Diosdado Cabello: The San Carlos Barracks is a place full of history

Published at: 03/11/2025 01:30 PM

The general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, said that the San Carlos Barracks is a place steeped in history.

Cabello, during the press conference of the National Directorate of the PSUV, highlighted that the San Carlos Barracks was recently inaugurated after being remodeled.

“There are testimonies from people who were detained there during the Fourth Republic, what was that place of detention like. There was a place they called the smoke cave, where they put people in and put smoke in it to make them drown,” he said.

He emphasized that it was a place of punishment, “according to the fourth republic that didn't exist”, he said that once there was an extraordinary, spectacular escape, they made a tunnel and went out into the street. “The communities in the area are very supportive of the people who were being held in the barracks. When we were imprisoned, we communicated with flashlights to alert the community and everyone went around the barracks to protect us, to know what was going on,” he said.

Cabello asserted that, in the Fourth Republic, 11,000 young people were killed and disappeared, of whom 3,000 have not yet been found dead. “Venezuela was the laboratory of the Schools of the Americas, of torture, disappearances, and massacre,” he said.

Mazo News Team