Published at: 30/04/2025 08:00 PM

(Elia Oliveros Espinoza: The Social and Armed Struggle in Venezuela and EL IMPULSO, April 27, 1965)

• Antonio José Díaz Terán, a peasant and member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), known as Commander Mauro Castillo, was shot dead during a military siege, carried out when he was gathered in a house located higher up the town of Arenales, near the river El Jabón del Edo. Lara.
• During the Long and Final Extermination Operation, the Army, after taking strategic positions, began to dynamite the area and then fire at closed fire, shooting it down on the spot.
• The order issued by the government of Raúl Leoni and its North American advisors was to exterminate all “suspicious” peasants and leaders linked to the guerrillas in that area.
• For that reason, both Col. Vethencourt, like Lt. Col. Rigores, when they located, surrounded and surrounded him, did not stop him but immediately killed him.

CONTEXT:

As a result of this policy of extermination, directed from Miraflores, during the month of April 1965, victims of the government fell:

• Miguel Ángel Guerra Leidenz, a journalist who graduated from the UCV, was murdered by the Municipal Police near Plaza Miranda when he was covering an event related to a student protest against Raúl Leoni.
• José Anastasio Alvarado was shot by the army in the hamlet of El Olivo, edo. Lara.
• On April 5, Dionisio Pérez was shot in the hamlet of El Rincón, Lara state.
• Ramón Moran was shot on April 8 near the hamlet of El Potrero, Lara state.
• Franklin Hidalgo, shot in Pueblo Nuevo, Portuguese state, on April 8.
• The student Tomás Moro was killed on April 10 by the hunting company, in Chamizas, edo. Lara.
• The peasant José Luis Herrera was killed in the secrecy of Angostura, edo. Portuguese.
• The landowner Jesús María Vásquez, of the Democratic Republican Union (URD), was arrested in El Coco and was killed in Chabasquén, Portuguese state, by orders of Lt. Poison.
• Román González, a student, was arrested and shot in El Guache, edo. Portuguese.
• The peasant Simón Rodríguez was imprisoned in his house in El Salvaje, Cubiro District. And they destroyed it with blows and blows.
• They did the same with Bonifacio Escalona and Domingo González Pérez, who were guarded by the testicles.
• On April 13, Roseliano Colmenares was shot in El Chamizal, Lara state. He was first subjected to a brutal beating, then assassinated.
• On April 15, Pablo and Domingo Márquez, along with five other peasants, whose identity could not be established, were shot in the hamlet of El Coco, Guárico municipality, Lara state.
• On April 17, Francisco Fernández, known as Panchito, was tortured and then shot.

Mazo News Team