Andrés Velásquez denounces mock trials against Sidor workers

Andrés Velásquez, presidential candidate of La Causa R (LCR), denounced that in Venezuela there is a state of defenselessness due to the persecution that the government of Nicolás Maduro maintains against dissidents and especially against Sidor workers

On his Twitter account, Velasquez He repudiated this Sunday, June 18, that in this case there are simulated trials because the presence of lawyers is not allowed.

“In Venezuela there is no justice. Claiming wages and compliance with the collective agreement is not a crime. We are in the presence of a defenseless state, in a tyrannical regime,” said the LCR leader whose fight began in the union sphere.

1/2. The primer that the dictatorship has as a routine of accusations against workers and also against human rights activists and political activists: criminal association, incitement to hatred, boycott, terrorism. These are the charges against SIDOR workers.

– Andres Velasquez (@AndresVelasqz) June 18, 2023

In this sense, Velásquez stressed that the government follows a script, “a primer of the dictatorship”, which is applied not only against workers, but also reaches human rights activists and political activists. From there, he questioned himself, that the accusations are based on the same crimes. Association to commit crimes, incitement to hatred, boycott, terrorism.

“These are the charges that are imputed to workers of Sidor»he stressed.

This week several of the trade unionists in Sidor, Bolívar state, were ordered an unnamed precautionary measure in which they are prohibited, among other things, from “promoting situations of conflict, verbal violence, use of posters, banners or any type of instrument that incites hatred.