Greetings, tributes and notes from different parts of the world to our colleague
Juan Carlos Mechoso "el viejo" recently deceased. To the sister organizations,collectives and people who can send us their support... Salú! ---- Until forever,teammate Juan Carlos Mechoso - note of condolence and recognition (10/11/2022)---- The Uruguayan teammate Juan Carlos Mechoso passed away at the age of 87 onthe afternoon of October 11, 2022. Born in the Department of Flores on March 24,1935, he moved to the capital of Uruguay, Montevideo, as a child. There, he livedin a tenement in Bairro Sul, then in La Teja until he settled, still young, inthe Cerro neighborhood. ---- Worked as a newspaper delivery man, cold storageworker and graphic designer. Its beginnings in anarchism were through formertrade unionists, with the influence of militants from the 20s, 30s and 40s of the20th century, as well as exiles from the Spanish Revolution and Argentinelibertarians. Juan Carlos came from the generation that fought for four yearswithout stopping, from 1950 to 1954, being part of the formation of theCommission for the Uruguayan Libertarian Federation (CPFLU), which later, in1956, at the founding congress, would be called the Anarchist Federation (FAU). ).In the most important anarchist political organization in the history of LatinAmerica, he did everything: from union militancy and in working-classneighborhoods, to the clandestine permanent secretariat and urban guerrilla. JuanCarlos lived through the heyday of the Uruguayan popular struggle, beingconsistent at all times. He spent more than five years in hiding, being arrestedby repression in 1973, only leaving with the amnesty of the end of thedictatorship in 1985.He resisted the atrocities of torture and political imprisonment and helpedrebuild the FAU immediately. After 12 years in prison, the first activity hoursafter leaving the prison was a meeting with his first union of day laborers andin less than a week he was already coordinating with other veterans the publicreorganization of the Federation.Juan Carlos Mechoso was the cornerstone of all Latin American and worldanarchism. He is a reference of social struggle and organization for all and anexample of a solidary militant subject, responsible and committed to the socialstruggle.He began to receive Brazilian activists in December 1994, when he was in chargeof the Department of Relations at the FAU. He came to Brazil - and morespecifically to Rio Grande do Sul - dozens of times starting in June 1996. In theland of Domingos Passos and Espertirina Martins, he helped build Especifismo at aregional and national level.In 2012, he managed to recover the body of his brother Alberto "Pocho" Mechoso,also a historical militant of the FAU, whom he joins today in the eternity of ourmemories.Words cannot handle his example of trajectory. Born into a working family, helived and died as an anarchist worker. From eternity, along with so many from the "FAU of a thousand loves", hecontinues to fight and organize.A reference that not even death itself can erase, the strength and dignity oftheir struggle will always continue to burn in our hearts!SE ESCUCHA, SE ESCUCHA, ARRIBA LOS QUE LUCHAN!One October 11, 1972...The companions are sad, their faces show pain and orphanage.Juan Carlos el viejo de nos va. The referent that teaches us, that brings clarityto thinking and understanding to the hechos of the past, the now and the future.On the 11th of October, Mario Roger Julien, Iván Morales and Eduardito Chizzolaescaped, for a time they were mocked a la death. So only for a while.Un 11 de octubre las claws del horror y la muerte no los alcanzaron. So only fora while.On the 11th of October 2022, fighting for years, Juan Carlos Mechoso the illnesswins him, he reaches the death. Exactly 50 years after those compañeros, Roger,Iván and Eduardo held their hands to receive him in their socialist, solidary andanarchist world.Arriba los que luchanNora Passeggi From Buenos Aires, we accompany the Familia de Juan Carlos Mechoso and themilitancia de la Fau on this day of great sadness; Juan Carlos' match feels muchbetter in the ranks of the revolutionary fighters, why Juan Carlos Mechoso wasone of the essentials, as a true child of the pueblo, like so many compañeros ycompañeras who integrated, integrated and integrated Fau.Sadness is huge, but so is the commitment to continue building a strong pueblo,to continue building Organization, to follow this path that Revolutionaries likeJuan Carlos Mechoso taught us.Hasta always dear Juan Carlos Mechoso, always tuyos and de la anarquía!Anarchist Resistance OrganizationJUAN CARLOS MECHOSO FALLS: A REFERENCE IN THE LIBERTARIA LUCHA DE LOSTRABAJADORES URUGUAYOS.We have received with dismay the news of the death of Juan Carlos Mechoso, ahistorical militant of Uruguayan anarchism and an endearing companion of all thepeople who, anywhere in the world, fight for a better world and for theemancipation of the working class.Juan Carlos Mechoso was a worker. He worked as a newspaperman, errand boy, in themeat sector and in graphics. He was also one of the founders and referents of theUruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU), which in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, along withits self-defense structure, was constituted, the Popular RevolutionaryOrganization 33 Orientales (OPR-33), in the main libertarian organization inLatin America. He developed projects of popular and trade union construction suchas the attempt to cooperativeize the meat industry, in the 1950s, or the creationof the El Cerro Consumer Cooperative, linked to the Libertarian Athenaeum in thesame Montevideo neighborhood. He also narrated, in four vibrant volumes, thehistory of the Uruguayan libertarian labor movement.Mechoso spent twelve years in prison, suffering all kinds of mistreatment, forhis fight against the dictatorship. And, despite this, he never abandoned thecause of the workers or solidarity with the libertarian struggles, belonging tothe FAU until his death.The Solidaridad Obrera Trade Union Confederation wants to pay a tribute ofadmiration, solidarity and affection to Juan Carlos Mechoso. We send our