Published at: 11/06/2025 09:00 PM

(Popular Tribune, Tuesday, June 6, 1972)

• During the first five-year presidential term of Rafael Caldera (1969-1973), the 22-year-old, Marvin Ramón Marín Sánchez, was one of more than 40 students killed by state security forces, in the implementation of the pacification policy of that Copeyan government.
• Marín Sánchez was studying for the 4th year of medicine at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and died after a long agony, as a result of the impact of a tear gas launched by agents of the Metropolitan Police (PM) that destroyed his head.
• The very serious injury was caused to him when PM officials set out to “pacify” a series of disturbances that originated in the Faculty of Medicine of the UCV.
• When he was admitted to the University Hospital, the doctors diagnosed: polyfractures of the skull, with serious injury to the brain stem, caused by the impact of the bomb thrown at high speed that caused him to lose part of his brain mass.
• By the time of his murder, he had taken the last exam to pass the year and was doing his internship at the Ocumare del Tuy Hospital.
• The burial was attended by several thousand people who marched from the headquarters of the UCV to the General Cemetery of the South, singing the National Anthem.
• On a journey of more than 5 kilometers, the coffin was carried on the shoulders of university students and high school students, who chanted slogans in repudiation of the murderous government.
• His colleagues from the School of Medicine wore white coats as a sign of protest.
• Marvin Ramón lived between the corners of Santo Tomás and Palo Blanco, house number 111 in the parish of San José, where he lived with his parents and six siblings, mostly students.
• Other victims of “pacification policies” were: Esladia Vásquez, Alexander Hugo Alzolay, Manuel Salvador Rojas García, César Augusto Sánchez, Álvaro Fernández, Aurelio Trocelt Calma, Pedro Manuel Centeno Gómez, Plinio Iván Rodríguez Acosta, Ángel María Castillo, Jesús Márquez Finol, Argelio Reina, Carlos Reina, Carlos Reina and Noel Rodríguez, as well as those killed in the Massacres of La Victoria and Avenida Páez de El Paraíso.

Mazo News Team