Testimonio de un obrero petrolero

(1978)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1978

Runtime: 34 мин

Country: Venezuela

Director: Jesús Enrique Guédez

Cast: Manuel Taborda

Plot

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.