Rodrigo Londoño

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Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri , also known under the battle name Timoleón Jiménez and nickname Tymoshenko , (born January 22, 1959 in Calarcá , Departamento del Quindío ) is a Colombian doctor and politician, former leader of the guerrilla organization FARC-EP .

biography

Study and underground

Rodrigo Londoño originally studied medicine at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow after graduating from school in Colombia and then in Cuba . He has been with the FARC Secretariat since the 1980s.

He has been part of the FARC management team since the early 1990s and is considered a hardliner there . He derives his nickname Tymoshenko from the former Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army , Marshal of the Soviet Union , Semjon Konstantinowitsch Tymoshenko . There are numerous arrest warrants against him and the United States has given him a $ 5 million reward. According to them, he is responsible for massive cocaine smuggling and hundreds of killings. In 2008 he appeared publicly and announced that Alfonso Cano had become the new leader of the FARC. On November 5, 2011, he again succeeded Alfonso Cano, who had been killed by the Colombian military shortly before, as leader of the FARC. On November 15, 2011, the FARc published his appointment as leader.

Candidate for the 2018 presidency

Rodrigo Londoño announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential elections in Colombia in November 2017 . The former head of the left-wing guerrilla organization Farc thought he had “good chances”. According to the first polls in December 2017, Londoño did not even have 2% of the voting intentions. In March 2018, the FARC decided not to vote because Londoño had health problems.

Individual evidence

  1. Timochenko, el Designado
  2. a b c Colombian FARC rebels appoint new leaders. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 16, 2011, accessed November 16, 2011 .
  3. a b http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20458-farc-appoint-new-supreme-leader-timochenko.html
  4. Farc strives for power in Colombia zdf.de of November 24, 2017
  5. Ex-guerrilla boss Rodrigo Londoño wants to become President of Colombia dw.com from November 17, 2017
  6. Los candidatos todavía no son muy conocidos en las regiones eltiempo.com, from December 17, 2017 (Spanish)
  7. Ex-Farc rebels withdraw from Colombia's presidential election. Der Standard , March 8, 2018, accessed the same day.