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One of the left's heroes here, behaving true to form

Anti-Auntie | 14.12.2005 17:04 | London | World

"Venezuelan labour leader who organized a strike against President Hugo Chavez three years ago was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 16 years in prison after a trial critics said was political persecution"

Carlos Ortega, one of Chavez's fiercest foes, is the first top opposition leader found guilty of rebellion and jailed for the two-month-long strike that battered the economy but failed to topple the left-wing president.

Authorities are probing hundreds of business and political figures for supporting a short-lived 2002 coup that briefly ousted Chavez and triggered months of political turmoil in the world's No 5 oil exporter.

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