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.

[edit] Death

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

• 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis
• Raúl Reyes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• US Department of State: Profile of Manuel Muñoz Ortiz