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One of the first to present the event was the Venezuelan writer Carlos Peñaloza, who through a trill published on December 30 said that ‘Timochenko’ had died in the hospital in Rionegro, Antioquia, due to a sudden heart attack. He added that the former FARC commander had been hospitalized since yesterday for coronary diseases.
Quickly the reactions in networks began to arrive. On Peñaloza’s profile, the majority of comments were pleased by the news, which in this case reached one million retweets.
Following this publication that quickly became fake news, a website called Sun Sol created an article the same day titled ‘LAST MINUTE! RODRIGO LONDOÑO alias TIMOCHENKO ‘died in the hospital in Rionegro, Antioquia, where the death was reported.
There, the person in charge of the article, David Montes, gave Peñaloza credit for making the event known. However, it is not possible to know who Montes is and it cannot be determined if the information is true since the web page seems to have an improvised design with a high amount of advertising and a single author for all the news that appears there.
Then, at two in the afternoon on December 30, the salsa musician, Willie Colón, replied Peñaloza’s trill. A while after having trilled it, the post was deleted since the users of the social network warned that this statement was imprecise, since the version about the presumed death of Londoño was an “innocent” spread on networks on December 28.
For this reason, the FARC Party, on its Twitter account, quickly denied the information. In the post, made directly to Willie Colón with a screenshot of the deleted trill, he stated that “two days after the innocents, his hatred made him fall into a fake news.”
As it is a joke that became news without a reliable source of information to confirm the fact, and after the FARC Party clarified it, we conclude that Rodrigo Londoño’s death is false.
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