Published at: 13/03/2024 09:00 PM

• On March 5, 1973, Carlos Reina, a crier for left-wing newspapers, was first run over by National Guard officials on January 23 and as he protested in word he was shot.
• At that very moment, when Alberto Reina, the victim's brother, tried to pick up Carlos's body, National Guard officers put a gun to his temple and broke his face.
• This occurred during the barbarism of the first government of Rafael Caldera. On January 23, a detachment of the National Guard was installed and its officials implemented a regime of terror.
• In those days, the hunt was imposed against young students and workers whom the National Guard publicly humiliated by shaving their heads and forcing them to carry out military punishments such as kangaroos, frogs, tobacco, collecting garbage on their knees, and falling flat on him for any trifle.
• This was a popular area of Caracas where students and workers were harassed by police raids, unemployment, underemployment, low income, food speculation, dirt on the streets and high school graduates without a university seat.
• The social-Christian response was lead, blood and repression.
• Days before, the student César Sánchez was also cowardly murdered by the police, which turned January 23 into a virtual battlefield, due to the aggressions of uniformed State agents and the government's decision to militarily occupy the area and keep all the residents of that housing estate under strict surveillance.

Mazo News Team