Ezequiel Zamora Peasant Front (FNCEZ) reports the assassination of two peasants in Pavia near Barquisimeto (Lara). Fabricio Duglas Ivan Perez Heredia and Engel Alexander Hernesto Perez Heredia were found shot dead on Tuesday night. The FNCEZ accuses the police of their death after witnesses confirm that the two men were seen in a police car before been found dead. The deceased are members of the El Pauji settlement and were the sons of Ivan Alexander Perez Ortiz, leader of the Peasant Bolivarian Alliance (ABC). The organisation has denounced the assassination, which they point to as a sign that police forces are " infiltrated by elements contrary to the revolution and to life itself."
The opposition May Day march revolved around protests against the government's new school curriculum project. Representatives of the several opposition trade union movements, such as the employers union block, the independent trade union alliance and the former power house, the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela (CTV) joined with the so-called Student Movement to march to the National Assembly where they handed over a document to members of the Podemos party. Podemos deputy, Juan Jose Molina says he will hand a letter to the National Assembly directorate, adding that he believes in a democratic society that includes all Venezuelans ... "today is important not just for the workers of one side or the other but for all Venezuelan workers."
Pro-government workers' organizations could boast of a good turnout for the march and rally in Caracas and major cities to celebrate the International Workers Day. The main speaker at the Avenida Urdaneta rally in Caracas was the new Labor Minister and Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) leader, Roberto Fernandez who delivered a low-key and brief speech stating that the unity of the working class is indispensable not for demagogical reasons but out of conviction that the great plans for the Venezuelan people cannot be achieved without the working class.
The Sutiss trade union supports the President Chavez' nationalization of the Sidor steel company in southeastern Venezuela where the union is at its strongest. Sutiss president, Jose Rodriguez says the nationalization is a result of 10 years of protest on the part of workers against the foreign company which has stagnated salaries and forced 10,000 workers out of the company and into the hands of subcontractors. Although Rodriguez did not mention which trade union central the important Sutiss will join, he did call on trade union organizations in Bolivar State's basic companies to unite in the struggle for a better standard of living for Venezuelan workers. Rodriguez also calls on President Chavez to analyze the situation of other companies that operate inside the Sidor complex, such as Tubos de Venezuela and Matesi.
National Elections Council (CNE) Deputy President, Janeth Hernandez has confirmed that opposition leaders, Leopoldo Lopez and Enrique Mendoza cannot aspire to posts in the regional elections. A decision taken by the Comptroller General's Office confirming the decision is not, she insists, a retaliation or something circumstantial but serious and legal. According to Comptroller General, Clodosbaldo Russian, there are more than 400 persons from all political tendencies that cannot aspire to elections this year because they have cases pending in the courts. Yesterday, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) ratified the Comptroller General's faculty to impose penalties. The TSJ rejected a nullity recourse lodged by the candidate to Tachira State Governorship, Gerardo Mendez Guerrero. The latter was judged incapacitated to aspire to any public service after the Comptroller General pronounced against him on November 13, 2007 for problems of administrative responsibility in 2002 when he presided over the Institute of Sport in Tachira.
Zulia State Governor, Manuel Rosales, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have met during a recent opening of an office of the French Alliance in Vallepudar (Cesar Department), Colombia. According to a report in El Nacional broadsheet, Rosales says he would like to see greater trade, cultural and sport exchange between peoples living on both sides of the border, while Uribe insists that his government is in constant war against irregular armed groups and narco-trafficking in border areas. The Zulia State Government says relations with Colombia are good because Zulia is one of the Venezuelan states where there is a greater presence of Colombians and greater trade exchange.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
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