🎬 Documentary

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero

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Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by corporal punishment, exploitation, racial segregation, and disease, alongside the emergence of collective resistance against the American and British oil companies that controlled the industry and the government that enabled them.

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Year
1978
Runtime
34m
Genre
Documentary
Language
ES

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Jesús Enrique Guédez 👤 Manuel Taborda
trade union oil industry venezuelan history

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Testimonio de un obrero petrolero has a runtime of 34m ( and 34 minutes).
Testimonio de un obrero petrolero was directed by Jesús Enrique Guédez and released in 1978.
Testimonio de un obrero petrolero is a Documentary film (1978).
The cast of Testimonio de un obrero petrolero includes Manuel Taborda.

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