Published at: 04/12/2024 10:00 PM

(LATEST NEWS and EL NACIONAL, November 27 to December 2, 1960)

• In accordance with the express instructions of the President of the Republic, Rómulo Betancourt, constitutional guarantees were suspended and the Armed Forces were empowered to shoot at demonstrators who, in the same decree, were classified as “unruly”.
• In addition, the Betancourt secret police, called Sotopol, operated in several cities of the country. It was an armed gang led by adeco Hugo Soto Socorro, responsible for carrying out crimes without leaving a trace or identity.
• The victims of the Macuare Plan were:
• In the midst of a student protest, the 14-year-old boy Wilfredo José Carrillo was shot dead at point-blank range in the Marín neighborhood of Caracas.
• Antonio Mogollón, 17 years old and a 5th year high school student, was killed by Plan Macuare troops, on the corner of Cruz Verde.
• In the early morning of November 29, Dr. Olga Natalia Chinaglia, 32, was shot by the National Guard, at the height of El Pulpo, when she was returning from celebrating her birthday.
• In the afternoon, Guillermina Echenique Padilla, 16, was killed by Plan Macuare troops, with a shot in the abdomen, in Los Flores de Catia.
• Carlos José Pirona, 20 years old and resident in Los Flores de Catia, was shot in the head with an entry into the left parietal wall.
• Santos Inocente Chaurión Belisario, 30, a third-year pharmacy student, was on the corner of La Pedrera when he was shot in the right occipital region, causing his instant death.
• Rosario Mujica, 28, was shot in the forehead while walking between the corners of Solís and Marcos Parra. Later, he was transferred in a comatose state to the Salas Relief Post, where he died at 7:30pm.
• Days before the launch of the Macuare Plan, in Porlamar, edo. Nueva Esparta, the 24-year-old URD union leader, Víctor Guilarte, was shot dead by the police.

Mazo News Team