On 1 March, in Cuidad Piar, Ruben Gonzalez, a trade-unionist in Ferrominera, was sentenced to jail for strike action. Ruben said after the verdict:
"I will go in jail but I had done what I had to do". His lawyers called 70 witnesses as the accusation was only calling 5 witnesses. The charges were: plot, incitment to crime, violation of a safety zone, obstacle to the freedom to work !
All the sectors of the workers' movement independent from Chavez government agree to analyse that sentence as a threat against the freedom to strike for workers. Orlando Chirino and Jose Bodas, leaders of the Corriente Clasista, Unitaria, Revolucionaria y Autónoma (CCURA) condemned this sentence.
In a few days, Chavez gave a summary of his politics: jail for strikers and support for Gaddafi, the butcher of the Libyan people.
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