Operación Canguro was the intervention of the Central University of Venezuela on 31 October 1969 by orders of President Rafael Caldera.

The rector of the Central University of Venezuela, Jesús María Bianco, was dismissed by the Provisional National Council of Universities when he refused to attend the newly created body.

[1] In 1969, the Movimiento de Renovación Universitaria (University Renewal Movement) gained strength, whose radical proposals alarmed both the government and the opposition.

The government described the raid as a preventive seizure of the spaces of the Botanical Garden and the Covered Gymnasium, arguing that the objective was capturing snipers that were stationed there.

In January 1971 the government appointed interim authorities: Rafael-Clemente Arráiz as rector, Oswaldo De Sola as academic vice-rector and Eduardo Vásquez as secretary.