Farcledare avbryter sin presidentkampanj
Rodrigo Londoño, partiledare för den tidigare colombianska gerillan Farc som numera är ett politiskt parti, avbryter sin presidentkampanj på grund av hälsoproblem.
Tidigare i mars drabbades Londoño av en hjärtattack, och i onsdags genomgick han en hjärtoperation som beskrivits som lyckad. Men Farc har ändå beslutat sig för att dra tillbaka Londoños kandidatur, skriver partiet i ett pressmeddelande enligt TT.
Enligt opinionsmätningar hade Londoño enbart omkring en procents stöd inför presidentvalet den 27 maj.
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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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