Published at: 09/04/2025 08:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL, LATEST NEWS and DIARIO DE CARACAS, April 04, 05 and 6, 1991)

• On April 3, 1991, student leader Belinda Álvarez (24 years old) was mortally wounded while leading a demonstration in the arch of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), after being hit by a lead pellet that lodged in her brain and kept her dying for 10 days.
• Belinda Álvarez, as president of the Student Center of the School of Social Work, called for demonstrations to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of Gonzalo Jaurena, a fourth-semester electronic student at Simon Bolivar University (USB), who was murdered by agents of the Metropolitan Police (PM) on April 3, 1989.
• They were also protesting the recent death of two students from the Universidad de los Andes (ULA) at the hands of military personnel in Mérida and Trujillo: Magdiel Páez García and Ramón Darío Cadenas, which occurred on March 20 and 21 before.
• Magdiel Páez García (25 years old), a student in the fifth semester of the Faculty of Humanities of the ULA, was hit by a blast of UZI in the abdomen carried out by an army corporal, who died hours later at the University Hospital of Mérida.
• In the midst of this repressive wave, on March 20, 1991, in the Edo. Trujillo, Ramón Darío Cadenas, 23, who was studying administration at the Rafael Rangel Nucleus of the University of the Andes, bled to death from a bayonet wound on his leg.
• The death of Belinda Álvarez occurred ten days after she was shot, at the University Clinical Hospital. His death caused riots in Maracaibo, Trujillo, Barquisimeto, Los Teques, San Felipe, Mérida and San Cristóbal, where the student of the University of Zulia (LUZ), Isidro Hernández Segovia, also lost his life.
• These massacres of March-April 1991 occurred during the second administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989-1993), while Alejandro Izaguirre was Minister of Internal Relations and Governor of Caracas Virgilio Ávila Vivas, the highest authority of the PM.

Mazo News Team