Published at: 17/12/2025 09:00 PM

(El Nacional and Latest News, 15-12-1965)

• December 13 marked the 60th anniversary of the raid on the headquarters of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), an action in which 700 students were injured and taken to the cells of the General Directorate of Police (DIGEPOL), located in the Las Brisas Building in Los Chaguaramos, and other centers of prison confinement.
• 4,000 military and police personnel were responsible for pushing 700 university students out of student residences.
• To this end, government agents handed out blows and brushstrokes, bringing the students to their knees before being dragged onto the military buses that carried them handcuffed or tied up, like common criminals, without having committed any crime.
• Leoni's repressive forces had no consideration for the children in the UCV Kindergarten.
• The children of UCV employees and teachers experienced moments of true terror and anguish, shocked by the incessant sound of government shrapnel.
• During the search, victims of panic, the children witnessed the uniformed personnel firsthand their submachine guns, despite their presence.
• Raúl Leoni distinguished himself by being the president who exercised the most bloodthirsty policy of repression and forced disappearances that Venezuelan society has ever suffered. In his first six months in office, the number of victims of his predecessor, Romulo Betancourt, tripled in five years.
• Both, flux-and-tie criminals, exceeded, in proportion from 1 to 1000, the number of people tortured, exiled, murdered and disappeared from any other government labeled “dictatorial” in our history, not to mention the corruption records they inaugurated in the unlimited looting of the public purse.
• All of this, in strict compliance with the manuals of torture and forced disappearance, and the instructions of the Plan of the Americas, issued by the United States to counter protests, and to exterminate insurgent social forces throughout Latin America.

Mazo News Team