Argimiro Gabaldón: The peace warrior who fought against puntofixism (+seeding)

On December 13, 1964, one of Venezuela's most prominent guerrilla and revolutionary leaders of the 20th century, Argimiro Gabaldón, known as Commander Carache, was shot dead at 45 years of age. Although the event was attributed to an accident, the bullet that killed him came from the gun of his partner Jesús “Chucho” Vetencourt, known as Comandante Zapata.

Gabaldón , born on July 15, 1919 in the town of Biscucuy in the Portuguese state, posed a risk to the elites in power, thanks to his struggle to put an end to the governments that emerged from the Fixed Point Pact. Although those who knew him say that he was not born to be a soldier and did not want to be one -he loved a quiet life and peace-, the course of history and the call of the people and the Fatherland led him to choose the path of a warrior.

At just 19 years old, he committed his word to Marxist ideas and began serving in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV). Although he was a lover of peace, he was also convinced that freedom is very valuable to human beings and that united people could rescue the freedom of their homeland from the oppression of the United States and its lackey governments.

Commander Carache argued that it was not only necessary to change the Government but to go to the root to generate transcendent and non-formal changes, so at the beginning of the 1960s he went to the Venezuelan mountains with other young people, as founder of the Guerrilla Front of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) Simón Bolívar.

60 years after the planting of this distinguished patriot, his struggles have been vindicated by the Bolivarian Revolution and the National Government has recognized his efforts in favor of the independence of the Homeland and the defense of the most humble, incorporating him into the new Venezuelan historiography.

Mazo News Team