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Carlos Ortega
Carlos Ortega Carvajal is a union and political leader in Venezuela. He was sentenced to a 16 year prison term for his role in the December 2002 strike (not to be confused with the April 2002 coup d'etat attempt), but escaped from prison on August 13, 2006.
In 2001, Ortega was elected leader of the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV), the largest union in Venezuela. The results were disputed and the Supreme Court refused to ratify them. In April 2002, under Carlos Ortega's leadership, the CTV declared a national strike, to protest what he felt were the "increasingly dictatorial" ...
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