Published at: 15/10/2025 09:00 PM

(Caracas City, February 13, 2012 and Victims of Representative Democracy, author: Raúl Zurita Daza)

• On October 12, 1966, Andrés Pasquier and Felipe Malaver were arrested in a National Guard checkpoint between Acarigua and Guanare, Edo. Portuguesa, from where officials from the Armed Forces Intelligence Service (SIFA) transferred them to the T.O. No. 3 anti-guerrilla camp in Urica, located in El Tocuyo, edo. Lara. From then on, his whereabouts are unknown.
• The orders given by the commanders of the Anti-Guerrilla Operations Theaters were precise and shouted at the top of their lungs: “You come out alive as a traitor or a martyr, but you're dead.”
• The Attorney General of the Republic, Antonio José Lozada, heard about the case at the behest of Reina de Malaver and José Vicente Rangel, but Raúl Leoni's government remained silent, relentlessly implementing its policy of State Terrorism.
• There is the testimony of another prisoner in that place, comrade Martín Crespo Pérez, who was arrested in Barquisimeto on February 16, 1966.
• This is his statement: “I was in the dungeon when, on the 15th of that same month of October in the morning, two detainees were taken away. I couldn't see them when they were put in the torture room, because it was at the bottom of the dungeon. They were five members of SIFA, including a certain Travieso and Henry Tejada, a whistleblower and traitor incorporated into SIFA. For more than two hours they were tortured. It seemed that they were being hit with their heads against the floor uninterruptedly: 'That guy is tough, 'they said, when they went out to fetch water. They lasted three days in that situation, without food or water. Until then, I didn't know who they were or what they were called. The soldier on duty went out to ask his superiors if he could take the detainees to the bathroom and I took advantage of that moment to ask him what they were called. One of them answered verbatim: 'My name is Felipe Malaver and they arrested me in an alcabale'”.
• Two years later, Martín Crespo, faced with the number of complaints about the disappearance and torture to which Felipe Malaver and Andrés Pasquier were subjected, sent a letter to the editorial staff of the weekly Nueva Voz Popular de Barquisimeto, entitled: “I SAW FELIPE MALAVER AND ANDRÉS PASQUIER TORTURED”
• A brother of the latter, Salvador Ramón Pasquier Suárez, had been arrested on November 27, 1965, in San Juan de los Cayos, Falcón state.
• The mother of these two revolutionary students from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), Ana Suarez de Pasquier, toured all the military headquarters, jails and police cells. After long years of searching, he died without knowing anything about them.

Mazo News Team