Published at: 08/04/2026 09:00 PM

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

• On April 3, 1991, student leader Belinda Álvarez, 24, was seriously injured while leading a demonstration in the arch of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), 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 a demonstration to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of Gonzalo Jaurena, a fourth-semester electronic student at Simon Bolivar University (USB), murdered by agents of the Metropolitan Police (PM), on the 3rd of April 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, a student in the fifth semester of the Faculty of Humanities of the ULA, was hit by a burst of UZI in the abdomen, carried out by an army corporal, and died hours later at the University Hospital of Mérida.
• In the midst of this repressive wave, on March 20, 1991, in the Edo. Trujillo, 23-year-old Ramón Darío Cadenas, who was pursuing a career in Administration at the Rafael Rangel Nucleus of the ULA, bled to death from a bayonet wound on his leg.
• Belinda's death occurred ten days later 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 three student massacres, which occurred between the end of March and the beginning of April 1991, were part of the work of the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez II (1989-1993), while Alejandro Izaguirre was Minister of Internal Relations.

Mazo News Team