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Title: ‘Caso Bombas’
Date: 2010
Language: en
Topics: Chile, Elephant Editions
Source: https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/caso-bombas
Notes: Elephant Editions 2010. Elephant / Detritus series 2017.

‘Caso Bombas’

Santiago, Chile 2010

CHILE RECENTLY DOMINATED WORLD HEADLINES through the much publicised

rescue of 33 miners entombed in the Atacama desert after the

dilapidated, unstable mine they were working in collapsed. When the

‘accident’ took place on 5 August, there seemed little hope of saving

their lives.

9 DAYS LATER, on August 14, public prosecutor Ricardo Peña gave the

order to set in motion “Operation Salamandra”, in which agents of the

BIPE (Investigation Police) the ERTA , the GOPE (Special Forces of the

Normal Police), LABOCAR (CSI) and a series of helicopters and police

cars were used to carry out 17 spectacular dawn raids in Santiago and

Valparaiso.

The excuse for this police operation is the so-called ‘Caso Bombas’, 23

explosive attacks registered in Santiago, which according to the police

would have direct links with the arrested. The first raid was in the La

Crota Bike Punk squat by the GOPE resulting in the arrest of 6 comrades.

Of the six held, three are on remand, a female comrade with an arrest

warrant and two because the police invented traces of TNT on their

hands. Then it was the turn of the SSC and the Sacco and Vanzetti

Library, by the ERTA and the BIPE, where they ripped out the metal grid

of the window with a police car. The agents also carried out shootings

with rubber bullets, hitting two comrades. 5 comrades were arrested from

this space, one of whom remains in prison.

At the same time the Libertarian Library Johnny Cariqueo was raided in

the Pudahuel municipality, here the police broke in smashing access

doors and no one was arrested. The police also raided 14 houses, 12 in

Santiago and 2 in Valparaiso. A total of 17 raids realized by the

defenders of order and 14 comrades kidnapped. With the inestimable help

of the mass media which created a climate of guilt around the arrestees,

the temporary imprisonment of 8 out of the initial 14 people was ordered

until the final trial takes place.

The other 6 were released and banned from leaving the country,

establishing any sort of communication among themselves or with the

people on remand. The arrested men were taken to the CAS (maximum

security prison) and the women to the “Centro de orientacion femenina”

(Centre for Female orientation). All of them are being held in

isolation. On Monday 6 September another 2 people were arrested

supposedly in connection with the so-called “Caso bombas”.

AUGUST 22, a probe emerges from a bore-hole in the mountain crust in the

Atacama desert bearing the attached note: “We are all well here in the

refuge – the 33”. The biggest reality TV show on earth gets underway.

In an operation costing an estimated $18m—a small price for the Chilean

businessmen and capitalists to pay and one which their representative

ex-media mogul and money lender, billionaire Piñera could not afford not

to undertake. And so, using the lives of the 33 miners, the Chilean

economy found a podium on which to delete the images of the Pinochet/CIA

operation of physically eliminating all opposition to the regime, by

visually affirming at planetary level the values of the democratic

neoliberal model. Through democracy’s indispensable weapon, the media,

the bosses’ ideal of the community of interest between exploited and

exploiter, the ‘good worker’ and ‘concerned employer’, are exhibited

along with all the other components of totalitarian democracy — family,

homeland, religion, effusion of ‘human sentiment’, illusion of future

wellbeing for all, etc. in a carefully controlled scenario (for example,

the note sent up by the miners in support of the Mapuche struggle did

not appear on the screen) capable of generating global catharsis.

A FEW MONTHS EARLIER, on July12th, 34 prisoners on remand of the Mapuche

indigenous group went on a protracted hunger strike in the Chilean

prisons of Temuco, Valdivia, Angol and Concepcion. They were demanding

the abolition of the Anti-terrorist law as well as an end to the

military occupation of their lands located in the South of the country

and subjected for years to an ongoing plundering by western

corporations. The Mapuche people are characterised by a strong bond with

their surrounding natural environment. Their ancestral relation with

their land as well as the destruction of the latter by national and

international capital’s eternal quest to extract more and more profit

from it has motivated the Mapuche to develop an increasingly militant

line of action. These issues have been subjected to a total information

blackout by the mainstream media.

In this reality of included and excluded, we find ourselves undeniably

among the excluded. By necessity and by choice. And we too have our

treasured images, a source of anger and inspiration in our own struggle.

Yes, we are also part of the spectacle, we are inside it because we live

in this alien world that every day that turns out to be more grotesque

than the one before—but at least our intentions are honourable: to see

its final eclipse in the ashes of the existent.

We cannot and will not delete the images that have penetrated us over

recent times.

The smile of Maurizio Morales, anarchist comrade, ‘Punky Mauro’, blown

up by his own home-made bomb as he set off on his bicycle towards the

School of Prison Guards in downtown Santiago at 2 in the morning on May

22, 2009.

Scenes of uniformed brutes attacking desperate men, women and children

as they retrieve goods of first necessity — water, sanitary goods, food,

etc from semi-destroyed supermarkets following the devastating

earthquake, images that inspire anger and indignation.

Images of shattered windows of banks etc, of streets aglow with the

flames of insurgence after the State’s flow of electrical current has

been cut by the young rebels.

The proud faces of the Mapuche people, intransigent in their endless

struggle to the death against the plunder of their land by the greed of

the national and multinational corporations.

Images of squats and libraries. Of beautiful comrades being dragged away

by uniformed brutes.

These are all images that stoke the fires of our passions, the

confirmation that there is no turning back, that we must fight with

every means, the same fight.

The passion for freedom is without borders; the same goes for solidarity

random anarchists

International Solidarity with the 14 anarchists kidnapped by Chilean

’democracy’.

Welcome to Chile, a society of jails and jailers.

Saturday, August 14, in the cities of Santiago and Valparaíso, an action

coordinated by all kinds of police special task forces violently raided

three squatted social centres and many private homes in five communes.

The police intimidated people with war weaponry, broke windows and

doors, and took many personal items with them from all of the houses.

14 people were detained, only informed of the reason for their detention

after three hours.

