Uruguay, On the repression and police abuse - by Cerro La Teja Column (ca, pt)

What is here is trying to silence legitimate complaints, claims, claims. Demonize unhappy 
and rebellions. Prosecute and criminalize protest. It has become clear that it does not 
run for those killed, kidnapped, tortured and raped and continue to have impunity and 
cover almost all support them. ---- That when a judge as Motta wants only investigate 
arises immediately jumps there and send it to the last corner. Yes, for those processes so 
great trick protested the court. Luxury impunity and jails. But others have joined 
impunity and not say anything but it works like this. ---- Uruguay, to repression and 
police abuse ---- Montevideo, May 3, 2014 ---- A public opinion: ---- Regarding burning 
dolls 1 May our column has been mentioned and attacked in the media and statements by 
government representatives. We feel obliged to respond and say some things.

Cerro La Teja Column uninterrupted march to the act of May 1 organized by the Central 
Workers for 31 years. It was back in 83 workers in our beloved neighborhoods Cerro and La 
Teja, took to the streets even in dictatorship, demanding the release of political 
prisoners, denouncing the disappearance of social activists, missing children by the 
military dictatorship and repudiated the existing regime. Since then our column has 
appeared repeatedly on problems felt by the working class and our people as part of the 
commemoration of May 1. In all this time they have participated in the same set of unions 
and social organizations. Step will name some of those memory reminds us more easily, 
possibly know that a few remain on the road...

Workers COLAGEL, FOICA (Federation of Workers of the refrigeration industry), ADEMU 
(Teachers Union), ADES (Teachers Union), FANCAP (Union ANCAP) STIQ (union of Chemistry), 
UNTMRA (Metallurgical union) SUATT (Union taximeter) UTAA (Workers Union sugarcane Bella 
Union), sunma (Fishery Workers), FOSE (syndicate ose) Unott (Transport Workers), SAG 
(union of the graphics) workers, Mothers and Relatives of the Disappeared, Niboplast 
Workers (recuperated by workers) Annual Plenary Justice, Student Coordinator, CEIPA (Guild 
of Students IPA), Lyceum Guild 11 Guild Lyceum 61 Lyceum Guild Bauza, AFUTU (Guild workers 
UTU), PROMOPEZ, FUCVAM ADEOM, COVITEA (Cooperative Housing Teja) _COVIDE (Cooperative 
housing HILL, A PLACE IN THE WORLD (Cooperative housing Cerro ) COVICENOVA (Cooperative 
housing Cerro), Movement against Lead Neighbours and Life, THE BRIDGE FM (Community Radio 
LA Teja) OF VILLA FM (Community Radio del Cerro), UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Community Radio 
Santa Catalina), LA KLASISTA (Community Radio Aguada), Santa Catalina Node Barter, Barter 
Node "House of Friendship" Node Barter "Saint Romero" Child Eater Cerro, Cerro Ateneo, 
Ateneo Carlos Molina, Germinal Ateneo, Ateneo Pocho Rios Neighbors Movement against the 
Puerto del Cerro Military Commission in Defense of Water and Life, Movement Neighbours 
impunity, National Commission Against Impunity Commission for Protection of public 
education, defense committee of ANCAP. Our march has been year after year led by different 
unions in conflict, the denunciation of different social problems that affect our 
neighborhoods and our people around. Also every year several blocks people from these 
working class neighborhoods, who know of sacrifice and struggle have been present. This 
step also will name some of the column headers has had in these 31 years.

Support unions conflicting statement and participation in all popular plebiscites, active 
and sustained participation in all issues related to HR violation, freedom of expression, 
rejection of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, among other.

This year, as we have indicated above our column was headed by a sensitive issue for 
others and concern for our neighborhoods. We are referring to the outrage and police abuse 
that is experienced on a daily basis in neighborhoods called the periphery. The qualified 
social discrimination bottom, "red" areas.

It is a problem that is not new, but in recent times it has increased and these facts have 
been made public. No doubt that the murder of the young Sergio Santa Catalina is a sample, 
but to say that this despicable act is not, as you want to bring up an isolated, well yes 
there is a direct responsible if I run it, but everything was Operating in general, the 
beating relatives, neighbors in the Coordinated del Cerro, all handling of evidence in the 
scene, previous episodes of abuse towards young neighborhood with threats, beatings, 
arrests, harassment were not carried out by the murderer of Sergio. Not very different 
situations surrounding the police murder of Santiago and Guillermo Machado Yerle. We could 
devote whole pages referring to everyday acts of police arrogance to our neighborhoods 
face daily. This is known around the world, not only those who live, know all politicians, 
all ministers, media, etc..
br> And now the intent of lowering the age of criminal responsibility to repudiate and 
symbolic burning of the doll. The message is clear, it is political, it is also language. 
We are facing a repressive policy and its enforcement arm against minority, willing we put 
behind bars almost children. This is the fact that symbolically repudiated and wanted to 
plot the column. "Our gurises not go to prison, the best of our people will not give even 
a vote to the floor" said verbatim from the rostrum of the PIT-CNT. The Cerro and La Teja 
will not vote nor downward.

