From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iván Ríos
 |
| Name: |
Manuel de Jesús Muñoz Ortiz |
| Alias: |
Iván Ríos
José Juvenal Velandia |
| Service/branch: |
FARC |
| Rank: |
Bloque Central "José María Córdova" |
| Birth date: |
1961 |
| Death: |
2008 |
José Juvenal Velandia, aka Iván Ríos, aka Manuel Jesús Muñoz Ortiz,[1][2][3] (19 December 1961 – 3 March 2008), born in San Francisco, Putumayo, Colombia,[1][3] was the Head of the Central Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP)[1] and the youngest member of this guerrilla's Central High Command.
Ríos was killed by his security chief on 3 March 2008 in a mountainous area of the western department of Caldas.[4] Colombian military 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.[4] "Rojas" claimed that they belonged to Ríos, whom he described as his boss. He claimed to have killed Ríos three days earlier.[4] Fingerprint results proved that the hand did belong to Ríos, resulting in Colombian authorities going to recover the body.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
