Jorge Briceño

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Wanted cards distributed by the Colombian government asking for information that can lead to Jorge Briceño's arrest.

Victor Julio Suárez Rojas aka Jorge Briceño Suárez, (nom de guerre: Mono Jojoy) is a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia a Colombian guerrilla organization. Briceño commands the Eastern Bloc of the FARC-EP and is a member of the FARC Secretariat He is under indictment in the United States for killing three Americans, terrorism and narcotics trafficking activities. The Colombian government also indicted him.

Jorge Briceño-Suarez is one of Colombia’s most wanted rebels. He is wanted for a number of specific, high-profile crimes as well as for his general responsibility as a senior leader for FARC’s revolutionary activities. Specifically, he has been implicated in a bombing in Bogotá that killed 36 and injured more than 100 in November 2003. He was indicted by the United States in 2002 for killing three Americans in 1999. He also may have been involved in the kidnapping and murder of three American missionaries in 1993. He is wanted on drug-trafficking charges in both Colombia and the United States. More recently, he was charged in early 2006 with recruiting children for the FARC.

Jorge Briceño-Suarez remains one of the most dangerous and important Colombian guerrilla leaders at large. The U.S. Attorney General has requested his extradition if he is captured. He is most likely in eastern Colombia or in Venezuela.

"Mono Jojoy", is considered to be one of the most radical rebels of the military wing; he issued the order to demand the resignation of the town mayors and hundreds of civil employees of Colombian municipalities, and to kidnap or execute them if they do not resign to their positions in any corner of the country. He is known for being a radical commander on the military wing of the FARC - EP and is being held responsible for the kidnapping of presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and the massacre of a member from the Turbay Cote family just a few miles from the "distention zone".

He registers more than 16 capture orders for multiple crimes including: theft, homicide, terrorism, kidnapping, and extortion.

v • d • e FARC-EP
Organization	Military History of the FARC-EP • Military Structure of the FARC-EP • FARC-EP Chain of Command • FARC Military Strategy in 2005 • Socio-economic Structure of the FARC-EP • Clandestine Colombian Communist Party
Notable personnel	Jacobo Arenas (Founder) (dead) • Manuel Marulanda Vélez (Founder; Commander in chief) • Mono Jojoy • Simón Trinidad (Captured) • Alfonso Cano • Raúl Reyes • Efraín Guzmán • Timoleón Jiménez • Iván Márquez • Iván Ríos • Sonia (Captured)