Published at: 18/12/2024 07:33 PM

(EL NACIONAL and LATEST NEWS, 15-12- 1965)

• This December 13, marks the 59th anniversary of the raid on the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), an action in which 700 students were injured and taken to the cells of the General Directorate of Police (Digepol), located in the Las Brisas building in Los Chaguaramos and other prison centers.
• 4,000 military and police personnel were responsible for evicting 700 university students from student residences, for which purpose they were backstabbed and brushed, and brought to their knees, before being ridden on military buses that took them handcuffed or tied up like common criminals, without having committed any crime.
• The repressive forces of the State had no consideration for the children of the UCV Kindergarten. The children of UCV employees and teachers experienced moments of true terror and anguish, frightened by the incessant sound of government shrapnel.
• During the search, the infants were victims of panic caused by the presence of uniformed personnel inside the children's center who did not stop shooting their rifles, despite the presence of the minors.
• Raúl Leoni distinguished himself by being the president who exercised the most bloodthirsty policy of repression and forced disappearances that Venezuelan society has ever suffered. In his first six months in office, the number of victims of his predecessor, Romulo Betancourt, tripled in five years.
• Both, white-collar criminals, exceeded, in proportion from 1 to 1000, the number of people tortured, exiled, murdered and disappeared by any other government labeled “dictatorial” in our history, not to mention the corruption records they inaugurated in the unlimited looting of the public purse.
• All this is in strict compliance with the manuals of torture and forced disappearance, in addition to the instructions of the Plan of the Americas, issued by the United States to counter protests, in order to exterminate insurgent social forces throughout Latin America.

Mazo News Team