Ruben Gonzalez – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:36:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png Ruben Gonzalez – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 ‘My life’s work’: Venezuelan union leader vows to defend workers after pardon https://onvenezuela.com/my-lifes-work-venezuelan-union-leader-vows-to-defend-workers-after-pardon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-lifes-work-venezuelan-union-leader-vows-to-defend-workers-after-pardon Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:36:44 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=5417

One of Venezuela’s most influential union leaders has vowed to press on with his fight for workers’ rights after his release this week from two years of detention in a military prison on what he calls trumped up charges. Soldiers detained Ruben Gonzalez, one of 110 people pardoned on Monday by President Nicolas Maduro, in 2018 after he led a protest to demand the Socialist leader defend Venezuela’s once-potent steel industry. By Angus Berwick, Maria Ramirez. Full Text-> Reuters

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