Published at: 13/05/2026 08:38 PM

(El Universal, Correo del Orinoco and Ciudad Caracas, May 9, 2014)

• On May 8, 2014, during the development of “La Salida”, convened by Leopoldo López, the young officer of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), Jorge Colina, 27, was killed by a sniper.
• Police officer Colina was cleaning up the rubble used to build barricades by the violent opposition operating in the vicinity of Centro Plaza, in the Los Palos Grandes residential area, when he was shot in the neck that instantly took his life.
• That same day, two other PNB agents entered health centers in that municipality with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and hands.
• Ramón Muchacho, a member of the political party Primero Justicia, was the mayor of that entity, under whose protection streets were blocked and tents were installed where drugs, guayas, gloves, nipples, firearms, cell phones, waves, meters, stones and Molotov bombs were later found.
• The Guarimberos of Chacao were part of an armed logistics apparatus, which trained in vandalism caused havoc and deaths in several places in Caracas. They were known as “The White Handymen”.
• When the tents were dismantled, 247 young men and women were arrested, 49 of whom tested positive for drug use. Among the same 18 minors, five of them women, one was pregnant. Some turned out to be mercenaries hired well in advance of carrying out the so-called “guarimbas”.
• The escalation of violence began on February 12 of that year and degenerated, in the following months, into acts of terrorism against the very inhabitants of the municipalities where the barricades and tents were installed.
• In San Cristobal, edo. Táchira, the guards threw a grenade at the PDVSA GAS parking lot, with the consequences that this could have had if it hit the highly flammable tanks.
• As a result of the actions of these individuals, health care modules were destroyed and a preschool in Chacao, Caracas Metro stations, transportation units, university facilities and police modules were set on fire.

Mazo News Team