Later, six people were released on probation for lack of evidence

against them. As for the people that remained imprisoned, they were put

in isolation cells in maximum security jails awaiting a 180 day long

investigation process and a potentially 20 year sentence for alleged

illegal terrorist association. The State has alleged that these people

were involved in making and detonating the bombs that have exploded

lately in the capital. According to the prosecutor, this association was

a hierarchical organization directed by key ringleaders.

This supposition is in absolute contradiction with anarchist ideas—most

of the kidnapped people have been labeled anarchists—who are opposed to

concepts of “leaders” and “hierarchies”…

Furthermore, this charade is a perfect outcome for the puppeteers and

jailers who desire to keep their power. Above all, this is the result of

those citizens who enjoy their peace so much, through their deafness and

silence are helping to erase the oppressed, the masquerades, jails, and

resignations…

‘The bombs case’ is the title that keeps appearing in the headlines of

the newspapers like a bad novel, in which the main characters, the

Minister/Secretary of the Interior, the prosecutor and his police

henchmen are trying to catch the ‘undesirable’ anarchists. The beginning

of the ‘bombs case’ is a saga of police persecution that dates back to

September 10, 2006, the eve of an historic date in Chile when people

mourn their dead and disappeared ones from the dictatorship, while

others display their discontent with a democracy that has not changed

much from the dictatorship.

In this context a Molotov bomb was thrown at the seat of the government.

The images went around the world; the symbol of the concord of

democratic parties was blown to pieces; the fraternal unifying factor of

the left has been altered. Two weeks later, a vast police contingent

raided the squat “La Mansion Siniestra” and arrested 6 people who, to

their surprise had become, thanks to the distorting role of the press,

an illegal association of “Molotov bomb-makers”, “violent criminals”,

“vandals”. This scenario is the one that the 14 accused comrades were

facing.

Back then, the police never thought that evidence was necessary, because

the things they seized as alleged bomb-making materials were no more

than common domestic utensils. These Molotovs never existed. During the

judicial process the 6 antagonists accused in this story were allegedly

the worst moral aberrations; public opinion has given legitimacy to

sentences of up to five years in jail...

But OOPS... ‘mistake’! The accusations were fake, the police’s

masquerade had been revealed. Finally, these 6 people did not serve the

time they had been sentenced to. But that’s only after spending 11 days

in a high security prison. Just as expected, no institution was held

accountable for the irreversible physical and psychological punishments

and damage inflicted on the detainees, not for the personal belongings

that were seized from them and their comrades.

Four years have gone by since this incident, and with its passing, the

travesty of justice, inequality and repression remain the order of the

day.

Only to talk about JUST A FEW concrete examples:

According to the survey of “national socioeconomic characterization”

(CASEN) the economic gap has increased from 13% to 15% since 2006.

Meanwhile the government administration wants to spend 135 thousand

million pesos to build, starting this year, 10 new prisons, which would

add to the total of more than 16,500 new vacancies in the prison system.

It is important to note, according to the sources of the mideplan, that

64% of the prison population are illiterate or have not finished their

basic studies and are the poorest and the most marginalized people in

Chilean society. This illustrates that the interest of the system is to

imprison the most marginal people instead of educating them and

providing them with the tools for a better life.

These prisons need jailers…

The alliance of ‘democratic’ parties was in charge of the government for

a decade following the dictatorship, killing 42 people, and helping,

instead of changing, the development of the ‘political constitution of

Chile’ that was created by the dictatorship, strengthening it with

reforms and continuing with its tradition of criminalizing social

movements and perfecting the Anti-terrorism Law. One of the

modifications to the Anti-Terrorism Law was to give policemen a status

of ‘witnesses of faith’, whereby they frequently do not have to present

concrete evidence against the accused, which gives the legal support to

the masquerade/setups for those who represent a threat to the system.

Among other barbarities, now in 2010, the turn of the ‘coalition for

change’ with Sebastian Piñera in power. This regime is pro-dictatorship

and a huge collaborator with the establishment of the neoliberal model.

Let’s not forget that he was also the one that gave the Chileans the

opportunity of having credit cards to live working in order to pay their

debts. But above all, nowadays M. Piñera is famous for his campaign ‘the

Battle against Delinquency’, in which he shows us his support for a

policy of more ‘security’, in other words, and to be less moderate with

the term, jailers that secure the power of their friends the businessmen

and capitalists. To make sure that things proceed smoothly, the

president will reinforce the repression against historically repressed

populations, increasing police personnel to 15000 carabineros and

increasing the salaries of civilian police, who in the last few months

have had their salaries increased by 18%.

This is how the ‘Battle against Delinquency’ is an exemplary example of

how the inefficacy of the alliance of political parties has erupted

tragically into our lives. Today we become its scapegoats, displayed

like pariahs in an outlandish play, in order to legitimize their

ventures and win ‘moral sympathies’ among the spectators and the right.

In this hunt to cover up facts, which have been intentionally invisible

in the media, the hunger strike of 32 Mapuche political prisoners, who

are fighting the adversity of Chilean justice and demanding their

natural rights, is being hidden. Or another omission, the use of cheap,

insufficient equipment to attempt the ‘rescue’ of 33 miners trapped only

a few days earlier this week.

Today, these 14 comrades, among them, anarchists, communicators and

social fighters, show solidarity to unjust causes, they are involved in

open squatted social centres where they sustain libraries, video

libraries, gardens, and people who exchange and question ideas and

actions in forums and activities conducted in a horizontal manner. These

people are automatically criminalized; prosecutors have enough ambiguous

evidence to take their freedom away from them. For example, a tapped

telephone call where a mother demanded that one of the accused people be

taken care of: this was used as evidence against her. The open squatted

spaces and the people who are committed to denouncing and transforming

on a daily basis their own lives and their society have become more

vulnerable to the apprehensions of the state and its prosecutions, which

illustrates that this prosecution is also ideological.

Now...Who are the terrorists?

We are making a call to build an international support network for the

people imprisoned on the 14th of August. Today more than ever!

Internationalists of the world to solidarity and action, to face the

kidnappings and lies of the Chilean State!.

Repressive strike in Chile. Solidarity now!

