Carlos Pizarro Leongómez

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pizarro and the second or maternal family name is Leongómez.
Carlos Pizarro Leongómez
Carlos Pizarro Leongomez in 1990
Born
Carlos Pizarro Leongómez

(1951-06-06)6 June 1951
Cartagena, Colombia
Died26 April 1990(1990-04-26) (aged 38)
Bogotá, Colombia
OccupationsMilitant in las FARC. 1970-1973

Commander of the M-19,

Candidate for the presidency of Colombia 1990–1994
SuccessorAntonio Navarro Wolff
Political partyAD/M-19
ChildrenMaría José Pizarro
María del Mar Pizarro

Carlos Pizarro Leongómez (6 June 1951 – 26 April 1990) was a Colombian guerrilla leader who headed the 19th of April Movement (M-19). Pizarro accepted the demobilization of M-19 that transformed the insurgents into a political party, the M-19 Democratic Alliance (Alianza Democrática M-19) (AD/M-19), but was assassinated on 26 April 1990 while running for president of Colombia.

He was the brother of Hernando Pizarro Leongómez who carried out the Tacueyó Massacre in 1985, considered one of the most brutal internal purges in the history of Colombian guerrilla movements.

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