Timoleón Jiménez

Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (born 22 January 1959), most known under the nom de guerre Timoleón Jiménez and the nickname Timochenko or Timochenco, is a Colombian politician, cardiologist and former commander-in-chief of the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), currently serving as the president of its political successor Commons (Spanish: Comunes) following the Colombian peace process.

Echeverri was born in 1959 shortly after the Cuban Revolution[1] to a poor peasant family in Calarcá,[2] near the birthplace of FARC-EP founder Manuel Marulanda.

[5] Colombian intelligence services had long believed that he had studied medicine in Cuba,[5] and the Soviet Union,[1] and then undergone military training in Yugoslavia,[1] but this has since been proven false.

[1][2] He explains, on his entry into the guerrilla: "Before I left, they gave me a talk in which they tried to discourage me, but I was determined: I admired the armed struggle and believed that it would only take a short time, as in Cuba".

[10] Between 28 and 31 August 2017, a month after being hospitalized for a cerebral embolism,[10] Echeverri led the founding congress of the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) party at the Bogota Convention Centre with the participation of one thousand delegates.

Echeverri during his time in FARC-EP