Published at: 25/03/2026 09:00 PM

(Frontera, 21 and 22 March 1991)

• Ramón Darío Cadenas and Magdiel Páez García were killed in Trujillo and Mérida, respectively, while protesting the Army's search of the Faculty of Forestry Engineering, located in Ejido, where the boy Baloy Elías Gómez Mora, the victim of a gunshot, was seriously injured carried out by a Land Transit official.
• In the midst of this repressive wave, on March 20, in the Edo. Trujillo, 23-year-old Ramón Darío Cadenas, who was studying Management at the Rafael Rangel Nucleus of the University of the Andes (ULA), bled to death after being shot in the leg.
• The following day, during the protests in Mérida over the murder of Ramón Darío Cadenas, Magdiel Páez García (25), a student in the fifth semester of the Faculty of Humanities of the ULA, fell victim to government fire, who was hit by a blast of UZI in the abdomen, carried out by an army corporal, and died hours later in the University Hospital of Mérida.
• These three murders occurred during the second administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez, with Commander Gonzalo Vargas Ortiz responsible for the actions of the Army, who stated: “The perpetrators of the shootings that killed the students will not be punished,” adding that the military personnel “did their duty strictly.”
• During the burial of Magdiel Páez García, the Army again made an appearance shooting bursts into the air to prevent the massive demonstrations that invaded the streets of the city of Mérida, for the absurd murder of the two young students.

Mazo News Team