Published at: 13/11/2024 10:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL and EL MUNDO, November 4, 1977)

• On November 3, 1977, minors Jenny Bastidas and Orlando Isdelio Marín were killed by police during protests “for lack of water”.
• The truth is that this infanticide occurred within the framework of the repressive policies of the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez to contain the just demonstrations that occurred due to the assassination of the leader of the Socialist League Enrique Rodríguez.
• Orlando Marín was shot in the cervical region by police officers while a peaceful demonstration was taking place at the Manuel Palacios Fajardo High School.
• To prevent the burial of Orlando Marín, PM pickets cordoned off on January 23, threw tear gas bombs and fired cartridges loaded with meters and screws.
• Due to the police rampage, the child's coffin was abandoned in the central sector on January 23, and was kidnapped by agents of the Metropolitan Police (PM), who later abandoned it, in the General Cemetery of the South.
• Simultaneously, that same day, the girl Jenny was murdered by civil servants in plain clothes on Brión Street in the La Silsa neighborhood, when these metropolitan agents stormed the area to break up the peaceful rally that was organized there to protest the lack of water in the sector.
• Despite promises to carry out exhaustive investigations to punish the responsible agents, made by the then governor of Caracas, Manuel Mantilla and the Minister of Internal Relations, Octavio Lepage, the murders of Jenny and Orlando, in Caracas, and that of Enrique Rodríguez in Puerto La Cruz, went unpunished.

Mazo News Team