(Testimonio de un obrero petrolero)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Venezuela

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

34 minutes

Year:

1978

Directors:

Jesús Enrique Guédez

Production companies:

Cronos-Cine

Actors:

Self

Crews:

Director

Writer

Producer

Director of Photography