But the police unions are not wrong they are not our comrades, nor there, nor do we 
consider his work. Its function, in the place that has the structure of the system, 
repression, hit and stick to the people every time you send it. Your institution is 
educated, disciplined, injected values to make the task of looking after the interests of 
the rich and powerful, system owners. The order that they care to look after clubbing and 
shooting is their property and power. These goods and power mechanisms that support them. 
Those two three are questioned by those who tire of injustice and that's when you 
intervene. We have seen throughout the course of a long history here in these 
neighborhoods beating and dragging of the hairs, I estaqueando in soccer clubs workers 
refrigerators, again and again. It is, to mention just one example, the 38th parallel and 
more recently the slaughter of the filter. Not counting the beatings to students at 
multiple times, in opportunities for students, parents and teachers as they did at the 
Lyceum 70 recently. Apparently there had also criminals who demanded a bathroom for their 
children. Some time ago the whole neighborhood saw the police in a patrol car running over 
a child, were the neighbors had to assist the child while the soldiers were first meet 
them by doctors. The repudiation of the neighbors that became perversely call now crime: 
Bridge cut Pantanoso burning tires, marched to the police station and made several more 
events in our neighborhood. No sir you are not our peers, if a union query that transcend 
to "leaders", bureaucrats, you would not be in our PIT_CNT was made. At some point things 
will fall into place.

An ideology of the system for this stage is to raise to the fore, oversize, the safety 
issue. The media create the environment to give the size they need, with horror and blood 
splattering what coated properly for fear the rest. Why this issue is raised equally in 
all parts of the world in our country? Strange, no. The so-called neoliberalism sowed 
world of misery, anger, despair. He organized this stage to have increasingly more and 
more to have less and less. One of the responses to the rebellion and discontent that 
arise and continue to arise is mounting ideological devices like the so-called Security. 
They are not talking about other security than them.

For below that is expressed in what we see. The increased repression and modernization, 
flooding streets in our neighborhoods milicos, the tougher penalties for young people, 
open prisons and fill them. Well known and experiences abound in this sense, that there is 
not going the solution to social problems that have cyclical. This will pose the problem 
that is most important.

What is here is trying to silence legitimate complaints, claims, claims. Demonize unhappy 
and rebellions. Prosecute and criminalize protest. It has become clear that it does not 
run for those killed, kidnapped, tortured and raped and continue to have impunity and 
cover almost all support them. That when a judge as Motta wants only investigate arises 
immediately jumps there and send it to the last corner. Yes, for those processes so great 
trick protested the court. Luxury impunity and jails. But others have joined impunity and 
not say anything but it works like this.

The Minister of the Interior, Bonomi said we are criminals. What a novelty for us! So the 
system and its representatives have labeled all social activists through time. The said 
long ago with Jose Gervasio Artigas it was all a bandit; also said about those Chicago 
Martyrs remember that these days were criminals and other things. Also remember that 
things like Raul Sendic told Pocho and Mechoso fighters are a reference and example for 
all who struggle. We could go on. Yes, we are of these offenders, yes, and even 
consistent. These criminals will be as we have oppression, injustice, inequality. Promise 
to be good when there is an atmosphere of freedom, solidarity, new values and civilization 
existing in the service of all human beings.

Against all Impunity for Housing, Health, Education and Labor for our youth.
No more repression in our neighborhoods.
No downward.
Because our May 1st is always a day of fighting, combative class.

Column Cerro-Teja

Uruguay, Montevideo, Words in Memory of Alberto ?Pocho? Mechoso (ca)

Hundreds and hundreds of people came together on 28 December at the Ateneo del Cerro in 
Montevideo, Uruguay for the receiving of the remains of Alberto ?Pocho? Mechoso, detained 
and disappeared in Argentina in 1976. ---- A long march accompanied Pocho?s family, 
friends and comrades ? old, young and not-so-old... a whole people, a neighbourhood that 
was present to the cry of ?Arriba los que luchan!?. ---- First of all, I want to give my 
fraternal greetings to all who are with us today. We also want to inform you of a few 
things and say a few words. -- Notification from the Argentine Anthropological Team -- 
They said about my father: ?This skeleton is part of the eight that were exhumed 
archeologically on October 19, 1989 from graves 73 and 75 of the Municipal Cemetery of San 
Fernando (Buenos Aires province), located in the town of Virreyes...

