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Trade unionists freed after a week-long stint in jail for protesting inefficient factory
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.
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