Published at: 06/05/2026 09:00 PM

(Correo del Orinoco, May 4, 2012)

• 64 years ago, on May 4, 1962, in the context of the civil military uprising of El Carupanazo, armed gangs of the ruling Democratic Action (AD) party violated the bars of Liceo Miguel José Sanz, killing two students and wounding, with blunt objects and firearms, the others who were gathered.
• Eighteen underage schoolchildren were lined up in front of a firing squad and were about to be massacred, were it not for the timely intervention of the young Lieutenant of the National Guard, Héctor Carvajal Sequera, 21, who bravely faced the pack of murderers, stopped the massacre and put the students in good shelter.
• This massacre was planned three days earlier by the highest governmental authorities of the state of Monagas to be executed with cruelty, cruelty and malice, by AD's lobbyists within that educational establishment.
• On the occasion of the celebration of May 1st, Worker's Day, the students of Liceo Sanz paid homage to the working class in the Plaza de Los Estudiantes. That day, in the neighboring District House of AD, there were big eats, drunkenness and drinks to celebrate. However, Maturín's workers deserted and preferred to join the modest student party.
• The then governor of Edo. Monagas, Armando Sánchez Bueno, agreed with the leader Luis Alfaro Ucero and the Copeyan Iván Vergara to “give a lesson to the students, since they had sabotaged the commemoration”.
• The “lesson” was addressed to the “hot heads” of the Sanz Lyceum and the orders were given to AD's lobbyists to act accordingly.
• To cheer themselves up, the agents, meeting at the AD Maturín District House, had a long day of drinking alcohol.
• Under these conditions, from AD headquarters, Antonio Alfaro Ucero came out at the head of a band of drunken lobbyists shouting: “I lead with them, they are our enemies!” He fired several shots into the air, as a sign of attack, and began the assault, shooting and beating the students.
• Alberto César Millán Marcano, while trying to help a pregnant teacher wounded by a gunshot, was struck by several shots fired from an FN-30 rifle.
• José Rafael Guerra Silva was the subject of a brutal beating. The adecos, to top it off, took an 8-kilo Olympic iron shooting ball and crushed his face. Then, they unloaded their machine guns on the dying student.
• Later, AD's criminal hosts took out a group of students to shoot them. They placed 16 boys and 2 girls against a wall at the entrance of the compound; each armed lobbyist was assigned a student to shoot.
• Alerted by the shooting, Teniente (GN) Carvajal Sequera and the Technical Sergeant of the National Guard Gustavo Perdomo, commanding a platoon of ten soldiers, appeared at the headquarters of the high school, who, after confronting the assailants, managed to take the students as detainees and then release them.
• Lieutenant (GN) Héctor Carvajal, aware of the abominable atrocity that was going to be committed, saved the lives of 18 minors.
• That same day, late at night, during the wake of Alberto César Millán, AD militants were present in the garden of the house where it was being veiled, with the purpose of kidnapping the coffin and disappearing it. “They won't be able to bury that body, we're going to take it away,” exclaimed one of the individuals who a few hours earlier had robbed the Sanz High School, together with the death gang, armed with knives, cabillas, machetes, revolvers and long weapons.
• The kidnapping of Alberto César Millán's body was prevented by the leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) and member of the Legislative Assembly of Monagas state, Antonieta Lara, who stood up to the kidnappers and told them: “They'll have to deal with me if they try.” Then Alberto Millán's parents, family and friends positioned themselves around the coffin to prevent it from disappearing.
• Eleven years later, El Nacional called “Crime without punishment”, on May 3, 1973, stating that “the case was left unsolved and the murder went unpunished. A ruling handed down by the Superior Judge, Iván Salomón Vergara (Copeyan), acquitted most of the defendants on March 10, 1966.”

Mazo News Team