It dealt with exhuming the eight people whose bodies appeared on October 14, 1976 in San 
Fernando Channel, recovered by the Coast Guard and buried as N.N. [No Name - translator] 
in the respective Municipal Cemetery. Blood samples of Beatriz Elizabeth MECHOSO 
CASTELLONESE, Alberto Jos? MECHOSO CASTELLONESE and Beatriz In?s CASTELLONESE TECHERA, 
children and spouse respectively of Alberto Cecilio MECHOSO MENDEZ, were received from the 
Oriental Republic of Uruguay in the framework of the Latin American Initiative for the 
Identification of Desaparecidos (Iniciativa Latinoamericana para la Identificaci?n de 
Desaparecidos?ILID). The samples were sent to Bode Technology Group (Bode) and EAAF-LIDMO 
laboratories to analyse autosomal DNA markers. They thereby obtained specific genetic 
profiles that, on being compared with the profile extracted from a sample of skeleton 
VIR-101, allowed us to establish the biological relationship between these people.
Based on the results obtained from the anthropological study and genetic analyses, we 
conclude that the skeletal remains studied, known as VIR-101, correspond to Alberto 
Cecilio MECHOSO MENDEZ, born November 1, 1936 in the Department of Flores in the Oriental 
Republic of Uruguay, C.I. 956.404-7, disappeared on September 26, 1976 as recorded in file 
CNDP 7109.?

At this point in my life I have a clear idea of who my father was and what he wanted. My 
father grew up in these neighbourhoods, Cerro and La Teja. In them he heard and saw the 
labour struggles, social conditions and brutal beating of workers. A modest and sensible 
man, he did not remain indifferent to the plight of his people, of those at the bottom. He 
soon joined the struggle and shared his ideals of social transformation and the need for 
the construction of an order based on other totally different values. He fought for those 
ideals until the very end.

He knew what he fought for and the enemy he faced, and was conscious as to what combatting 
the enemy of those at the bottom meant. His experience added to that of the unveiled face 
of capitalism that, through all its anti-people hatred in those years of brutal cruelty, 
covered the whole of society. There he was, like so many, confronted with his daily 
struggle and unwavering conviction against the beast that had dropped into the arena. And 
he knew that beast intimately. He was brutally tortured. He felt how they tortured other 
comrades and how they raped women; all of which amply confirmed what the soul of the enemy 
was. He escaped from one of those barracks where the beasts butchered those who struggled 
with impunity. He escaped only to request a battle station in his organisation. The 
struggle to change this heinous system remained for him the central task. He said in his 
letter, ?What other path is there? Given all this, how is life worth living? ... There is 
only one path, there is only one way to live without shame: fighting. By helping rebellion 
spread everywhere...?.

In this ?everywhere? his anti-imperialism and people?s self-determination was present. Of 
course; no troops to Congo or Haiti.

There are customs, a culture, political intentions today that these moments also serve to 
turn the page; an individual?s wake, putting an end to a situation.

But no, the pain does not cloud the fact that a fist is visible to anyone who wants to see 
it. In this sense we are not watching anything, we are not turning the page nor ending 
anything. We are here accompanying a life and not a death. A life of dedication, full of 
hope for a better world. These beloved bones are screaming: Everything continues, all the 
struggling done, the ideals championed; the aspiration to continue firmly, without 
wavering is the only path that leads to true emancipation. This struggle for total change 
has as its compass a just, free and solidary society that, today as yesterday, is worth 
everything. It only requires adjusting to new historical conditions. As such, this is an 
ode to life and to struggle. To a better life in a better society that has nothing to do 
with this one.

My nephew Lolo was clear on fundamental things. This has been a long period dressed in 
much infamy, much protection of impunity in different ways ? at times blatantly and others 
with deceitful subtleties. From the so-called return to democracy today the impunity in 
the horror has, one way or another, overall, been sheltered.

But there was a sensitive and tenacious perseverance on the part of the people, especially 
the constant work of the Families, which we know were not alone, but who tirelessly kept 
the torch of reclamation alight. Today, neither the liars nor those who were afraid to 
believe can deny the horrific recent past.

