Chile: Neither Left Nor Right Nor Democracy Or Fascism!

Insurrection News received and translated:

Anarchic presence at demonstrations 42 years since since the start of the dictatorship in Chile.

In solidarity with the two comrades arrested for possession of incendiary devices.

1. A little about the current situation in Chile

The year 2015 was marked, among other things with the following:

- the revelation of 'corruption' cases regarding the illegal financing of election campaigns involving businessmen and politicians from all sectors. This confirmed for some what was already known about the complicity between political and economic power. These scandals have increased the discrediting of the political elite and triggered widespread social discontent.

- the mobilization of right-wing sectors, similar to what occured in the run-up to the dictatorship in Chile: the visibility of neo-Nazi goup Party for the Defense of Chile (PADECHI), 'citizens against crime' in affluent neighborhoods and the manifestation of landowners, truck owners and some workers against what they label 'Mapuche Terrorism', the latter under the format of a caravan that travelled from the south to the center of the country which was received in Santiago with applause from some citizens and violent rejection from various sectors (Mapuche, leftists of various origins, antifascists etc).

- the arrests of comrades for street fighting and increased penalties for the possession and use of incendiary devices, resulting in the detention of several comrades.

2. Sharing the street with others, but marking a distance of fire with left-wing reformism: anarchic presence in the march for victims of the dictatorship.

On the night of September 11, the day that began 42 years ago with a bloody dictatorship, the suburbs of the city are filled with barricades and clashes with police. A policeman was shot.

Later in the march commemorating the victims of the dictatorship, held in Santiago on Sunday September 13, anarchists and anti-authoritarians, as in other manifestations, usually occupy the street in a march that is convened mainly to a variety of authoritarian and reformist leftist movements.

The manifestation this year was composed of a motley mass of demonstrators, citizens, relatives of missing detainees and those executed by the dictatorship, members of the governing parties (Communist Party and Socialist Party), antifascist hooligans and police. The demonstrators stood in droves with green and red, red and red and black flags posing for the cameras and promoting their organizations.

Amid all this, a very painful sight was the leftist groups that had modified slogans that were originally anti-fascist and insurrectionary anarchist to disseminate propaganda for their vanguardist organizations to suction power and attempt to create new partnerships with themselves at the head. Thus, the cry "Social War against the State and Capital' was appropriated by the 'Libertarian Left' (neo-communist) as "Create popular power against the State and Capital." The historic slogan "Anti-fascist alert! The whole territory becomes anarchists!' was transformed by the Guevarist Youth into the pathetic "Anti-fascist alert! The whole country becomes Guevara." Lacking confrontational discourse and praxis these organizations flirt with radical slogans but strip them of all their original anti-authoritarian and insurrectionary meaning.

Therefore it is important that our discourse and praxis of radical struggle against power becomes evident and palpable and does not become confused with victimhood or tainted with the ideas of others who differ from us with their reformism, verticality and aspirations of power.

In the case of the event in question, the anarchic presence that has always been a minority but this time was even more minoritised , materialized in insurgent propaganda and action - spreading flyers against dictatorship and democracy, in memory and solidarity with our comrades who were murdered and imprisoned by democracy, shouting slogans of war, destroying capitalist infrastructure in the city and setting fire to banks and municipal security booths.

We believe that along with this significant presence it is also important to use our capacity to act autonomously, acting on our ideas by creating attacks to disrupt the imposed normality without waiting for directions from others, deciding ourselves where and when to attack.

3. Solidarity with Claudio and Fabián, arrested and remanded in custody after the riots.

Twenty comrades were charged and released that day for various disorders. However Claudio Valenzuela and fellow university student Fabián Duran were charged with possession of incendiary devices and were remanded in custody following changes to the Arms Control act made by the Social Democratic government of Michelle Bachelet. Such amendments that raise the penalties against those who are arrested carrying Molotov cocktails or other incediary / explosive devices seek to punish the rebels and inhibit insurrectionary action by spreading fear.

The powers of justice have decreed a 45 day period of preventative detention during the investigation.

Insurrectionary solidarity is part of the intensification of the struggle against power through multifaceted action. We must support our comrades in prison but we must not concentrate our endeavours solely on anti-prison struggle but also continue to spread anarchic agitation, because prison is just one part of an authoritarian social order that we must attack in a comprehensive manner. 

Solidarity with Claudio, Fabian and all prisoners by continuing the fight in the streets and taking action in the struggle against domination!

