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The reports after the murder of the popular vallenatero, Rafael Orozco, which occurred on June 11, 1992, reveal that the mastermind of the crime was a Venezuelan and the motive was passion.
From Maracaibo began the plan to kill the singer member of El Binomio de Oro.
Here’s how Wikipedia tells the story:
Rafael José Orozco Maestre (Becerril, Cesar, March 24, 1954 – Barranquilla, Atlántico, June 11, 1992), was a Colombian vallenato singer and composer, co-founder and lead singer of the musical group El Binomio de Oro together with Israel Romero from 1976 to 1992.
the beginning
He was born in Becerril, at that time part of Magdalena Grande, on March 24, 1954, in the home of Rafael Orozco and Cristina Maestre, made up of thirteen siblings, five men and eight women. Riding the donkey “El Ñato”, as a child he sold water that he collected in the Maracas River. He initially wanted to be an accordionist like his father. He also sang rancheras that he learned in Mexican movies shown in old Juan’s theater, and ballads by Yaco Monti, at that time his favorite singer.
He completed secondary studies at the Loperena National College in Valledupar and in a Cultural Week he was the winner in a singing contest before Juvenal Daza, Octavio Daza, Adalberto Ariño and Diomedes Díaz, who at the event sang “Cariñito de mi vida”, a song that Rafael Orozco became famous and that was his first hit, recorded with Emilio Oviedo in 1975.
Thanks to the success achieved, Rafael Orozco was a singer for Luciano Poveda and his group, but only to entertain private parties. He later was with Julio de la Ossa, also without recording. Orozco recorded for the first time with the accordionist Emilio Oviedo in 1975. With them, Orozco consolidated his own style different from the classic vallenato represented by “Los playoneros del Cesar”, “Bovea y sus vallenatos”, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Jorge Oñate, Los Hermanos Zuleta , among others.
The Golden Binomial
Rafael Orozco and Israel Romero met for the first time at a school in Manaure, Cesar, where Orozco sang at a party. Later they strengthened their friendship at a birthday for Poncho Zuleta.
In Barranquilla, Rafael coincided with Israel on the birthday of Mario Ceballos Araújo, rector of the Autonomous University of the Caribbean, and they played together for the first time. Two months later, the birth of the musical group El Binomio de Oro was consolidated on the birthday of Lenín Bueno Suárez, also in Barranquilla, in 1976.
With the Binomio de Oro, he earned three Congos de Oro at the Barranquilla Carnival Orchestra Festival, 16 gold records and two platinum records for million-dollar sales, distinctions and awards in Venezuela (where the group was a recurring guest on the Venevisión Super Sábado Sensacional), Panama and the United States.1 2 Orozco ventured into composition at the end of his life; he was the author of the song “Only for you”.
Personal life
Rafael Orozco married Clara Elena Cabello Sarmiento (Urumita, La Guajira) in the church of Santa Bernardita in Barranquilla, on March 5, 1976. They had three daughters, Kelly Johanna, Wendy Giolanny and Loraine.
Orozco was a soccer fan, a fan of Junior (in homage he published a song, in collaboration with Juan Piña, called “El Cumbión del Junior”) and of the Colombian National Team. He studied several semesters of Business Administration at the Autonomous University of the Caribbean before devoting himself to music.
Homicide
Rafael Orozco had arrived in Barranquilla on June 9, 1992 after an absence of forty-five days due to his artistic commitments in Venezuela and the interior of Colombia. On the night of June 11, 1992, Orozco’s daughters gave a party at their residence to celebrate the end of the school semester.8 After 9:00 pm, Alfonso Ariza De la Hoz and Francisco Javier Corena, assistants of the musical group of Diomedes Díaz, 9 arrived at Orozco’s house asking the singer to borrow some musical instruments and money. 10 Orozco attended them outside the house in order not to interrupt the party.