Agents of the BIPE (Investigation Police) and the ERTA (equivalent to

the SWAT) on the other side agents of the GOPE (Special Forces of the

Normal Police), LABOCAR (CSI) and the department of intelligence of the

police and a series of helicopters and police cars was the armoury used

by the police for the 17 raids in Santiago and Valparaiso, at dawn on

Saturday August 14. Among the 17 houses were 3 Squats and Social

Centres, the squats being La Crota Bike Punk, the Social Centre Squat

and the Sacco and Vanzetti Library in downtown Santiago, and the

Autonomous Social Centre Johny Cariqueo in the Pudahuel municipality.

Two houses were raided in Valparaiso. The excuse for this police

operation lies in the “Bombs Case”, and 23 explosive attacks registered

in Santiago, which according to the police would have direct links with

the arrested.

The first raid was in the La Crota Bike Punk squat by the GOPE where the

result was 6 companions arrested. Of the six held three were kidnapped,

a female comrade with an arrest warrant and for the other two the police

invented traces of TNT on their hands. Then it was the turn of the SSC

and the Sacco and Vanzetti Library, by the ERTA and the BIPE, where they

pulled out the metallic grid of the window with a police car. The agents

also carried out shootings with rubber bullets, hitting two comrades.

From this space 5 comrades were arrested, one of whom remains kidnapped.

At the same time the Libertarian Library Johnny Cariqueo was raided in

the Pudahuel municipality, here the police broke in by smashing access

doors and no one was arrested. The police also raided 14 houses, 12 in

Santiago and 2 in Valparaiso. A total of 17 raids realized by the

defenders of order and 14 companions kidnapped. Formalization of the

hostages. This Saturday around 16:00 pm the comrades were brought before

the 11º Santiago Court Guarantee where the prosecution request extended

their detention until next Tuesday, 17 August. They were charged with

“installation of explosive or incendiary devices and terrorist

conspiracy” (law made by Pinochet), a request which the Ministry of

Interior would also make, risking 20 years. During the hearing, once

again the circus-like nature of the Chilean courts was demonstrated.

Judge Lidia Bruna agreed to each and every one of the requests of the

Prosecutor and the Ministry of Interior (press presence, extending the

period of detention for three days, isolation of the comrades from each

other and from outside, and also the order to bring police collaborator

Gustavo Fuentes “El Grillo” to the audience next Tuesday, to formalize

with the rest of the alleged members of this “terrorist conspiracy.” The

vultures of the bourgeois press were all in the courtroom and fired

their flashes once the judge gave the signal for the guards to bring in

the comrades. The arguments of the defence were heard and denied one

after another. The judge had everything ready for each resolution and

automatically read it with her voice of an old bitch from a paper on her

desk. When she asked a companion if he had anything to say in relation

to his detention, he said he had had repeated death threats, she

responds “that’s all?”. Neither did the story about the destruction of

particular houses of the comrades seem to attract much attention. The

Prosecution justified the injuries caused by police to a comrade of

Sacco and Vanzetti (a rubber bullet to his head and he was kicked on the

nose) with the fact he would have been looking out of a window of the

building throwing things and destroying evidence, which the comrade

denied, immediately calling this version “Imaginative”, resulting in his

being reprimanded for showing disrespect to the prosecutors. So beating

and death threats and unnecessarily smashing into houses is part of the

norm that judges uphold, but any questioning of the repressive apparatus

cannot take place in this circus. The lady continued with the same

attitude when the defence counsel talked about an “orchestration”

between the various media to blame our comrades. When it became clear

that the show was already coming to an end on Tuesday at 9:00pm, they

began to hear the cheers of support, very welcomed by the spirits of our

comrades. Banners held outside the courtroom, songs of support sung

(“Free the prisoners to fight”): the expression of the old fascist lady

was one of disgust and horror, some bodyguards immediately surrounded

the prosecutor Alejandro Peña. After wrangling with those who went to

support our comrades with two kinds of police dogs (police and press),

the fascist judge made an order for the 14 comrades to be taken inside

and then, from the cells area, came a contingent of furious policemen

armed with sticks and shields, that flew over the benches of defendants

and lawyers with the clear intention of beating up friends and relatives

of the detainees. Of course, the bourgeois press has noted that all the

comrades who came to support, well as the accused, attacked the press

and other guardians of the capitalist order, but the truth is that the

aggression came from the guards, while police and journalists beat many

people savagely, and outside the enclosure were joined by riot police

launching a manhunt that was not intended to arrest anyone but to punish

directly. The companion Luisa Vergara had a traumatic brain injury, the

mother of one of the detainees had minor injuries caused by a fucking

journalist, and luckily most of the windows of this temple of shit (the

court) were destroyed.. Also, several journalists were beaten and their

cameras damaged. No comrade was arrested but many were beaten by the

police. Once outside the courts the comrades found out that the SSC and

Library Sacco and Vanzetti was being closed by a joint operation by the

two police departments. During the afternoon, the building had been

guarded by a truck from the PDI (Police Of Investigation), whose

occupants at first denied entry to a group of comrades, but later agreed

to let them in and take some things, warning that there was an order not

to let the building be reoccupied. Hours later, at about 18:30, police

entered the squat and carried out work to prevent access. The Library

and all the other things that were not seized (this time they took

little in the raid) remained sequestered there. The police did not

exhibit any eviction order or anything, and said it was orders of the

prosecutor. They also said the squat would be recovered by their

legitimate owners, the ISP (Internal Revenue Service). A quick operation

that took them by surprise yielded a number of books being put to

safety, sparking a short police chase in the area without anyone being

arrested.

The kidnapped comrades are:

Pablo Morales: Ex-Lautarista (A military political organization that

operated in Chile at the end of the dictatorship and the beginning of

democracy). Arrested at his house in Santiago.

Rodolfo Retamales: Ex-Lautarista. Arrested at his house in Santiago. His

parents’ house was also raided.

Omar Hermosilla: Ex-Lautarista. Arrested at his home in Santiago.

Andrea Urzùa: In 2008 the police say that he and Marcelo Villarroel

(comrades on trial for a bank robbery) were held. Arrested at his home

in Santiago.

Felipe Guerra: Arrested in SSC and Library Sacco and Vanzetti. His

mother’s house was also was raided. The comrade was injured by agents of

the ERTA.

