Published at: 13/12/2023 09:00 PM

Hugo Alexander Alzolay, a worker, poet, visual artist and revolutionary, 20, a second-year high school student, was shot between the eyes when a metropolitan police officer shot him 10 meters away.

This happened while Hugo Alexander was painting murals with slogans calling for the release of political prisoners on the corner of Morena Clara, in the El Manicomio neighborhood of Lídice. The agent accused him of painting subversive graffiti.

He was the son of Mrs. Rosa Alzolay, a nursing professional, a native of Caripe del Guacharo, Monagas state, who reported that her son, born in El Tigre, Anzoátegui state, besides being a painter, poet and student, was not carrying out any illegal activity nor did he have a police record to justify the aggression of the metropolitan agent.

That night Hugo was armed with an arsenal of “spray” to write slogans in the neighborhoods of El Manicomio, Lídice, Los Frailes and La Pastora.

The night before, on December 7, during a game of the eternal rivals Caracas-Magallanes, together with other teammates, they had the courage to take the stands and walk the playing field of the university stadium with the slogan “FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS”. The next night he was murdered.

Hugo was also a chess instructor for children and distributed clandestine newspapers of the Revolutionary Organization (OR), and his newsletter “Awakening”.

This occurred during the first government of Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez, who during his administration carried out the dismantling of the guerrillas through the “policy of pacification and appeasement” of the student rebellion.

That morning, the “Operation Vanguard” took place in Caracas, which killed dozens of students and young people from popular neighborhoods shooting first and then finding out

Hugo Alexander Alzolay was one of those “pacified” in this two-faced five-year period who continued to resort to the excessive use of police force and student repression as State policy.

Mazo News Team