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The Rebirth of FARC and the Rise of Its New Leader “Timochenko”
Timochenko (Source: The America Postes)
After Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas (a.k.a Alfonso Cano) was killed in a bombing raid in Cauca Department, southwest Colombia on November 4, 2011, the seven-member FARC secretariat needed only 11 days to unanimously select Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry (a.k.a Timoleón Jiménez or Timochenko) as Cano’s replacement (ABP Noticias, November 15, 2011). [1] Timochenko has become the third leader in FARC’s history and has inherited an organization that has lost four members of its ruling secretariat since 2008 and that is currently undergoing what the Colombian army calls a “rebirth.”
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