Published at: 08/05/2024 09:00 PM

• This massacre was led by Commissioner Henry López Sisco during the administration of Jaime Lusinchi, in which nine unarmed young men were tortured and shot by members of the DISIP.
• Between May 7 and 9, 1986, the members of the July 5 Social Struggle Front agreed to meet in the vicinity of the La Vaca hamlet in Yaracuy state, to discuss the ideological bases of a new political movement inspired by the rescue of the memory of our Liberator Simon Bolivar.
• Under the terms of a new aspect, typical of Bolivarian thought, which they called “Historical Social Current”, 15 activists attended, who had been preparing for that meeting for a year.
• They were taken to the Yumare slaughterhouse by four former Red Flag whistleblowers, undercover agents of the DISIP: the Rabanales brothers, Rafael Antonio Rojas and Bergenis Beraciarte.
• These same traitors, in complicity with Gabriel Puerta Aponte, had done the same dirty work of reporting with the 23 young people killed in the Cantaura Massacre on October 4, 1982.
• The young militants of the July 5 Movement were backstabbed in the mouth, parts of their bodies severed, raped, shot and disguised in military clothing. Everyone was shot in the head by grace.
• Both witnesses and forensic examinations show that the uniforms in which the bodies were dressed did not have bullet holes. However, perforations and traces of machetes were found on the bodies and clothing worn by those executed before they were massacred.
• During the administration of President Hugo Chávez, in September 2006, the investigation that led to the accusation of 29 participants in the massacre was reopened. Among them are Jaime Lusinchi and Henry López Sisco, who evaded justice by fleeing the country. Among the victims are:

1. Dilia Antonia Rojas was born in Coro (edo. Falcón) on 02-08-42, mother of seven children. In 1973, her husband and sister were murdered by the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. Signs of rape were found on her body, her breasts and face were torn.
2. Rafael Ramón Quevedo Infante, a native of Boconó (edo. Trujillo) was 26 years old, poet and student leader at the Juan Bautista Dalla Lyceum, where he was president of the student center, and of the Pedagogical Center of Caracas, where he was a member of the student federation. His body was deformed by torture and had multiple perforations.
3. Pedro Pablo Jiménez García, a native of Edo. Falcón, was 40 years old and had three children. He was the owner of a bookstore specializing in school textbooks. His body had a detached testicle, total loss of teeth, a fractured nose, a burst in the chest and a gunshot to the skull.
4. Simón José Romero Madriz, born in Caracas and was 28 years old, left behind a three-year-old son. He was the first voice of the Don Bosco Orfeón and the Cárdenas Spellam choir. He studied music at the Juan José Landaeta School. He taught guitar courses at the Venezuelan Youth Federation cultural center. His body had a fractured skull and severed fingers.
5. Alfredo Caicedo was 31 years old when he was murdered. He studied anthropology at the National University of Mexico. His body showed signs of torture and burning gunshots to the head.
6. Luis Rafael Guzmán Green, was 40 years old. A social fighter from a very young age, he was a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), and later of the Punto Cero Group. He lived in exile in Cuba and Mexico. He left behind several children. His body was rescued by an aunt and taken to Guiana, where he was buried. He had numerous gunshot wounds and an open fracture of the skull.
7. José Rosendo Silva Medina, a native of Las Mercedes (edo. Guárico), was 33 years old. He was one of the founders of the Francisco de Miranda Cultural Center and the Neighborhood Association of the Francisco de Miranda Neighborhood. His body had nine bullet holes and disfigurement as a result of torture.
8. Nelson Martín Castellanos Díaz, 31, married to Gladys Coromoto Cabrera de Castellano and father of three children. He studied at the Andrés Bello High School. He worked at the INCE and the company XEROX. At the time of his death, he was a record seller at Musical El Conde.
9. Ronald José Morao Salgado (31 years old) was a founding social leader of the Movement for the Recovery of Historical Memory, who was tortured and shot in Yumare along with his other colleagues. His family was persecuted by state security forces until 2000, when Hugo Chávez put an end to this hunt for the victims' families.

Mazo News Team