The murder of nine companions shook our feelings with the same violence that overcame their bodies. We remember the face the aggressor, looking ahead, stronger than ever in our class hatred. They were removed for the People are resigned to live in the misery of capitalism and corruption. They raised a social political movement called "The Current Social Historical" who rescued the Bolivarian thought, in search of a homeland just for Venezuelans and the union of fraternal countries.
DILIA Antonio Rojas, he campaigned at a young age in the revolutionary movement. Following their participation had to go to Cuba where he studied French. It was a popular leader known. Poetry lover and a fighter neighborhood, working as a nurse in various health facilities. Founding member of the Association Residents of Carabobo, on behalf of the districts of Valencia in the year 80. Left 7 children.
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Pedro Jiménez |
PEDRO GARCIA PABLO JIMENEZ : worked in the Ministry of Public Works and was leader of the Trade Union of Transport Workers Single Path founded the newspaper and was active in the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party for several years.
NELSON DIAZ CASTELLANOS, played in the Revolutionary Left Movement in Socialist League. He left 3 children.
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Ronald Morao |
RONALD SALGADO José Mora, an activist from a young revolutionary, was launched in the activities of the Front of Popular Culture was activist politician in the Los Flores de Catia where he edited and distributed the newspaper "El Rebelde". She was active in the Socialist League, an organization in which it became part of the governing bodies.
MEDINA JOSE ROSENDO SILVA, he was a tinker and automotive painter for many years. Silva was also a founder of Francisco de Miranda Cultural Center in the city of Valencia. One concern was social inequality for which he fought until his death.
JOSE SIMON ROMERO MADRID , popular culture worker, poet and songwriter. From very young he had a vocation for music as a child was the first voice choir "Don Bosco" and then the Orfeon "Cardinal Spellman" began music studies at the Escuela Juan Jose Landaeta, gave guitar lessons at the Cultural Center of the Federation Youth of Venezuela. He was part of groups Musical "Spike" and "Freedom Song."
LUIS GUZMAN RAFAEL GREEN , was a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation and the Group Zero. He worked for several years as a clerk in some companies for two years and joined the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV).
RAFAEL INFANTE RAMON QUEVEDO, in fourth semester in the department of Castilian, the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas. According to the text, right there joined the Federation of Student Centers.
ALFREDO CAICEDO, was a member of the Army National Liberation (ELN) of Colombia. "He was imprisoned and then exiled to Mexico, where he studied anthropology at the Autonomous University of Mexico."
Facts:
The "Historical Current Social consisted of community leaders, neighborhood groups, students and workers, who through public activities flying a political project whose fundamental ideological base consisted of the dissemination and practice within the organized communities of Bolivar and nationalist thought, through self-management experiences in solving social problems.
After a long process of intimidation against them Venezuelans and their families, DISIP the catch, subjected to torture and murder, under the false argument of armed confrontation between officials and a group of guerrillas.
The operation involved the infiltration of four members of the DISIP (Norberto Rebanal, Alirio Rebanal, Bergenis Beraciarte and Rafael Rojas) movement called the social-historical currents of which were part of those killed. They had one (1) year participating as members of the political movement as a prelude to planning and execution of the extermination operation would be carried out one year later.
undercover agents, planned since March 1986, a meeting to discuss the guidelines of the new organization, for which the same agents, they chose a rural setting was unaware of the other members of the organization.
On May 6, 1986 began to transfer the scene to a group of eleven (11) persons in a vehicle for private use, among which were some of the victims died, three (3 ) persons were arrested by undercover agents of the DISIP between 6 and 7 May 1986, they were tortured and murdered and taken to the place. Notably, in the same truck these agents (Alirio Rebanal Rebanal and Norberto, who called themselves by the nicknames "Compadrito" and "Triniti" respectively) and who were known widely in communities south of the city of Valencia and Yaracuy as active members of the organization mentioned above, so had enough credibility so that guaranteed the presence of a significant number of people, as they had planned came to this meeting where they would be killed by the command of the DISIP , it should be noted that used all kinds of resources to ensure attendance at the place of the Slaughter, other social activists from different locations in Yaracuy and Valencia, who for various reasons did not attend the meeting, but survived to the sinister action.
simulated an ambush by a guerrilla group and was used on the community leaders some of whom were captured and subsequently tortured for days before and take multiple shots to kill with rifles on their heads and ray showed through the autopsy that many of them had "coup de grace" and had multiple external injuries that indicate the use of torture before being executed in the Barlovento area, settlement of La Vaca, Yaracuy.
