One of the most important squats in santiago, República 550 is going to be evicted in the next days. This house was a place used as a represion center in the Pinochet’s goverment and then the state didnt find a use for the bulding, however the state now wants it and after two years they want to kick out a place where several art collectives make open and free workshops for the community. It’s also the house for the first hacklab in santiago. If you can/want send a solidarity message in their support book. However people’s art and the dreams can’t be evicted.

A dancer… a girl with a bomb?

This is what progressive democracy looks like.

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.

Police lies

“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.

Please send this news to all the people, organizations and radical news websites you know. September 27th. Agencia Interlocal de Traducción Urgente. Interlocal Agency of Urgent Translation.

Artists, not terrorists