Published at: 25/02/2026 09:00 PM

(Alba City, February 2014 and Latest News, May 11, 2022)

• On February 21, 2014, Elvis Rafael Durán de la Rosa, 29, was surprised by a barricade on Rómulo Gallegos Avenue, at the height of the Horizonte residential area, where incendiary opposition guarimbas placed a metal guaya stretched between two poles to prevent motorized traffic.
• Durán de la Rosa was riding his motorcycle, during the night hours, near Televen, when he passed the barricade, he had his throat cut on the spot. He was the first motorcyclist to die under these circumstances during La Salida, organized by Leopoldo López.
• The General, in a situation of retirement, Ángel Omar Vivas Perdomo, also a promoter of barricades and abject methods for killing motorized vehicles, was the one who disseminated instructions from his Twitter account for the placement of these guayas as part of the street actions during La Salida.
• In the middle of a parliamentary session where the incendiary actions of the opposition were being debated, Congressman Henry Ramos Allup trivialized the death of Elvis Durán de La Rosa, referring to him as “the dead guy in the ass”. “I have heard that rattle of the 43 dead as if they were assassinated by the opposition; if there were 43 dead and the 'so-called dead guaya' was one...”, he said.
• General (R) Vivas, verbatim, expressed through social networks the reason why the tensioned guayas were placed: “To tear down and behead the motorized Chavistas who circulate in the streets.”
• He explained how to assemble the lethal device: “To neutralize criminal hordes, nylon ropes or GALVANIZED WIRE must be crossed at 1:20 meters high in the mouths of the streets..., if you don't have nylon ropes, you can use GALVANIZED WIRE of the thickest, it's very effective too.”
• At the time of his arrest, the general was surrounded by partisan guarimbas in his house in Prados del Este, armed with assault rifles and long weapons.
• From there, he threatened security forces with shooting at them if they tried to stop him. Explicitly, he used social networks to disseminate how to arrest and question officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), the manufacture of homemade bombs and how to disable armored vehicles.

Mazo News Team