By appointing “Timochenko” as the FARC‘s new leader, the guerrillas have given the Colombian government a new target, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday.
“If this is the new boss of the FARC, they have pointed out which our new target to reach is,” Minister German Vargas Lleras told Caracol Radio.
Vargas Lleras responded to a FARC statement in which the guerrilla group said that the commander of the Magdalena Medio Bloc and long-tim secretariat member has become the guerrillas’ number one.
“Timochenko” succeeds “Alfonso Cano,” who was killed by the Colombian armed forces earlier this month.