Published at: 14/05/2025 09:00 PM

(Latest News, May 15, 1971 and El Nacional, May 14, 1971)

• On Friday, May 14, 1971, during the demonstrations that took place in El Silencio, with shotguns and revolvers in hand, Metropolitan Police officers carried out arbitrary arrests, distributing bullets and bullets against the workers and students gathered there.
• In the midst of this wave of repression, just three days before her 18th birthday, Marylin Teresa Names Hurtado was shot in the forehead by the police, while watching the events from the balcony of her apartment located on the third floor of block No. 7 of El Silencio.
• The distraught mother and her family managed to bring her down to O'Leary Square. In a desperate attempt to save her life, they managed to take her to the San Martín Military Hospital where she died two hours later.
• In that same scenario, a student from the Fermín Toro High School and a worker were torn between life and death as a result of gunshots received. Another 17 demonstrators were injured.
• That day, students and workers were protesting the murder of 15-year-old Jesús Alberto Martínez, a student at the José María Vargas High School, which occurred a day earlier.
• On the morning of May 13, high school student Jesús Alberto Martínez Chacín died when a tear gas bomb exploded in his chest. He was in his third year at the José María Vargas High School. He, his classmates and students from the Maiquetía Industrial School demonstrated on Soublette Avenue in La Guaira.
• At about 11:00am, a picket from the Metropolitan Police and the 99th detachment of the National Guard were present in front of the doors of Liceo Vargas, in four military units, carrying combs, shotguns, rifles and machine guns.
• The injured student, still conscious, was taken to the San José Clinic, where his father had to pay for the right of admission.
• Because of the delay in treating him and the violent impact he received, he died after 130 in the afternoon. There was no doctor who came in time to save his life. Private medicine in action If you don't pay, you don't get in.
• This is how police “pacification” and medical care worked at the time of the government of Rafael Caldera I.

Mazo News Team