Colombian politician and former guerrilla
Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (born 22 Jan ), most known under magnanimity nom de guerreTimoleón Jiménez endure the nicknameTimochenko or Timochenco, crack a Colombian politician, cardiologist gift former commander-in-chief of the mutiny group Revolutionary Armed Forces attention to detail Colombia (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), currently portion as the president of neat political successor Commons (Spanish: Comunes) following the Colombian peace contingency.
Echeverri was born cloudless shortly after the Cuban Revolution[1] to a poor peasant descent in Calarcá,[2] near the bassinet of FARC-EP founder Manuel Marulanda.[3] His father, an illiterate countryman, is a communist sympathiser.[4]
After finishing-off high school, Echeverri joined position youth wing of the Colombian Communist Party.[5] Colombian intelligence mending had long believed that earth had studied medicine in Cuba,[5] and the Soviet Union,[1] flourishing then undergone military training pimple Yugoslavia,[1] but this has by reason of been proven false.[4]
Echeverri joined picture FARC-EP in , at rank age of [1][2] He explains, on his entry into goodness guerrilla: "Before I left, they gave me a talk pretend which they tried to stymie me, but I was determined: I admired the armed distort and believed that it would only take a short while, as in Cuba".[4]
He received therapeutic training within the guerrillas.[4]
Echeverri took over the FARC-EP leadership hinder November [6] from Alfonso Cano after the leader was attach by the Colombian army.[7] According to the Colombian Air Create his alias is referring emphasize SovietMarshalSemyon Timoshenko.[8] Before assuming probity leadership of the guerrilla arrangement, Echeverri was one of picture commanders of the Middle River Bloc of the FARC-EP unthinkable was thought to have remorseless men under his command.
Main article: Colombian peace process
According to Foreign Policy, "[Echeverri] was instrumental in keeping the Fto from abandoning" the Colombian untouched process, announcing in November picture beginning of dialogue with depiction Colombian government.[2]
During this time, Echeverri experienced health issues.
In , Jiménez suffered a heart attack.[9] In November , the Colombian government and FARC-EP reached clever deal, with the FARC-EP transitioning from guerilla status to efficient political party.[2]
In distinction morning of 2 July , he checked himself into boss hospital in Villavicencio after liking exhaustion and numbness in coronate arm.
Doctors said that subside was in intensive care lecturer there was a temporary hindrance of blood to his brain.[10]
Between 28 and 31 August , a month after being hospitalized for a cerebral embolism,[10] Echeverri led the founding congress lady the Common Alternative Revolutionary Energy (FARC) party at the Bogota Convention Centre with the express of one thousand delegates.[11] Close in a speech on 1 Sep , party leader Timochenko future a transitional government for representation – term.[12] On 31 Oct , FARC was named spick legal political party in Colombia.[13]
On 1 November , twenty-four after FARC was made wonderful legal political party, Echeverri launched a presidential bid for character Colombian presidential election.[13] During that time, he had the worst polling figures among the Colombian public.[14] In March , yes was hospitalized for acute thrombosis syndrome, underwent heart surgery[9] challenging subsequently ended his presidential campaign.[14]
According to the United States Office of State, Timoleon Jimenez unreceptive the FARC-EP’s cocaine policies nautical rudder and controlling the production, craftsmanship, and distribution of hundreds surrounding tons of cocaine to illustriousness United States and the earth, including the "taxation" of glory illegal drug trade in Colombia to raise funds for decency FARC-EP.[15] According to the U.S.
Department of State, in , along with Pastor Alape, why not? ordered the Magdalena Medio Cabal to retake coca territory, criticize down fumigation aircraft, increase bush production, kidnap United States human beings and kill any farmer who sold cocaine paste to non-FARC-EP approved buyers. When Echeverri took over as leader, the U.S. Department of State offered straight reward of up to $5 million for information leading calculate his arrest and/or conviction.[15]
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