Barquisimeto

Barquisimeto is the capital city of Lara and seat of the Iribarren Municipality in Venezuela. Barquisimeto is located in the Central-Western Region. The city is an important urban, industrial, commercial, musical, and transportational center in the country, recognized as the fourth-largest city by population after Caracas, Maracaibo, and Valencia. Barquisimeto is sometimes referred to as the "Music City of Venezuela" due to the large number of musical institutions there. Gustavo Dudamel, the director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was born in the city

The Central Cooperative of Social Services of Lara (; CECOSESOLA) is a cooperative federation in the Venezuelan state of Lara. It was established in 1967, when a number of cooperatives in Barquisimeto came together to provide a system of social services to their members. Following the collapse of its public transport bus service, which had operated in the late-1970s until it was shut down by the local government, the organization went through a period of reorganization. In 1983, CECOSESOLA workers abolished the cooperative's internal hierarchy and established a system of workers' self-manageme