Published at: 18/12/2024 09:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL and WHAT'S HAPPENING IN Venezuela - December 15, 1964)

• Sixty years ago, on December 14, 1964, with a bullet in the chest, Argimiro Gabaldón was taken to the El Tocuyo Health Center, where he died when doctors tried to save his life in the operating room.
• Days before, a statement from the Government of Raúl Leoni appeared in all the media, putting a price on his life.
• The sender offered “REWARD” to the person who delivered or provided information that would lead to the capture of Commander Carache. Calling him a bandit.
• Leoni offered Bs 15,000 for the head of someone she feared so much. A small fortune to satisfy the restlessness of a lackey president and murderer who was subservient to the empire.
• Leoni's cowardice became evident when, on the eve of Argimiro Gabaldón's birthday, he ordered as a gift the search and kidnapping of his two children, Alejandro and Tatiana, as well as his sister-in-law.
• Throughout the morning, the two children, aged 6 and 8, were arrested at the headquarters of Digepol in Barquisimeto, subjected to intense interrogation and threatened to harm their father. All these humiliations were carried out by agents of the political police, Digepol.

Portrait of Commander Carache:

• He was born on July 15, 1919, at Hacienda Santo Cristo, owned by his father General José Rafael Gabaldón. With his younger brother, Edgar, he began his studies with the Marxist-oriented professor Arturo Simonet.
• The first reading books with which he learned to read and write were the works of José Martí, the Apostle of Cuba.
• He lived very closely the revolutionary tradition of his father, a man of one word, an example that always served as a reference, admiration and respect.
• With the farm workers, he learned the martial dances of Larense folklore, the fencing of the garrote that is El Tamunanague.
• He was an outstanding athlete, baseball pitcher, boxer, tennis player, swimmer and hiker.
• He also stood out as a painter, sculptor, teacher of literacy, poet, journalist and farmer, always working with peasant families.
• In 1938, he was expelled from Liceo Andrés Bello for organizing and leading a strike in support of the Venezuelan Student Federation (FEV).
• In 1939, he obtained his bachelor's degree with the presentation of a thesis entitled: “The Philosophy of Democritus”.
• With Argimiro, the revolutionary tradition of the anti-Gomecist guerrilla leaders was linked to the lessons learned in the books of José Martí, Simón Bolívar and Carlos Marx.
• He was a sharp and intelligent speaker and polemicist. He liked to refute conservative theses with the content of his readings, almost all of which were banned by the Gómez dictatorship.
• During the dictatorship of the Grail. Marcos Pérez Jiménez organized the first agricultural cooperatives in the mountains of the state of Lara. He set up a clandestine printing press in Las Cuibas, where the first PCV newspapers were published and a clandestine radio station, Radio Liberación, which transmitted with mobile equipment, reporters, screenwriters, narrators and collaborators.
• In 1959, it hosted Chilean poet Pablo Neruda for five months, with whom he toured several corners of Venezuela. During his stay in Santo Cristo, Neruda wrote several poems, of which the standout** are: A Song to Bolivar, Miranda Dies in the Fog and Ode to the Names of Venezuela**.
• When he decided to go to the guerrillas, Commander Carache had 22 years of communist militancy. Previously, he did an in-depth study of traditional methods of political action, with an emphasis on university youth organizations that were flourishing and giving their lives in the mountains.
• “There are enough mountains here” Commander Carache has also decreed since eternity, together with Immortal Commander Hugo Chávez, from the Larense mountains of Barinas and Edo. Portuguese where they learned to fight. Those who have fallen in the field of honor never die.

Mazo News Team