Published at: 10/09/2025 09:00 PM

(LA EXTRA and CLARÍN, September 10 to 15, 1964)

• September 10, 1964, in the mountains of the Sierra de San Luis, in the Edo. Falcón, 32-year-old farmer José Nicasio Betancourt Piña was hanged.
• The repressive bodies of the State accused Betancourt Piña of being a liaison with guerrilla groups.
• Two days earlier, on September 8, the young Gustavo Aranda was arrested in a hamlet in the Sierra de San Luis; then he appeared dead, with his hands tied behind his back, inside a cell of the Military Command in the area, where he was held prisoner for several days without feeding him.
• The hardest hit villages in this mountainous mountain range of Falcón state, where more than 50 arbitrary arrests and all kinds of barbaric acts were carried out by the criminal gangs of the Raúl Leoni government were: El Buco, El Paso, Piedra de Agua, La Sabanita, Santa Lucía, Uria, San Diego, Cumarigua and Trapichito.
• The gang rape carried out by 12 military personnel against 24-year-old peasant Juana Chirinos, using her status as a helpless woman suffering from mental disorders, was also widely reported.

Mazo News Team