Neither bourgeois power or people power!
Neither managers nor acronyms or leaders!
Self-organize autonomously and horizontally attack all forms of authority!

Some anti-authoritarian encapuchadxs,
September 2015.

Chile: Solidarity with Sergio Álvarez and all anarchist and revolutionary prisoners

Insurrection News received and translated:


Leaflets that were thrown outside the Justice Center and Santiago Prison Number 1 in recent days...

Attention jailers: Do not dare touch our comrade!! On July 29 our comrade Sergio Álvarez entered Santiago Prison Number 1. He is not alone, he is one of us, as are all who struggle against any form of confinement, power or authority.

Think about this - if he comes to any harm you will face the consequences.

*****

Attention jailers: Our comrades inside prison are Juan Flores, Enrique Guzman, Javier Pino, Sergio Alvarez, Freddy Feuntevilla, Marcelo Villarroel, Juan Aliste, Carlos Gutierrez, Alejandro Astroga, Alfredo Canales, Hans Niemeyer, Natalia Collado, Nataly Casanova and Tamara Sol Farias.

Think about this - if they come to any harm you will face the consequences.

Chile: Anarchist comrade detained for carrying an explosive device

During the morning of August 1st, 2015, anarchist comrade Ignacio Munoz Delgado age 20 was arrested. Plainclothes police officers performing preventive controls in the community of Lo Prado in Santiago saw a suspicious person dressed in black riding a bike and decided to arrest them on the corner of Camino de Loyola and Sergio Valdovinos avenues. 

Police say they found an improvised explosive device in Ignacio's possession that consisted of a canister filled with about a kilo of black powder with a fuse attached to it. They also say they found pamphlets expressing solidarity with the comrades who were arrested for the arson attack against the PDI (Homicide Investigation Brigade). The pamphlets contained the following text:

"As long as the cops keep hostages and think that they are immune from attack the attacks will keep getting closer to the filthy city life. This is just a small taste of what is to come.

Amaru, Natalia, Manuel, Felipe and Maria Paza.

The bastard children of the street!"

Ignacio was taken to number 44 police station where police took DNA samples from him. The mercenary scavengers of the state, the press cameramen were present however the comrade kept his head held high and spat defiantly as he passed them.

The case was taken by the Southern District's alleged bombings specialist who decided to formally charge the comrade with possession of an explosive device as well as carrying a knife. It is still unclear whether the comrade will be charged under the arms control law or the anti-terrorism law.

The Fifth Court ruled that there will be a 5 month investigative period in addition to preventive detention for the comrade who remains held hostage inside Santiago Prison Number 1.

Insurgent solidarity with Ignacio Munoz!

Neither anti-terrorist laws nor arms control law, Ignacio to the streets! 

(via Publicacion Refractario, translated by Insurrection News)

Chile: Update on anarchist comrades Javier Pino & Natalia 'Tato' Collado

A hearing was held at the main courthouse in Santiago on July 28th against the anarchist comrades Javier Pino and Natalia 'Tato' Collado who are both accused of burning down a Transantiago bus. 

Comrades in solidarity tried to enter the courtroom to support the comrades however the judge and the prosecution took offence at the disorderly nature and appearance of the solidaritarians and ordered that the hearing take place behind closed doors with only the presence of relatives permitted.

Outside the courthouse a rowdy solidarity demonstration ensued. Two banners were unfurled, leaflets were distributed and slogans were shouted through megaphones to let the comrades know they were not alone. The police and special security forces intervened and a fight broke out with the solidaritarians standing their ground refusing to bow down throwing kicks and punches and spitting at the authorities. The authorities resorted to using batons and capsicum spray. The clashes continued into the court building itself and ended with 6 comrades detained. Two women comrades were formally charged with public disorder offences and cited to appear at the local police courts and the other four comrades were taken to the number 12 police station in Santiago for 'routine' identity checks. All the comrades were released in the afternoon.

As for the hearing...Tato and Javier were formally charged under article 14-D for 'detonating an incendiary device on public transport' which comes under the Arms Control Law. Such crimes have sentences ranging between 10 and 15 years. The investigation period was re-opened as the defense have new measures to deal with at the moment with no fixed days to investigate.

Active solidarity with all comrades in the anti-prison network!

Strength to the comrades Tato and Javier, No aggression will go unanswered!

