Published at: 05/11/2025 09:00 PM

(El Nacional and Última Noticias, November 2, 1961+ VEA newspaper, November 1, 2004)

• On November 1, 1961, Livia Margarita Gouverneur Camero, 21, was shot in the back by anti-Castro gangsters from Quinta La Hogareña, located in the Las Acacias sector, in Caracas.
• That day, Livia Gouverneur led, together with her colleagues from the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), the demonstrations against the rupture of relations between the Betancourt government and Cuba, the suspension of constitutional guarantees and the presence of hundreds of baptistery agents in Caracas.
• Hours before, his mother warned him: “Look, Betancourt said he's going to shoot first and find out later... what you're looking for is not to let you go.”
• In Caracas, there were 14 headquarters from which baptistery police operated, brought and financed by the Betancourt government to carry out the work of repression against the students and leaders of the PCV and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).
• Some of these baptistery lairs were located in farms: La Hogareña, in Las Acacias; Maicara, in Sabana Grande; Magda, in San Bernardino; No. 13, in San Bernardino; Antillana in El Paraíso; Hilda, in Sabana Grande; plus two residences located in Los Chorros and one in the Residential Pension, located from Peligro to Pele el Ojo, in La Candelaria.
• The killers of Livia Gouverneur were trained in New York by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and placed under the command of Carlos A. Pérez, as “political exiles”. Pérez was then Director General of the Ministry of Internal Relations.
• In reality, these were criminal gangs that acted under the orders of the ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista and maintained control of prostitution, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, repression and organized crime in Cuba.
• After learning about the murder of Livia, the revolutionary jurist and poet Humberto Cuenca immortalized her as “The Red Virgin of Students”.
• Livia was born on July 14, 1940, the eldest of seven children, the daughter of Lola Camero de Gouverneur and César Gouverneur, both farmers from the Easter Valley, Guárico state.
• She was studying Psychology for the 3rd year at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), was an active member of the Venezuelan Federation of Students, university theater groups, and lived on the street corners of Centro a San Benito, Sabana del Blanco, La Pastora parish, Caracas.
• At the time of his death, he was part of the Tactical Combat Unit (UTC) November 21 Brigade, formed to counter the terrorist work of “batister worms” protected by the Betancourt regime.

Mazo News Team