Published at: 07/02/2024 09:00 PM

• Vicente Bermúdez owned a grocery store that was kidnapped in February 1975, during the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. He was forcibly removed from the Los Cordones hamlet, jurisdiction of the Cedeño District of Monagas state, where he left seven orphaned children.
• He was arrested on charges of being a guerrilla liaison and transferred to the Paramaconi Fort in Maturín where he was tortured and shot.
• His arrest was carried out by agents of the Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM), after being reported, for subversive activities, by an AD political activist named Pío Parejo.
• Together with his wife, Juvalda Rivero, they had a small ranch and a small winery. Their other income came from a few crops they tilled on their land.
• His whistleblower, Pío Parejo, accused him of “being a liaison of guerrilla groups to which he sold supplies.”
• They tortured him to the point of burning his genitals and when they failed to make a confession, they murdered him. A rural man had nothing to say who, apart from working from dawn to dusk, was only trying to give an exemplary upbringing to his seven children.
• The exhumation of the body showed that at the time of his death his hands were handcuffed, he had signs of blows and several bullet wounds that he received in the chest with an exit hole in his back.
• His body was handed over to his widow and orphans five days after it was taken from their ranch.

Mazo News Team