Jorge Rodríguez Father: Banner of Courage and Revolutionary Struggle (+Christmas)

Published at: 16/02/2025 09:25 AM

On February 16, 1942, the socialist leader Jorge Rodríguez was born in Carora, Lara state. He is remembered for his struggle and passion for life, but above all for his revolutionary transformation.

This distinguished revolutionary leader, father of Bolivarian leaders Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez, trained as a teacher and later joined the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), specifically the Faculty of Humanities, where he had student management responsibilities, one of them as a delegate of the University Council in 1966.

On November 19, 1973, he called for the creation of the Socialist League. He fought during his short life against the criminal acts of which he eventually became a victim: persecution, disappearances and political assassinations by the governments of the Fourth Republic.

According to research led by anthropologist and historian Pedro Pablo Linárez and a large working group that dealt with the subject, there were at least 3,000 politically persecuted, disappeared and murdered in the Fourth Republic.

Among the most emblematic cases are that of Jorge Rodríguez, arrested on July 25, 1976 by the General Directorate of Police (Digepol) and transferred to a lonely spot on the Pan-American Highway, where he was tortured.

After being taken to a dungeon, he died of internal effusions, organ detachment and numerous fractures resulting from beatings.

That is why Venezuelans proudly remember this tireless revolutionary, for his fight to achieve social equality for the marginalized people.

Mazo News Team