Fidel Castaño ( Spanish: Fidel Castaño ) is a Colombian far-right rebel and anti-communist politician. One of the founders and leaders of the paramilitary groups “ Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba ” ( Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá, ACCU ) and “ Los Pepes ” ( Los Pepes ). Active participant in the civil war with the Colombian Marxists . He died as a result of clashes with the FARC rebels.
| Fidel Castagno | |
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| Spanish Fidel castaño | |
| Birth name | Fidel Antonio Castagno Gil |
| Aliases | Rambo |
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| Citizenship |  Colombia |
| Occupation | rebel field commander |
| The consignment | Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba , Los Pepes |
| Main ideas | far - right anti - communism , national - patriotism |
Biography
Born in 1951 in a prosperous peasant family, one of twelve children. In 1981, the head of the family, Jesús Castaño, was abducted by the FARC Marxist rebels for ransom and died of a heart attack. This event was the starting point for the sons of the deceased Castagno, who decided to avenge the Marxists for the death of his father. The brothers Fidel and Carlos Castaño felt that government forces did not fight the communist rebels and began to form an anti-communist paramilitar militia. They founded the armed group Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba and began to attack radical left rebels, the Castagno brothers during such military clashes were distinguished from the rest by extreme cruelty to the enemy. Castagno also destroyed members of the Patriotic Union (whom they considered the political wing of the FARC). Fidel Castaño for his ferocity in battle and athletic physique was nicknamed Rambo [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] .
Fidel Castaño had criminal experience, at one time was associated with Pablo Escobar . However, then he took part in the creation of the Los Pepes group, which was financed by the Kali cartel , which was hostile to Escobar. According to documents published by the US CIA in 2008, “Colombian National Police Director General Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla said he was authorized to maintain contact with Fidel Castaño, the leader of Los Pepes, in order to collect operational data” [7] . Following the death of Escobar in 1993, a number of Los Pepes leaders led by Carlos Castaño led the United Colombian Self-Defense Forces (AUC), an ultra-right paramilitary organization active in the Colombian Civil War .
On January 6, 1994, Fidel Castaño died in a shootout with FARC rebels on a forest trail in the Antioquia department. In September 2013, his remains were discovered along with the bodies of another 7 people [8] [9] [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Pacto en la sombra, pags 57-60, Edgar Tellez y Jorge Lesmas, Editorial Planeta 2006
- ↑ Algo de la historia de Fidel Castaño
- ↑ La señal de Caín - Archivo Digital de Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo desde 1.990 - eltiempo.com
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 23, 2017. Archived on May 21, 2013.
- ↑ colombiainedita: Carlos Castaño mandó asesinar a su hermano Fidel, asegura jefe paramilitar 'Ernesto Báez'
- ↑ Identificación de restos de Fidel Castaño es confiable en un 90 por ciento
- ↑ Paramilitaries and the United States: "Unraveling the Pepes Tangled Web" . Gwu.edu. Date of treatment March 15, 2011. Archived June 14, 2013.
- ↑ Hallados los restos de Fidel Castaño Gil
- ↑ Fiscalía exhumó los restos de Fidel Castaño Gil | ELESPECTADOR.COM
- ↑ http://www.eltiempo.com/justicia/ARTICULO-WEB-NEW_NOTA_INTERIOR-13090796.html (link not available)