Venezuelan Communist Party Denounces Detention by SEBIN of Fetraelec Union leader Elio Palacios

For having denounced the crisis in the electric sector

 On Wednesday morning, February 14th, 2018, at dawn hours, Elio Palacios was raided by the SEBIN, in Guacara, the headquarters of the party.
February 15, 2018.-The officials proceeded to take Comrade Elio Palacios and they confiscated his cell phone.In the morning they went to the headquarters of SEBIN in Naguanagua, the president of FETRAELEC Ángel Navas, along with other leaders, who were informed that they were there for "Inquiries" and according to the interrogation they will see whether they present it to the courts or not. .In any case, already Fetraelec in coordination with the wife of the companion Palacios, assigned a lawyer to him.Supposedly, the detention that, in our opinion is arbitrary, occurs by the investigation of some complaints made by Elio Palacios through audios broadcast by whatsapp, in which he denounces Motta Dominguez for the situation in CORPOELEC, warns about the imminent collapse of the national electricity system in the absence of indispensable preventive maintenance and demands the dismissal of senior management, while announcing the holding of a general assembly of workers of the Trade Union of Workers of Corpoelec in Caracas, Miranda and Vargas (of which he is his general secretary), in which a plan of fight in defense of the industry and the rights of the working mass of the electrical sector will be agreed.

 The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), together with the Workers 'and Workers' Class Current "Crúz Villegas" (CCT-CV) and the National Front of the Working Class Fight (FNLCT), express our solidarity with the just struggles of the and the electrical workers, as well as with the Cda. Elio Palacios, at the same time we demand his immediate and unconditional release. We urgently call on all organizations of the labor and class movement of the country and the world to speak out demanding the release of comrade Elio Palacios and the cessation of the criminalization practices of the struggles and denunciations that workers and their workers legitimately assume and raise. class leaders. Those of us who subscribe to this communiqué are turning to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and the International Union of Trade Unions (UIS) of Energy to demand from such international organizations their militant solidarity in this case.

On behalf the PCV: Oscar Figuera (Secretary General). For the CCT-CV and the FNLCT: Pedro Eusse (General Coordinator))

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