Published at: 10/07/2024 09:00 PM

(Clarín, July 8, 1963)

• He was strafed into Quebrada Macayapa while painting political slogans. During the wake, Digepol agents tried to hijack the coffin:
• On the night of July 7, 1963, Miguel Henrique Ulloa, 16, a student at the Agustín Aveledo School, was strafed by Digepol agents, using Dum Dum explosive bullets.
• After midnight, armed Digepol gangs murdered the student at a site near the Quebrada de Macayapa in Los Frailes de Catia.
• Miguel Henrique Ulloa was surprised by the Digepol patrol; when he gave him his voice out loud, the unfortunate man raised his arms and the agents opened fire.
• There he was left to bleed to death, mortally wounded.
• Hours later, the body was found by friends, who took it down to ask for help, but it was too late, he had already died.
• In those days, when the “Betancourt doctrine” prevailed, every night police forces used to fire machine gun bursts indistinctly at young suspects. Some were left-wing militants, others were not engaged in any political activity.
• The editorial of this newspaper denounced the complicit silence of that of most of the media, which did not publish the news, justifying it with their indifference to the repressive bodies and armed gangs of AD.
• By then, spiritual sclerosis, conformism, political sympathizers and the society of accomplices were closing ranks to put a stop to impunity, applying the law of silence in the face of so many deaths. From Miraflores they said: “Dead people don't talk”.
• Nobody thought that after January 23, 1958, such little importance would be given to the barbarism deployed during the five years by the Government of Rómulo Betancourt.
• The burial of Miguel Henrique was a demonstration of popular mourning in the Caracas neighborhood of Los Frailes de Catia, Sucre municipality in the Federal District.
• There, the voice of protest of thousands of people who accompanied him to his final abode was heard.

Mazo News Team