Published at: 15/01/2025 09:00 PM

(EL UNIVERSAL, January 12, 1960)

• The same day that in Caracas, the repressive wave of the government claimed the life of the worker Samuel Sánchez Álvarez, in Puerto La Cruz, edo. Anzoátegui, the state police blinded the life of student Luis Beltrán García.
• Luis Beltrán was killed by a police officer while returning from a family reunion in the Chuparín neighborhood, accompanied by his friends Luis Marval, Arcadio Salazar and Silverio González.
• The group of students, members of the Youth of the Democratic Republican Union (URD), were intercepted in front of the radio station Ondas Porteñas, in Puerto La Cruz, and questioned by law enforcement officers to show their identity documents and explain what they were doing in the area at that time of the morning.
• After the interrogation, they continued their journey when they were surprised again by the police patrol. To evade the agents, they took another route at a fast pace and, not listening to the loud voice, the agents opened fire and killed the young Luis Beltrán.
• That same day, agents of the General Directorate of Police (Digepol) raided, without a court order, the house of the Urredist leader Domingo Guzmán Lander, who strongly protested the irregular procedure and reported the murder of the young Urredist at the hands of the state police.
• The trajectory of the bullet, according to the optional report, penetrated the back, puncturing the third vertebra and also the colon. Despite the efforts of the doctors at Doctor Luis Razetti Hospital, the young man was unable to survive the fatal wound.

Mazo News Team