Published at: 16/07/2025 09:00 PM

(CLARÍN, July 15, 1963)

• On July 14, 1963, between 8:30 and 9 p.m., 17-year-old worker, communist leader and student, Félix Enrique Serrano, was shot six times in the back by agents of the Caracas Municipal Police while he was running to seek refuge.
• On the way down block 3 of the La Silsa neighborhood, in Catia, a bus full of municipal police arrived shooting at all the residents of that building, who were shouting slogans against the government.
• Then 15 patrols from the General Directorate of Police (DIGEPOL) joined, whose agents joined in shooting at block 3, which was raided, taking several of its inhabitants into custody.
• The parents of the murdered student, Félix Serrano and Bernarda de Serrano, were also detained for several hours at the headquarters of the Technical Judicial Police (PTJ), for the crime of claiming the body of their son.
• Parents were prevented from guarding their son's body in their home and were forced to pay for wake services at the distant La Protectora funeral home, between the corners of Salas and Balconcito to avoid demonstrations in the area raided by thugs from the government of Rómulo Betancourt.
• Félix Enrique Serrano was the oldest of several siblings and was making plans to continue his high school studies at the Fermín Toro High School.
• That same day, the militant lawyer of the Democratic Republican Union (URD), Elio Sanjuan, brother of the communist deputy Belén Sanjuan, was assassinated, an event that occurred at the Lindecor Warehouses in the La Florida residential area.
• The police hoax: Several contradictory versions of the State's political police tried to establish a non-existent causal connection between the two crimes, wanting to involve the young Félix Serrano in the lawyer's crime scene, which was totally distorted in the light of experience and of those who were present as witnesses.
• It was then demonstrated that Elio Sanjuan was killed with weapons and ammunition belonging to a State police force.

Mazo News Team