(via contra info)

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Comrade Natalia 'Tato' Collado transferred to isolation module

We have been informed that the comrade Tato was transferred after a visit on July 27 from her module, apparently as a mean to punish her for her attitude of disrespect and contempt for the prison institution and it's circus officials and for her relationship of affinity and comradeship with comrade Nataly with who she had been shaking the walls and the morale of the jailers. Currently comrade Tato is being held indefinitely in punishment and isolation Module 1.

We also inform you that on July 28 a judge ordered that only close relatives were allowed to attend the hearing to determine how long the kidnapping of our comrades continued. Obviously this measure ignited the anger of non-family comrades and led to clashes with gendarmes and police.

We will not allow provocations and aggressions to go unanswered!

We will not let the whims of judges, prosecutors and prison guards determine the lives of our comrades!

Down with the patriarchal, techno-industrial and anthropocentric prison society!

Tato and Javi to the street or wherever they want!

(via contra info)

Chile: Communique from anarchist prisoner Nataly Casanova, on hunger strike since 14/04

Today, May 29, 46 days since the beginning of our hunger strike I would like to reaffirm it's continuation in the face of the indifference shown so far from those who support power and it's institutions. Today my body weight is 51.4kg, I have lost 9.4kg which is 15.4% less than my initial body weight of 60.8kg before we commenced the hunger strike and my overall health is continuing to deteriorate.

Our struggle has not been isolated, despite the daily harassment, persecution and even abductions that our families, our comrades and allied prisoners must contend with but still face in a dignified manner. This reality extends from the castigation in the prisons, from the torture and the years spent in isolation to try and break the will and the commitment of those who fight against domination and to instill fear in those who show solidarity with prisoners in struggle, they seek to isolate them from the global struggle against power. 

But by breaking with the indifference of this world of death and misery, solidarity becomes another weapon in the struggle, every cry, gesture and action helps strengthen our convictions and feed our desires...giving us more strength to answer every blow - this is our response to their indifference, their persecution, their assaults and their isolation. We will neither surrender in our attitudes or retreat from our decisions, indifference in the face of reality is not an option for us.

We remain steadfast until our demands are met:

- Freedom for Enrique Guzmán Amadeo
- Scientific analysis and validation of the alleged DNA testing by our defense
- An end to the harassment in prison of Juan and me and of our families, relatives and friends on the street
- My transfer to a general population part of the prison and an end to my isolation and castigation.

A loving embrace to the compañerx Hans, Freddy, Juan, Marcelo, Alejandro, Alfredo, Carlos, Natalia, Tamara Sol and Javier who have supported us in this decision and whose actions gave us strength and support. 

To our dear families who have not surrendered to threats and continue to be with us every day.

From the CPF San Miguel
Nataly Muñoz Casanova


(via instinto salvaje, translated to English by insurrection news)

TAMARA SOL Public Communique + Update on Transfer to High Security Prison (Chile)

Tamara Sol Farís Vergara is Transferred to High Security Prison

This Wednesday, May 27th, 2015, Tamara Sol Farías Vergara was transferred to the ill-named “Centre for Feminine Orientation” (COF) located at Vicuña Mackenna and Capitan Prat streets in San Joaquin, Santiago.

The prison guard, Jenny Muñoz Gajardo, a Commandant who is in charge of the incarceration of over 500 women in the [prison] centre of extermination of “San Miguel,” is a loyal representative of police brutality and is paid millions of pesos to employ the logic of prison punishment and the control over people’s lives. This officer let her rage out with Tamara Sol and did not let her say goodbye to her cellmate, taking her out forcefully, without giving Sol the chance to pack her personal belongings (her prison mates gathered up what they could in a bag that Sol has yet to receive). We are told that Tamara Sol resisted with punches, screams and spits while being forced out by the prison guards, and was then handcuffed and taken to solitary confinement around 6pm.

We still don’t know what range the prison guards will decide to lock up Sol in the prison of San Joaquin.  Visiting hours and the size of packages vary depending on the range she is placed.

The Family of Tamara Sol Farías Vergara

******

PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE:

By Tamara Sol Farías Vergara

2015. Fall [in South America]. New Moon.

These are my first words through the internet after the 7 year and 61 day sentencing made against me for attempted homicide, and theft.

