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URGENT - Witch hunt in Chile: Six anarchists arrested after police raid squat.

Interlocal Agency of Urgent Translation. | 28.09.2006 04:01 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is what progressive democracy looks like.

A lot of weapons of mass destruction
A lot of weapons of mass destruction


Santiago de Chile. In the morning of September 26th, special forces of the police broke into a squatted house located downtown, and six people, including a compañero from Spain, have been detained. Police say that molotov bombs and all the stuff required to prepare them were found in the place. Empty bottles (who doesn't have empty bottles at home?), kerosene (some of the people were jugglers and of course did fire juggling), sawdust (used for beds that the [black] cats in the house had), and of course "subversive material": zines, posters, banners, books, and videos and printed instructives to make molotov bombs. 4 bombs already made were found, according to the local CSI, who were there too. All the four bombs were supposed to be used in the protest organized for that day by the Nacional Association of Teachers and High School students organizations.

This is a intelligence operation directed by the Vicepresident himself together with the A.N.I. (National Agency of Intelligence), a quite dark institution that resembles the ones that operated during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Of course, this is just one part of the operation, they have been filming during protests, investigating activist groups, infiltrating grassroots movements. For the part of the media, we suddenly start to hear and see on television that "anarchists" or "anarchic groups" are responsible for all kinds of destructive actions during protests. This year has been tough for the public image of anarchists in Chile. What used to be "infiltrators" in protests, are now identified as "anarchists", which is, at least in the mass media, new.

"A network of anarchists, activists has been dismantled", said the General Director of Carabineros (Police). "We've seen this for a long time, [these people] breaking into authorized protests, with their faces covered and molotov bombs". Belisario Velasco, the Vicepresident said "intelligence operations are being developed by the Police and the Investigation Bureau and some houses where molotov bombs are being produced already identified and will be raided soon"

President Bachelet was satisfied with all the operation. She said that the government is "going to do whatever is necessary to preserve the rights, not only of those who want to express themselves, but also of the ones who want to live in peace and quietly"

Regarding the spanish kid, Velasco said that "once he serves the sentence that the court might give him, he will be expelled from the country".

This is what progressive democracy looks like.


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