Mapuche, anarchists, squatters, former political prisoners, who's missing? One of the icons of the legal legacy of the dictatorship is the Patriot Act, passed by the dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1984. Designed to punish "crimes who seek to strike fear in the population," continues to apply to today Mapuche anarchist and former political prisoners. Was applied in 10 of 11 court cases against the Mapuche during the administration of Ricardo Lagos. The mandate of Michelle Bachelet, 17 community members who faced trial in Cañete were accused of "terrorist" and exhibited as such by the media. And it still requires the military logic of the dictatorship. Recent court cases in Cañete Mapuche and anti-authoritarians and anarchists of the "case bombs have been full of similarities: wiretapping, the presence of protected witnesses, extensive pre-trial detention, criminalization of ideas and demonstrations. All covered in the use of the Terrorism Act. At trial in Canete, whose ruling meant the acquittal of 14 Mapuche and the withdrawal of charges Terrorism Act in the absence of compelling evidence to the other, "as in" If bombs ", which is on remand to suspects without trial has started, despite having been almost 7 months, "the traditional media have reported echoing the prosecution and violating the right to presumption of innocence. On these issues we talked with Arnaldo Pérez Guerra, historian and journalist, who was a political prisoner in the early '90s, former member of the FPMR and MAPU-Lautaro, now editor of Punto Final magazine, newspaper Mapuche web Azkintuwe and Liberation.
- I would like to know your opinion about the legal process experienced by the Chilean government dissident groups such as anarchists and Mapuche.
", police have installed assemblies, legal, political and media" against those who do not share the kind of society that upholds the State. The government suppresses any hint of dissent or of organization, any attempt to empower indigenous peoples. Mapuche leaders have been imprisoned, young people who define themselves as anarchists, squatters, anti-authoritarian, and also pursued former political prisoners, mostly ex-militants MAPU Lautaro Lautaro, in the late '80s and early '90s. In government, in the District Attorneys in the police and the media are too hypocritical bastards, mythomaniacs ambitious and unscrupulous. Innocent is accused in a show with 'evidence' that start laughing in court. 'All that exists only in the imagination of the fiscal Peña,' he said attorney Alberto Espinoza Pino in an interview that he did, but innocent people still in prison and will appear that much more. In addition, El Mercurio and the government itself through his guard-and private-Hinzpeter announced more arrests coming. "
- How the media have supported the research of which are now part anarchists and Mapuche leaders?
"The official media have acted as they always do, defending their interests and the interests of power, the hand that feeds them. Mounting media installations occupy all platforms-print, radio, TV, Internet, to lie and lie, installing what is happening to them ... It is pathetic to read analysis of El Mercurio, La Tercera, La Nation, The Counter, etc. -It does not matter the medium you choose, "on the so-called" case bombs or the trials of leaders and members of the Mapuche cause, or on the mobilization of workers or indigenous peoples, if even distort environmental groups and sexual minorities ... Last year, TVN Special Report, presented a program on the detainees on 14 August "exclusive footage", which were presented stridently as' evidence of anarchist terrorism. " In Chile there are no terrorists, but state terrorism. What was TVN? Youth in and out of squatter houses, which were arranged cultural centers where bicycles, had libraries, were exhibited and made videos forums, chats. But the media followed and continue to lie, filling pages and pages with all the nonsense that happens to support the assembly and sale, since squatters set off bombs or that the Mapuche have connections with ETA, FARC, Al Qaeda, the EZLN, etc. If even accused a Pakistani who came to work and holiday food! A member of the PC is accused of being the 'key man' in connection with the FARC, when the PC the only thing that matters is being part of the parade, have their odds diputaditos power! ".
- What has been the role of media in the construction of social struggle as an instance of violence and terror in the population?
"Obviously, what the media, which are the most visible face of power, is to criminalize any hint of social protest organizational dissent. Shape the opinion and in turn reinforce and consolidate it as the only opinion, that of power. There is a media duopoly that is actually an ideological monopoly. "
- symbolic in the area, what is the evidence that following the huge police apparatus against anarchists and Mapuche groups?
"This is from long before the current government of the Right or the Coalition. Installed in 1973, blood and fire, the most savage capitalism. The experiment was done in Chile ... Broke up the revolutionary groups fighting to overthrow the dictatorship, atomized to the organized sectors of society. Then, set up governments eunuchs and liars, as were those of the Concertación, which ended up destroying the social organizations and subversive groups, etc. And today I have completely power large economic groups that are doing business with natural resources, with the money of all Chileans, exploiting workers, polluting and destroying entire towns. We live in a police state. And that is the symbolic, the Mapuche and anarchists are displayed by the power to tell us that anyone can be prosecuted, imprisoned, murdered, and nobody will say anything or do anything ... that is a class struggle, and what do they have power, and they are winning the war. "
- What do have been the consequences of the judicial process by anarchists and Mapuche lived in the persistence of social struggle in Chile? "It reduces the call and participation that links people with social protest acts of crime?
