The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from Venezuela
This page contains a list of the greatest Venezuelan Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Venezuela. This makes Venezuela the birth place of the 29th most number of Extremists behind Iran, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Venezuelan Extremists of all time. This list of famous Venezuelan Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Carlos the Jackal (b. 1949)
With an HPI of 67.08, Carlos the Jackal is the most famous Venezuelan Extremist. His biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Spanish: [iˈlitʃ raˈmiɾes ˈsantʃes]; born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal (Spanish: Carlos el Chacal) or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan convict who conducted a series of assassinations and terrorist bombings from 1973 to 1985. A committed Marxist–Leninist, Ramírez Sánchez was one of the most notorious political terrorists of his era, protected and supported by the Stasi and the KGB. After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez led the 1975 raid on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headquarters in Vienna, during which three people were killed. He and five others demanded a plane and flew with a number of hostages to Libya. After his wife Magdalena Kopp was arrested and imprisoned, Sánchez detonated a series of bombs, claiming 11 lives and injuring more than 100, demanding the French release his wife. For many years he was among the most-wanted international fugitives. He was ultimately captured by extra-judicial means in Sudan and transferred to France, where he was convicted of multiple crimes. He is currently serving three life sentences in France. In his first trial, he was convicted of the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counterintelligence agents. While in prison, he was further convicted of attacks in France that killed 11 and injured 150 people and sentenced to an additional life term in 2011, and then to a third life term in 2017.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Venezuelan extremists born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Venezuelan extremists include Carlos the Jackal.
