Tomás Medina Caracas

Tomás Medina Caracas

Tomás Medina Caracas

Tomás Medina Caracas is a Colombian partisan. Born on March 15, 1965 in Colombia, Tomás Medina Caracas has been recognized for their work as partisan. Details of the life and career of this Colombian figure are documented in public sources such as Wikipedia.

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Biography

Tomás Medina Caracas, also known as Tomás Molina Caracas and Negro Acacio (15 March 1965 – 1 September 2007), was a Colombian guerrilla member and high-ranking leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). He was considered by Colombian authorities to be the mastermind behind the illegal drug trade business and the head of the Eastern Bloc's 16th Front of this rebel group.

Career

He gained notoriety during the FARC-Government peace process (1999-2002) as a key negotiator. He was also notorious for his association with Brazilian drug dealer Fernandinho Beiramar and his involvement in a clandestine arms deal of 10,000 AK-47s for the FARC through the Peruvian government official Vladimiro Montesinos, an adviser of former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori. Medina Caracas was killed on 1 September 2007, in a Colombian Army military operation in eastern Colombia, within the municipality of Cumaribo near the border with Venezuela.

Medina Caracas had between 17 and 23 legal processes pending with the Attorney General of Colombia, requesting his capture and a red corner notice issued by the INTERPOL. The Colombian Army spent two years searching for Medina Caracas, with him escaping from most of the operations carried out to find him. Just in Colombia, Medina Caracas was charged with narcotrafficking, delinquency, kidnapping, torture, first degree murder, terrorism, extortion and robbery.

Personal Life

Tomás Medina Caracas was born on March 15, 1965 in Colombia. As a partisan, Tomás Medina Caracas is part of the public figures documented from Colombia.

References

  1. "Tomás Medina Caracas." Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_Medina_Caracas
  2. "Wikidata entity: Q7820493 — Tomás Medina Caracas." https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7820493

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