Published at: 30/07/2025 09:00 PM

(EL CARABOBEÑO, July 30, 1973)

• On July 29, 1973, around 1:00 a.m., a commission from the SECTORIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION DIRECTORATE (DISIP) headed by commissioner Homero Sánchez Araujo, alias Horacio, stormed the house where Esladia Cristina Vásquez Rojas, 17, and three other people resided in San Carlos, edo. Cojedes.
• At the time of the police assault, officials arrived shooting at the walls and door of the house, so Esladia Vásques, shouting, came out helpless to mediate. Upon opening the door, Sánchez Araujo threw it to the floor and shot her in the chest.
• Still alive, alias Horacio finished her off by putting a cloth on her face to suffocate her, while her shuddered victim convulsed.
• This is how Sánchez Araujo, despite the pleas of everyone present, drowned Esladia, knowing that she was pregnant, being the one who later took her in an ambulance to the Central Hospital of San Carlos, where she arrived dead.
• Esladia was born on February 14, 1956, in Aroa, Edo. Yaracuy, his father was Justino Vásquez and his mother Valentina Rojas. She was the sister of Dilia Rojas, who was murdered by Henry López Sisco in the Yumare Massacre, on May 8, 1986.
• At just 14 years old, he was already carrying out social activities in the southern neighborhoods of Valencia, edo. Carabobo.
• Later, he joined the struggles of the student movement, following in the footsteps and militancy of his sister Dilia and brother-in-law Francisco Edmundo Hernández Cruz.
• Esladia's first cousins, Mario and Leonel Petit Vásquez, were assassinated by the adec governments that preceded that of Rafael Caldera.
• For the bloodthirsty performance of alias Horacio, former member of Punto Cero, a whistleblower and traitor, he was promoted to General Commissioner of the DISIP.
• On October 10, 2013, Horacio Sánchez Araujo was indicted by National Prosecutor 80 of the Public Ministry, Elvis Rodríguez, for the crimes of homicide classified as malevolent, futile and ignoble motives and violation of international pacts and conventions.
• Later, the former homicidal commissioner was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the cold-blooded murder of 17-year-old Esladia Cristina Vásquez Rojas.

Mazo News Team