They were talking when at 9:45 pm a gunman shot Orozco ten times, hitting his humanity nine times (in the occipital region, in the face, in the back, and in the gluteal region), causing him to die. death on the spot. Orozco was transferred to the Clínica del Caribe by his wife, but he arrived lifeless and was declared dead at 10:00 p.m.1
Among the motives for the murder, the extramarital relationship that Orozco had with María Angélica Navarro Ogliastri12 (who had been the wife of later congressman Armando Benedetti) and who at that time also had a sentimental relationship with the rancher and drug trafficker José Reinaldo “El Nano” was considered. Fiallo Jácome, and a reckoning for Orozco’s alleged involvement in drug trafficking.
For the crime, the engineer Jorge Navarro Insignares (father of María Angélica) were apprehended as the perpetrator; her son Jorge Enrique, Alfonso Ariza De la Hoz and Francisco Javier Corena (as accomplices); Orby Campo Valdeblánquez, Diomedes Zubiría Redondo and Porfirio Zubiría Redondo (as material authors according to the version of Javier Enrique Arias Martínez, who later said his name was José Luis Ospino Ariza); and Ever Antonio Zubiría Redondo, but all were released when it was determined that they had nothing to do with the murder.
At the beginning of July 1992, an action for protection filed by the family of Rafael Orozco against the newspapers El Heraldo, La Libertad and El Espacio was ruled in favor of the plaintiffs so that they refrain from publishing aspects and photos of the private life of the singer, his widow and his daughters.
On August 19, 1998, the Fourth Criminal Court of the Barranquilla Circuit ruled that Orozco was murdered by Sergio González Torres, escort of “El Nano” Fiallo and that the crime was motivated by passion, due to the aforementioned love triangle between Orozco, Navarro and Fiallo.
Among the Prosecutor’s evidence was the ballistics evidence that established that Orozco had been riddled with the Heckler & Koch model P7 K3, 7.65 caliber pistol that was found in Fiallo’s possession on the day of his murder, and a letter addressed to from prison by Mario Alzate Urquijo to the then Attorney General of the Nation, Gustavo de Greiff, in which he revealed that “el Nano” Fiallo expressed in his presence and that of other drug traffickers that he had the support of his employer, alias “Camilo” , to eliminate Rafael Orozco, because he had a relationship with his girlfriend.
However, a series of deaths occurred after the assassination of Rafael Orozco: Víctor Herrera Ortega, a guard at a building neighboring Rafael Orozco’s residence, who witnessed the crime, disappeared after declaring the day after the events, Alfonso Ariza De la Hoz and Francisco Javier Corena were taken from their homes and disappeared after their last inquiry on August 4, 1992.
José Reinaldo “El Nano” Fiallo and his escort Sergio González were assassinated in Medellín on November 18, 1992, and Orby Campo Valdeblánquez was assassinated in Barranquilla on April 4, 1993. In addition, the prosecutor who initiated the process, Jorge Paternostro , drowned in the waters of a stream in Barranquilla on July 16, 1993.
The journalist Fabio Poveda Márquez (a very close friend of Orozco) and Diomedes Díaz’s accordionist at the time of the events, Juancho Rois, who also testified in the process, died shortly after.
The remains of Rafael Orozco were veiled at the Jardines del Recuerdo funeral home in Barranquilla, but because the crowd grew uncontrollably, the coffin was moved successively to larger and larger venues: the church of El Carmen, the Cathedral and finally the coliseum covered Humberto Perea, where a field mass was held.
From there, his body was transferred in a massive journey of about 8 km to the Jardines del Recuerdo cemetery, where he was buried at the end of the afternoon of June 12, 1992 in the midst of a crowd arriving from different parts of Colombia and Venezuela, where There was even a live broadcast of the funeral by Venevisión.
Many personalities were present at the wake and burial, including several fellow singers and accordionists such as Jorge Oñate, Miguel Morales, Raúl “Chiche” Martínez, Marcos Díaz, Carlos Malo, Jesualdo Bolaños, Emilio Oviedo, Alberto Villa and Rafael Escalona , among others, who at the time the coffin was buried sang several of the most famous songs of the Binomio de Oro, such as La creciente, Eterno enamorado, Momentos de amor and Dime, pajarito. At the same time, in the Alfonso López de Valledupar square, a massive rally was held in which thousands of people took out white handkerchiefs and demanded justice.
We present newspaper material from Panorama editions on the murder of Rafael Orozco
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