Published at: 17/06/2026 09:00 PM

(Tribuna Popular and El Nacional, Tuesday, June 6, 1972)

• During the first five-year presidential term of Rafael Caldera (1969-1974), the 22-year-old, Marvin Ramón Marín Sánchez, was one of 40 students killed by state security forces in the implementation of that government's pacification policy.
• On June 5, 1972, after five days in intensive care, Marín Sánchez died, the victim of a tear gas bomb fired at point-blank range by agents of the Metropolitan Police (PM); he was studying medicine at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). The tear gas launched at close range shattered his skull.
• 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.
• Upon admission to the University Hospital of the UCV, the doctors diagnosed cranial polyfracture 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 providing internship services 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 rejection of the social-Christian 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 No. 111 of 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 Paradise.

Mazo News Team