The Hunger Strike After Juan Vicente Aparicio's Death is recorded as a protest in which political prisoner Valentin Arregui took part. Its significance in the available account lies in the grievance it expressed and in the prison authorities’ later characterization of Valentin as a reputed instigator.

Background

The record places the protest within Valentin’s imprisonment after his arrest on October 16, 1972, along Route 5 outside Barrancas. National Guard troops had surrounded a group of activists involved in promoting disturbances with strikers at two automotive assembly plants on the highway. Valentin was held under the Federal Government’s Executive Power and was awaiting judgment.

The Protest

Valentin took part in a hunger strike protesting the death of political prisoner Juan Vicente Aparicio while Aparicio was undergoing police interrogation. The record identifies the death as the protest’s cause, but supplies no further details about the strike’s duration, other participants, or its immediate outcome.

Official Record and Aftermath

The prison record describes Valentin as a reputed instigator of the hunger strike, rather than establishing that characterization as fact. It also records that he was moved to solitary confinement for ten days as of March 25, 1975, without explicitly linking that transfer to the strike. The account thus preserves both the protest’s stated grievance and the authorities’ view of Valentin as a source of prison unrest.