José Juvenal Velandia, a.k.a. Iván Ríos, a.k.a. Manuel Jesús Muñoz Ortiz,
(19 December 1961 – 3 March 2008), born in
San Francisco, Putumayo
San Francisco () is a town and municipality located in the Putumayo Department, Republic of Colombia.
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,
Colombia,
[ was the Head of the ]Central Bloc
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of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
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(FARC-EP)[ and the youngest member of this guerrilla's Central High Command.
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Death
Ríos was killed by his security chief, Pablo Montoya, on 3 March 2008 in a mountainous area of the western department of Caldas.Colombian military
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forces were involved in an operation to capture Ríos, when a FARC member named as "Rojas", on 6 March 2008, delivered a severed right hand, a laptop computer and an ID to the troops.[ "Rojas" claimed that they belonged to Ríos, whom he described as his boss. Pablo Montoya claimed to have killed Ríos three days earlier.][ ]Fingerprint
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results proved that the hand did belong to Ríos, resulting in Colombian authorities going to recover the body.
See also
* 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis
The 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis was a diplomatic stand-off between the South American countries of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. It began with an incursion into Ecuadorian territory across the Putumayo River by the Colombian military on March ...
* Raúl Reyes
References
External links
Video
* , filmed in Villa Nueva Colombia, en español
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Members of FARC
2008 deaths
Colombian guerrillas killed in action
Colombian communists
Anti-revisionists
1961 births
People from Putumayo Department