Published at: 17/06/2026 09:00 PM

(El Nacional, June 14, 1977)

• Carlos Leonardo Araque Cárcamo escaped from the San Carlos Barracks on the night of Saturday, January 18, 1975, along with 23 other revolutionary Red Flag militants. One by one, they were persecuted and annihilated by State security agencies on the orders of Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• The young guerrilla fighter Araque Cárcamo was surprised by a commission from the General Sectorial Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention (DISIP), in San Félix, Bolívar state, where he was shot several times and died on the spot.
• That same week, the DISIP and the Unified Command of the Iron Zone, on Pérez's instructions, hunted down all those who escaped from San Carlos.
• Police commandos carried out multiple searches and arrests, and José Alberto Montilla was shot to death inside a house located in a residential area of San Félix.
• José Alberto Montilla “Cacho”, an active revolutionary member of the Socialist League and Red Flag, was shot 19 times, four of which hit him in the heart. This crime was perpetrated thanks to the betrayal of an alleged “friend”, the whistleblower, Manuel Antonio Tirado, who provided all the necessary information for him to be located and murdered.
• The police operation in the iron zone extended further to Monagas state, where the DISIP killed Vicente Antonio Contreras Duque in the Aroa de Maturín area.
• Another revolutionary comrade, José de Jesús Rodríguez, was shot down by the National Guard (GN), following the raids and improvised mobile road checkpoints in the city. Santa Barbara de San Felix.
• During these days of political persecution, Ramón Elías Morales Rossi, José Asdrúbal Guzmán Cordero and Marco Tulio Croquer Horace were arrested.
• The latter was transferred to Caracas and would later become another of the DISIP's tariffed whistleblowers serving the executioners of his former fighting companions.

Mazo News Team