"Some people, movements, groups and organizations realize the danger of what happens: that anyone can be accused of what happens to the power, acting with impunity on natural resources, what we eat, our consciousness and even our bodies. Some are organized, others still fighting for their particular demands, but the vast majority are passive and unaware of what happens, 'alienated' Marx would say. But the criminalization of social protest will not end with what generates discontent: the exploitation, injustice, unhappiness. Notice and participation diminishes the fact that the majority of the population to be crushed daily to believe that social protest and crime are the same. But they can keep forever this racket, the circus is going to end when people become aware that every day can be opposed to capitalism. "
- Are there commonalities between the processes experienced by anarchists and Mapuche?
"Anarchists, anti-authoritarian and former Lautaro are living today than previously experienced by the Mapuche, and these what happened to the subversive groups in the late '80s and early '90s, and these, proportionately, as suffered by the militants of the Popular Unity during the dictatorship: Persecution, criminalization, murder, imprisonment, stigma, assemblies legal-political, etc., etc. Apply the Terrorism Act against anyone, increase penalties and you have no right to 'due process' as bourgeois law says. Accuse you to witness 'induced', 'protected', 'faceless', fixing, threatened and even paid, the lawyers get rich charging for virtually doing nothing; prisons become more and harder, segregation, not hours in the yard, not healthy food. What more pathetic than the case of lonko Pichún Aniceto Norin and Pascual, charged and convicted after he was acquitted! Convicted of a crime - 'terrorista' threat, "that does not exist in the legislation. And should serve the sentence completely, 5 years and one day in prison. Today Fuhrimann Pablo Morales accuses of being the 'leader of a terrorist organization', is accused of being Omar Marin Hermosilla 'financier', is accused Alejandro Rodriguez Escobar to be a 'robber'. Terrorists with known address, telephone cell, stable job, family and, also, periodically sign in Prison for being on probation? What have complied with all requirements imposed Prison after 10, 11, 12 years of political imprisonment? It's a joke in bad taste. Alejandro Rodriguez Escobar in 1992 and previously incarcerated on parole since 2004 - was left at liberty twice in August and September of last year by Judge Jorge Norambuena noting that prior convictions suffered in 1999 and 2000 would not be considered as background of misconduct by the court, because they were dictated by military courts "did not respect the guarantees of a democratic state of law. " To Judge Nora were insufficient and illegal prosecution presented evidence that in this case, and invoked international treaties and the American Convention on Human Rights. But the Court of Appeals reversed the actions of the judge and keeps the prison Norambuena Alejandro Patricio Gallardo-Rodriguez and another former political prisoner from August 30, 2010, just because it would be a "danger to society 'for conviction by military courts for acts occurred in the late 80's and early 90's, and which have already served long sentences in the High Security Prison (CAS). Given the feeble and inconsistent arguments of the prosecution have decided to invent that there would be 'attackers who finance the squatters who bomb. " Please! .. It is terrible that innocent people remain in custody, charged and criminalized for months or even years. Those who know, know that they are completely innocent. Their only crime is being Lautaro MAPU militants, have been detained, charged and convicted of Military Prosecutor, the laws inherited from the dictatorship, the same applies today. "
- Can it be said that the Chilean State is leading the pursuit of ideas through legal tools, such as the Patriot Act?
"The state is seeking ideas and controls our minds and our bodies through all your tools. The Terrorism Act, the Law on State Security, the military prosecutors, the estrangement, military service, are just some of them. 'Apply the Terrorism Act in Mapuche cause or by the detonation of sound bombs is a blunder of the Chilean government "said Human Rights Watch (HRW), and added:' The State has been inconsistent in applying the standard and say to the Organization of United Nations in Chile there is terrorism. " The 'evidence' against the 'terrorists' are trivial phone calls, videos, pictures of people, lists names, empty drink bottles, pamphlets and leaflets. Please! Why are arrested then? Because the state wants them, needs them prisoners, and not so much whether they have done but because they are an 'example' to those who do and those who make themselves could do. The prosecutor Alejandro Peña in two months of research has found "proof" that others did not find in 5 years, do not believe neither he nor anyone else. Many of the accusations are based on Gustavo Fuentes said Aliaga, a schizophrenic drug dealer and abuser of women, a true reflection of Chilean society bipolar schizoid, violent, prudish, where it matters most property and appearances that life and happiness. "
Journalist by Vanessa Vargas Rojas. Published by Liberation www.liberacion.cl
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