In a press statement issued by the Political Bureau of the PCV, it was reported that “in the last two weeks open and simulated dismissals have been executed in public institutions and state enterprises”.
“Workers who have openly declared their rejection of the anti-worker and anti-popular management of the Government of Nicolás Maduro and who also have reasonable doubts about the results announced by the National Electoral Council are threatened and persecuted in their workplaces,” detailed López.
“We have news of illegal dismissals and forced resignations in PDVSA, Corpoelec and the health sector”, added the communist leader.
The member of the Political Bureau of the PCV informed that workers of the state TV channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) “were dismissed for political reasons in the last few days”. She also assured that “labor harassment practices have been accentuated in work spaces linked to the education sector”, as well as in Governors’ and Mayors’ Offices.
López said that this escalation of the Government against workers “aggravates the repressive onslaught against the popular sectors registered in the first days after the elections”.
Non Governmental Organizations have documented more than 1500 detentions after the elections; among the cases there are 200 women and 129 teenagers.
“We are in the presence of massive repression against vulnerable sectors; while persecution against leaders and activists of political, social and union organizations also continues”, he pointed out.
Consolidation of authoritarianism
Regarding the recent approval by the National Assembly of the Law for the Control, Regularization, Performance and Financing of Non-Governmental and Related Organizations, the PCV clarified that it did not support this project promoted by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) since “it is part of the process of consolidation of the authoritarian model personified by the government presided by Nicolás Maduro and his acolytes”.
“This new legal instrument limits the constitutional provision that obliges the State to facilitate the exercise of the right of association that every Venezuelan citizen has”, affirmed López.
“While it is true that imperialism has historically promoted its policy of interference and aggression against the Venezuelan people, using Non-Governmental Organizations as a façade, it is also true that a large number of them are the organized social base of important sectors of civil society,” he added.
López warned “that there are many noble causes and activities of the organized civil society that will now be affected by the heavy official bureaucracy of controls, inspection, fines, supervisions, audits and other normalization processes in charge of the Ministry of the Interior and Justice”.
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