Published at: 05/02/2025 09:00 PM

(El Globo - El Carabobeño, February 5, 1992 and 4F, February 2019)

• February 4, 1992, in the edo. Carabobo, more than 300 university students joined the Bolivarian movement that broke into history that day.
• It was initially estimated that 8 people died, according to the official balance sheet presented by the then regional president Henrique Salas Römer.
• This figure did not match the list of deaths published later in El Carabobeño and El Globo, which recorded 15 students massacred by members of the Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP) and agents of the Carabobo State Police.
• That morning, in the vicinity of the state police module, in the Canaima sector, the students were shot:
  • José Zerpa Miotta, 21, an eighth-semester electrical engineering student
  • Columba Guadalupe Rivas, 22, second-semester student of Education Sciences
  • Gilberto José Peña, 18, student at Tecnológico de Valencia
  • Ángel Alberto Ruiz, 25, a student in the third semester of Educational Sciences at UC
  • As well as the Distinguished Army Officer José De Pablos. Some of the bodies were shot to death.
  • Hundreds of students were persecuted and arrested, including the brothers Hiran and Adrián Parra, as well as Úrsula Mujica, a law student.
  • These three university students were put against the shooting wall, after being backstabbed and burned with cigarette butts. They miraculously escaped the clutches of the official offensive led by the then governor that day.
  • Regarding what happened that day, the surviving student Úrsula Mujica stated: “They had me on the wall to shoot me, I was a dead woman. The 12 who fell there were about to be killed (...) the repression was terrible, they put plates on our knees and forced us to kneel down, they also burned us with cigarettes”.
  • Mujica continued: “I was part of the group of students who approached the Canaima Police Module. Our plan was never to confront the police, but they greeted us with gunshots and the confrontation broke out.”

Mazo News Team