Published at: 27/08/2025 09:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL, AUGUST 28, 1961)

• On August 27, 1961, during the government of Rómulo Betancourt (1959-1963), he was assassinated by the Barcelona Municipal Police, in Puerto la Cruz, edo. Anzoátegui, the leader of the Youth of the Communist Party of Venezuela (JPVC), Francisco “Chico” Velázquez, who was only 22 years old.
• The police shot him in the back as he painted political slogans on a wall, in the middle of a large student demonstration against the government.
• Rafael Solórzano Bruce was governor of that state entity and his Secretary of Government was the adeco Carlos Canache Mata. Remembered, the latter, for being the co-author of the shooting of 17 civilians in the courtyard of the Pedro María Freites Barracks, during the civic-military uprising known as “El Barcelonazo”.
• Carlos Andrés Pérez was then the Minister of Internal Relations and Canache Mata was his executing arm in that regional government.
• The order given from Miraflores was to shoot first, mainly at the communists, and find out later. The summary investigations were led by David Morales Bello and his troop of adapters known as the Tribe of David. An entire mafia of judicial and police corruption responsible for rigging files, forging documents, manufacturing material evidence and disappearing witnesses, to exonerate the murderers of DIGEPOL from all criminal responsibility.
• In the case of Francisco “Chico” Velásquez, no shooting occurred, as reported by the head of El Nacional.
• “Chico” Velázquez was a well-known and appreciated leader in all the popular neighborhoods of Puerto La Cruz. He had stood out during the resistance against the government of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, which is why he was “marked” by DIGEPOL. He was killed at arm's length and in the back.
• As a result of these massacres, both in Caracas, Barcelona, and in other cities in the east of the country, various slogans against the government were painted on walls and walls, one of which read: “Carlos Canache that kills... kills”.
• One of those was the slogan that “Chico” Velásquez painted when he received the machine gun blast that ended his life: “Romulus assassin!”

Mazo News Team