Venezuelan bank fraud case: More news!! [Archive]

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10th December 2009, 18:23

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the Institute in Defence of People’s Access to Goods and Services (Indepabis), along with the national guard, intervened in and inspected four food companies

The general secretary of the Pronutricos workers union, Wilmer Leon, said the management of that company disappeared as soon as the government intervened in the banks, and the 800 workers have gone two weeks without pay.

On 3 December Indepabis temporarily occupied Venarroz, a rice packaging plant in Guarico state, which had been paralysed for the last four months. According to ABN, workers have now taken over the company and made it 100% operative.

Workers at the plant said they hadn’t been paid for a month and that the owners had been taking parts of the machinery little by little to devalue the plant and impede its functioning.

“Today is a day of celebration for the workers because they showed that they don’t need a capitalist manager to advance in the production of food,” Chacin said.

On Sunday, the mayor of Guante in Anzoategui state, Jonathan Marin, took over Fernandez’s tuna factory, Fextun. Marin said the company hadn’t been functioning for seven years, and that the act of recuperating the factory was to help dignify the population of Guante.

Marin also said the machinery would become part of a social production company, and would generate 1,200 jobs