Published at: 13/12/2023 09:00 PM

One year after the disappearance of Cesar Burguillos and Donato Carmona, their wives Carla de Burguillos and Vicencia de Carmona have toured all the anti-guerrilla (T.O.) camps in Venezuela and reported their disappearance to the press.

The truth is that Carla de Burguillos witnessed in her house the arrest of the literacy teacher and radio broadcaster, carried out by Lieutenant Fidias Sarmiento. Later he visited him in an isolation cell called “la cava” in the municipal prison of Carupano and brought him food for several days, until he was told that the teacher had been released.

It was up to Vincencia de Carmona to go to the “Las Brisas” Building, Digepol headquarters in Los Chaguaramos, where he was told that Donato Carmona was being held there incommunicado, since he was prohibited from visiting any kind.

As a result of the investigations, it was discovered that on December 11, 1965, both were shot while being held in the Cachipo death camp.

They were removed from that death camp by a commission led by Lieutenant Sarmiento, accompanied by SIFA agent Roberto Valdés, whom they called Velutini. They ordered Carmona and Burguillos to dig their own graves, to which they categorically refused. They were shot in a place near Caño Cruz — Monagas State.

The edition of “El Mundo” of that date also reported:

• Roger Zapata and Octavio Romero were arrested on August 17, 1965 and are still missing. The relatives lost all hope and brought flowers to a peasant cemetery in the Edo. Monagas where they are said to be buried.
• The young Carlos Guillén was arrested in Barquisimeto by Digepol on November 22, 1965 and transferred to the anti-guerrilla camp of El Tocuyo or Urica (T.O.- 3).
• Luis Beltrán Tineo Gamboa was forcibly removed from his home on October 23, 1965, located in the Ipure hamlet in Maturín. A patrol took him to the mountain where they forced him to dig his grave. His body was found under a rock in the area known as “Piedra de Moler”.
• Mrs. María Flores de Jiménez reported that her husband Antonio Mercedes Jiménez, 50, a resident of the hamlet “El Veral”, in the Jiménez district, was shot in front of his children when he opened the door of his house. He was accused of being a guerrilla liaison. Antonio Mercedes was a militant member of URD.
• On April 22, 1966, former communist deputy Gustavo Villaparedes, who was imprisoned in Guasina and exiled in Mexico, was arrested in El Valle and his body was found in La Mariposa.
• Carlos Guillén Rodríguez, and the 13-year-old Félix Linares were disappeared by Digepol since August 22, 1965.
• In the Portuguese state, on May 15, 1965, the young José Amador Linares and Remigio Antonio Linares were arrested and taken to the anti-guerrilla camp “El Coco” to disappear.
• The student Gabriel Andarcia Rosas and his colleague José Inocente González were disappeared on August 17, 1965. Gabriel Andarcia's mother said that the arrest was carried out by a Digepol commission in Casanay, Sucre state. Gabriel and José Inocente shared days in prison in Carupano with César Burguillos.

Context

• At the time of Raúl Leoni, the figure of the disappeared began to be practiced to create political terror, to physically eliminate “suspects”, to obtain information under atrocious methods of torture and to dismantle student, trade union and peasant organizations that disaffect the government.
• This State policy was implemented from 1958 to 1998 to try to erase all traces of detainees, prevent investigations, prevent the substantiation of the files and obstruct the good course of justice. This is how the judicial mafias were born.
• The manual on forced disappearances, brought to Venezuela from the School of the Americas, trained armed agents and gangs of the Fourth Republic in the macabre techniques of transferring “all suspects” to places of detention on the outskirts of cities to subject them to cruel interrogations, morally humiliate them, physically eliminate them and disappear.
• As of today, thanks to the instructions issued by Commander Hugo Chávez and President Nicolás Maduro, investigations have been reopened within the framework of the imprescriptibility of crimes against humanity committed against more than 11,000 people killed, tortured or disappeared. Of these, nearly 3,500 cases have not yet been clarified.
• When Juan “Bisonte” Gómez, there were horrendous crimes against young officers involved in the April 1928 uprising. The endless arrests “La Rotunda” and the Liberator Castle in Puerto Cabello affected a few dozen political and military prisoners.
• During Pérez Jiménez, the Turén massacre and the selective assassinations of some communists and adecos in hiding are embedded in the dark pages of repression in Venezuela.
• However, the governments of Ad-Copei surpassed all previous dictatorial regimes, seeding Venezuela with thousands of people shot, tortured and disappeared, whose statistics and methods surpass all the precedents of our history in cruelty and cruelty. They acted like mercenary governments in the service of a bastard empire.

Mazo News Team