Published at: 22/01/2025 09:00 PM

(Correo del Orinoco, January 20, 2013)

• 40 years after his disappearance, on January 19, 2013, the remains of Noel Rodríguez were located. The young man, an economics student at the UCV and Red Flag leader, was hidden by state security forces in a niche in the General Cemetery of the South, where he remained under false identification.
• Thanks to the tireless search of his mother, Zenaida Mata de Rodríguez, and the speed implemented by President Chávez, Noel's bone was found, so that Noel was able to receive the posthumous tribute from his friends and family.
• In Caracas, Mrs. Zenaida presided over the event in the company of the President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello Rondón.
• Later, on February 12, 2013, they were transferred to the city of El Tigre, in the state of Anzoátegui, where his remains were received and buried, in the presence of the governor of that entity, Aristobulo Istúriz.
• Since the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez to the government, a series of relevant actions have been taken to rescue and vindicate the victims of State terrorism practiced by the governments of the Fourth Republic (1958-1998).
• To achieve this purpose, the Act to Punish Crimes, Disappearances, Torture and Human Rights Violations covered by that period was enacted.
• During the first administration of Rafael Caldera, on June 29, 1973, a commission from the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM), which followed him, kidnapped Noel Rodríguez, 27 years old.
• His arrest and subsequent disappearance occurred on Universidad Avenue, minutes after he made a contact on the corner of La Pelota.
• From there he was transferred to Cocollar, Edo. Sucre, headquarters of the Theater of Operations No. 4 (TO4), where he was tortured and murdered on August 6, 1973.
• The list of “those pacified” (murdered) by that government, whose police operations were led by the international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, documented the deaths of:
  1. Jose Cornelio Alvarado.
  2. Ángel María Castillo, “Pancho Alegría”.
  3. Rafael Bottini Marin.
  4. Rafael Alvarez.
  5. Francisco Edmundo Hernandez.
  6. Luis Eduardo Cols Gonzalez.
  7. Jose Elio Sanchez Romero.
  8. Francisco Acosta Garcia.
  9. Mervin Ramon Marin Sanchez.
  10. Jesus Marquez Finol, “Motilon”.
  11. Argenis Reyna.
  12. Aurelio Trocett Calm down.
  13. It's Sladia Vasquez.
  14. Alexander Hugo Alzolay.
  15. Manuel Salvador Rojas Garcia.
  16. Cesar Augusto Sanchez.
  17. Alvaro Fernandez.
  18. Pedro Manuel Centeno Gomez.
  19. Plinio Ivan Rodriguez Acosta.
  20. Argelio Reina.
  21. Carlos Reina.
  22. Those killed in the La Victoria Massacre
  23. Those killed in the Ave Massacre. Paez from El Paraíso.

Mazo News Team