Many people think that [my comrade] Angry was my partner, or that I had some sort of relationship with him, something that is completely untrue. He was a valuable comrade with whom I shared infinite ideas and feelings. He was a nihilist anarchist and I claim responsibility for the revenge of his murder as a political act, since I will always believe his murder was not by chance. Let us not forget that TVN [news channel] headlined the act [of Angry’s murder] as something “heroic,” as if though there had been a robbery to stop.

I did not shoot the same guard, who shot the trigger and then reloaded his gun to shoot a few more rounds, but my act is clear and so is the message. Security guards: you can’t keep killing our brothers, nor risking your lives for a miserable wage, or for any amount! Ask yourselves what you are guarding, who your bosses are, and whose money it is you are guarding with your life!

I don’t believe in justice.

Prisons, together with the entire judicial system, are made by the rich and powerful only to safeguard their properties and their social order of death. The police, judges, prosecution, prison guards lend themselves to this, and that is why they are my enemies.

There are things as individuals that cannot pass us by, with regards to the State and Power exerted over us. Imprisonment, murder and the theft of our lives for the well being of some is State Terrorism.  This is the case of Nataly Casanova, Guillermo Duran, Juan Flores and Enrique Guzman, who are charged with Anti-Terrorism laws, jailed under a media circus without having any viable proof of their involvement in any bomb detonations, and risk sentences that could cost them their lives.

Or in the case of comrade Angry, in which the ex-soldier/security guard was placed on the same day of the robbery and was ordered to kill with people behind him. Why isn’t the disgusting justice system punishing that security guard?

That is what State Terror looks like, when a person’s death is justified for the protection of private property; when poor people are jailed for decades for acts that don’t compare to the devastation made unto the land for centuries, or don’t compare to the violence of neoliberalism forcefully imposed by the dictatorship, while killing, torturing and disappearing thousands of people. The people who did this have first and last names, they are still alive, still working, walking freely through the streets, like that damned Labbé who got bail for only $500,000 miserable pesos [approx. $1000 CAD].

I also don’t think I should go to jail.

But then, what happens with those terrorists? What happens with Angelini and Matte that are leaving the people in the south without water and without native forests?

It is Bachelet, the Executive Power, that protects them through their bills and laws, which allow them to get richer by the day. And at whose cost? At the cost of entire communities that cannot harvest from the drought, forcing them to work until they die in their toil.  This is what Terrorism looks like!

Let the mass media manipulate the events and information, throwing in disgusting patriarchical TV shows where women are the object and the men are the boss, calling up citizens to collaborate with police to capture poor people doing petty theft. Like in the case of stupid shows like “133” and others, transforming neighbours into police vigilantes, torturers and snitches. Meanwhile, political theft, such as the case of Cascadas in the Penta case, or even Bachelet’s own son involved in a corruption scandal, haven’t received so much as anything thrown at them: they are all free, safe and sound. All of them are part of the $hilean Oligarchy, the State and Power.

As individuals with free will, we cannot naturalize the omnipotence of the law that watched over us, or much less protect their property or their money. Our social conduct is carried out people. The State is a structure that is sustained by authorities, the Police and Gendarmerie, who recognize it as a necessity.

We do not need a State or a Government. The collapse of modern slavery is in our hands, to take our lives by assault, to destroy all privileges. Let us stop working for them and stop recognizing their authority. We know that democracy is a media show to maintain their precious riches, so that no one can touch or bother them. These are the elements of their social peace and public order; the fear of losing it all, because without the poor, there can be no rich. Without the State there is no law. Without patriarchy there can be no authority or dominion.

The (a)bility to live autonomously is in our hands, with no boss or master, or schedule. Let us value our will. We are capable of striding away from materialism, commodities, and consumption. Let us go back to being wise, let us listen to our elders, our children. Let us leave behind these binary roles that generate dependencies and hierarchies in our relationships. Let us be ourselves without prejudice. We do not need a father figure, a man or a State to protect us. Creativity and knowledge are innate in ourselves, and we can be self-sufficient with what the land gives us, we do not need more than that. Let us go back to senses, look inward and connect with life, nature, and learn from our ancestors.

Technology and science aren’t in our favour; they also belong to the rich. Monsanto is a clear example: utilizing bio-technology to invent seeds and agricultural plants, making them resistant to a carcinogenic pesticide, talking complete control over fruit and vegetable plantations, the base of our nutrition.

The same occurs with the forestry plantations of pine and eucalyptus, as important commodities for export, and thereby one of the main sources of wealth. The monoculture of these species requires a specific pesticide to confront pests, and the pines have been biochemically modified to confront these and all temperatures, demanding greater quantities of water that a native forest, contaminating and sterilizing the land.

