Published at: 26/02/2025 08:00 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 housing estate, where incendiary opposition guarimbas placed a metal guaya stretched between two poles to prevent motorized traffic.
• Durán de la Rosa was riding his motorcycle at night, near Televen, when he passed the barricade, he had his throat cut on the spot, being 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 was the one who announced, from his Twitter account, how these guayas should be placed, as part of the street actions of the opposition gangs.
• In a parliamentary session, Ramos Allup declared about the deaths caused in the guarimbas and said contemptuously, referring to the slaughter: “I heard almost with that little fart that the 43 dead it was as if the opposition had killed them, there were 43 dead, the one who died in La Guaya was one...”
• General Vivas, like this, literally, promoted the placement of tense guayas on social networks: “To tear down and behead the Chavista motorized vehicles that circulate in the streets.”
• From his Twitter account, he promoted the following message: “To neutralize criminal hordes, nylon ropes or GALVANIZED WIRE must be crossed at 1:20 meters high at 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 and barricaded himself, armed with assault rifles and long weapons.
• From there, he challenged the security forces to shoot them if they tried to stop him. He explicitly used social networks to disseminate how to arrest and question officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), about the use of homemade bombs, the disabling of armored vehicles and the use of guayas to neutralize motorized vehicles.
• During the so-called guarimbas of 2014, promoted by Leopoldo López (Popular Will), President Nicolás Maduro accused Vivas Perdomo of encouraging violent practices.
• In this regard, the Head of State reported (April 2014) the death of Elvis Rafael Durán de la Rosa (29 years old), a motorcyclist driving along Rómulo Gallegos Avenue, who ran into a guaya placed by violent demonstrators and died with his throat cut.
• That fact was minimized by the then president of the National Assembly, Congressman Henry Ramos Allup, who referred to Durán de la Rosa as “the dead guy in the ass”.

Mazo News Team