That same night, in Miraflores, a “Revolutionary” Government Board chaired by Rómulo Betancourt was appointed, which began a new phase in handing over the country to the most perverse foreign interests. Yankee imperialism was once again achieving its objective of strategic domination through governments that lacked its interests.
What the adecos later named the October Revolution was just another interference by the United States in the internal affairs of the country with the consent and participation of the oligarchy and the adecos.
80 years ago, Medina Angarita was staged by a coup d'etat
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Published at: 18/10/2025 08:35 AM
On Thursday morning of October 18, 1945, a civic-military insurrection took
place in Venezuela to remove President General Isaías Medina Angarita, who had been democratically
elected, the coup was led by Colonel Marcos
Pérez Jiménez and the adeco leader Rómulo Betancourt (for the adecos the father of democracy).
Angarita was informed of the compromise against
him a day earlier, and the versions of a call for popular and military insurrection were confirmed at a political rally of
the “Democratic” Action (AD)
party, held at the New Circus in Caracas on Wednesday, October 17.
Thus, Medina Angarita was the
victim of an orchestrated coup against a democratic government
that had led the country towards a path of modernity and was attempting some social changes.
In the Fourth Republic, no other Venezuelan
president could ever repeat the words that Isaías Medina
addressed to Congress year after year: “... There was neither an
exile in Venezuela, nor a political prisoner, nor a dissolved party, nor a
closed newspaper, nor a mother who shed tears because of the arrest or exile of a child...”.
His orders to quarantine the garrisons
of Caracas and Maracay, and to arrest the three armed military leaders; Pérez Jiménez, Julio César Vargas and Horacio López Conde, ended
up triggering the violent civic-military uprising that was planned.
On the morning of October 18,
1945, a revolt broke out in Caracas at the La Planicie Military School.
In the afternoon, in Caracas, it extended to the San
Carlos, La Planta and Miraflores barracks, and the military garrison of Maracay.
The San Carlos Barracks was retaken by the Government, but shootings were widespread in the streets
of Caracas.
At night, when analyzing
the situation, Medina refused to attack the Military School so as not to
cause the death of the cadets, since many had been his
students. On the morning of October 19, the aviation and garrisons
of Maracay were in the hands of the coup plotters and the San
Carlos Barracks, taken over by armed civilian groups, at that moment, seeing everything
lost, Isaías Medina decided to surrender.
Mazo News Team