They experiment with our bodies, inventing sicknesses and selling the antidotes through the mafia that is the pharmaceutical industry in collusion with others in Power.

Always seducing us through adds of deceit to consume certain types of food for “good health” like milk (through consistent rapes), meat (cadavers) or eggs, fomenting the commercialization of animal life, in centres of torture and sickness for these beings (like Agrosuper, Superpollo, or any other slaughterhouse).

The oligarchy supported by the State are the real Terrorists.

Let us understand that the idea of consumption and accumulation is empty. It has nothing to do with life. We should understand that we are part of the universe and cannot keep participating in the immense damage that the powerful have made on the planet in which we live, in order to keep their privileges. If we are conscious and take responsibility for this we can stop them and recover our autonomy, individual will, sensitivity, the earth’s and our bodies’ fertility, as well as the joy of living without affective or sexual misery; enjoying the chaotic fluids of free relationships and our natural wildness.

I’m happy to know that there still are and there will continue to be restless, rebel, autonomous hearts being born; beings that are not seduced by the comfort of neoliberalism and democracy. I keep you in my mind and in my heart always. From here I extend a great hug; know that your acts make us strong and brighten up our days.

Solidarity keeps us grounded in all its forms. That is why I give heartfelt greetings to the folks in Villa Francia and the comrades that are always willing to confront the police in punches and kicks in every disgusting court appearance, many of whom ended up getting beaten up and arrested. Know that you are all valuable warriors. I thank my brothers/sisters who have never stopped visiting me and cook delicious food for me. I love you all very much and miss you all.

To the defense team all my respect, for the way in which they have chosen to get our comrades out of jail. They are concrete actions in the confrontation of forces… a weapon.

Solidarity and heartfelt greetings to Freddy, Marcelo, Juan, Carlos, Hans, Alfredo, Alejandro and Nicolas captured in the cages of the $hilean State.

Accomplice love to Tato and Javier… Strength to Nataly, Juan and Guillermo in their now 45 days on liquid hunger strike! Strength to Enrique Guzman: all my support in this long battle!

Solidarity and respect to the people of the earth in Wallmapu!

Solidarity with the Prisoners of the World!

Against the Techno-Industrial Patriarchical Society!

Against the State, its Oligarchy and all forms of Domination!

For the destruction of all cages!

Heart, will, memory, intuition and instinct! Trust in oneself!

Ana, Luisa, Manuel, Alen, I love you all infinitely!

SOL MALEN [Tamara Sol Farías Vergara]

NIHILIST PRISONER

INCARCERATED IN RANGE 2 OF SAN MIGUEL PRISON, [Santiago, $hile]

May 28th, 2015

Distributed by: The Women’s Coordinating  Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto]

Chile: Barricades & clashes outside University of Santiago for Mauricio Morales

19.05.15: With burning barricades we once again commemorated the death of Mauricio Morales who died in combat when the explosive device he was taking to the prison guard's school exploded prematurely. 

The fire unleashed today expands like splinters of your freedom!

"Today through the black smoke of our tires, the searing heat of our barricades and the insolence of our insurrectionary act we remember your irreducible life, your eternal love for freedom and your beautiful wish for the whole establishment to fall.

To destroy the last bastion of prison society!

Mauricio Morales, killed in action on May 22nd, 2009."  

(via contra info, translated by insurrection news)

Chile: Subversive prisoners from High Security Prison (CAS) end their solidarity hunger strike

The subversive prisoners of  the High Security Prison (CAS) in Santiago have ended their hunger strike of solidarity with the ongoing hunger strike of anarchist prisoners Nataly, Juan and Guillermo after five days.

In a statement signed by Marcelo Villarroel, Freddy Fuentevilla, Carlos Gutiérrez, Juan Aliste, Alejandro Astorga, Hans Niemeyer and Alfredo Canales (the seven prisoners who took part in the hunger strike), the comrades expressed their continued solidarity and support for Nataly, Juan and Guillermo's confrontation with the murderous Chilean 'democratic' state. They also paid tribute to fallen anarchist combatant Mauricio Morales. 

