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1/ Today is the 20th anniversary of uprising which defeated the coup in Venezuela. Also Rodney Alvarez will walk free after spending nearly 11 years in jail accused of a crime he did not commit and for which he was never sentenced. #1eroMayoSinTrabajadoresPresos 
2/ Rodney Alvarez was a trade union activist at Ferrominera, the state owned iron works in Bolivar state. On June 9, 20011, during a union assembly at the plant gates there was a shoot out and worker Renny Rojas was killed. Eyewitnesses identified Hector Maican as the gunman.
3/ Maican fled to the union offices inside the plant where he was arrested, with the gun, by the Bolivarian National Guard. The state prosecutor accused him of the killing of Renny Rojas a member of the PSUV youth. However, 2 days later Maican was released. Why?
