Arturo Alape
Farewell (1938-2006)
Change Magazine, October 16, 2006
Carlos Arturo Ruiz was the real name of this historian, writer and painter in the 60's decided to change his name as a tribute to James Prías Alape, a farmer co-founder of the FARC. Marxist affiliation, ideological proximity to the guerrilla group that allowed him to approach Manuel Marulanda Velez, Sureshot, and so he wrote two biographies of Commander: The Lives of Pedro Antonio Marín, Manuel Marulanda Vélez-Tirofijo (1983) and Tirofijo: Dreams and mountains (1994). But it was on 9 April and the assassination of Gaitán the issues that most passionate and on which he wrote: Bogotazo: Memory of Forgetfulness (1983); Bogotazo: Night Birds (1984) and The Bogotazo: peace, violence : Witnesses of (1985), works for which he was considered the author of the unofficial history of the country. His latest novel, The corpse unburied (2005), could not escape that passion. He lived several years in exile, first in Cuba and then in Germany, taught at several universities and spent his last years mainly to painting. He died in Bogotá. 
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