Published at: 19/03/2025 08:00 PM

(Popular Tribune, March 5 to 11, 1970)

• In the March 11, 1970 edition of the news organ of the Communist Party of Venezuela, Tribuna Popular, published the disappearance of the coffee expert Darío Álvarez Colmenares, as well as the torture and disappearances to which Juan Conde, Urbino Rodríguez, Pablo Márquez, Domingo Márquez, Pablo Montilla, Benjamín Montilla, Jesús María Camacho, Atilfo López Cedeño and the two Linares brothers were subjected. One of the tortured people who managed to survive was the young revolutionary Clodobald Russian.
• Mario Álvarez's father, Mr. Luis Álvarez Chacón, appeared before the editorial office of Tribuna Popular to state that his son had been arrested by Lieutenant Veneno for five years, without receiving a response from the current governments regarding his whereabouts.
• The incident occurred in Chabasquen, edo. Portuguesa, in the presence of her co-worker Francisca Ramírez and her friend Antonio Medina. They went to the police station where he was taken to bring him some utensils and changes of clothes, where they were told that the detainee, Álvarez Colmenares, had escaped. To this day, he is still missing.
• Victims of the arrest, torture and disappearance of this Armed Forces Intelligence Service (SIFA) agent, Alias Veneno, were:
• Jesús Elías Vásquez: owner of a warehouse, whose goods worth Bs. 20,000 passed into the hands of his executioner.
• Juan Conde: farmer who received a machine gun blast from the above-mentioned lieutenant.
• The two Linares brothers. They were shot in a place known as El Pelón, while Lieutenant Veneno watched drinking rum.
• Urbino Rodríguez was shot and disappeared in the place called El Coco.
• Nicolás Sánchez, Pancho Fernández and a farmer named Moncada had their fingers and ears cut off and eaten before being shot.
• Peasant Pablo Montilla, a peasant with tuberculosis, was stripped naked and thrown into the middle of the troop to stab him before being shot.
• Benjamín Montilla: teacher and president of Copei in Chabasquen, was identified as an alleged guerrilla leader. It was riddled by a machine gun blast.
• Jesús María Camacho: he was arrested and shot to death until his viscera was broken, for denouncing during a wake the abuses committed by SIFA agents that caused the death of the dead.
• Atilio López Cedeño, a young farmer from Quebrada de Oro, was put in front of a wild bull that took out his entrails and then finished off with a machine gun.

Mazo News Team