Film · Documentary

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero (1978)

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.

Director

Jesús Enrique Guédez

Writers

Jesús Enrique Guédez

Country

Venezuela

Language

Spanish

Release date

January 1, 1978