On December 16, 2009 I was expelled from Argentina after 21 months of confinement in different units of the province of Neuquén to be at the disposal of the Chilean state and it has been 14 years since then.
In 2014 I was sentenced to 14 years for two bank robberies. Strictly speaking, I am serving this sentence in its entirety, from beginning to end, without any benefit and it ends today December 16, 2023 and still the state keeps me behind bars.
According to the gendarmes, I must serve 12 more years of imprisonment to be able to apply for some intrapenitentiary benefit only in 2036. According to their retroactive modifications of the illegal Chilean law, in 2056 I will definitively expire my sentences, all of them from events that occurred more than 30 years ago.
A madness of numbers and years typical of Pinochet’s military justice shamefully in force and still today endorsed by recent rulings of the Court of Appeals of Rancagua, of Santiago, of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of this amnesiac country governed today by the Communist Party, the Broad Front and all the progressive and social-democratic scum always at the service of the interests of the great god of capital.
In this context, a few days ago, Mónica and Francisco, anarchist comrades of action who received the full revenge of the state, were condemned by the capital’s democratic inquisition, particularly Francisco to whom the domination imposed 86 years, becoming today the revolutionary prisoner in the Chilean prisons with the highest sentence and whom we must know how to accompany from the daily practice without pauses since the road will evidently be longer. Always from the complicit affinity and never from the victimization!
On the other hand, in the occupied wallmapu, in the same week, the racist Chilean justice declares Peñi Luis Tranamil Nahuel, who these days is about to receive a hefty sentence, as well as Peñi Nelson Queupil, who faces an imminent sentence, both walking the path of the weichan, are in Chilean prisons, fists raised, living the onslaught of the state offensive of occupation.
The juridical vomit of the power has made itself felt in this December in the territory occupied by the Chilean state. Anarchists and mapuche are targets of state vengeance for not bending and fighting; for maintaining an active resistance always dignified and sustained with conviction and blood, with long years of confinement and bitter moments, with complex times but above all, with a strong bond of love between many who do not give up, who are not afraid or disdainful, nor do they refuse or compromise.
Regardless of who administers the state, we have received nothing but constant repression together with a permanent hardening of the legal framework since 1990 to date in the democratic context of which those who support, defend and justify it boast.
In this line, it is currently possible to recognize clear glimpses of a highly corrupt political-legal-police-penitentiary system, real gangs that share spaces and power quotas with no respect for anything but money, and in which those of us who fight them are the targets of a permanent offensive that confines us in their prisons, as true hostages of their revenge. The “rights” no longer matter in their current social order; what matters is to impose the rule of law. A law always at the eternal service of power made to bury us in prison.
It does not matter anymore “the legal”, what matters is that they are the power and they can condemn you for anything and they can sekuestrar you for as many years as they want under a penitentiary legal framework more and more outside of the very legality that they themselves claim to defend.
There are unavoidable challenges that we can no longer postpone. To walk towards the strengthening of an Anti-Prison Stripe with clarities that allow us to sustain a Complicit Solidarity burying the welfare victimhood, generating bonds from the conflict and not by the temporary desperation of confinement implies assuming a position that tends to be a permanent contribution to the insurrectional struggle for the total destruction of the prison society.
We have compañerxs in prison for decades and will continue to have them as an inescapable trace of the conflict. The Dominion qualifies its instruments of repression, control and repression with the exculpatory motive of “security” and from there the new realities of criminality and illegality that arise and manifest themselves in an evident way in the territory are used as a perfect excuse for the use of all its war toys and juridical-political tools that justify them. That is why we must strengthen the real struggles by creating active networks that allow us to sustain the long march for the release of all our fellow prisoners in the prisons of the world by clearly fighting the state, the prison and the capital.
Strengthening the subversive and anti-authoritarian anti-prison internationalism, we are building bridges between the seas and borders that separate us to meet among brothers and sisters and comrades from different latitudes, recreating the struggle, getting to know each other from the tension of doing so that the names and living stories of those who resist in prisons are heard and shared as necessary ferment to advance in the struggle for the destruction of the existing.
A complicit embrace for those who have returned this year to the streets after a long time in cages. Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Tomas Meyer Falk, Pola Roupa and Eric King.
A greeting of fraternal respect for Tony Chavero, prisoner in Struggle in Extreme- Madrid who carried out a fast in Solidarity with our struggle for the annulment of Pinochet’s military justice sentences, between the 16th and the 24th of last October in a concrete show of internationalist complicity.
A greeting of struggle and resistance to Alfredo Cóspito, Anna Beniamino, Juan Sorroche and all the comrades in the Italian prisons. They are loved and accompanied from the south of the world!
To the anti-authoritarian revolutionaries of all tendencies resisting in the Greek, Turkish, Russian, Belarusian, Yankee, French, Indonesian and wherever they are, my most sincere respects and wishes for a speedy release as well as the necessary encouragement and push to continue always with fist up.
A war cry to break the silence until the last end of the world for all those killed in the heroic Palestinian resistance against the genocidal Zionism of the state of Israel!!!
I salute all the anarchists, subversives and Mapuche prisoners in Chilean prisons who, with dignity and from full autonomy, keep the flame of weichan and rebellion burning and raised in the daily anonymous resistances that are forging the spirits called for combat in times when the struggle for land, life and against capital is more urgent and necessary than ever.
An inescapable call to strengthen the specific struggle for the annulment of Pinochet’s military justice sentences in my situation continues to be the priority in a daily collective campaign. To spread, to agitate, to propagate, to convene, to organize… To sustain in a persistent way the demand of my immediate exit to the street is a priority objective in which there are many wills in different places that today we must know how to articulate in order to advance in the real konkretion of this so longed for moment.
In memory of A.M. Bonanno whom I met in the 90’s through his lucid words which, like blasts to the center of domination, remain today as a contribution “Because we want to destroy the capitalist order of world reality which, thanks to computer restructuring, has become technologically useful only to the managers of class domination. Because we are for the immediate and destructive attack against concrete structures, individuals and organizations of capital and the state”.
10 years after the death in combat of “Pelao Angry”, Sebastián Obversluij Seguel.
Memory, resistance, subversion!
Combatant youth: permanent insurrection!
Until the last bastion of prison society is destroyed!!!
Anarchist, subversive and Mapuche prisoners out of the prisons now!!!
For the annulment of the convictions of Pinochet’s military justice now!!!
Amulepe taiñ weichan!!!
As long as there is misery there will be rebellion!!!
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
La Gonzalina Company Prison
Rancagua territory occupied by the Chilean state. Mid December 2023-