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THREE Venezuelan trade union leaders were freed on Wednesday, a week after being arrested for protesting at a state-owned dairy.
Union president Exio Urriola, general secretary Carlos Mora and complaints secretary Jimmy Merchan were freed after intervention by the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and its union federation the National Front for Working-Class Struggle (FNLCT).
The workers’ leaders at the Lacteos Los Andes Hugo Chavez plant in Cabudare, Lara state, were arrested last Thursday after they organised a protest against management’s “inefficient and unproductive policies,” Paul Dobson reported for news website Venezuelanalysis.
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET