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

(Correo del Orinoco, February 2014 and PSUV website)

• Between February 12 and March 2014, 18,000 violent acts were recorded in different cities in Venezuela, perpetrated by agents of the opposition guarimbas in the context of the call for La Salida.

• These hate crimes left 43 people murdered, economic losses in the order of 15 billion dollars and unquantifiable damage to public facilities, means of transportation, educational units and public health centers.
• The most radical groups of the Venezuelan extreme right showed their most dramatic face in the execution of numerous criminal and vandalism acts, including the fire at the preschool of the Ministry of Housing, with 89 children in their classrooms, aged between three months and three years, located in the municipality of Chacao in the state of Miranda.
• They also count the damage caused to the headquarters of the Attorney General's Office, in Parque Carabobo, and especially the viciousness with which some headquarters of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) were set on fire, killing several of its leaders.
• Intolerance against anyone who belonged to the popular sectors or was linked to the Bolivarian Revolution sparked and characterized guarimbera violence. This is the case of the children of Marlene Villegas, better known as The Little Red Riding Hood, who were savagely assaulted on Tuesday, April 14, in the municipality of Chacao, Caracas.
• The guarimbas located and focused on wealthy or middle class areas, governed by opposing mayors, kept their neighbors kidnapped in their homes or suffering daily viacrucis to get to work or study centers.
• The objective was to unleash a wave of violence and decree the ungovernability of Venezuela, in the search for foreign military intervention.
• Most of the victims of hate and fascist violence were people who had little to do with the political conflict, many of them bystanders or citizens who, trying to travel or solve an emergency, were cruelly murdered.
• Although the authors of the guarimbas have tried to make the victims invisible, their names and faces remain indelible in the memory of the Venezuelan people:

