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This article analyzes the relationship between the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the trade union movement in Latin America. If attempts to strengthen the workers' movement were long-standing, during the 1930s relations between the Latin American trade union movement and the ILO began to become more regular, especially in international forums. Special attention deserves the assistance mission carried out by the ILO in Venezuela in 1949 to study the situation of workers' organizations after the establishment of the military dictatorship of General Carlos Delgado (1948). Document relevant is the report written by the mission led by Jef Rens, Assistant Director General of the ILO, and published in 1949.