Venezuelan María Mercedes Antxeta was arrested by the Francoists in San Sebastian and tortured by Meliton Manzanas. He was on vacation in the Gipuzkoan capital, and when an anti-Francoist group began distributing anti-repressive leaflets, he was hit in the surroundings. The Spanish police committed mass arrests and took Antxeta, a Basque surname.

He passed through the hands of Manzanas, known commander and torturer of the Social Political Brigade, and was brutally tortured. The Venezuelan government adapted to leave San Sebastian, but died in 46 days in Caracas.

Among others, it had the body cut and the vagina shattered. Between 1961 and 1993, fourteen people died in the Basque Country as a result of police torture.