• • María Julieta Heredia, 89 years old, February 27. Mother of the governor of Yaracuy Julio León Heredia and of the deputy Néstor León Heredia. His death was due to a heart attack after a stroke in opposition to his home. He was resting under strict medical care when these groups broke into his home with insults, attacks and cacerolazo.
• • Mariana Ceballos, 32 years old; April 10, Valencia, edo. Carabobo. Opposition protester, who was with a group of people at a barricade near the Shopping Center Shopping Center, in Prebo, when she was hit by a guarimbero driving her Toyota Hilux van. The young woman spent almost a month in a coma in the intensive care unit of a Carabobeña polyclinic.
• • Luzmila Petit de Colina, 70 years old; February 19, Caracas. Mother of Llafrancis Colina, host of the show Zurda Konducta. Since February 12, he had a delicate medical condition. On February 18, at night, she suffered a rise in blood pressure that forced her to be transferred to a health care center. Along the way, a group of opposition demonstrators who were blocking the road in El Paraíso prevented the passage of the car in which the patient was being taken urgently. The death occurred in the morning hours.
• • Roberto Annese, 33 years old; Maracaibo, edo. Zulia. He died at 4:45am, when he tried to manipulate a rudimentary mortar to throw explosives at security forces from a barricade. The device exploded in his chest, causing his death.
• • Franklin Alberto Romero Moncada, 44 years**; ** March 29, San Cristóbal, edo. Tachira. He was also identified by the media as “Luis Alberto Romero Moncada”. He died electrocuted when, along with other people, he tried to tear down a billboard to be used on a barricade that had just been removed by the Bolivian National Guard (GNB) and it touched a high-voltage cable, receiving a 13,000 volt shock that ended his life.
• • Assistant Sergeant of the GNB Miguel Antonio Parra, 42 years**; ** March 24, Mérida, edo. Merida. He was assassinated on Las Américas Avenue by terrorist groups led by opposition leaders who had been leading violent acts in the Andean region for weeks, as explained by Governor Alexis Ramírez. He noted that Sgt. Parra, along with other troops, were lifting debris from a transport unit that was set on fire on Sunday “when suddenly armed terrorist opposition groups began shooting, mortally wounding the GNB sergeant and injuring others present.” The regional president noted that Parra was transferred to the University Hospital of Los Andes and died minutes after his admission.
• • Adriana Urquiola, 28 years old, March 23; Los Nuevos Teques Urbanization, Guaicaipura municipality, edo. Miranda. I was a newlywed, five months pregnant and working as a sign language interpreter for the private television channel Venevisión. He was returning home late at night. Mayor Francisco Garcés explained that the young woman had not been able to reach her home “because passage was prevented by the guarimbas.” This forced her to get out of the vehicle that was carrying her and walk home, “because there was no passage in that sector of the Pan-American Highway.” The Criminal and Criminal Scientific Investigations Corps (CICPC) identified the murderer as Jhonny Eduardo Bolívar Jiménez, who interviewed by El Nacional said that the death “was accidental” because he fired all the shots in the air from his 9 mm Beretta against a pole and when some of them bounced they hit the young Urquiola.
• • Juan Orlando Labrador Castiblanco, 39 years old, March 22; Mérida, edo. Merida. He was a worker at a cooperative that offered contract services to CANTV and Movilnet. That day, a transport unit of the La Vuelta Line was burned down on Cardenal Quintero Avenue, causing that “from the buildings they started shooting, and violent demonstrators could be seen carrying out terrorist attacks on the population, including a person with a rifle and throwing nipples from the roofs and the lower part of the buildings.”
• • Wilfredo Rey, 31 years old, March 22; San Cristóbal, edo. Tachira. Public transport driver on the Barrio Sucre-Barrio Libertador Line, in the capital of Tachirense. He died during surgery, after being hit by a bullet in the head, when a group of irregulars shot several times in the vicinity of Barrio Sucre.
• • Argenis Hernández, 26 years**, ** March 22;, San Diego Township, edo. Carabobo. He died in the Hospital City of Dr. Enrique Tejera in Valencia, after being shot in the abdomen. According to the newspaper El Universal, the young man was injured on Friday afternoon, March 21, in the vicinity of the city. Tulipán when he was with other demonstrators blocking the road that gives access to the Variante Bárbula-San Diego highway and a motorized vehicle, equipped with a firearm, shot at those present.
• • Second Sergeant of the GNB Jhon Rafael Castillo Castillo , 23 years**, ** March 19; San Cristóbal, edo. Tachira. The Minister of Internal Relations reported that the young man was part of the Táchira Urban Security Detachment and was in the immediate vicinity of the National Experimental University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA), in San Cristóbal, where a confrontation occurred with demonstrators; this university was the target of attacks by violent demonstrators days ago, who managed to set it on fire and completely destroy it.
• • Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) captain José Guillén Araque; March 17, Maracay, edo. Aragua. He died Monday morning, after being hit by a bullet in the forehead, while preventing a group of violent opponents from closing Casanova Godoy Avenue in the capital of Aragüeña with rubble.
• • Jesús Enrique Acosta Matute, 20 years old; March 12, Valencia edo. Carabobo. Sixth-semester engineering student at the University of Carabobo, who was shot in the head in the La Isabelica housing estate. Family members say that he was shot dead by people on motorcycles, who were traveling from the Intercommunal La Isabelica-Plaza de Toros.
• • Guillermo Sánchez, 42 years old, March 12; Valencia, edo. Carabobo. He was hit by a bullet in the chest area, in sector 8 of La Isabelica, while watching the demonstration and making a video of the action, according to his wife, Lina Rodríguez.
• • Ángelo Vargas, March 10**; Ciudad Guayana, edo. Bolivar**. He was killed late at night after leaving a meeting to discuss the resumption of classes at the National Experimental University of Guiana (UNEG). He was president of the Student Center for Administration and Accounting, a member of the Federation of University Centers and a member of the PSUV, and was part of the Student University Renewal Movement (MERU). Vargas was threatened with death by opponents.
• • Daniel Tinoco, 24, March 10; San Cristóbal, edo. Tachira. Student at the National Experimental University of Táchira (UNET). He lost his life after being shot in the chest, at the intersection of Carabobo Avenue and Ferrero Tamayo Avenue, where opposition demonstrators gathered. The incident occurred after 10:00 p.m., and the victim was taken to the San Cristóbal Clinical Center.
• • Gisella Rubilar Figueroa, 47 years old; March 9, Mérida edo. Merida. He died after having spent 24 hours fighting for his life after being shot in the face, when, together with other neighbors, they were removing debris and garbage at an intersection of Los Próceres Avenue, in the Pie de Tiro sector, in the city of Mérida.