mostsincere condolences to his fellow activists, his family and those close to him.We need a Mechoso in every working-class neighborhood, in every workplace, inevery heart of every honest person, in this world in full drift towards chaos anddevastation multiplied by capitalism.People like Juan Carlos Mechoso are like the rain, whose constant and essentialpresence feeds and gives life to the future harvest of freedom.Workers' Solidarity Union Confederation.C'est avec une profonde tristesse que je viens d'apprendre le décès, on October10th, from our Uruguayan company Juan Carlos Mechoso. J'avais rencontré JuanCarlos et sa compagne de el Mari, dans leur petite maison du quartier populaired'El Cerro à Montevideo, lors d' un voyage dans le cône sud de l'Amérique in 2016.Juan Carlos Mechoso is the dernier living militant of the group that founded theUruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU). Il a vécu toute sa vie aux côtés de safemme Mari dans le quartier populaire d'El Cerro, à Montevideo. Leur maison,during de nombreuses années, a servi de lieu de rencontre pour les anarchistes dumonde entier.Ils ont passé les deux dernières décennies de leur vie à organiser les documentshistoriques de la FAU, certains écrits en langage codé, se trouvaient dans unepersonalle archive. The militants-chercheurs pouvaient accéder au content lié àla révolte ouvrière uruguayenne des années 1960 et 1970. Une partie de ce travailconsistait à rassembler ces documents caches during the dictatorship dans desrefugees à travers Montevideo et à les préserver dans des archives accessible aupublic .Juan Carlos Mechoso et d'autres compagnons founded the FAU in 1956. Trouvant areoriginated in part dans l'immigration italienne et espagnole en Uruguay, whoavait participated, since 1905, in the creation of the Fédération ouvrièrerégionale uruguayenne (FORU), the FAU is made up of names of anarchist militantsof the Spanish war. Elle participates in the creation of social organizations insupport of the reinforcement of unions.Since its debut in 1960, the FAU participates in the structure du «Coordinateur»(The Coordinator), former de l'organisation armée Tupamaros. Dissoute in 1967 bythe government of Pacheco Areco, the FAU dut entrer dans la clandestinité jusqu'à1971.The Fédération anarchiste uruguayenne a entrepris de développer une stratégie etune pratique d'organisation anarchiste dans le contexte de la guerre froid enAmérique latine. He developed a model of justice parallel to the dominantintervention of anarcho-syndicalisme, which played a fundamental role in thefirst Uruguayan syndicats of the 20th century.At the end of the années 1960, a coalition appelée la Nouvelle gauche et centeredsur la FAU contrôlait environ un tiers des syndicats du pays. From 1968 to 1973,the Uruguayan workers had more than one thousand actions, with the majority beingthe grèves and occupations sauvages directed by the coalition encadrée by theFAU. La coalition a soutenu les tactiques d'action directe dans le mouvementouvrier. Ces actions se développèrent jusqu'au coup d'État militaire de juin 1973.In 1968, attempting to adapt to the situation of illégalité et de répression, theFAU decided to organize a front de masse baptisé Résistance ouvrière étudiante(Student Worker Resistance, ROE). The ROE also organized a large front composedof quartier militants, syndicalistes ouvriers et d'étudiants combatifs.The state of emergency and the militarization of political life led the FAU todevelop an armed structure in 1971: the OPR-33 (Organización PopularRevolucionaria-33 Orientales), by publishing a clandestine weekly, and bycreating a network of infrastructure to prepare its actions and protect itsmilitants. The OPR-33 carried out several direct actions, such as sabotage,"expropriations", kidnappings of political or business leaders, armed support forstrikes, factory occupations...Juan Carlos was working as a graphic designer at that time. He eventually wentunderground as part of the FAU armed group, OPR-33, (a group) that robbed banksand kidnapped overly brutal employers in order to settle labor disputes. He gavehimself up in 1971 and remained imprisoned for fourteen years, surviving frequenttorture sessions under the orders of the army and the police. At that time, inUruguay, 1 in 30 people experienced detention and 1 in 62 people experienced torture.While imprisoned, Juan Carlos lost his brother and FAU mate, Alberto "Pocho"Mechoso, who disappeared in a US-backed transnational state terror operationcalled Plan Condor.The FAU saw 35 activists from its organization disappear during this period. JuanCarlos was released after the fall of Uruguay's military government in 1985. Hereturned to his home in El Cerro and helped rebuild the FAU to face theneoliberal era of post-dictatorship.The one the friends called el viejo Mechoso (old Mechoso) was an organicintellectual. Having only a secondary education, he devoted his life tounderstanding left-wing political theory and developing new models for its modernpractical implementation from an anarchist perspective. He was also influenced bypsychoanalysis and post-modern theory.During our visit, we were accompanied by José Mari Olaizola, an experiencedSpanish anarchist activist, we had hours of conversation around the ideas oftheorists ranging from Bakunin to Foucault. He spoke of the latter with passionas he had strongly influenced him during his readings.Everyone knew him in the neighborhood of El Cerro, a historic bastion of thelabor movement that has now become a suburb plagued by unemployment, violence andtrafficking of all kinds. The rooting of Juan Carlos Mechoso was the product ofhis political commitment, in which he knew he was of the people and with the people.His example of struggle and life fully committed and dedicated to socialism andfreedom will accompany us forever.Hasta siempre querido compañero Juan Carlos.Daniel Pinoshttps://monde-libertaire.net/?articlen=6798&article=La_disparition_de_lanarchiste_uruguayen_Juan_Carlos_Mechosohttp://federacionanarquistauruguaya.uy/juan-carlos-mechoso-presente/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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