José Juvenal Velandia, aka Iván Ríos, aka Manuel Jesús Muñoz Ortiz, (19 December 1961 – 3 March 2008), born in San Francisco, Putumayo

San Francisco, Putumayo

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, was the Head of the Central Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army is a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict, currently involved in drug dealing and crimes against the civilians..FARC-EP is a peasant army which...

 (FARC-EP) and the youngest member of this guerrilla's Central High Command.

Death

Ríos was killed by his security chief on 3 March 2008 in a mountainous area of the western department

Departments of Colombia

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 of Caldas

Caldas Department

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. 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. "Rojas" claimed that they belonged to Ríos, whom he described as his boss. He claimed to have killed Ríos three days earlier. Fingerprint

Fingerprint

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results proved that the hand did belong to Ríos, resulting in Colombian authorities going to recover the body.

Video

• Speech by Ivan Rios, filmed in Villa Nueva Colombia, en español