Gaspar Jiménez
Cuban exile linked to Posada Carriles
Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo (October 6, 1935 – October 29, 2014) was a Cuban exile living in Miami. An associate of Luis Posada Carriles, he was convicted of attempting to kidnap a Cuban consul in Mexico in 1976, for which he served 27 months in prison. He was also convicted of attempting to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000, and was jailed until 2004 when he was pardoned by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso.
Biography
Jiménez was born on October 6, 1935, in the Cuban city of Camagüey. He worked as a day laborer in Miami for some time, and had a wife and two daughters in 1983. Jiménez was a naturalized US citizen. A physically imposing man who weighed 300 pounds, Jiménez was nicknamed "El Gordo", or "Fat". Jiménez worked for Alberto Hernández, who would later head the Cuban American National Foundation, in the 1990s, and later worked for the foundation himself.
In July 1976, Jiménez and an associate named Orestes Ruiz were arrested in Mexico, and accused of attempting to kidnap Cuban consul Daniel Ferrer. Ferrer's bodyguard, Artagnan Diaz, was killed in the attempt.
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