Published at: 03/06/2026 09:00 PM

(Élite Magazine-Última Noticias and El Nacional-Última Noticias, June 3 and 4, 1972)

• Double standards in the administration of justice and Copeyan double standards were the most outstanding features of the “Pacification Policy” of the first Social Christian government of Rafael Caldera (1969-1974).
• On the occasion of the kidnapping of industrialist Carlos Domínguez, known as the “King of Tin”, six young people were victims of torture and annihilation, executed by agents of the extinct General Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP), led by the international terrorist Posada Carriles.
• On June 2, 1972, José Rafael Bottini Marín and Ramón Antonio Álvarez were shot down in front of the house of industrialist Domínguez on Avenida Páez in the El Paraíso residential area, in Caracas.
• A day later, on June 3, Francisco Edmundo Hernández Cruz, Luis Eduardo Cols González, José Elio Sánchez Romero and Francisco Acosta García, were massacred during a joint operation of more than 300 police officers and the DISIP Hunters Command, with the support of armed helicopters in the well-known “Massacre de La Victoria”.
• Eight months later, on February 22, 1973, a group of young people who were meeting in the parking lot of the Caracas Country Club to experiment with the consumption and trafficking of drugs, belonging to the great names of the Caracas upper bourgeoisie, kidnapped and killed the 12-year-old boy, Carlos Vicente Vegas Pérez. In less than a year, all those involved were released, including a nephew of the first lady of the republic, Alfredo Parilli Pietri, accused as the intellectual and material co-author of the disastrous event.
• The kidnapping of billionaire Carlos Domínguez had a happy ending for the plagiarist, as he returned home safe and sound, thanking the kidnappers for their good treatment, whom he described as “idealists”. But it was paid with the blood of six innocent victims who had nothing to do with the kidnapping, as evidenced by the evidence, and Luis Posada Carriles had already sentenced them to savage torture and death.
• On the contrary, the kidnapping and murder of Carlos Vicente Vegas Pérez not only ended the life of a minor, but it shocked all of Venezuela because of the coldness with which the plagiarists took the ransom, knowing that they had already killed the child.
• It caused greater scandal and indignation as the examining magistrate of the file, José Francisco Cumare Navas, under pressure from powerful economic and political groups, exonerated those involved one by one from the direct and indirect responsibility they had in the infanticide, ignoring all the evidence and evidence provided by the technical and police investigation bodies (See: “4 crimes, 4 powers” by the author Fermín Mármol León).
• Thus, capital punishment justice was administered for political activists and absolute exoneration of charges for the murderers of the Creole aristocracy in Caracas, in complicity with the big headlines of the yellow media that treated the victims of Posada Carriles as criminals in the massacres of El Paraíso and La Victoria, and as Hollywood artists of the high entertainment of Caracas jet set to the perpetrators of the death of the boy Vegas Pérez.
• Two kidnappings, two final acts, two justices; with six young people massacred because of their patriotic ideals and a child murdered at the hands of wealthy criminals from families in rancio Abolengo, whose death went unpunished.

Mazo News Team