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Another Victim of Official Repression: JESÚS MANUEL ROJAS FIGUEROA

Published at: 16/10/2024 09:00 PM

(Clarín, October 5, 1962)

  • On October 5, 1962, the student Jesús Manuel Rojas Figueroa was killed while driving in a car carrying the badges of the UCV.
  • Rojas Figueroa, 24, was a second-year engineering student at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
  • The student was found shot to the head after a bullet shot at him from a patrol of the Land Traffic Surveillance Service.
  • The incident occurred in the vicinity of Plaza Sucre (Catia), at the end of Sucre Avenue, executed by members of the repressive forces who were drunk and were traveling in a patrol of that police force.
  • The Ucevist was traveling in his sports car, license plates D0-05-52, with separate UCV decals on the windshields of his vehicle.
  • When he was hit by a bullet in the head, he died instantly and his car, out of control, crashed into the house marked No. 224-2 where the Don Bosco Dental Clinic operated.
  • It was widely known that within the Land Traffic Surveillance Services, a group of officials operated who were trained by Batister mercenaries brought to Venezuela by Rómulo Betancourt.
  • The same people who gave the order to assassinate the Head of the 26th of July Movement, Andrés Coba Casas (July 27, 1960) and Livia Gourverneur (November 1, 1961)
  • These terrorist mobsters were initially brought in to work as Digepol thugs in explosives handling, sabotage, torture and urban warfare.

Mazo News Team