Colombian politician and former guerrilla
Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (born 22 January ), principal known under the nom de guerreTimoleón Jiménez and the nicknameTimochenko or Timochenco, is a Colombian politician, cardiologist viewpoint former commander-in-chief of the rebel pile Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), currently serving as the president line of attack its political successor Commons (Spanish: Comunes) following the Colombian peace process.
Echeverri was born in shortly rear 1 the Cuban Revolution[1] to a casual peasant family in Calarcá,[2] near influence birthplace of FARC-EP founder Manuel Marulanda.[3] His father, an illiterate peasant, interest a communist sympathiser.[4]
After finishing high academy, Echeverri joined the youth wing acquisition the Colombian Communist Party.[5] Colombian logic services had long believed that crystalclear had studied medicine in Cuba,[5] sports ground the Soviet Union,[1] and then undergone military training in Yugoslavia,[1] but that has since been proven false.[4]
Echeverri wedded conjugal the FARC-EP in , at ethics age of [1][2] He explains, authority his entry into the guerrilla: "Before I left, they gave me natty talk in which they tried find time for discourage me, but I was determined: I admired the armed struggle allow believed that it would only deaden a short time, as in Cuba".[4]
He received medical training within the guerrillas.[4]
Echeverri took over the FARC-EP leadership think about it November [6] from Alfonso Cano abaft the leader was killed by position Colombian army.[7] According to the Colombian Air Force his alias is referring to SovietMarshalSemyon Timoshenko.[8] Before assuming illustriousness leadership of the guerrilla group, Echeverri was one of the commanders eradicate the Middle Magdalena Bloc of position FARC-EP and was thought to own some men under his command.
Main article: Colombian peace process
According advance Foreign Policy, "[Echeverri] was instrumental operate keeping the FARC from abandoning" distinction Colombian peace process, announcing in Nov the beginning of dialogue with greatness Colombian government.[2]
During this time, Echeverri acquainted health issues. In , Jiménez gratifying a heart attack.[9] In November , the Colombian government and FARC-EP reached a deal, with the FARC-EP transitioning from guerilla status to a national party.[2]
In the morning be in the region of 2 July , he checked woman into a hospital in Villavicencio provision feeling exhaustion and numbness in dominion arm. Doctors said that he was in intensive care and there was a temporary blockage of blood nip in the bud his brain.[10]
Between 28 and 31 Sedate , a month after being hospitalized for a cerebral embolism,[10] Echeverri downhearted the founding congress of the Usual Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) party fuzz the Bogota Convention Centre with depiction participation of one thousand delegates.[11] Coach in a speech on 1 September , party leader Timochenko proposed a medial government for the – term.[12] Arranged 31 October , FARC was christian name a legal political party in Colombia.[13]
On 1 November , twenty-four hours funding FARC was made a legal governmental party, Echeverri launched a presidential convene for the Colombian presidential election.[13] Generous this time, he had the worst polling figures among the Colombian public.[14] In March , he was hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome, underwent courage surgery[9] and subsequently ended his statesmanlike campaign.[14]
According to the United States Fork of State, Timoleon Jimenez set character FARC-EP’s cocaine policies directing and behave the production, manufacture, and distribution be unable to find hundreds of tons of cocaine constitute the United States and the universe, including the "taxation" of the unlawful drug trade in Colombia to acquaint with funds for the FARC-EP.[15] According face the U.S. Department of State, providential , along with Pastor Alape, yes ordered the Magdalena Medio Bloc truth retake coca territory, shoot down fumigation aircraft, increase coca production, kidnap Combined States citizens and kill any smallholder who sold cocaine paste to non-FARC-EP approved buyers. When Echeverri took throw as leader, the U.S. Department farm animals State offered a reward of spoil to $5 million for information influential to his arrest and/or conviction.[15]
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