Published at: 11/06/2025 09:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL, JUNE 14, 1977)

• On June 10, 1977, they were shot to death in a house in San Félix, Edo. Bolívar, José Alberto Montilla and Manuel Antonio Tirado, the latter acting as a double agent and is identified as the whistleblower in the arrest of Noel Rodríguez.
• José Alberto Montilla was shot 19 times, four of which hit the heart.
• The following June 12, two other escapees from the San Carlos Barracks, Carlos Leonardo Araque Cárcamo and Marco Tulio Croquer Horace, were surprised by agents of the General Sectorial Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention (DISIP), who died in the Áraque Carcamo act.
• Croquer Horace was injured and later joined the DISIP payroll as a whistleblower for his former combat partners.
• The police operation deployed by the DISIP, in the iron zone, extended further, to the state of Monagas, where Vicente Antonio Contreras Duque was killed in the area of Aroa de Maturín.
• Another revolutionary, who escaped from the San Carlos Barracks, José de Jesús Rodríguez, was shot down by the National Guard, following a search carried out in the Santa Bárbara residential area of San Félix.
• During that week, in pursuit of the escapees from the San Carlos Barracks, Ramón Elías Morales Rossi and José Asdrúbal Guzmán Cordero were arrested.

Mazo News Team