BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia Group main rebel movement said Tuesday it has appointed a successor to his boss, who was killed in combat this month.
The governing board of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named Timoleon Jimenez, 52 years as the new leader on November 5, a day after Alfonso Cano was killed while trying to escape a cordon of soldiers in southwestern Colombia.
- Farc Rebel New Chief Timoleon Jimenez
The group is known in the FARC noticed Tuesday via a friendly site and stated that the vote for the man better known by his nickname Tymoshenko was unanimous.
The U.S. government has offered a prize of $ 5,000,000 for Jimenez, and the Colombian government has a second $ 2.6 million for his capture.
Jimenez, 52, is the nom de guerre of Rodrigo Londoño, who was born in the town of Calarcá in western Colombia. One of the rebel commanders in less visible. One of his most recent appearance was in May 2008 confirming the video of the death of FARC leader Manuel Marulanda in.
It ‘was a member of the FARC Secretariat of the seven men of the Court since 1980, when his long-time member of the Carlos Lozano, an analyst of the Communist Party weekly Voz. He said that the FARC is a tradition to take seniority into account when making offers.
Mainly financed by drug trafficking, the FARC half century of life, consisting primarily of farmers, who have few other opportunities in the country where land ownership is highly concentrated in a few. The group believes about 9,000 fighters in the hierarchy of military discipline.
The rebel leaders have undergone a series of blows from March 2008, when Foreign Minister of the FARC, Raul Reyes, was killed in a bomb attack on a rebel camp on the border of Ecuador. The raid gave the authorities a gold mine of information in computers and digital storage.
That same month, the revered co-founder of the FARC, Manuel Marulanda, died in a hideout in the mountains of a heart attack. Cano, the ideologue of the rebel leader, was appointed to succeed him.
Several other senior officers were subsequently killed and the desertion of the rebels, including senior management of the environment, reached record levels.
And in July 2008, commandos posing as international aid workers rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. soldiers and 11 other plot development and without shedding of blood.
Yet, the FARC has focused in recent months, and rural violence has been increasing.
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