Fidel Castaño

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Fidel Castaño
BornAugust 8, 1951
Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba
OpponentPablo Escobar
RelativesVicente Castaño and Carlos Castaño Gil
Details
CountryColombia

Fidel Antonio Castaño Gil a.k.a. Rambo (August 8, 1951 – January 6, 1994) was a Colombian drug lord and

Águilas Negras, and Carlos Castaño Gil, founder and leader of the AUC paramilitary forces until his death. He is the grandfather of Gabriella Castaño. There is a theory that Fidel Castaño is still alive as there is no proof of him being dead and was the one that also killed Victor “Chepe” Crespo. [citation needed
]

Los Pepes

In the early 1990s, the Cali Cartel waged a bloody war against the

vigilante organization known as "People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar", or Los Pepes, began assassinating Escobar's associates and destroying his property. It also assisted the Search Bloc in their hunt for Escobar. Castaño was one of the founders of Los Pepes and worked with the Cali Cartel against Escobar. Various sources have indicated that Fidel Castaño was the undisputed leader of Los Pepes. While Escobar genuinely persecuted many Colombians, Los Pepes were mostly cocaine traffickers and manufacturers looking to benefit from Escobar's fall.[1][2]

Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba

After Pablo Escobar was killed, Castaño turned his attention to the left-wing guerrillas in Colombia. Castaño's father had been killed by the

Colombian paramilitary organizations coalesced to form the umbrella organization known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia

Death

Castaño had not been seen since about 1994, and was widely presumed to be dead. In September 2013 his remains were found after Jesús Ignacio Roldán a.k.a. "Monoleche" - chief lieutenant of the Castaño brothers - delivered to the prosecutor of the Republic of Colombia the necessary information to locate the whereabouts of the remains in a mass grave in an estate of the municipality of San Pedro de Urabá in Antioquia.[3][4][5] It was revealed that in 1990 Carlos Castaño was still accompanying his brother Fidel, who at that time was leading the self-defense group funded by peasants from Cordoba (ACCU), and whose goal was to take out the Popular Liberation Army. Castaño's self-defense forces demobilized in 1992 and retook weapons in 1993 due to a raid by the FARC in Urabá Antioquia after the peace dialogues with that guerrilla in Mexico failed.

Regarding the death of Fidel Castaño, there are several versions. One version states that he died while fighting with the then recently created FARC's front 58 in the pathway connecting San Pedro of Uraba and Santa Catalina on January 6, 1994. Another version states that his brother Carlos plotted his death because of woman troubles and/or the alleged involvement of Fidel in the death of their sister Rumalda Castaño. There is even a story stating that Fidel was severely injured in combat, and after recovering he was flown someplace outside of Colombia where he's still living.[6]

Popular culture

  • Fidel is portrayed by the actor
    Escobar, el patrón del mal
    .
  • In the TV series
    Gregorio Pernia
    .
  • In the second season of the TV series Narcos he was portrayed by Colombian actor Gustavo Angarita Jr.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Semana.com - ¿Quiénes son los Pepes?
  2. ^ Semana.com - "YO FUI EL CREADOR DE LOS PEPES"
  3. ^ Algo de la historia de Fidel Castaño
  4. ^ "La señal de Caín". 12 September 2007.
  5. ^ "LOS SECRETOS DE LOS CASTANO (II) - El Colombiano". Archived from the original on 2013-04-20.
  6. Revista Semana
    . 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  7. ^ "Gustavo Angarita Jr". IMDb.
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