• • Glidis Karelis Chacón Benítez, 25 years old; March 7**, Autopista de Prados del Este, Baruta municipality, edo. Miranda.** Detective of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN).
• • José Gregorio Amaris Cantillo, March 6**; Los Ruices**, Sucre del Edo municipality. Miranda. He was part of a group of motorcyclists who were lifting debris from barricades, when they arrived in Los Ruices, residents threw blunt objects at him from the buildings. On Francisco de Miranda Avenue, someone shot him and killed him.
• • GNB Acner Sergeant Isaac López Lyón, March 6; Los Ruices, Sucre del Edo municipality. Miranda. After the death of the motorized José Gregorio Amaris Cantillo, the Bolivarian National Guard took Los Ruices, after being harassed by neighbors who threw rubble, bottles and stones from buildings at them. When taking María Auxiliadora Street (two blocks from the site where the motorist José Gregorio Amaris Cantillo died), someone activated a firearm from the buildings, seriously injuring López Lyón. He died in the private clinic where he was being treated.
• • Luis Alejandro Gutierrez Camargo, 26; March 4, Rubio, edo. Tachira. The young student of the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University (UPEL) abandoned a private celebration with some friends, that day at 5 in the morning, on buildings in the central part of Rubio. The newspaper La Nación indicated that Gutiérrez died instantly when he was catapulted out of the manned vehicle when he tried to avoid some rocks that had been installed on a barricade on Las Américas Avenue. The Minister of Communication and Information, Delcy Rodríguez, reported that Gutiérrez Camargo “died instantly when he collided with a barricade.”
• • Deivis José Durán Useche, 31 years old; March 3, Chacao municipality, edo. Miranda. He died after suffering a fractured skull on the night of Monday, March 3, when on his way to his residence in Petare, he fell with his motorcycle into a sewer whose cover had been removed by opposition demonstrators, on the Francisco Fajardo highway, a few meters from the Altamira dealer. The man was ejected from his motorcycle and hit the asphalt, suffering the severe injury that caused his death instantly.
• • 2nd Sergeant of the GNB Giovanni Pantoja; February 28, Valencia, edo. Carabobo. He died when he was shot in the eye near a violent demonstration in El Trigal, on the outskirts of Valencia.
• • Eduardo Anzola, 29 years old; February 25, Valencia edo. Carabobo. He was riding his motorcycle on Michelena Avenue and Uslar, when he hit a barricade made up of sticks, logs and stones that he could not see in the dark. He instantly passed away. He was an opposition member of the Venezuela Project (PV) party.
• • Joan Quintero, 33 years old; February 24, Maracay, edo. Aragua. He died during a looting that occurred at the Hiper Líder supermarket located in the area of El Limón, in Maracay.
• • Antonio José Valbuena Morales, 32 years old; February 24, Maracaibo, edo. Zulia. He died of a shot in the head he received on Monday, February 24, at 8:00 at night in the Francisco de Miranda neighborhood, two blocks from the Galerías Shopping Center.
• • Jimmy Vargas, 34 years old; February 24, San Cristobal, edo. Tachira. He died of multiple injuries when he fell from a roof while preparing the barricade of his housing estate.
• • Wilmer Juan Carballo Amaya, 41 years old, February 24. Damn, that's it. Aragua. He was killed at the entrance to the city. The Cagua Foundation. He was hit with a shot in the head coming from a group of people who were riding motorcycles. He was of Canarian origin.
• • Elvis Rafael Durán De La Rosa, 29 years old; February 22, urb. Horizonte, Sucre edo municipality. Miranda. He was riding his motorcycle along Rómulo Gallegos Avenue, when he hit a bus placed there by anti-Chavista demonstrators.
• • Geraldine Moreno Orozco, 23 years old; February 22, Naguanagua, edo. Carabobo. According to reports from family members and witnesses, he died as a result of a point-blank shot of plastic pellets fired by police officers in the middle of a demonstration. He died after three days of fighting for his life.
• • Doris Elena Lobo, 40 years old; February 20, Mérida, edo. Merida. He died as a result of serious injuries, when the motorcycle he was riding with one of his children crossed a barbed wire trap set up by opposition demonstrators. He had a cranial fracture and arrived at the hospital, but once there he suffered three heart attacks.
• • Arturo Alexis Martínez, 54 years old; February 20, Barquisimeto, edo. Lara. Member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and brother of the national representative of the PSUV, Francisco Martínez. He died from a shot fired from a building, while he was clearing the remains of a barricade to pass with his car.
• • Julio González, February 19, Valencia edo. Carabobo. He was a prosecutor in the Public Prosecutor's Office. The newspaper Última Noticias explains that he was on duty at the edo that day. Carabobo. He left his house at 11 in the evening to take a tour of the hospitals in Valencia. He was on his way to see the state of health of the victims of the protests in those days. First on their list was Genesis Carmona. He was driving downhill in his van when the wheels of the car became entangled with debris from a barricade and he went headlong into a tree. His death was instantaneous.
• • Genesis Carmona, 22 years old; February 19, Valencia, edo. Carabobo. Killed with a gunshot in the back while taking part in an opposition demonstration. Expertise determined that the shooting came from where the demonstrators who accompanied her were. “That young woman died from a bullet that came out of her own ranks,” said the then Minister of the Interior.
• • José Ernesto Méndez, 17 years old; February 17, Cumaná, edo. Sucre. He died from severe head injuries, after being hit by a private vehicle. According to the initial version, it occurred during an opposition protest that kept an avenue in the city cut off.
• • Roberto Redman, 28 years old, February 12, Chacao municipality, edo. Miranda. Opposition protester, well known on social media by his pseudonym EscualidoReload. He was in the march that led to violent acts in the Attorney General's Office (FGR). Later, late at night, he participated in a violent protest in the municipality of Chacao. Witnesses attribute his death to armed civilians on motorcycles who shot him and hit him in the head.
• • Bassil Da Costa, 24 years old; February 12, Carabobo Park, Caracas. Young worker who participated in the first opposition march to the Attorney General's Office (FGR), which began peacefully and turned violent at the doors of that entity. He fell on the same street as Juan Montoya, a few minutes apart, after shots fired by the same suspects.
• • Juan Montoya, 40 years old, February 12th. Carabobo Park, Caracas. Leader of the popular zone of January 23. He had met with President Nicolás Maduro at a public event in August 2013.
• • Jorge Colina Tovar, 24 years**, Bolivarian National Police (PNB), ** was killed by a sniper in the Los Palos Grandes residential area, while he was acting during the early morning to evict the camps located in the municipality of Chacao.

Mazo News Team