Cristian Cancino: He was arrested in the squat “La Idea” following the

death of Mauricio Morales (comrade killed by his own bomb on May 22,

2009), where the police charged him with possessing almost 500 grams of

black gunpowder. Cristian decided to assume his guilt in a short trail

to get out of jail.

Carlos Riveros: Arrested at his house in Santiago.

Camilo Perez: Arrested at his house in Santiago.

Ivan Goldenberg: Arrested at his house in Valparaiso. Police say the gun

that Mauricio Morales was carrying at the time of his death, was owned

by Ivan’s grandfather.

Candelaria Cortès-Monroy: Arrested at her house in Santiago. Candelaria

in 2008 was stabbed by Gustavo Fuentes aka “El Grillo” who was her

partner and who is accused of placing bombs.

Francisco Solar: Arrested at his house in Valparaiso.

Monica Caballero: Arrested at the squat “La Crota”.

Diego Morales: Arrested at the squat “La Crota”. The police invented

that Diego had traces of TNT on his hands .

Vinicio Aguilera: Arrested at the squat “La Crota”. The police also

invented that Vinicio had traces of TNT on his hands .

All male comrades are in the high security prison and female comrades in

Women’s Counseling Centre.

Immediate Solidarity with our comrades kidnapped by Power! The

“terrorist conspiracy” only exists in the head of the prosecutor Peña!

At the request of the Chilean authorities, the BND help to identify

Italian who sent money to campaigners.

The Bundesnachrichtendienst or German Federal Research Service (BND) is

following the footsteps of Italian citizen Matthew Rossi, suspected of

having sent money to Chilean anarchist groups involved in the placing of

explosive devices.

The collaboration of the German body is made on the basis of a request

for Chilean authorities under the government case against 14 suspected

members of the network involved in the attacks. According to reports,

the petition alleges that the BND has large databases of European

anarchists and the Italian suspect had lived in Germany.

TWO PEOPLE are in custody for this question.

One is Omar Hermosilla himself. The other, alleged anarchist Carlos

Riveros Lüttge, known as “Carlangas.”

Communiqué from Mónica Caballero, anarchist prisoner in Chile

27/08/2010 — Chile

All the insurgents:

The hegemony of power came on the scene on August 14, around 7 am, when

agents of the GOPE entered the place where I live or lived, the squatted

house “La Crota”, destroying the gate of our library, the CDAI (Centro

de Documentación Anarquista Itinerant) by linking it to a car and

pulling it away. Hearing the noise I just made it in time to go into the

courtyard where police, armed to the teeth and with their characteristic

arrogance, blocked me.

Later I was taken to a room where they read out the accusations for

which I continue to be held. During the same procedure my hands were

submitted to an examination, in search of traces of explosives. This

examination was carried out without my knowing anything, without

anything being explained: a huge mistake on my part. The same

examination was made against two other people who were in my beloved

home: Vinicio Aguilera and Diego Morales, and is the only evidence that

they have to accuse them. I tried to greet my fellow humans, canines and

felines. One of my 4-legged comrades never stopped barking at the

police. He never moved away from us. I stroked him and headed toward the

front of the house, Biblioteka (CDAI), which was destroyed like a

classic image of the totalitarian regimes. At that moment I was

handcuffed, handcuffs that were my company for several hours on a number

of occasions. In coming out from my beloved place, that the prosecutor

would describe as “power centre”, the press try to snap the perfect

photo of the “bombers”. They just received our deepest contempt. With my

head never bowed I took the opportunity to shout slogans for the Mapuche

prisoners, those who are currently on hunger strike. In the police car I

was able to pick up on what news was being spread.

When I reached 33 ° Commissariat I found several others in the same

situation as myself and more continuing to arrive. There are 14 of us.

The courtroom hearings for the control of the generalities was full of

comrades, friends, affini, relatives, brothers, who like us felt

uncertainty. Illicit terrorist association and placing of explosive

devices are the accusations against us. The formalization will take

place on Tuesday. In coming out of the courtroom we managed to hear

cries full of rage and anger from our people. Cries that deeply moved us

and gave us strength for what was to come. We are not alone! Your

actions and your attitude fills me with pride! Waiting until the

formalization of the charges was eternal. Isolated, without any news,

and not even a pencil. When the day arrived after Power had tried to

leave us as long as possible in prison, through bars and handcuffs we

managed to touch the hands of our comrades and shout a few words. During

the hearing only one family member was allowed entry for each accused.

The Church has associated with the Fiscalía Sur (the prosecution — NDT)

and the Ministry of the Interior. The Prosecutor Alejandro Peña began

with eloquence to expose the foundations of the Illicit Terrorist

Association (which only exists in his head). According to him, the

organization is informal, democratic and horizontal. At least this

definition made us smile. So many years of investigation for such a

complicated resolution?

What a precarious mentality for such honourable officials. Then, they

continue with the evidence for each defendant: items such as books,

photographs, written words, phone tapping, computers, pens, videos,

posters and probably this same statement will be at the root of our

dangerousness. As if the circus was not enough already, in a gesture

both Machiavellian and morbid, the respected attorney shows photos of

Mauricio Morales who died after the explosion of the device destined for

the school for prison screws in May 2009. He tried to wound us, but has

only fuelled our hatred.

A great element of proof would be the declaration of Gustavo Fuentes

Aliaga, alias “El Grillo” narcotrafficker who on 31 December 2008

stabbed the comrade Candelaria Cortez-Monroy seven times. The court

ordered 180 days of investigation.

But already we are no longer 14, but 8. 6 comrades remain kidnapped in

the cells of capital. A strong hug to them. Four judges and years of

investigations were not enough to find new items to mount an artifice of

such proportions, leaving us in prison like this.

Currently I’m in SEAS (High Security Section) of the CPF (Female

Penitentiary Centre) of Santiago. I shall continue with my vegan diet.

The struggle against domination does not compromise up until the final

consequences.

Proud of what I am and of my comrades, I embrace every act of solidarity

and rebellion. They will not silence me. No more than the individual can

and must fight for their freedom, nothing can move them but their heart.

May the wilderness protect the dear felines running on the rooftops and

may a night of black auspices never come.

To everyone today and always: “Neither God nor master”.

