Published at: 08/10/2025 09:00 PM

(Clarín, October 5, 1962)

• On October 5, 1962, the student Jesús Manuel Rojas Figueroa was murdered while driving in a car carrying the badges of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
• Rojas Figueroa, 24, was a second-year engineering student at the UCV.
• He was found shot to the head after a bullet shot at him from a patrol at the Land Traffic Surveillance service.
• The incident occurred in the vicinity of Plaza Catia, at the end of Sucre Avenue, by police officers who were drunk and were traveling in a traffic patrol.
• The Ucevist was driving his sports car, license plates D0-05-52, with several UCV decals on the windshield.
• When he was hit by a bullet in the head, he died instantly and his car, out of control, crashed into the house marked No. 224-2 where the Don Bosco Dental Clinic operated.
• It was widely known that, within the Land Traffic Surveillance Services, a group of baptister mercenaries brought to Venezuela by Rómulo Betancourt operated.
• The same people who gave the order to assassinate the Head of the 26th of July Movement, Andrés Coba Casas, on July 27, 1960, and Livia Gourverneur, on November 1, 1961.
• These mobsters were brought in to work as DIGEPOL thugs, to handle explosives, sabotage, torture and urban warfare.

Mazo News Team