THE REMAINS OF NOEL RODRÍGUEZ HAVE BEEN FOUND (Correo del Orinoco, January 20, 2013)

Published at: 24/01/2024 09:00 PM

On January 19, 2013, the remains of Noel Rodríguez were located. This was a historic and unprecedented step in the fight for Human Rights, the reconstruction of Social Memory and the consolidation of the Collective Consciousness of the Venezuelan People.
After 40 years, thanks to the tireless search on the part of his mother, Zenaida Mata de Rodríguez, and the procedural speed promoted by President Hugo Chávez, their remains were found and they were able to receive posthumous homage from their friends and family.
Zenaida Mata presided over the event in the company of the President of the National Assembly (AN) Diosdado Cabello Rondón.
The remains of the young man, an economics student at the UCV and Red Flag leader, were hidden by state security forces in a niche in the General Cemetery of the South, where they remained under false identification for more than 40 years.
Since the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez to the government, appropriate actions have been taken to rescue and vindicate the victims of State terrorism practiced by the governments of the Fourth Republic (1958-1998).
To that end, the Act to Punish Crimes, Disappearances, Torture and Human Rights Violations was enacted.
On February 12, 2013, the remains of Noel Rodríguez were transferred to El Tigre, in the state of Anzoátegui, where they were received by the governor of that entity, Aristobulo Istúriz.

Context:

During the first administration of Rafael Caldera, on June 29, 1973, a commission from the Military Intelligence Directorate, which followed him, kidnapped 27-year-old Noel.
The arrest and subsequent disappearance of Noel Rodríguez Mata occurred on Universidad Avenue, minutes after making a contact on the corner of La Pelota.
From there he was transferred to Cocollar, Edo. Sucre, headquarters of the Theater of Operations 4 (TO4), where he was tortured and murdered on August 6, 1973.
On the list of “the 40 pacified” of that government, whose police operations were led by Luis Posada Carriles, are:

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