Published at: 02/10/2024 09:00 PM

(Clarín, September 24 and 29, 1962)

Within the framework of the Betancourtist doctrine “Shoot First Find Out Later”, in the month of September 1962, the following Venezuelans were the subject of that repressive policy:

• 29/9/62: Carlos José Romero, a young accountant who was the victim of a robbery at the entrance of the National Printing Office. Investigations determined that some of the perpetrators were members of AD. One of them, Mauro Díaz, had the card of that party. However, the PTJ archived the file. And the case was closed.
• 9/9/62: Carlos Alberto Briceño, a 27-year-old worker, was shot dead by police officer Juan Francisco Fajardo, in the Isaías Medina Angarita neighborhood.
• 9/9/62: Juan Rondón, stabbed to death by police officer Pablo Useche, between the corners of Pinto a Miseria.
• 13/9/62: Alfonzo Rodríguez, electrical worker, killed by a rifle bullet in the 23 de Enero housing estate. He left behind a widow and four orphaned children.
• 15/9/62: Jesús Manuel Osuna, university student, murdered by Digepol in the early hours of the morning, after six months of hunting. His body appeared between the corners of Cervecería and Puente Brión, El Conde.
• 16/9/62: Irineo Meza, a worker shot to death after being chased by the police in the neighborhood of Los Paraparos, La Vega parish.
• 17/0/62: Omar Ramones Prieto, killed on the corner of Angelitos by a Digepol agent, commanded by Ismael Bracho. Ramones' forehead backfired, he was the son of a joker.
• 12/9/63: Mrs. Andara Mendoza de Chacón, 42, was shot to the head after a shooting carried out by military police and national guards, in the sector called Altos de la Cruz in the Unión neighborhood.
• From San Cristóbal, edo. Táchira, the Director of the Public Prison of that city, Aristides Reyes L., following the example of the first national president, declared: “It is necessary to kill about four or five prisoners to end so much protest.”
• 18/9/62: In the state of Táchira, the former Minister of Internal Relations, Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez, personally commanded an assault on the Prefecture of Abejales, a hamlet of the San Antonio de Caparo Municipality in the Uribante District, to free members of the armed gangs arrested there for criminal acts.

Mazo News Team