In 1964, Colombian Communist Party (PCC) member Manuel Marulanda worked with Jacobo Arenas to form the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (or, in Spanish, Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia; the FARC). Following the decade of civil war from 1948 to 1958, known as La Violencia, PCC members led groups of individuals, who felt neglected by the Colombian government, to settle throughout the countryside and create their own communities. Marulanda led a group to settle in Marquetalia, Tolima with the goal of creating a society in which the needs and concerns of the rural population would be addressed. [3] [4] Marulanda’s group later became the FARC.