We care to know the whole truth, that people know what happened and to raise awareness of 
what the system has in its bowels. There are a few torturers and murderers in prison but 
this is just a hint of the truth. How much, how much to whitewash just a little? Enough 
cynicism and politicking. What existed and will continue to exist is systemic terrorism; 
the state which, without a doubt, played its macabre role that has been articulated 
throughout the dominant power structure ? the capitalist system.

This state terrorism mentioned is part of a general politics of the system. Politics that 
operate differently according to stages and social contexts. As part of this murderous 
cruelty that we mention it is clearly implicit that it carried out a process to make way 
for a model: neoliberalism. That which the people have suffer and continue to do so. A 
model that is and continues to be more for the rich and powerful and less, until the 
terrible misery of the world of those at the bottom. So, if we consider in its proper 
perspective the macabre dimension of the situation experienced it leaves no doubt as to 
the vast amount of direct responsibility that there is in turn.

Today it is more than clear. It is not something isolated as they said or insinuated 
ridiculously. It?s the empire, it?s the Condor Plan. There is a Kissinger at the head, 
supporting and coordinating assassinations and, at times, massacres. Yes, the organs of 
the empire were present yesterday as they are today, giving courses in torture and death, 
targeting combatants and teaching techniques of strong repression and of fear for entire 
peoples. For large and small saturation projects.

And they want more of the same. Today there are bloody interventions in distinct places, 
some directly as in Iraq and Afghanistan and others through NATO, to which must be added 
organised or encouraged destabilisation and chains of places of torture around the world.

The events that occurred here were in that design. For our people this will never end up 
paying. We will not forgive nor forget. Here, forgiveness is synonymous with complicity 
and resignation, and so the best and most authentic way of remembering our comrades is to 
continue the struggle, the ideas for which they fell. To continue without compromise, with 
the strength such as the enemy we face demands. There is nothing better than to administer 
the system, in the best way possible, for those at the top to keep them happy and to 
preserve them.

Yes. They carried out selections, atrocities, torture, rape and vile death for active 
opponents. Here they had the beasts that could implement the policies that such a 
rapacious and miserable system wanted. Here were the mechanisms of death, capable of any 
bestiality possible: willing and trained for it. Here was this deplorable collective 
subject; useless, cowardly, capable of unimaginable infamies ? the subject produced by a 
system within an institution and which has a precise function and place in this structure 
of domination based on violence.

This whole institutional set of diverse mechanisms that created and recreated the system 
from its origin was directed to form the kind of society where the few, very few, had 
everything and the great majority, those at the bottom, had nothing or only what is 
essential for survival. Mechanisms that constitute an entire network of violence, 
including the legal, cultural, ideological and economic. A sinister mesh ensuring its 
reproduction.

But the people were not and did not remain passive and submissive. Often staggering, 
equally erupting; a sentiment of justice and freedom feeding their dreams. They will never 
kill the hope of the people and the militants. What is coming will not be easy to face, 
but the easiest path is almost always the worst in this arena.

Pocho surrendered himself entirely for a cause of true justice, for socialism and freedom, 
for a new world. And Pocho is all those who persevere in this dream and struggle. We know 
there were many, with different ideological shades, who gave total commitment in pursuit 
of what they believed. We can?t mention them all but we can comprehend them in the names 
of a few fighters like: Le?n Duarte, Gerardo Gatti, Elena Quinteros, Ra?l Sendic, Hugo 
Cores, Idilio de Le?n, Nuble Yic, Julio Castro or Santa Romero. In the memory and struggle 
of everyday life they will always be present.

Brother and comrade Pocho will always be present in the midst of our struggle and our dreams.

Arriba los que luchan!

Translation: Jonathan P., ZACF

Pictures at http://www.anarkismo.net/article/24613

Uruguay, Barrikada No 48 Aug-September 2012 - For them there will be no Dungeon Memories: by Nicholas scaron (ca)

IN THIS ISSUE: -- Editorial: What is on the horizon -- Pueblo Jail: Irma Leites --- Cover
story: For them there will be no Dungeon Memories: Nicholas scaron ---- Landscape of
barbarism: Gustavo Lopez -- Alleviate the crisis: Sergio Pereira - DIRECT ACTION, BOICOTT
and sabotage tactics anarchist in the labor movement in Uruguay: Pascual Mu?oz ---- There
were nothing: Urub? and 90 -- Antigone and After: Theatre and memory to fight--- Dialogue
between two fighters from different generations: ---- Debate between different models
miltancia. -- The economy under popular control.-- Memory for Pocho Mechoso -- Recovering
antisit?micas practices -- Poetry Roscigna: Power to the imagination! --- Cover story ...
For them there will be no "MEMORIES OF Dungeon" by Nicholas scaron / Barrikada out in No
48 Aug-September 2012

During the government of Jorge Pacheco Areco Uruguayan prisons were no longer guarded by
the Ministry of Education and Culture and passed under the Ministry of Interior. Among
other reasons this measure came to meet the security demands of the time, it was not
against young people addicted to cocaine base, the danger that the Tupamaros were
assaulted, robbed, put bombs, invading villages, media, and indoctrinated boys questioned
the "Uruguayan lifestyle".