With a heart in pieces, but beating stronger than ever!!

By putting an end to all exercise of authority and power, make anarchy

live.

Mónica Caballero, Anarchist Prisoner,

SEAS, CPF, Santiago, Chile.

Chile — Comunique of arrested comrade Andrea Urzua from prison

24/08/2010 — Comrades, friends, brothers, family,

A week has passed since the aggressor of women, the honourable Attorney

Peña’s media show, (an allusion to a domestic violence complaint

concerning the Chilean Marini — NDT). These have been hard days, far

from my family, seeing a science fiction show on TV legitimised by

audiences who have only shown how inefficient, ridiculous and barely

credible the justice of the rich is.

It all started Saturday, August 14, at 6.50 am. While I was sleeping

with my companion and my little daughter I heard a noise that made me

think of an earthquake. But no, they were agents of the GOPE that ...

were searching the place where I live. It was all very violent, while

they were beating, blocking and handcuffing my companion I and my little

one had weapons turned on us. A lot of shouting, excited police told us:

“quiet, collaborate ... don’t move, don’t talk ... don’t make it

difficult” ... in those long seconds I thought I might be killed by

those wretches with the little one in my arms ... we didn’t understand

what it was about ... we asked them to calm down, to show us the search

warrant, what were the accusations ...

There was no reason for all the fuss ... we asked them not to aim their

weapons as I was with my baby ... we tried, once blocked, to calm them

down and to get them to explain to us what was happening ... a cop

appeared, like the others, armed to the teeth, asking me my name, when I

tell them who I am he looks satisfied to know ... everything was very

stupid, they knew perfectly well that I lived there, knew where I work,

the places I frequent, I saw them, they were too obvious ... about two

months ago an RP came asking for me to my in-laws’ house (where I live)

with the excuse that I was a ‘victim of VIF’, it was obvious that the

persecution that had gone on for years had not ended, that strange visit

was intended merely to confirm my address. I do not want to present

myself as a victim, but nothing can explain the violence of pointing a

gun against an 11 month old baby girl, this action is at best despicable

and without justification. At 7:45 in comes the Captain ... the one who

was in charge of the searches and arrests. Only then did things calm

down a bit ... forensic police in white overalls shut themselves in the

bedroom where I sleep with my family (a room which, like the rest of the

house was searched more than 6 times) they took away books, the

computer, our telephones and an infinite number of things that really I

do not understand what function they could have in “Operacion

SALAMANDRA”. While they were searching every room of the house they were

filming us, taking photos ... the captain tells me that my arrest is

part of the investigations carried out by the comedian Attorney Peña,

the famous Bombas case, investigations going on for four years, with

four successive prosecutors, with arrests that led nowhere, that rely

exclusively on the declaration of a schizophrenic, narco-trafficker and

woman-beater called Gustavo Fuentes Aliaga, alias “El Grillo”. The

accusations against me are: “transport of explosives and illicit

terrorist association”.

Between 9:30 and 10 they transferred me to 33 ° commissariat where I am

“genteelly” received by a high-ranking policeman (without

identification) who shouting asks me my name and threatens me with: “Now

you’ll see that this is not a game” ... the situation started to get

heavy when I see “my friends” there too ... the press ... the jubilant

cops ... the truth is, the situation was too much ... they try to

subject my hand to an examination for signs of explosives, but I refuse

because there was no lawyer present ... the show went on, other

reporters, other cops, other people ... We are moved (in that place we

were already 10) to the control of the arrests. There both the

prosecutor and the Ministry of the Interior appear as complainants, for

a judge there is donna Alejandra Apablaza who not only did not take our

concerns into account, but left the investigations open until Tuesday

17.

I am taken to the high security section of the CPF (central Female

Penitentiary) of Santiago, isolated from the other prisoners. On

Tuesday, at the hearing for the validation of the arrests, the Catholic

church associated itself as a complainant, after the preparation of the

police programme that Peña had prepared shows us the “evidence” with

which we are accused of illicit terrorist association. Telephone

conversations that say nothing other than the usual calls you can have

between friends, videos that can be found on the Internet (made from TV

programmes), leaflets, posters ... all public things in anyone’s

possession. They say we are an illegal association that has an

“informal, horizontal and democratic” structure. That the leaders are

Pablo and Garza. All the others, we would have a horizontal position,

without intermediate leaders or any other position. It is said that our

goal is the elimination of capital, the bourgeoisie, the church and any

kind of power ... all with only 300 Chilean pesos.

The picture of the body of Punky Mauri after the explosion was shown to

us in a Machiavellian sadistic way... and so on, without any logic but

to arrest us, trying to close the space of solidarity with political

prisoners, counter-cultural spaces (some of them defined by the

prosecutor as “power centres”) and all that is against the government,

the system and power. I always thought that with the rise to power of

Piñera all those against the fascist government of the bosses would be

struck, but I never imagined that this would happen with such stupid,

vulgar tricks. In fact the evidence is so rude and crude that it would

not surprise me if this letter was seen as further proof against me.

There are many things in my head, there are many ideas, so much anger

and so much love ... kidnapping is the word I have in mind, I am another

who has been kidnapped ... they are keeping me away from my family and

friends only for being what I am: one that is convinced of the idea, an

ironclad solidarity, one that thinks, one that criticises ... actually,

as I once read: “Solidarity is a powerful weapon” and it is obvious that

they fear it. When I got to know the struggle I fell in love with her.

You can speak of madness, but it is my beautiful madness ... I struggle

for emancipation, I love freedom with my whole being, with all my

strength ...

Now it remains only (for the time being) send you much newen (strength

in Mapuche language — NDT) thanking you for each one of the

demonstrations of affection and support. I ask you to keep your eyes

open, because it does not end here, that’s obvious. A strong, close and

fraternal embrace to each one of you.

ONLY THOSE WHO STRUGGLE LIVE, AND WE ARE MORE ALIVE THAN EVER!!! (I have

heard this in these parts)

AKTIVE EFFEKTIVE SOLIDARITY!!! INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!!!

Andrea Urzúa Cid

P.P S.E.A.S. C.P.F.

