Testimonio de un obrero petrolero

Testimonio de un obrero petrolero (1978) is a documentary film directed by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

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.

Cast

Manuel Taborda

Self