On July 22, hooded students from José Victorino Lastarria carried out an incendiary attack, setting up barricades, distributing pamphlets and banners, and throwing Molotov cocktails at the cops (COP) in solidarity with Aldo and Lucas Hernández, anarchist comrades who are currently on trial for their explosive actions.
As every March 29, with greater or lesser intensity, a new Day of the Young Combatant is commemorated in different parts of the territory dominated by the Chilean state. This year the date fell on Saturday, causing that on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 high school students from Liceo de Aplicación, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, INBA, Liceo 1, Instituto Nacional and Liceo Eduardo de la Barra (Valparaíso), university students at the Juan Gómez Millas campus, Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (Valparaíso), and comrades in general, were rioting and confrontations with the police in high schools, universities and in the center of Santiago, also different gestures of agitation accompanied all these days.
On the night of Saturday 29th the streets of Cerro Navia, Estación Central, Quinta Normal, San Bernardo, Huechuraba, Peñalolén, among others, lit up. With Molotovs, stones and homemade or industrial weapons, comrades confronted the police in a new commemoration of the Day of the Young Combatant with combative memory for Eduardo and Rafael Vergara Toledo, Luisa Toledo, Mauricio Maigret, Claudia López, Mauricio Morales, Sebastián Oversluij, Luciano Pitronello, Belén Navarrete, among so many other dead comrades who still remain present through anarchic action absolutely far from any iconic, symbolic role or elements of admiration.
Finally, the day left a total of 42 detainees who went to detention control and were released in the course of the following day.
“A spoil towards the lazy louse It is not a simple whim I reflect myself in your eyes To demonstrate my old commitment Hip-hop I wet the towel that cleans The red fist I wave in battle My people are no longer silent awake with their anger The rich with their gold filling themselves with praise The poor with their flowers filling themselves with love We will be the actors of revolutions”
Jhonny Cariqueo Yañez
Seventeen years ago, in the framework of the Young Combatant’s Day in 2008, one of the most violent days of political street violence took place. Specifically, in the commune of Pudahuel, during the commemoration of the previous September 11, corporal Vera had been killed by a bullet in the head, while on March 26, 2008 a powerful explosive device was detonated in a bank of the commune, creating a subversive atmosphere and a spirit of revenge on the part of the police.
Jhonny Cariqueo Yáñez, 23 years old, a young rapper and anarchist who participated in different hiphop and neighborhood collectives, was arrested on March 29, 2008 at the intersection of La Estrella and San Francisco in the commune of Pudahuel, after a commemorative activity for the Day of the Young Combatant. He was taken to the 26th Police Station where he was brutally beaten, during the detention Jhonny began to feel strong pains in his arm and chest and was taken to an emergency center where it was suggested that he undergo tests, however, the miserable police refused to accept the check-ups. On the morning of March 30, he is taken to the 1st Police Station in Santiago, where he is released at 4:00 p.m.
The following day, March 31. Jhonny lies down on his bed and begins to show symptoms of cardiac arrest and is assisted by his family; however, in a few minutes comrade Jhonny Cariqueo dies.
The anarchic memory has been able to maintain the memory of the comrade present in the street, through incendiary action, activities, documentaries, murals, spaces, explosive actions and projects with his name, demonstrating that no death of our comrades is a sentence to oblivion.
Jhonny Cariqueo Presente
Nothing is over, everything continues.
Documentary “Jhonny Cariqueo – The Permanent Revolt” (2010)[in Spanish]
Documentary “Jhonny Cariqueo – Memory and Resistance” (2009)[in Spanish]
Publication “Ícaro, a unique publication on the events of March 29th in Pudahuel” (2009). [in Spanish]
A few days ago, hooded individuals erected barricades and confronted the police in the vicinity of the National Institute in solidarity with Ayekan, a political prisoner who is currently in preventive detention.
Also, the expulsion of “Rocco,” a DEM executive who has interfered with the resolution of the petition demanded by students of the same educational institution, is being demanded.
Yesterday (October 11), hooded individuals erected barricades and clashed with the police in the vicinity of the National Institute in commemoration of the death of Denisse Cortés, a comrade and human rights observer who actively participated in the protection and safeguarding of her people in the context of social struggle.
On the other hand, a banner was unfurled denouncing mismanagement and embezzlement of public funds regarding the management and payment of overtime for some officials of the institution, who look after their own interests instead of those of the educational community.
On Thursday, June 27 at the UPL, barricades were built, banners and flyers were deployed, and clashes armed against the presence of COP (Carabineros, Riot Cops), in the context of commemoration for the defense of the Earth against ecocidal extractivism.In this direct action in the port, it was also referred to Felipe Ríos, who currently lives the repression and kidnapping of the Social-Democratic Police State. It was read in flyers and banners: «Felipe Ríos presente.All to the streets »,« Traffickers and Pacos the same pigs.Take your weapon, they know that our bullets are aimed at their faces, “” All subversives to the street “and” the promised land is nothing more than subjected land.Autonomy and freedom ».
(Chile) Incendiary actions at Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, Liceo 7 and Instituto Nacional in memory of Mauricio Morales
Between May 24 and 25 high school students from three different high schools in Santiago, took to the streets to erect barricades, deploy banners and confront each other with Molotov cocktails against the presence of (COP), in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales for a new Black May and in solidarity with all those affected by the eviction of the May 17 occupation in Cerro Navia.
Clashes took place in Santiago as part of the commemoration of Workers’ Day from 10 a. m. until the afternoon. Clashes were reported in the midst of the demonstration called by the Central Clasista de Trabajadores, on both lanes of the Alameda, particularly in the section between Brasil and Matucana streets.
Carabinieri arrived at the scene, using water and gas cannons. Hooded anarchist demonstrators confronted the police with blunt instruments, Molotov cocktails and destroyed commercial premises and erected barricades in various areas
Anarchists threw incendiary devices inside the Central Station. The Carabinieri reported at least 16 arrests, including 5 for carrying incendiary bombs.
On April 16, hooded students of the Instituto Nacional confronted with Molotovs against the presence of riot cops, responding to the harassment and internal repression that they have suffered lately and in particular to the events occurred on Friday, April 12, where a group of students, after going out to demonstrate, officials of the establishment closed the access gate. At that time, some students tried to open the gate to protect themselves from the cop attack, to which the officials responded again by closing it. In that moment of struggle, between pepper spray and other chemicals, a student was seriously injured in the left index finger, having to be taken to a health care facility and end up with the amputation of the distal part of the finger.
On Sunday, January 28, 2024, a commemoration was held for Jorge Mora, better known as “Neco”, who, on the same date but in 2020, was run over and killed by a Carabineros car in the context of a riot outside the Monumental Stadium.
On this occasion -similar to previous commemorations- there were confrontations with Molotov cocktails and barricades around the 55th Police Station, ending with four people arrested; this situation was preceded by police controls and harassment by civilians in the sector of Pudahuel Sur during the whole afternoon, sector where Neco lived.
Banners and murals read: “If I die for something I want to die defending our cause”, “Neco in memory until victory” and “We go forward with the people, with the people. Neco Immortal”.