el_chavista
7th August 2009, 01:34
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez was born in Caracas (Venezuela), on October 12, 1949. He is the son of Elba María Sánchez, a housewife from San Cristóbal (Táchira, Venezuela), and Altagracia Ramírez Navas, a lawyer from Michelena (Táchira, Venezuela) deceased in 2003. His two younger brothers, Lenin and Vladimir, were also born in Caracas, in 1951 and 1958.
His father, a committed and steadfast Marxist-Leninist militant, was a decisive influence in his ideological formation and a source of inspiration for his future internationalist struggles. Ilich and his brother Lenin were home-schooled through their elementary education by Marxist private tutors; later, both brothers attended high-school at Liceo Fermín Toro in Caracas, where they received their high-school diplomas in June, 1966.
In August, 1966, his mother took Ilich and his two brothers to London, England, to fulfill an educational curriculum designed by his father, aimed at familiarizing the youngsters with the languages and cultures of England, France and Germany, and providing them with the ideological and cultural tools needed to contribute to the revolutionary transformation of Venezuelan society.
This plan was altered in September, 1968, when, due to the influence of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Ilich and Lenin were granted full scholarships to attend Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, USSR. During his two years there, Ilich got in touch with students from all over the world, and learned about the anti-imperialist struggles that were unfolding in different countries, particularly in the Middle East and in Palestine, oppressed by the State of Israel and its mentor, the USA. Finally, in the summer of 1970, after a fallout with Soviet authorities and some Venezuelan cadres, Ilich was expelled from the University.
In July, 1970, Ilich traveled to the Middle East to join the armed struggle of the Palestinian people. Later that year, while attending a training camp run in Jordan by the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), he witnessed the dramatic events of the “Black September”; the Jordanian regime unleashed a bloody repressive campaign against the Palestinian refugees who were living in Jordan. At that time, Wadih Haddad, his mentor within PFLP, gave Ilich his nom-de-guerre “Carlos”, which is the Spanish equivalent to the Arab name “Khalil”.
In February, 1971, Ilich returned to London to do intelligence work for PFLP under the cover of normalcy provided by his mother and brothers. He remained there until October, 1974, when he moved to Paris, France; his family returned to Venezuela in February, 1975.
His father, a committed and steadfast Marxist-Leninist militant, was a decisive influence in his ideological formation and a source of inspiration for his future internationalist struggles. Ilich and his brother Lenin were home-schooled through their elementary education by Marxist private tutors; later, both brothers attended high-school at Liceo Fermín Toro in Caracas, where they received their high-school diplomas in June, 1966.
In August, 1966, his mother took Ilich and his two brothers to London, England, to fulfill an educational curriculum designed by his father, aimed at familiarizing the youngsters with the languages and cultures of England, France and Germany, and providing them with the ideological and cultural tools needed to contribute to the revolutionary transformation of Venezuelan society.
This plan was altered in September, 1968, when, due to the influence of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Ilich and Lenin were granted full scholarships to attend Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, USSR. During his two years there, Ilich got in touch with students from all over the world, and learned about the anti-imperialist struggles that were unfolding in different countries, particularly in the Middle East and in Palestine, oppressed by the State of Israel and its mentor, the USA. Finally, in the summer of 1970, after a fallout with Soviet authorities and some Venezuelan cadres, Ilich was expelled from the University.
In July, 1970, Ilich traveled to the Middle East to join the armed struggle of the Palestinian people. Later that year, while attending a training camp run in Jordan by the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), he witnessed the dramatic events of the “Black September”; the Jordanian regime unleashed a bloody repressive campaign against the Palestinian refugees who were living in Jordan. At that time, Wadih Haddad, his mentor within PFLP, gave Ilich his nom-de-guerre “Carlos”, which is the Spanish equivalent to the Arab name “Khalil”.
In February, 1971, Ilich returned to London to do intelligence work for PFLP under the cover of normalcy provided by his mother and brothers. He remained there until October, 1974, when he moved to Paris, France; his family returned to Venezuela in February, 1975.