Published at: 31/07/2024 09:00 PM

(EL NACIONAL and 2001, July 27, 1976)

• The Minister of Internal Relations, Octavio Lepage, in the various statements and press conferences he gave, stated that “Jorge Rodríguez died a natural death, he died as a result of a massive myocardial infarction”. According to, while he was sleeping peacefully in a prison at the DISIP in Los Chaguaramos.
• The facts proved quite the opposite. The founder of the Socialist League was kidnapped on July 25, 1976, taken to a lonely spot on the Pan-American Highway where he was tortured, resulting in internal effusions, organ detachment and numerous fractures.
• At that time, Octavio Lepage had David Nieves, Francisco Cedeño and Nolasco Padilla kidnapped in the DISIP, who had also suffered physical abuse and torture. What became known thanks to complaints from José Vicente Rangel.

Mazo News Team