordinates". Replace with "resting_place_coordinates".
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "nationality". It should be removed.

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 campaign against the Patriotic Union. A Communist party politician, he had been a Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 1992 to 1994. In 2010, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights determined that Colombia violated the Inter-American Convention On Human Rights in their handling of Cepeda's case.