Cooperatives in Venezuela

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