{"id":29326,"date":"2016-09-27T04:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/29326-santos-timochenko-colombia-foes-turned-peacemakers.html"},"modified":"2016-09-27T04:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:01:01","slug":"santos-timochenko-colombia-foes-turned-peacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/29326-santos-timochenko-colombia-foes-turned-peacemakers.html","title":{"rendered":"Santos, Timochenko: Colombia foes turned peacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC guerrilla leader Timoleon \"Timochenko\" Jimenez come from different worlds: one a rich businessman and politician; the other a country boy turned communist guerrilla.<\/p>\n

But the two former mortal enemies smiled and shook hands Monday after signing a historic peace deal to end a war they both spent much of their lives fighting.<\/p>\n

Here are profiles of the conservative president and the Marxist guerrilla leader who brokered the end of half a century of conflict.<\/p>\n

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- Santos: fighter for peace\u00a0-<\/h2>\n

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Santos, 65,\u00a0led a major offensive against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as defense minister from 2006 to 2009.<\/p>\n

After becoming president in 2010, he shifted tack and negotiated for a settlement with the guerrillas.<\/p>\n

\"He made war as a means to achieve peace,\" said his brother-in-law and adviser, Mauricio Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

\"He weakened the FARC to make them sit at the negotiating table.\"<\/p>\n

The peace drive \"required courage, audacity, perseverance and a lot of strategy -- those are Santos's strengths,\" Rodriguez added.<\/p>\n

Despite fierce opposition to the talks from some former allies, Santos staked his presidency on the peace process.<\/p>\n

\"I am not looking for applause. I just want to do the right thing,\" he said.<\/p>\n

He won reelection in 2014 in a vote widely seen as a referendum on the talks.<\/p>\n

Santos is the scion of a wealthy, powerful family entrenched in Colombian politics and the media.<\/p>\n

He has described himself as politically in the \"extreme center.\"<\/p>\n

He was educated at the London School of Economics and began his career as a journalist, covering the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua as a young man.<\/p>\n

He then switched to politics, serving in various ministerial posts.<\/p>\n

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- Timochenko: convict negotiator -<\/h2>\n

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The bearded, bespectacled FARC leader's real name is Rodrigo Londono, but he is better known by his noms de guerre Timoleon Jimenez and Timochenko.<\/p>\n

He was born to a Christian mother and a communist father in a coffee-growing region where he says he soon became aware of social injustice.<\/p>\n

\"At school, I wondered why there were some classmates who went without breakfast while others lived wastefully,\" he once said.<\/p>\n

He has said the first book he read as a child was the Bible but he also read Karl Marx's \"Communist Manifesto\" by the age of 12.<\/p>\n

State intelligence services say he received military and medical training in the Soviet Union and Cuba, which he denies.<\/p>\n

\"Eighty-five percent of what they say about me is lies,\" he once told Venezuelan TV network Telesur.<\/p>\n

The stocky Timochenko, 57, is renowned as a strategist and former intelligence chief in the FARC, which battled state forces for decades in the jungle.<\/p>\n

He has been convicted in absentia for various attacks for which he has been sentenced to more than 150 years in jail.<\/p>\n

He took over as FARC leader in 2011 after his predecessor, Alfonso Cano, was killed by the army.<\/p>\n

The following year, he wrote to Santos proposing fresh peace negotiations after efforts by previous leaders had failed.<\/p>\n

He agreed to Santos's demand that the FARC end its campaign of kidnappings.<\/p>\n

As a guerrilla he often said: \"I prefer to die on my feet than live on my knees.\"<\/p>\n

But in recent peace talks he softened his tone. At Monday's signing he apologized on behalf of the FARC to all the victims of the conflict.<\/p>\n

Asked recently what he has learned in his career as a guerrilla, he said: \"There shouldn't be wars.\"<\/p>\n

\"He is one of the most well-liked guys in the FARC,\" Ariel Avila, an analyst at Colombia's Peace and Reconciliation Foundation told AFP.<\/p>\n

\"He is the man who will go down in history for bringing the FARC into the peace process.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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