Published at: 27/11/2024 10:00 PM

(LA EXTRA, November 20 and 21, 1963)

• Between November 19 and 20, 1963, 21 dead and 250 gunshot wounded were admitted to hospitals in Caracas.
• The fierce repression of the Digepol, the National Guard, the PTJ and the Municipal Police against the civilian population left numerous casualties. The partial list of injured people shot at health centers was as follows:
• When the police shot at the neighborhoods, the following died: Lucia Vaamonde, Albertina Núñez, Moisés Salvador Meléndez Ochoa, José López and Antonio Henry Rojas.
• Ana Jacinta González (11 years old), Pilar Zaraza (30 years old), Gustavo Fernández (14 years old), Rafael Guzmán (33 years old), Pedro Eliseo Freites (44 years old), Erasmo Alcalá Castillo (20 years old), Juan Bautista Díaz (24 years old), Santos del Carmen Marcano García (38 years old), Bonifacio Hugas (27 years old), Eladio Abache (27 years old), Ezequiel Olivero (25 years old), Daniel Ribas Mendoza (17 years old), Felix David Moreno and others.
• These are just some of the victims who fell during the repressive wave that President Rómulo Betancourt promoted from Miraflores, with the intention of intimidating the existing protests and discontent in Caracas because of his criminal management at the head of the government.

Mazo News Team