Published at: 19/06/2024 09:00 PM

(That, July 1, 1966/ EL NACIONAL, June 22, 1966)

“THERE IS AN OBJECTIVE FACT FABRICIO OJEDA APPEARED HANGED IN A SIFA CELL,” a dark body, not only an investigative body, but also a punitive body.”

• To say that Fabricio Ojeda committed suicide, or to emphasize the disagreements with the Communist Party, is simply to hide the fact that he was hanged in a SIFA cell, in a dungeon in the White Palace, a few meters from the Miraflores Palace.
• He died as a prisoner, solitary, subjected to “interrogations” (torture), and attempts were made to hide the responsibilities that fell on the government and its repressive bodies.
• “It is well understood that the newspaper La República, echoing some publications made by the Capriles chain media, tries to throw confusion about the death of Fabricio Ojeda, and within the revolutionary movement, blaming the capture and suicide as a result of the internal struggle of the PCV.”

CONTEXT:

• A telegram sent by the Venezuelan Ministry of Defense to the Pentagon, published in issue number 1 of the magazine Casa de las Américas, reads verbatim:
• “President Leoni recommends that the Bolivian government spread the news that Che Guevara -captured alive- committed suicide -stop- and offers to send Digepol's expert in manufacturing guerrilla suicide prisoner -stop- the same expert who dealt with the Fabricio Ojeda case -stop- to La Paz.”
• In LIFE magazine, dated June 10, 1961, while Fabricio Ojeda was the elected member of Congress with the highest number of votes, an article was published dedicated entirely to his profile as a revolutionary politician, in which he was described, together with Fidel Castro, as “one of the most dangerous politicians in the Latin American hemisphere”.
• On January 1, 1960, the first anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Fabricio Ojeda was a guest of honor. In the company of Fidel Castro, he paid a visit to the Sierra Maestra and at Pico Turquino he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant in the Cuban Revolutionary Army.
• Fabricio Ojeda and Ernesto “Che” Guevara are the only two foreigners to whom military ranks have been conferred within the Cuban Revolutionary Army. “Che” was often on the verge of coming to Venezuela to join Fabricio Ojeda in the guerrilla struggle. It was Douglas Bravo who objected to this magnificent attempt.
• Fabricio Ojeda traveled throughout Latin America, the Soviet Union, China and Europe. He was already an international leader. He strengthened ties of solidarity and friendship with social forces around the world with his newly founded Revolutionary Party of Venezuela.
• Fabricio was born in Boconó, Edo. Trujillo, January 6, 1929. He was a writer, journalist, politician and active social fighter who contributed to the fall of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez. In fact, during this period he was a prominent journalist in Miraflores who covered all the acts of the president, and at the same time president, in hiding, of the Revolutionary Patriotic Junta.
• In December 1958, Fabricio Ojeda was elected deputy to the National Congress by the Democratic Republican Union (URD) party. He was the most voted parliamentarian in the country representing the voters of the Federal District, Caracas.
• On June 30, 1962, seeing the aspirations of the People frustrated and betrayed the revolutionary spirit that shook Venezuela on January 23, 1958, he wrote his legendary letter of resignation from Congress, which is nothing more than an echo of popular indignation at the massacres, persecution and selective assassinations committed by the government of Rómulo Betancourt.
• Later, he joined as Commander of the José Antonio Páez Guerrilla Front of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), created by young soldiers and former militants from AD, URD and PCV to overthrow Betancourt.

Mazo News Team