Fabricio Ojeda

COPEI, and used the only clandestine press left in Venezuela, that of the Communist Party of Venezuela, to publish a manifesto.^[1] The Junta ultimately played a leading role in coordinating the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état the following January,^[2] including organising a general strike on 21 January.^[3] As the head of the Patriotic Junta, Ojeda emerged from the Pérez dictatorship as the most important URD member after its leader, Jóvito Villalba.^[4]

Pact of Punto Fijo power-sharing agreement the URD was edged out of power, and it left the government in 1960.^[5] Shortly after the failed military rebellions of El Carupanazo (May) and El Porteñazo (June), Ojeda resigned as representative on 30 June 1962, announcing that he was joining the armed guerrilla movement. He was captured in October 1962, and was later involved in the launch of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)^{[citation needed]} and its political wing, the National Liberation Front (FLN), in February 1963.^[6] Ojeda escaped from prison on 15 September 1963 (with the support of the FALN and supporters in the regular army), and became Commander of the Frente Guerrillero 'José Antonio Páez', one of the FALN's cells. On 21 June 1966 Ojeda was captured in Caracas, and was found in his cell four days later, dead from suicide.^[7]