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

(El Nacional, 18 and 20 June 1976)

• On Thursday, June 17, 1976, at 4:30pm, “Tito” González Heredia was seriously injured by two bullets to the head by DISIP officials.
• Commander Pablo, the name of battle, was a strong man with the Red Flag and died after dying for seven days at the Military Hospital in Caracas.
• The chase began at the height of Rio de Janeiro Avenue in Chuao, until it was hit in El Llanito.
• When trying to confront the police command that surrounded him, he was strafed into the Baloa Bridge. He was driving a blue Opel Manta vehicle, license plate 23 44 03.
• Some cameramen and reporters who tried to approach the scene were violently repressed by DISIP officials.
• The photojournalist for Última Noticias, Guillermo Simone de Lima, was hit while trying to take a picture of the vehicle where González Heredia was shot down. Cameraman Luis Hernández had his camera taken and destroyed while he was filming.
• In those days, Carlos Andrés Pérez unleashed a fight against the escapees from the San Carlos Barracks. All because of orders issued from Washington for the kidnapping of the American businessman and CIA agent, William Niehous, president of the Owens Illinois of Venezuela.
• “Tito” González Heredia was killed for being the planner and logistics operator of the escape of 23 political prisoners from the San Carlos Barracks, on January 18, 1975.
• Commander Pablo was born in Barinas, on January 4, 1940. He was a member of the Youth of AD until the late 1950s. He broke all ties with that party after serious internal discrepancies that led him to become part of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).
• In the early 1970s, disagreeing with the submission of some MIR leaders to the “pacification policy” of the government of Rafael Caldera, he broke away from this organization and became part of the revolutionary vanguard of the Red Flag.

Mazo News Team