(via contra info)

Santiago, Chile: Incendiary solidarity and memorial action outside UACH

"It is time to act in everyday life for the destruction of the prison society and against any social attempt to reform this disgusting system of death. Solidarity should never be an empty slogan, but a daily action of confrontation with power and constant support for imprisoned combatants in this war to the death." - Mauricio Morales

At noon on Wednesday, May 13 anarchist comrades lit up barricades outside UACH (Austral University of Chile) and distributed propaganda in solidarity with the demands of the comrades Juan, Nataly and Guillermo, on hunger strike since April 14th and in combative memory of fallen anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales who died in 2009 when an explosive device he was carrying on the way to the prison warden's school in Santiago detonated prematurely. Upon arrival of the police fierce clashes erupted with molotov cocktails and rocks thrown at the uniformed scum. The photos above were taken at the end of the fighting.

A full Spanish-language communique of the action is available on the Contra Info website here.

Chile: Armed attack against Quilcura police station in Santiago

Police forces carried out a series of checkpoints in the Parinacota población on April 16 2015. Two women were detained with molotovs and flammable liquid and taken to the police station. A short while after these arrests a burst of gunfire was unleashed against the 49° Police Staion of Quilicura. Of the 20 shots fired, 6 directly struck the windows of the police station leaving no one wounded.

After the shots, the repressive pack of dogs rushed out to besiege the different poblaciones without being able to arrest or link anyone to the shots fired at their station. The following day the minister of the interior went to visit the police brothel, and their own neighbors told him the barrage against the police station was due to the violence with which the police keep the poblacion besieged.

Stop aiming the weapons in the poblaciones at the oppressed!                                                         

Aim and fire at repression!

(via war on society)

Chile: Bomb threat against the offices of TVN for Nicolás Neira & the comrades on hunger strike

An anarchist direct action cell calling itself Nicolás Neira Forces of Action and Memory have issued a communique claiming responsibility for a bomb threat against the offices of TVN (Television National) in Santiago, Chile. A call was made on Wednesday, May 6th to warn of the presence of an explosive device at the offices of TVN that had been placed in solidarity with the anarchist prisoners Nataly, Juan and Guillermo who have been on hunger strike since April 14th. 

The action was also claimed in response to the call for international solidarity actions to be carried out in combative memory of anarchist comrade Nicolás Neira who was murdered by the Colombian police in Bogota in 2005. 

Nicolás Neira Forces of Action and Memory condemned the police and the media for not making the threat known to the public and warned them to think twice about ignoring their next call as next time the threat might be real.

Long live Nico! Victory to the comrades on hunger strike in the dungeons of Chile! 

(via contra info)

Chile: FAI-IRF claim incendiary attack against a Chilectra substation in Santiago

An Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) - International Revolutionary Front (IRF) cell based in Chile calling itself Grupo Kapibara have released a communique claiming responsibility for an incendiary attack against a substation of the electricity provider Chilectra in Santiago on 06.05.15.

According to the communique a timed incendiary device containing 1.2 liters of gasoline and 400 grams of polystyrene was placed in a room inside the substation. The timing mechanism was set to activate half an hour after placement of the device but for unknown reasons activation did not occur until several hours later.

The communique states that the action was carried out in order to strike a destructive blow against the techno-industrial system in defense of Mother Earth. The communique also contains expressions of solidarity with the anarchist nihilist prisoner Spyros Mandylas held captive in Greece, the comrades Nataly, Juan and Guillermo on hunger strike in Chile and the comrades Sol, Tato and Javier, also imprisoned in Chile. Mention is also made of fallen anarchist Punky Mauri who died in 2009 while attempting to place a bomb at the prison warden's school in Santiago, Chile. 

Chile: Santiago Court Reaffirms Conviction Against Comrade Tamara Sol Vergara

Today, May 5th 2015, the Santiago Court of Appeal presented the verdict against our sister, Tamara Sol Farías Vergara. The court rejected the appeal presented by the defense and reaffirmed the sentence dictated on February 4th 2015, in which Sol was convicted to 7 years in prison, 61 days of probation, as well as a series of monthly payments to the courts. The family was devastated by the sentence, who had hoped the sentence would be reduced. Nonetheless, we know that “justice is not for the poor,” as Tamara Sol’s father, David Farías Delva, stated in leaving the court room.

Once the sentence was read, the family’s desperation was noted in the protest and frustration of Tamara Sol’s grandmother, who jumped at the judge and was brutally repressed by the judicial police. The elder mother and activist, Luisa Toledo, has had to endure years of frustration and suffering due to the murder of her two 16 and 18 year old children by the secret police during the military dictatorship, better known as the Vergara brothers, and has struggled for justice and the imprisonment of her sons’ murderers for over 30 years. However, the murderers remain immune walking freely through the streets, while today her granddaughter has been taken to prison in a clearly political trial against the family.