Comunique from prison from Rodolfo el Garza Retamales

On 14 August, at 6:40am, my house was raided by police of the Dipolcar

along with the Gope, in search of evidence and accusing me of being the

leader of an illicit terrorist association, the warrant signed by the

prosecutor investigating the ‘caso bombas’.

With the passing of the hours, and after being beaten by police of the

Dipolcar and officer Segis Sostomo RP 3239 of the 30th police station, I

learned that even my parents’ house has been subjected to raids, as well

as three social centres and 12 houses of comrades in different

municipalities between Santiago and Valparaiso, with a total of 14

arrests, all accused of being part of an anarchist cell with two

leaders, two financers and 10 operative members, all in the sinister

imagination of the prosecutor Peña. Even before we were formally

charged, we males were transferred to C.A.S. maximum security prison and

the women to Centro de Orientation Femenina, each one put in isolation.

Tuesday 17 a hearing took place to formalize the situation and there we

were able to hear the evidence against us: phone tapping, photos,

videos, forensic tested clothing and a surprise.

This turned out to be a character known as El Grillo, who has

collaborated and has offered himself to the prosecution as a witness,

pointing in his confessions to some people — who have been arrested –

who according to him are responsible for a number of acts of sabotage.

For those who do not know, this character was arrested Dec. 31, 2008 for

attempting to murder his wife, Candelaria, today accused of illicit

terrorist association. At the time of arrest Fuentes, alias el grillo

[the cricket], told prosecutor Armendariz, that he, along with

Candelaria and another three persons, had made and placed bombs and that

he knew those who carried out the acts of sabotage, in an obvious

attempt to clean his image and pass himself off as a major player in the

social struggle.

At the hearing the hours passed, 15 in total, and we learned a vast

amount of false prosecution arguments that contradicted themselves, even

provoking a smile from the jailers throughout the media show. Despite

the substantial amount of arguments presented by defence lawyers, who

delegitimized the prosecution evidence demonstrating the

inconsistencies, the pressure of the Government through the Ministry of

the Interior could be felt.

In the end, 8 out of 14 of us remain in prison. Power has played all its

cards and its sinister attorney-star could not be seen in a bad light in

front of the public. Now once again I find myself going along these

corridors full of the young people who fill the walls of the Chilean

prisons, because it is for them that they were built, to accommodate and

conceal the social injustice, poverty and inequality of this system

where the rich get richer and the poor content themselves with the

crumbs that the bosses bestow on them.

From listening to the radio today to which I belong, I thank and

appreciate the support they have given me since the first day of my

arrest. You will be under fire, from here all my support and my

strength. A kiss to each one of you ... to all the programs we hear, to

the glorious people of La Victoria and its neighbours, a kiss to my son

and all those who have shown solidarity with affection.

SANTIAGO – A small bomb exploded early Tuesday outside a Catholic

church in the southern Chilean city of Temuco, destroying the front door

and shattering windows, police and press reports said.

The blast occurred at 3:05 a.m. outside the Iglesia del Buen Pastor in

downtown Temuco, the capital of La Araucania region, some 672 kilometers

(about 420 miles) south of Santiago.

The explosion also damaged some nearby houses, Radio Cooperativa said.

Some pamphlets from a group calling itself Kaos Nativo Orquestal were

left outside the church, investigators said.

Initial indications are that bomb was fashioned from a fire extinguisher

packed with explosives.

The bomb was similar to those used in previous attacks in Temuco and

Santiago that were blamed on anarchist groups.

A bomb damaged a bank branch early Saturday in the capital

More than two dozen bombings have been staged in Chile in the past few

years.

Responsibility for the blasts is usually claimed by anarchists or

anti-globalization groups, some of them linked to Chile’s disgruntled

Mapuche Indians.

A member of one of the anarchist groups linked by authorities to the

attacks died in mid-2009 in Santiago when the bomb he was carrying in a

backpack exploded while he was riding a bicycle.

A special prosecutor is investigating the bombings, which occur

periodically.

The detonator on a bomb planted at the Regional Justice Secretariat in

Temuco failed on New Year’s

Eve.

Asel Luzarraga, a Spanish writer and front man of an anarchist punk

group, was arrested in connection with the failed bombing.

Luzarraga participated in protests supporting Mapuche land claims in the

region. EFE

Tuesday September 7, 2010

Condo development attacked, bank sabotaged in Seattle

A Bank of America’s atm slots were superglued, and a nearby vacant condo

development was decorated with graffiti reading: NO CONDOS, NO PRISONS,

FOR CHILE (A)

An outside hose was also left running into a sliding door in order to

flood the lower level.

DWELL Development tears down existing homes and replaces them with

expensive “eco-friendly” condos that further the gentrification of

Seattle’s neighborhoods. We find it ludicrous that these condos are

located mere blocks from one of the most recent sites of Nickelsville,

Seattle’s tent city. And, in a world of dying ecosystems, the

construction of “extremely energy efficient and environmentally

friendly” condos means absolutely nothing.

Bank of America is one of the three joint financial advisers (including

Merrill Lynch and Barclays Int.) for GEO Group Corp. The GEO Group Corp.

is a private prison firm that is paid millions by the U.S. government to

detain undocumented immigrants and other prisoners. This corporation

runs the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.

We hold no illusion that these acts of sabotage will cause these

corporations to financially collapse tomorrow. Instead, we attack in

order to bring about a small rupture in the social fabric of our daily

lives, allowing us to express our own personal rage, and knowing that to

remain on the offensive is crucial to both our struggle and our spirits.

In solidarity with all prisoners,

In solidarity with our comrades facing heavy repression in Chile,

In solidarity with the victims of police violence in Seattle and

everywhere,

— some anarchists

SOLIDARITYACTIONS FOR THE COMRADES IN CHILE

Thursday 19 August there was a gathering outside the consulat of Chile

in Buenos Aires Argentina of anarchists and anti-authoritarians in

solidarity to the 14 arrested. The road was blocked for half an hour,

slogans were sprayed on the walls and leaflets were read with a

megaphone for the 14 and for the Mapuche on hunger strike.

Thursday 19 August an explosive device was deactivated, made from a fire

extinguisher and explosive substances, left outside the 21st police

station in Santiago, Chile. While in a shopping mall in in the city

centre 4 sound bombs went off and leaflets were found near by calling

for solidarity to the 14 arrested.

