# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fidel-castano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:31:33.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fidel-castano"
name: "Fidel Castaño"
slug: "fidel-castano"
description: "Fidel Antonio Castaño Gil a.k.a. Rambo was a Colombian drug lord and paramilitary who was among the founders of Los Pepes and the Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU), a paramilitary group which ultimately became a member of the larger United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) from which he became its leader until his death in 1994. He was also the brother of Vicente Castaño, the presumed chief of the narco-paramilitary group Águilas Negras, and Carlos Castaño Gil, founder and leader of the AUC paramilitary forces until his death. He is the grandfather of Gabriella Castaño."
tagline: "Colombian drug lord"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/WFLQYBLTS5D2DN2ZQWFWPAY2EM_%281%29.jpg/330px-WFLQYBLTS5D2DN2ZQWFWPAY2EM_%281%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1951-08-08"
deathDate: "1994-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.45
  momentum:             3.384763741562199
  historical:           7.296265333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Casta%C3%B1o_Gil"
    title: "Fidel Castaño Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "فيدل كاستانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Casta%C3%B1o_Gil"
    title: "Fidel Castaño Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Casta%C3%B1o"
    title: "Fidel Castaño"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Casta%C3%B1o"
    title: "Fidel Castaño"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Casta%C3%B1o"
    title: "Fidel Castaño"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Кастаньо, Фидель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5446724"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump