Published at: 01/10/2025 09:00 PM

(CLARÍN, August 4, 1963)

• On August 1, 1963, Freddy José Medina Polanco, 19, a third-year student at the Liceo Monseñor Mariano Talavera and resident in the town of Caja de Agua, together with Cruz Manuel Marval Reyes, 17, a student on the same campus, were shot by agents of the General Directorate of Police (DIGEPOL), in Fixed Point, edo. Falcon.
• The shooting took place in the early morning, when agents shot at a parked vehicle, trying to simulate an alleged guerrilla encounter at the headquarters of the Traffic Inspectorate in that city.
• The neighbors and witnesses of the event said that the two young men were executed.
• Despite imploring clemency, the two students received a machine gun blast that instantly ended their lives.
• The two students were left lying on the pavement while the Digepoles approached to finish them off with another gust.
• This death squad consisted of Reinaldo Rodríguez, an adeco trade unionist and salaried employee of the Creole Petroleum Corporation; Alí Ruíz, Prefect of the Caruribana Municipality; the Head of the Urban Cleaning of that town (identity unknown) and Alirio Hurtado, Head of DIGEPOL in Punto Fijo , who led the massacre against the two students.

Mazo News Team