Friday 20 August there was a gathering outside the consultant of Chile

in Cordoba, Spain. 5 people were arrested.

In Barcelona early the same morning, there was an attack at a a prison

architecture event and at the architects union. Paint was thrown and

damage was done.

The Chilean state has put on guard its embassies and consulates in

Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Italy and Greece, since there have been

attacks before on some of them.

Responsibility claim from Thessaloniki, Greece

Sunday, August 29, 2010

This old world is struggling to stay alive. Its engine power and legacy

is violence. Its most ruthless, most barbaric but at the same time its

truest face is revealed with the suppression of every resistance, every

threat that is bred inside of it.

Let’s be done with the stupid arguments that come aside the police

operations for the abolishment of — outersystematic- violence. Whoever

claims so categorically that they are against violence, is simply lying

to others and himself.

Violence is the basic substance of this world.

It is located in our perception for the space that is defined by the

borders between our houses and neighbourhoods that form a controlled and

predictable environment.

It characterizes the rhythms of everyday life by cutting up time and

selling it to everyone that enjoys economic superiority.

It determines relationships, through segregation and unconditional

assimilation which leads to the division of people. The most brutal

result though is the rhetorical justification of the above that happens

with the excuse of a liberty while in reality it’s our own shackles.

So we move offensively as well, violently, without letting it totally

define our existence. Having knowledge of our contradictions, we aim at

the hypocrisy that seems to be the only thing that keeps the balance in

this social field. We know that the choices we make will define, on a

great scale, the rest of our lives. That’s why we don’t act foolishly.

The possible consequences do not discourage our action. Our choices are

based on conscience and what we’ve lived through, they have a genuine

base. By discovering people that have made the same choices as us we

discover comrades. With our common desires as a starting point we

demolish the authoritarian myths about criminal organizations of maniacs

and we become a piece of the “international terrorist organization” that

consists of insurrectional individuals.

So we decided to use our own diplomacy, torching 5 vehicles of the

diplomatic force in the early hours of Saturday 28th august in

Thessaloniki.

We dedicate our attack to all the Chilean comrades that since the 14th

of august are being attacked by the Chilean state (at this moment 8 of

them are in maximum security prisons while the other 6 have been

temporarily released with conditions), as well as to the comrades that

are being persecuted for the Conspiracy Cells of Fire case (on august

31st is the court of appeals to decide the continuation or not of the

imprisonment of P. Masouras and H. Hadjimihelakis).

We chose this way and period of time because we wanted to define our own

field of combat, outside the coincidence of T.I.E.(thessaloniki

international exhibition) and the festival of oppression by the Ministry

to protect the citizen in collaboration with local authorities, that

will take place in the city streets.

We believe that explosions of collective spontaneity, as useful as they

are, are strategically wrong to be applied in fields of combat cut to

fit the oppressive mechanisms. We believe that in such mass

demonstrations the bet is organization — from before and not on the spot

— of defence and offence so it’s possible to clash in real time and with

reversed — to our interest this time- terms.

Diplomatic Force of Arsonists

(For the intensification of internationalist solidarity)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

We are writing from clandestinity all over South America. We delegates

of the undersigned collectives are making an effort to convene to send a

message of truth to all aware people oppressed by the State of Chile.

1 — We condemn the terrorist way of acting of the State of Chile over

the past 200 years of systematic repression and social inequality

maintained by blood and fire by each of its rotting institutions.

2 — With the full force of our insurgent people we REJECT the

performance of searches and arrests that plagued the young people on

Saturday, August 14.

3 — With total absolute responsibility we hereby WE DECLARE that ALL

those arrested do not belong to, nor have they ever been part of, the

collectives that have decided to respond to historic State violence with

bombs. We know this and the government of the clown Piñera and Attorney

Peña also know it.

4 – WE ACCUSE, as directly responsible for this TV show, the State, the

bosses and the fawning press, they have all hidden the social violence

that they have imposed, pointing the finger at the occasional bomb

explosions that are simply the outcome of the inequalities and

oppression of this snob capitalism. THE STATE IMPOSES THE SOCIAL WAR, we

did not invent it, we who are its victims. We, on the contrary, have

stopped being victims and have risen up as free human beings.

5 – WE HAVE NEVER BEEN in the Occupied houses. Any person of normal

intelligence knows that those are cultural spaces in which young people

meet to converse, debate, and hope to live at community level. If the

state CRIMINALISES these places is only due to pure myopia and implicit

defeat in wanting to destroy anything they cannot understand. The

systematic indiscriminate repression of the young is the zenith of the

orthodox fascist.

6 – WE HAVE NEVER SUBMITTED TO nor have we entered into alliances with

political parties or movements related to the right, centre or left. WE

NEITHER HAVE NOR DO WE RECOGNISE the authority of anyone, either

bureaucrats or marxist ex-combatants nor people with mental problems

that claim actions that they never carried out (like this stranger who

stabbed his girlfriend and still survives in prison). WE ARE

libertarians. WE DO NOT HAVE MILITARY HIERARCHIES OR PARTY DIRECTIVES.

WE ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS. WE ARE EVERYONE.

7 — We, the undersigned collective, WE HAVE PLACED BOMBS. Our objectives

were: banks, financial corporations, embassies, police stations,

barracks, churches, political parties, gyms of the lords of this

country, everything that belongs to the historical oppressors of the

working people. WE DO NOT REPENT, moreover IT IS OUR PRIDE, as is the

fact that so far no police have approached us. WE ARE THEIR DEFEAT.

8 – WE REALISE that the summer earthquake struck most of the structures

of all the collectives, that limited our actions and so far it has not

been possible to rebuild what was lost.

9 — In these over 20 years we have been using different types of

weapons. If we had wanted we could have caused fatalities. The famous

TNT has been a part of the popular arsenal for a number of years. The

office of Chilectra attack was not the first time that we have used it,

all the comrades responsible for this attack confirm so here. If you

want to know where we got it the answer is simple: from the market, the

same that you idolize and the new prosecutor protects. (In the

investigations the Chilean military intelligence are looking into the

actions carried out with the explosive TNT, — NDT).

