chirino's firing:
The League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) wishes to join our fellow workers in Venezuela and elsewhere who are protesting the dismissal of union leader Orlando Chirino on December 28, 2007 by the PDVSA of Venezuela, the state-owned oil company. Chirino has worked at the PDVSA of Venezuela, since 2003. He is a prominent left-wing union leader, and he has been a prominent left critic of President Hugo Chávez’s recent scheme to revise the Constitution. We agree with Chirino’s own declaration that his dismissal was an act of “discrimination and political persecution.”