Published at: 21/05/2025 09:00 PM

(CLARÍN, May 22, 1962)

• On May 21, 1962, he was arrested and savagely planned by police officers from San Juan de los Morros, edo. Guárico, the 17-year-old student Asunción Fernando Peña.
• To this end, the students of the Roscio High School, outraged by the horrendous crime, published a referral repudiating the unjustified imprisonment and the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment to which the student Asunción Peña was subjected, by orders of the then governor of that entity, Juan Manuel Barrios.
• Asunción Fernando Peña was kidnapped and forced to join a patrol that took him to the police headquarters, where he received a volley of shots and kicks that merited his transfer to the Guárico Hospital (Dr. José Francisco Torrealba).
• Soon after, he expired in an inpatient ward as a result of internal effusion, bleeding, and explosion of vital viscera.
• The young student was studying at the Industrial Technical School of San Juan de los Morros and was residing on Sucre Street in that Guarique capital.
• Alfredo Rodríguez, a friend of the ill-fated student, testified about the details of his partner's death, holding Governor Barrios responsible as the perpetrator of this crime.
• That same day, in Barquisimeto edo. Lara, Gonzalo Larea Peña, a young office worker, was shot down by agents of that city's General Police Directorate (DIGEPOL), as he was on his way home from a party.
• Larea Peña, was an employee of the Rural Housing Division of the Ministry of Health and Social Assistance (MSAS) and that night he was walking with two colleagues along Carrera 18, intersection with 29, in the city.
• It was then, when Digepol agents provoked a shooting that led to the death of Larea Peña, after being in a coma in a healthcare facility for two hours.

Mazo News Team