10 — The Prosecutor Peña. What can we say about him. What everybody

knows : that he was a cocaine addict as a student, called “jalandro” by

his neighbors for being jalero, with a greater sense of inferiority than

his stature, hungry for power and for the chair of national Attorney, a

friend of big drugs traffickers at the expense of the small ones that he

arrested, liar, coward and potential murderer. This is Attorney Peña.

Journalists: DO NOT BE AFRAID to know the truth about this sinister

bureaucrat.

11 – WE DECLARE OUR COLLECTIVE REPUDIATION of the frame-up against the

14 young people. Those guilty of the libertarian bombings are the State

and capital.

FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

ANTISTATE RESISTANCE!

FUERZAS AUTONÓMICAS Y DESTRUCTIVAS LEÓN CZOLGOSZ

BANDA ANTIPATRIOTA SEVERINO DI GIOVANNI

FEDERACIÓN REVUELTA 14F – BRIGADA GAETANO BRESCI

BANDA DINAMITERA EFRAÍN PLAZA OLMEDO

MIGUELARCÁNGEL ROSCIGNA

TAMAYO GAVILÁN

ANTONIO ROMÁN ROMÁN

COLUMNA DURRUTI

CARAVANAS ICONOCLASTAS POR EL LIBRE ALBEDRÍO

Chile: behind the media Circus

AUGUST 14 2010, 14 anarchists were arrested in Santiago de Chile and

accused of being involved in a series of bombing campaigns in the

country over the past year. Statements have since been released by

several groups claiming responsibility for the attacks while the

arrestees themselves have denied any responsibility since the very

beginning of this charade.

The evidence presented against them by the prosecution could not be more

ridiculous; from magazines and newspapers to common household items

apparently intended for the manufacturing of “explosive devices”,

anything is welcome to bolster paranoia.

A few months earlier, on July12th, 34 prisoners on remand of the Mapuche

indigenous group went (and still remain, after 74 days) on hunger strike

in the Chilean prisons of Temuco, Valdivia, Angol and Concepcion. They

are demanding the abolition of the Anti-terrorist law as well as an end

to the military occupation of their lands located in the South of the

country and subjected for years to an ongoing plundering by western

corporations. The Mapuche people are characterised by a strong bond with

their surrounding natural environment. Their ancestral relation with

their land as well as the destruction of the latter by national and

international capital’s eternal quest to extract more and more profit

from it has motivated the Mapuche to develop an increasingly militant

line of action.

While these issues have been subjected to a total information blackout

by the mainstream media, both Chilean and international, the mining

‘accident’ that happened on August 6 at the San José copper mine in

Copiapo, Chile resulting in 33 miners remaining trapped over 2,300 feet

underground, has on the contrary enjoyed a great deal of media

attention. Piñera, the recently elected Chilean president, is using the

incident to clean the poor image of his government after a series of

highly unpopular moves. His sluggish and elitist reaction to what

happened following lasts summer’s earthquake along with his extreme

conservative policies badly hitting the poorest social classes, had made

his level of popularity drop dramatically. Hence the deployment of this

“Big Brother” operation aimed at creating a false image of national

unity. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid by the mass media to

facts such as the workers not receiving their wages, their appalling

working conditions and their message of support to the Mapuche cause.

Instead, the journalists have focused on unimportant details such as how

many bibles the miners got or the number of wives claiming benefits for

each one of their trapped husbands.

For the average respectable and law-abiding British citizen, commonly

ignorant of facts such as the UK’s involvement as one of the chief arms

providers to Pinochet’s dictatorship back in the 80s, this subject might

seem to fall into the category “none of my business”. However, silly as

it might sound, he or she might be wiping their ass every day with paper

manufactured from trees taken straight from the deforestation of Mapuche

lands. Every penny we have in our pockets is made from copper, involving

us directly in the condition of these miners in Chile and quite sure

many other countries. The same goes for the chips in our laptops, our

mobile phone... the list could go on for a while. London is a major

economic centre, meaning that many triggers are pulled, a lot of blood

is spilled so that capital can keep flowing into the city. It is the

‘counterterrorism law’ enacted in 1984 by Pinochet, which still allows

Mapuche activists to be charged as ‘terrorist suspects’ and tried in

military courts today.

Chile passes for a democratic country now. So maybe in your opinion

everything is all right and no reasons should be left for protest or

radical change. In the same line of thinking, all those Chilean

anarchists might actually deserve whatever befalls them. The mistake is

to think that any democratic country guarantees freedom, welfare and a

fair life for everybody. Look around, look at yourself, can you really

see that democratic paradise existing anywhere?

Even the most affluent democratic states like the UK keep their share of

homeless, poor and beggars. A life devoted to the pursuit of a

professional career soon reveals itself as an unsatisfactory senseless

rat race driven by nothing but money and kept going in many cases by

tonnes of anti-depressants. More and more families are struggling to

make ends meet, while the vast majority of the population are granted

the “freedom” of wasting their life tied to the chains of wage slavery.

The same old story of exploitation and authoritarian abuse comes to the

surface again and we find that under the auspices of our beloved

democracy political power is exerted by a bunch of thieves known as

professional politicians. They say we have the “power” and the “freedom”

to elect them but this is starting to sound for an increasing amount of

people like a bloody joke. What this fundamental lie hides is that we

remain stripped of any power, whether personal or collective, to make

decisions concerning our own lives.

On top of all this the “crisis” comes and as usual it is the poorest,

whether the working or unemployed part of the population, who have to

pay for the mess. At all times we are reminded how lazy we are and how

little we do to increase productivity due to our lack of a “competitive”

and market/business-oriented mind. Of course, it is always our fault; we

are not perfect slaves yet, we still need a bit of a reminder so it’s

time to cut this and that, it’s time to make things more and more

difficult. Everything will be all right — unless of course, someone does

not swallow these lies and tries to do something about it that does not

follow the legally permitted (and therefore useless) ways of protest.

Such is the case of the Chilean anarchists. Such is the case of the

Mapuche people. Such would our case be if we were to confront the rules

of our own democracy.

Immediate freedom to the arrested anarchists!

Stop the plunder of Mapuche land now!

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!!

AGAINST THE TERRORISM OF THE

STATE AND CAPITAL!

Random anarchists in London