Published at: 29/05/2024 09:00 PM

POLICE FORCES AND ARMED GANGS OF AD MACHINE THEMSELVES HIGH SCHOOLS AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

• On May 13 and 19, 1960, students César Contreras, 14, were killed in Caracas and Oswaldo Pereira Guerra, 18, in San Cristóbal, respectively, by police officers.
• On May 19, 1964, the Second National Student Assembly unanimously agreed to initiate a student strike in all secondary schools and universities in Venezuela.
• Raúl Leoni's reaction was not long in coming, his Minister of Internal Relations, Gonzalo Barrios, ordered the repressive bodies to attack the headquarters of high schools, technical schools and universities in the country. The armed Adeco-Copeyan gangs took action.
• At a time when students from the Andrés Bello, Santos Michelena and Fermín Toro high schools were organizing to go out and march peacefully to the headquarters of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), municipal and Digepole police showed up to prevent them from leaving, firing bursts of machine guns against their walls.
• At the same time, 10:30am, Digepol and Municipal Police patrols, with more than 30 personnel, shot at the headquarters of the Liceo Antonio José de Sucre in Catia.
• Those students who tried to leave their high schools were backstabbed and brushed before being arrested and taken to Digepol jails.
• For their part, the march organized by the students of the Gustavo Herrera High School who were about to go to the UCV was violently disbanded by the police.
• Two days later, armed AD gangs, in alliance with Digepol officials and the Municipal Police, stormed the headquarters of the Western Industrial Technical School. Three students were seriously injured and 80 were arrested by the police.
• On May 13, César Contreras, a 14-year-old student at the Simón Bolívar High School in San Cristóbal, died in the hospital of that city after being shot and wounded by police during student demonstrations and anti-government events that shook the entire Andean region.
• The students of the Universidad de los Andes (ULA), outraged by the death of the boy César Contreras, called for a peaceful protest, which was suppressed with the excessive and overwhelming use of the police force that characterized the government of Raúl Leoni.
• On May 19**, Oswaldo Pereira Guerra** was shot to death by a technical police sergeant in Sector East 2 of the El Conde Urbanization, 150 meters from the Liceo Andrés Bello. The said agent took out his revolver and emptied the content about the humanity of Oswaldo Pereira Guerra, who died on the spot.
• In Caracas, victims of gusts fired at schools admitted students to the Peripheral Hospital of Catia:
  • Vilma Herrera (15 years old), a student at the Liceo Antonio José de Sucre, who was dragged along the pavement by the armed mob of AD. There was a debate between life and death at the time of this edition of La Extra.
  • Marcos Segovia (16 years old) with a fractured skull.
  • Gandulfo Angarita (16 years old) with a neck injury.
  • Gilberto Ordaz was assaulted by lobbyists and seriously injured.
• From the city of Coro, edo. Falcón, Simón José González reported that the young Héctor Zozimo Navarro and Gilberto Mora Muñoz were being savagely mistreated in the Digepol torture rooms in that city. Warning that the state of health of the tortured was such that they were at risk of dying.

Mazo News Team