Bedömare: Beskedet är ett slag mot fredsprocessen
Farcledaren Rodrigo Londoños besked om att han inte längre kandiderar till presidentposten i Colombia är ett bakslag för fredsprocessen i landet, rapporterar New York Times.
– Den främsta förutsättningen för fredsavtalet var att rebellerna deltog i politiken, säger analytikern Álvaro Villarraga vid Bogotabaserade Democratic Culture Foundation.
Londoño drabbades av en hjärtinfarkt i mars. Han har genomgått en lyckad operation men kommer inte ställa upp i presidentvalet. Partiet kommer inte att utse en ny kandidat.
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Rodrigo Londoño
Wikipedia (en)
Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (born January 22, 1959 in Calarcá, Quindío), most known under the nom de guerre Timoleón Jiménez and the nickname Timochenko or Timochenco, is the former leader of the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
After finishing high school, Timochenko joined the Young Communists League. He studied at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. Timochenko received military training in Yugoslavia. He completed his studies in Cuba.
'Timochenko' took over the FARC leadership in November 2011 from Alfonso Cano after the leader was killed by the Colombian army.
With more than 30 years of experience and a reputation of being a military commander he "has widespread respect among the rank-and-file, particularly the hardliners that form the core of the rural fighters". According to the Colombian Air Force his alias is referring to Soviet Marshal Semyon Timoshenko. Before also assuming the leadership of the guerrilla group, Timochenko was one of the commanders of the Middle Magdalena Bloc of the FARC-EP and was thought to have some 800 men under his command.
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