FARC-EP chain of command

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's chain of command is divided as follows:

1. Commander in Chief of the FARC-EP, ultimate decision maker. Alfonso Cano held this position at the time of his death.
2. The Secretariat is the seven member leadership
3. The Central High Command (Estado Mayor Central): composed of some 30 top commanders including the seven leaders of the top command; the secretariat is the highest organ of direction and command of the FARC-EP. Its agreements, orders and decisions rule over the entire movement and all its members. It designates the High Command of each bloc and co-ordinates the areas of the respective blocs.
4. Bloc: consists of five or more fronts. Seven blocs have divided the country's territory strategically to allow greater maneuverability and control.
5. Front: Consist of anywhere between 50 and 500 men. Control and attack certain areas of the country.
6. Column: Larger fronts are divided into columns.
7. Company (Compañía) : These men, usually around 50, stay together and plan ambushes or other surprise attacks.
8. Guerrilla: consists of two squads.
9. Squad: the basic unit consisting of 12 combatants.

Secretariat

The Central High Command is composed of seven ideological and military leaders of the FARC-EP. It is speculated that some of them could be hiding in the Colombian frontiers with Ecuador and Venezuela, which has been one of the reasons for Colombian military operations in the area. Others are thought to be somewhere in the southeastern-most regions of the country. In a March 2006 United States Department of Justice indictment, $5 million US dollars were offered for information leading to the capture of 47 key FARC figures that remain at large, including the members of the Secretariat.

Alias	Name	Note
Alfonso Cano	Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas	Promoted to Commander in Chief after Manuel Marulanda's death. Founder of Clandestine Colombian Communist Party. Died on November 4, 2011.
Timoleón Jiménez, "Timochenko"	Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri	Head of intelligence, counter- intelligence, Supreme leader.
Iván Márquez	Luciano Marín Arango	Top spokesman.
Joaquín Gómez, "Usuriaga"	Milton de Jesús Toncel Redondo	Replaced Raúl Reyes after his death. Commander southern bloc.
Mauricio Jaramillo, "El Médico"	Jaime Alberto Parra	Replaced Iván Ríos after his death. Chief 'commander jorge briceno bloc'.
Pablo Catatumbo	Jorge Torres Victoria	Entered the Secretariat after Manuel Marulanda's death.commander western bloc, chief of political movement.
Pastor Alape	Felix Antonio Muñoz Lascarro	Entered the Secretariat after Mono Jojoy's death.
Jorge Briceño Suárez, "Mono Jojoy"	Victor Julio Suárez Rojas	Chief Commander of Military Wing. Dead on Sept. 22, 2010 while Colombian troops air raided a FARC camp near La Macarena, Meta.
Manuel Marulanda Vélez, "Tirofijo"	Pedro Antonio Marín	Historical Founder of FARC-EP. Commander in Chief. Died of natural causes (disease) in 2008.
Jacobo Arenas	Luis Alberto Morantes Jaimes	With Marulanda, founder of FARC-EP. Political chief. Died of natural causes in 1990.
Iván Ríos	Manuel Jesús Muñoz Ortiz	Peace Negotiator, Head of Central Bloc, killed by one of his security chiefs in 2008
Raúl Reyes	Luis Edgar Devia Silva	Traditional "Spokesman of FARC", Dead in 2008 while Colombian troops air raided a FARC camp inside Ecuador, over a mile from the border with Colombia.
Efraín Guzmán	Noel Matta	Died of natural causes in 2003.

Blocs

Eastern Bloc

Up to 9350 members.

Alias	Name	Note
Germán Briceño Suárez, "Granobles"	Noé Suárez Rojas
Jorge Briceño Suárez, "Mono Jojoy"	Victor Julio Suárez Rojas	Dead on Sept. 23, 2010.
Carlos Antonio Lozada	Luis Antonio Lozada Gallo
Romaña	Henry Castellanos Garzón

Western Bloc

Up to 4800 members.

Alias	Name	Note
Pablo Catatumbo	Jorge Torres Victoria
Gustavo López Gómez, "Pacho"	Miller Munar Munar
Marco Aurelio Buendía	Luis Alfonso Guevara Álvarez	Dead in 2003.

Southern Bloc

Up to 2900 members.

Alias	Name	Note
Fabián Ramírez	José Benito Cabrera Cuevas
Joaquín Gómez, "Usuriaga"	Milton de Jesús Toncel Redondo
Sonia	Omaira Rojas Cabrera	Captured and extradited in 2004.

Central Bloc

Up to 1200 members.

Alias	Name	Note
Jerónimo	Raúl Duarte
Jerónimo Galeano	Arquímedes Muñoz Villamil	Dead in 2011
Alfonso Cano	Guillermo León Saenz Vargas	Dead in 2011
Iván Ríos	Manuel Jesús Muñoz Ortiz	Dead in 2008

Middle Magdalena Bloc

Up to 1300 members.

Alias	Name
Pastor Alape	Félix Antonio Muñoz Lascarro

Caribbean Bloc

Up to 1200 members.

Alias	Name	Note	Photo
Bertulfo	Emilio Cabrera Díaz
Martín Caballero	Gustavo Rueda Díaz	Dead in 2007
Simón Trinidad	Ricardo Palmera Pineda	Arrested and extradited in 2004

Northwestern Bloc "Iván Ríos Bloc"

Up to 2500 members.

Alias	Name
Iván Márquez	Luciano Marín Arango

See also

• Tanja Nijmeijer

External links

• Members of FARC Secretariat (in spanish)