Night of the Machetes

The Night of the Machetes (La noche de los machetes) was the name given to the massacre that occurred on May 8, 1913, in San Fernando de Atabapo, Venezuela, where the assassination of Amazonas Governor Roberto Pulido, his wife and his children took place, along with the killing of dozens or even hundreds of people, as well as the assault on the Government House of the Amazonas Federal Territory, carried out by colonel Tomás Funes and his henchmen. This marked the beginning of seven years of Funes' bloody de facto rule over Amazonas.

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