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According to the United States Department of State Toncel has participated in setting and implementing the FARC’s cocaine policies directing and controlling the production, manufacture, and distribution of hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and the world. The "taxation" of the drug trade in Colombia to raise funds for the FARC. And the murder of hundreds of people who violated or interfered with the FARC’s cocaine policies.
Toncel is also responsible for overseeing the Southern Bloc’s production of thousands of tons of cocaine. The United States. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $2.5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction.
On March 8, 2008 Globovision reported that Gómez, along with one other FARC member, had been hospitalized at a clinic in Rubio, Venezuela after being shot in the face near the Colombian border.
However, these reports were denied by military sources.