Email this document Prostitutes version. On August 16, some 50 persons demonstrated at Caracas' Plaza Francia against Machiques fraud in the August 15 referendum.
The status of approximately 19, employees of PDVSA who were fired during and in the aftermath of the December February national strike remained legally uncertain. One tabloid in Caracas, whose sole source of advertisement appeared to be the Government, sided fully with the Government.
The Labor Code mandates registration of unions with the Ministry of Labor, but it limits the Ministry's discretion by specifying that registration may not be denied if the proper documents a record of the founding meeting, the statutes, and membership list are submitted.
CTV leaders claimed that the Ministry of Labor routinely rejected collective bargaining agreements negotiated by CTV affiliates on administrative grounds. PROVEA reported that between October and September, it received 58 complaints of torture and regarding cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Pro-government assailants shot and injured four reporters, and one reporter was killed, allegedly by drug traffickers.
Although rancher kidnappings by Colombian terrorist organizations have been a problem in the border states for decades, Fedenaga attributed most of the increase to domestic criminal gangs, common criminals, and the Bolivarian Liberation Forces FBL , a relatively new organization allegedly composed of militant supporters of the President.
