Published at: 09/07/2025 09:00 PM

(Latest News, El Nacional and 2001, July 2, 1987)

• Student Sonia Ordóñez Cárdenas, 18, received a bullet impact in the chest as she descended from a minibus. The shooting was carried out by motorized agents of the General Sectorial Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention (DISIP) during the riots at the Manuel Palacio Fajardo High School, in the Sierra Maestra sector on January 23.
• Sonia Ordoñez was in her 4th year of high school at the Fermín Toro High School. The student lived in a house located on Aveledo Street in the Los Arbolitos neighborhood, near the former headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in La Planicie, now the Mountain Barracks.
• A day later, when the death of student Ordoñez was broadcast on the radio, riots broke out in the cities of Mérida and Trujillo. In the latter, state police officers murdered the engineering student at the University of Los Andes (ULA), Johnny Matos Villarroel, 21.
• The student from Trujillo was liquidated by police officers who raided the nucleus of the ULA.
• Throwing the army into the streets was the only response of the reactionary government of Jaime Lusinchi to contain the student protest. For what he was the cause of the murders of Sonia Ordoñez Cárdenas and Johnny Matos Villarroel.
• In the cities of Caracas, Valencia, Maracay, Mérida and Trujillo, students held several demonstrations against the repressive measures enacted by the then President of the Republic and the corruption in Miraflores. He was Minister of Internal Relations, José Ángel Ciliberto, a corrupt elder and the executing arm of the repression exercised at the time.
• Ciliberto and the Private Secretary of the President of the Republic, Blanca Ibáñez, were involved in a resounding act of corruption for the illegal purchase of 100 Jeep vehicles, charged with the secret item, which were intended for the private use of family members from the presidential environment and regional militants of the Democratic Action (AD) party.
• The scandal of the gigantic scam of the Differential Exchange Regime (RECADI), the refinancing of foreign debt under Leonine conditions for Venezuela, the murders of Sonia Ordoñez Cárdenas and Johnny Matos Villarroel; as well as the massacres of El Amparo (08-10-1988) and Yumare (08-05-1986), are just a sample of the vast inventory of crime and impunity sponsored and exercised by the misgovernments of the Fourth Republic (1958-1998) since Miraflores.

Mazo News Team