Published at: 22/01/2025 09:00 PM

(Latest News — Correo del Orinoco, January 21, 2016)

• Nine years ago, in the early morning of January 19, the 40-year-old Bolivarian journalist Ricardo Durán Trujillo was shot to the neck.
• The unfortunate event occurred in the parking lot of Block 22 of UD4, Caricuao parish, in the Libertador municipality, where his residence was located.
• In an article published in 2009, in Tribuna Popular, the news agency of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Durán stated that he had been the subject of several attacks and threats because of various complaints he had made.
• During his career, he participated in numerous television programs, distinguishing himself for his combative spirit and frontal style against the Creole and transnational extreme right.
• Days before his assassination, he had been appointed Press Director of the Capital District Government.
• According to the investigations carried out, Ricardo arrived at his residence located in Caricuao after midnight, when he got out of his car, three individuals approached him and shot him in the neck.
• They later fled in the same vehicle as their victim, which was abandoned without taking any of the journalist's belongings. All indications are that it was murder by commission.
• On March 18 of that same year, authorities of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) arrested a subject by the name of Darwin Antonio Barrientos Díaz, who was initially identified as the material perpetrator of the murder.
• Subsequently, the Public Ministry presented 14 active officers of the Municipal Police of Chacao to the 7th Control Court of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas (AMC), allegedly linked to the murder of Ricardo Durán Trujillo.
• At the filing hearing, the 36th national and 55th attorneys of the AMC, Miguel Hernández and Farik Mora, respectively, charged:
  • Venus Soleil Medina Ferrer.
  • Fred Armando Mavarez.
  • Cesar Eduardo Mijares.
  • María de los Santos Perez.
  • Angel Alfonso Sanchez.
  • Reggie Jackson Andrade.
  • Alfredo Jose Chirinos.
  • Jorge Luis Delgado.
  • Michael Jonosky Mora.
  • Edgar Jose Gonzalez.
  • Eduardo Jose Salazar.
  • Jhonny Roberto Velasquez.
  • Darwin Estiveen Herde.
  • And Eber Darwin Meneses.
• The 14 officials were arrested between Monday, June 20 and Tuesday, 21, 2016, in different procedures carried out by members of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC), in Caracas, pursuant to an arrest warrant requested by the prosecutors in the case and agreed by the aforementioned judicial body, for their alleged responsibility for the fact in which the social communicator died.
• In his lifetime, at the beginning of the revolutionary process, Ricardo Durán stood out as a journalist for Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) before the National Constituent Assembly and El Congresillo (1998-2000).
• He later served as Director of Communication and Information of the National Assembly.
• Those who knew him treasure the memory of one of the best soldiers in social communication at the service of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Honor to whom honor deserves!! Until victory always Ricardo! We will win!

Mazo News Team