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Two auto workers die in clash with Venezuela police
Reuters - Saturday, January 31
CARACAS, Jan 30 - Two workers were shot and killed during clashes as police broke up a protest at a Venezuelan automobile assembly factory in one of the worst incidents of labor violence in the OPEC nation in years.
Authorities immediately suspended police involved in the operation that dispersed workers who had blocked entrances for two weeks at the MMC company's plant, the local governor told state television on Friday.
Protests in disputes over pay at private companies are common in Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez ideologically backs workers' rights over what he calls capitalism's evil.
But few demonstrations turn violent. The last major incident at a labor protest was in March when a union leader was shot and wounded during clashes with police at a steel plant Chavez nationalized later in the year.
The police at the MMC plant were acting on a court order to end the blockades. Although it was not clear who had shot the workers, police violated their own rules by using firearms during the clashes that erupted on Thursday, Tarek William Saab, the governor of the eastern state of Anzoategui, said.
The plant assembles autos of the Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Co. <7211.T> and South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co <005380.KS>.
The deaths occurred at a sensitive time for Chavez, who is campaigning in a close race for a Feb. 15 referendum on allowing him to run for reelection. Monday marks ten years since the anti-U.S. leader took office.
(Reporting by Fabian Cambero; Writing by Saul Hudson; Editing by Brian Ellsworth)
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