Published at: 03/04/2024 09:00 PM

• On April 3, 1991, Belinda Álvarez (24 years old) was wounded in the head while leading a march in the arch of the UCV, in protest against the murder of the ULA students, Magdiel Páez García and Ramón Darío Cadenas, which occurred on March 20 and 21.
• Belinda was the president of the UCV Social Work Student Center, whose faculty she was studying for the sixth semester. She was hit by a lead pellet fired by members of the Caracas Metropolitan Police, who kept her dying at the University Clinical Hospital, until she died 11 days later.
• Belinda's death caused riots in Maracaibo, Trujillo, Barquisimeto, Los Teques, San Felipe, Mérida and San Cristóbal, where LUZ's student, Isidro Hernández Segovia, also lost his life.
• Days before, in the state of Mérida, Magdiel Páez García (25 years old), a fifth semester student at the Faculty of Humanities of the ULA, was hit by a burst of UZI in the abdomen, carried out by an army corporal, and died hours later at the University Hospital of Mérida.
• In the midst of this repressive wave, on March 20, 1991, in the state of Trujillo, Ramón Darío Cadenas, 23, who was studying administration in the Rafael Rangel Nucleus of the ULA, died of bleeding from a bayonet wound to the leg.
• These massacres of students occurred during the second administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez, while Virgilio Ávila Vivas, governor of Caracas and superior authority of the Metropolitan Police.

Mazo News Team