After the slaughter, the bodies were dressed in military clothes and paraded before the media, who spread the official version expressed by the Minister of Home Affairs, Octavio Lepage, according to which officials Disip, had been ambushed by a group of irregular and in defense of their lives using organic weapons, leaving such a confrontation the balance of nine people killed, although that version was unbearable for the many left contradictions issued by official bodies.
It should be noted that according to testimonies of survivors and residents from the area (who were never called to give evidence in the "investigation" by military authorities incompetent to make such facts) it entered the sector command called the Vaca several days before and used for this unofficial vehicles belonging to individuals.
order to conceal the true facts, a case was substantiated by the military court, which in a disgraceful decision dated August 7, 1989, stated: "... The facts of the criminal liability of a staff of experts to the General Sectoral Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services (DISIP) by reason of the death of citizens GREEN LUIS RAFAEL GUZMAN, JOSE ROSENDO SILVA MEDINA, RONALD SALGADO JOSE MORA , ANTONIA DILIA ROJAS, SIMON ROMERO MADRID JOSE, PEDRO PABLO JIMENEZ GARCIA, RAMON RAFAEL QUEVEDO INFANTE, MARTIN NELSON CASTELLANOS ALFREDO DIAZ and Caicedo Castilla, who are implicit in the crime REBELLION military fully demonstrated in cars ... "The Military judge Lt. Col. Oscar was Rene Green Mendiri.
was a full record flawed, which violated the constitutional guarantee of the right to defend the families of the victims, who were never called to testify, but on the contrary, police officers threatened to kill them and pursued.
The trial court referred the infamous statement to the Council of Permanent War Maracay, complying with due process, and that is where Lieutenant Colonel Aviation Germain Acevedo Rafael Blasco, who was a Judge, makes a FEEDBACK SAVED grounds that the sentence is contradictory elements of trial evidence, including:
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Jaime Lusinchi. President at the time |
- Among the claims made by police officers acting in relation to which they were ambushed by a guerrilla group in a forest, where the pictures recorded by the same officials is evidence that this is a flat, clear, low vegetation type grass, light, devoid of trees to allow making it impossible to hide the execution of an ambush.
- In relationship to the low number of "alleged ambush" (Police officers), contrasting with the certainty of shots in the head and thorax of the suspected attackers, showing the falsity of the statements by officials as the advantage which involves the concealment and defense protection perpetrators in a wooded area would cause a proved disastrous to the ambush.
- No signs of fire in the military uniforms of the victims, especially backpacks, even if the victims had bullet holes in the dorsal region. (What supports the view that they were dressed in military garb after being killed).
- is illogical for the person who participates in an ambush do carrying a backpack weighing and volume makes it difficult for their movements.
- not collected shells or cartridges of shells fired around the victim as evidence that they fired no gun.
- Lack of military court should refer the case to the ordinary criminal courts, not the officers involved to be members of any component of the National Armed Forces, but police officers.
It should be noted that these undercover agents Slaughter who acted in it, 4 years ago using the same procedure carried out the Slaughter of Cantaura, which killed 23 Venezuelans.
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Octavio Lepage (right) |
19 years later, in July 2005, the National Assembly, created a Special Commission at the request of President Hugo Chavez to investigate political crimes that occurred during the Fourth Republic. It was called " special commission to investigate the killings, disappearances and TORTURE OF VENEZUELAN VENEZUELAN AND DURING THE DECADE OF THE 60, 70 AND 80 ". It was formed by several members, relatives of victims and survivors of those decades and legal technical multidisciplinary gotten down to perform various investigations in the military and police files. Unfortunately the committee only lasted 5 months, on the grounds of "having no budget." However, victims are asked if there was anything "budget to train the police murderers in previous administrations?, Does the Venezuelan government in time of the Fourth Republic, spare resources to achieve their criminal objectives? Nevertheless, and in that short period, the legal technical team to support the family, managed to do some research, among these, the events of the Slaughter of Yumare.
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Henry López Sisco. Ex-Director of the DISIP |
20 years later, just the May 8, 2006, lawyers who made up the former commission, prepared a lawsuit, which was filed before the criminal courts of San Felipe in Yaracuy State. It was accepted and immediately began investigating fiscal before the Public Prosecutor.
Today at 22 years of this terrible crime against humanity , prosecutors have advanced a lot of research, almost complete, in which sufficient information was collected for an upcoming trial against the murderers.
Family members and victims do not decay in the fight against impunity.
Thanks:
All relatives and friends of the victims.
A Hugo Chavez, President of the Republic, José Vicente Rangel, former Vice President, Carlos Jiménez, Yaracuy State Governor, Ricardo Gutierrez, National Assembly deputy, Jesse Chacon, a former
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