Published at: 21/01/2026 09:00 PM

(Correo del Orinoco, January 20, 2013)

• 40 years after his disappearance, on January 19, 2013, the remains of Noel Rodríguez were located. The young economics student at the UCV and Red Flag leader was hidden by State security forces in a niche in the General Cemetery of the South, where he remained under false identification.
• Thanks to the tireless search of his mother, Zenaida Mata de Rodríguez, and the speed established by President Hugo Chávez, Noel's bone was found and he was able to receive a posthumous tribute from his mother, friends and family.
• In Caracas, Mrs. Zenaida presided over the event in the company of the President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello Rondón.
• Later, on February 12, 2013, they were transferred to the city of El Tigre, in the state of Anzoátegui, where his remains were received and buried in the presence of the governor of that entity, Aristobulo Istúriz.
• Since the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez to the government, a series of relevant actions have been taken to rescue and vindicate the victims of State terrorism practiced by the governments of the Fourth Republic (1958-1998).
• To achieve this purpose, the Act to Punish Crimes, Disappearances, Torture and Human Rights Violations covered by that period was enacted.
• During the first administration of Rafael Caldera, on June 29, 1973, a commission from the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM), which followed him, kidnapped Noel Rodríguez, 27 years old.
• The arrest and subsequent disappearance of Noel Rodríguez Mata occurred on Universidad Avenue, Caracas, minutes after making a contact on the corner of La Pelota.
• From there he was transferred to Cocollar, Edo. Sucre, headquarters of the Theater of Operations No. 4 (TO4), where he was tortured and murdered on August 6, 1973.
• Among some of the “pacified” by that social-Christian government, whose criminal operations were directed by the murderer and international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the deaths of:
  1. Jose Cornelio Alvarado.
  2. Angel Maria Castillo.
  3. Rafael Bottini Marin.
  4. Rafael Alvarez.
  5. Francisco Edmundo Hernandez.
  6. Luis Eduardo Cols Gonzalez.
  7. Jose Elio Sanchez Romero.
  8. Francisco Acosta Garcia.
  9. Mervin Ramon Marin Sanchez.
  10. Jesus Marquez Finol.
  11. Argenis Reyna.
  12. Aurelio Trocett Calm down.
  13. Esladia Vasquez.
  14. Alexander Hugo Alzolay.
  15. Manuel Salvador Rojas Garcia.
  16. Cesar Augusto Sanchez.
  17. Alvaro Fernandez.
  18. Pedro Manuel Centeno Gomez.
  19. Plinio Ivan Rodriguez Acosta.
  20. Argelio Reina.
  21. Carlos Reina.

Mazo News Team