Solidarity was also seen outside the Santiago Court House, where the streets were full of youth protesting the unjust conviction and in support of Sol. The protest was heavily repressed by special force police of the GOPE, attacking protestors and even those of us exiting the Court.

Tamara Sol Farías Vergara (25) was convicted for first degree attempted murder for the shooting of Ronaldo Francisco Vargas Fuentes, a bank security guard for Banco Estado, who was not hurt in the incident. However, she was still sanctioned heavily by a crooked justice system that has been made to oppress the poor.

FREE TAMARA SOL! 

SOLIDARITY with the Vergara family!! 

Marrichiweu!!

The Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto]

Video of the court's rejection of the appeal HERE

Video of solidarity gathering outside the courts HERE

(via Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu)

Chile: Communique of Enrique Alfonso Guzman Amadeo, on hunger strike since 14th of April

“No aggression must be left unanswered”

Now and always, for any brother and sister and/or prisoner, in the face of any terrorist attack carried out by power, since clearly the
intention in our situation is to spread terror and intimidate the
environment of the kompas kidnapped since 18th September 2014.

The clearest evidence of this is my imprisonment, the kidnapping in the street of one of our friends the same day, and the dogs of the GOPE going to the house of a second friend to leave a summons for him to “voluntarily” attend to testify.

In this letter I am taking the opportunity to repudiate/despise/hate all vile/disgusting beings, each actor/actress that carries out and
maintains all the structure of power.

As an answer to the facts that I am relating, we have decided jointly with my brothers and sister/kompas/friends to carry out a liquid hunger strike to the end, in my case, from Tuesday 14th of April.

As well as an answer to the cabrxs/families/friends that have decided to go once more before the ridiculous judicial process that is carried out against us, and that we know that it is not the first time that bastard power tries to scare/intimidate/punish all those that have decided to reject the manner in which we are obliged to exist/live.

Our demands:

-The immediate transfer of Nataly Antonieta Casanova Muñoz to a wing/tower where she can relate and contact with the others kidnapped in the extermination center where they are keeping her under a punishment and isolation regime, with an hour of air since her arrival. The demand has been made on various occasions, having had no answer from the prison institution.

-The immediate annulment of the “precautionary measure” in which is our friend/kompa/brother Guillermo Duran, who was kidnapped on 18th September at Nataly’s house, for whom has no evidence/lie has been presented, in respect to the investigation that is taking place.

-To clarify the scientific validity of the DNA “evidence”, supposedly
obtained in the places of the different explosions we are accused of, and from which the clowns, screenwriters/complainants (especially the prosecutors Orellana and Guzman) have so strongly held since the beginning of the investigation, ignoring the fact that different geneticists and criminologists have dismissed the validity of such evidence.

-We demand an end to the harassment/persecution carried out by the repressive forces against our environment, who (in spite of this) keep strong and dignified, managing in all instances, not letting themselves be intimidated (because we don’t buy them) in the face of the different attacks of the ruling power.

-In this way we also denounce and demand an end to the aggression and harassment of the kompas Nataly Casanova and Juan Flores by the screws, that on different occasions have carried out beatings, threats and accusations against the brother and sister and have caused them to be punished through [lack of] visits/parcels, days of punishment and isolation, with the impossibility to request conjugal visits, etc

My immediate liberation from the prison business where I am kidnapped, considering the absurd script that they have invented yet again, with the ridiculous accusation and absurd/delusional evidence presented by the clowns/prosecutors.

Lastly, to show that I receive lovingly all the encouragement that (you) that have sent me or got to me through my family, I appreciate every gesture received, and do not cease to appreciate them with great pleasure.

I take advantage to send a fraternal greeting to each one of the persons involved in this and other sectors of the world and doesn't hesitate to face power in its various forms, especially to the unknown who in these days decided not to keep quiet in the face of the recent police/judicial spectacle that is affecting us now; both outside and inside the different centers of punishment and extermination.

DOWN WITH THE POLICE STATE!!!
INDEFINITE LIQUID HUNGER STRIKE!!!

Enrique Alfonso Guzman Amadeo
Module 35
Prison Company Santiago I

from el refractario, translated to English by ActForFreedomNow!