Published at: 20/05/2026 09:00 PM

Orlando Figuera, Jorge David Escandon, Pedro Josué Carrillo, Yorman Bervecia, John Quintero, Juan Bautista López Manjares, Armando Cañizales, Brian David Principal Giménez and Edi Alejandro Terán.

(Latest News and Mail from the Orinoco, May 2017)

• Nine years ago, on May 21, 2017, Orlando Figuera, 21, was the victim of an opposition gang known as “Freedom Fighters”, who sought to lynch Chavistas.
• This is what the violent opposition demonstrators in Plaza Altamira, Chacao called themselves, who in agavillation gave Figuera a savage beating and several stab wounds, not content, sprayed him with gasoline and set him on fire. He died 16 days later as a result of fascist brutality.
• During these 16 days of agony at the Domingo Luciani Hospital in El Llanito, Orlando Figuera suffered burns on almost 80% of his body, multiple injuries and six stab wounds.
• The young Orlando Figuera, burned alive in Plaza Altamira, was not news to the yellow media of the bourgeois press.
• On Monday, May 22, Yorman Bervecia Cabezas, 19, also died under the brutality of guarimbas in the edo. Barinas. He received a bullet impact in the chest that killed him instantly.
• On Monday, May 15, Jorge David Escandon, and Reinaldo Alberto Alvarado, two Policarabobo officials, were ambushed and attacked by snipers on the highway leading to Naguanagua, edo. Carabobo. Escandon was shot in the head and killed four days later.
• On May 18, the dead body of Pedro Josué Carrillo was found, who two days earlier had been kidnapped in one of the most violent areas of the opposition guarimbas in Barquisimeto, known as the Via El Ujano.
• Pedro Josué Carrillo was a resident of the La Porronera community, located on Hermann Garmendia Avenue, in the parish of Santa Rosa, Iribarren municipality, in the capital of Larense.
• His remains were found on the road to Quíbor, exactly at kilometer 20, with signs of torture and burns all over his body.
• On May 5, Gerardo José Barrera, 38, an associate officer of the Carabobo State Regional Police, died after being shot by several guarimberos during the riots in San Joaquín.
• On May 3rd, Armando Cañizales was murdered in Las Mercedes, Baruta municipality, Miranda state. An 8-millimeter diameter metal sphere was extracted from his neck, one of those used in roller conveyor systems, indicating that the demonstrators used an artisanal firearm or probe.
• The young Cañizales Carrillo was a member of the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and was killed after being injured by the impact of a metal tube in the cervical region during his participation in a barricade erected in Las Mercedes.
• On May 3rd, Juan Bautista López Manjares, president of the Federation of University Centers of the Antonio Anzoátegui Territorial University, was shot to death with several gunshots while participating in a student assembly. The hit man, after shooting him down, took to the street where a motorized vehicle was waiting for him to facilitate his escape.
• In Valera, edo. Trujillo, on May 22, 23-year-old Edi Alejandro Valera was murdered during a guarimba installed in the El Murachi sector of that city. This victim was participating in a rally when several armed motorcyclists arrived at the scene shooting at everyone gathered there. Valera was shot in the chest, while another 18-year-old protester was shot in the face and abdomen with traumatic brain injury.
• In all the cases of deaths recorded during the May 2017 guarimbas, according to scientific research, 11 were killed from within the same barricades or street demonstrations, 6 were caused by blunt objects, 4 were shot by civilians and 13 died during looting, 8 of whom died electrocuted.
• Some of the killers acted alone in response to the call for hate and anti-Chavista violence. As was the case of someone who threw a bottle of frozen water on a Chavista group and killed a passerby who was passing by.
• The most paradigmatic case occurred in the state of Carabobo. There, there were damages to premises, public institutions, gangolas and buses. The result was 5 deaths, businesses reduced to ashes, desolate streets, hate, fear, desolation, resentment and panic among the population.
• In El Valle, a popular area in the south of Caracas, there were 11 deaths as a result of violence and barricades called by the extreme right.
• In Barquisimeto, edo. Lara, in the First Ali Socialist City, the 14-year-old boy, Brian David Principal Giménez, was killed by a firearm projectile while buying empanadas. These shots were fired from a moving vehicle.
• These demonstrations of hate and violence were called by the most recalcitrant sectors of the Venezuelan right with the purpose of destabilizing the country and calling for foreign military intervention.

Mazo News Team