Published at: 03/06/2026 09:00 PM

(Clarín and La Extra, June 5, 1964)

• With machine gun and by pleasure, agents of the Judicial Technical Police (PTJ) killed Edgard Carrillo, 22, who was serving in the Municipal Statistics Control of the Mayor's Office of Caracas.
• This young office worker was murdered in front of the Mersirica Market, located in the Simón Rodríguez Urbanization. His body had four bullet holes, with entry holes in the back caused by the PTJ official, who alleged that Carrillo refused to show his identity card when it was requested.
• Later, the PTJ tried to indict the Municipal Police of Caracas as the perpetrator of the crime of the young Carrillo, and when the perpetrator of the material murder was proven, they tried to fabricate a criminal record for the murdered young man.
• More than 3,000 residents of the Simón Rodríguez Urbanization attended to pay tribute to the young man massacred by the repressive politics of the government of Raúl Leoni.
• The newspaper La Extra, on June 3 of that year, reported the murder of the 18-year-old boy Elías Federico Rodríguez, who was shot down by an agent of the Municipal Police of Caracas, who launched a tenacious hunt against him to shoot him between the streets of El Manguito and La Ceiba in San Agustín del Sur, after 9:30 in the morning.
• Elías Federico Rodríguez was cornered while the policeman discharged his entire gun to death. Eyewitnesses warned that the young man was not carrying weapons and that when the voice was given out loud he made no resistance.
• The official report, issued by the Police Command, about the reluctance of the young man riddled to listen to the voice out loud was also denied by neighbors present during the event. The news media at the time warned that he was never imprisoned, was unarmed and lacked a judicial record.

• On these same dates in May and early June 1964, they were victims of the police repression unleashed by the government of Raúl Leoni:
  • Two students from the Western Industrial Technical School, who were still dying when they were strafed by Democratic Action (AD) militants in an assault they perpetrated against that educational institution.
  • On June 1st, the militant worker of the Nationalist Popular Vanguard, Lloyd Reynolds Green, was machine-gunned by a municipal police officer at the site known as the Redoma de San Blas, in Valencia, edo. Carabobo.
  • Vicente Emilio Bolet, a worker for the Municipal Council of the Sucre District, was shot dead several times by officials of the Municipal Police of Caucagua, Acevedo del Edo municipality. Miranda.
  • After seriously injuring Bolet, he was stripped of his identification by the killers and left to die because police officers opposed him receiving medical assistance at the General Hospital of Caucagua.
  • Vicente Emilio Bolet died four days later in Caracas, after slow agony after the friends who accompanied him managed to transfer him to the Puesto de Salas, located between the corners of Salas and Caja de Agua.
  • At that time, the assassination of Colonel José Antonio Villavicencio was shelved under pressure from the General Directorate of Police (DIGEPOL) and the Armed Forces Intelligence Service (SIFA). The orders were issued so that the assassination of the committed soldier who disagreed with government policies would be converted from a political crime to a simple accidental act of the common underworld.
  • The widow of Commander Villavicencio, Ida Tamayo de Villavicencio, was the subject of frequent death threats by telephone and, fearing that she would be the victim of the same fate as the young officer, she decided to leave the country with her youngest orphan daughter of one and a half years of age.

Mazo News Team