Henry Castellanos Garzón, aka "Romaña", (20 March 1965 – 5 December 2021) was a Colombian guerrilla commander of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (, FARC–EP or FARC) was a Marxist–Leninist Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964. The FARC-EP was officially founded in ...
. Castellanos Garzón was a member of the Estado Mayor and the Commander of several
Eastern Bloc of the FARC-EP fronts.
According to the
United States government
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, Castellanos Garzón was involved in drug trafficking for the FARC since the mid-1980s.
Reported death in September 2010
On 23 September 2010, the Colombian press reported that Romaña was killed on 22 September during "Operation Sodom"- the same military operation that was credited with killing FARC commander
Mono Jojoy. Colombian authorities could not confirm his death nor find his body.
In May 2011, Colombian president
Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
An economist by training and a journalist by trade, S ...
confirmed on his presidential website that Romana survived the attack.
In October 2014, Romana went to Cuba as part of the negotiating team involved in successful peace talks with the Colombian government.
Death
In December 2021, Venezuelan and Colombian media reported that Romaña was killed in Venezuela's western department of Apure, alongside one of his closest allies, Hernán Darío Velásquez, better known as "El Paisa." This news was later confirmed by Colombia's Defense Minister as photos of Romaña's body circulated online.
References
Members of FARC
1965 births
2021 deaths
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