The media clamored for more "tough" in the old stores including commenting that "could not
more", many people were nervous, restless, many began to harangue the military to "bring
order" And he lay. In a flash, trained by U.S. experts, liquidated the armed apparatus of
the Tupamaros and exterminated social classes fighting the capitalist system and generate
awareness in the mass of workers, where, among other "products" emerge guerrillas, calved
from a political and not a whim of a handful of college. The devastation was complete,
consistent, systematic, in 10 years the entire Uruguayan people felt the rigor of the
"cleaning" ideological dictatorship did. I felt even clamoring for more order because
totalitarianism not trust even in intellectual rights, capacity, later than sooner can
play against the regime. Only fools, the fools, the fools, the total unconscious with some
technical training are well regarded by the government of the rich.
In Uruguay today, where many people "can not stand more" where the insecurity felt in the
veins give a damn statistics, where ministers take as a reference to the television
channels, the Tupamaros who are now ruling, meet demand, which do not bother to counter.
Uruguayan prisons will become controlled by the military with full acceptance of the
political system. This kind of "process" or "test" will be conducted by the same army that
made no kind of criticism as an institution for the human rights violations committed by
more than a decade, which has in its ranks with more than 400 troops who are directly
linked to the disappearance, death, rape of men and women who stole babies, who kidnapped,
who stole goods that state terrorism practiced right and left. The major reason given is
that the police are corrupt and allow the entry of weapons, cell phones and drugs into
prisons. It seems that the soldiers of the institution sinister act state otherwise. And
surely they do, as well as the practices exercised by the police, adding torture to
prisoners as a constant and systematic. Bonomi, Mujica and Huidobro, among many, you know.

Mujica told them that Army units are already in training courses for professionals
jailers; personnel trained specifically for relations with prisoners and that apparently
will not be more policemen. These courses are being taught by a civilian, a Uruguayan
teacher who in turn received training in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. "We are adopting
systems and instruction of some successful countries in this area," said the President in
M24.

Instruction countries "successful in the art", called the army, internal enemy that
threatens the "lifestyle of Uruguayans" are terms that seem to recur. Dangerously
repeated. The only thing that does not foresee a repression as in the seventies is the
ideological backwardness prevailing in the labor movement and in other social
organizations reflected in their demands. Perhaps responding to a sense of survival,
perhaps the "trauma" that lives in these structures lost their best men and women in the
jails, in madness, into oblivion and exile that led to the dictatorship. But just kill us
without resistance. The causes of an operating system is suffering the same, though not
oppose resistance. The social war between capital and labor is not known any peace, even
if not peliamos, even if we still overdue clemency. There will not be.

Does the systematic study of governance systems and their assimilation? Is the conviction
to cheat the system from her womb? Is the temptation to have "power", money, betrayal in
the broadest sense of the term cretin? Does the Stockholm Syndrome? Surely neither Mujica
can say for sure. But the repressive process inherent in capitalism in crisis feels and is
devastating. The company is listed in the column starts behind modern repression. 63% of
the Frente is in favor of lowering the age of criminal responsibility, the police asked
students and teachers in high schools, asking uniforms, tough ask, ask that the military
out of the barracks. We want to live in peace, live in peace our imbecility, that the
neighborhood kid who smokes paste not rob us and we were still selling stolen goods "nice
and cheap" that robs neighbors and we want to be in "the oven" so we took advantage and
cut the grass in our garden for a "chirola" ...
As they say, all you can not.


POSTCARDS FROM A DISTRICT

The boy came home it was 8 in the morning and arrived late, the father from the door drunk
yelling "sucks dick dale hurry" the jug also answer him with insults and hand in the
pockets was heading to school where a teacher would challenge him for being late and a
companion would say something about the smell of urine.

A teenager in Uruguay jar these days, when I have to go visit her father in jail, that God
knows because he's in jail, but his old and wants, you will find a hooded military, women
in nature I want to imagine, that will touch your body, that abuse its intimacy seeking a
joint in your vagina or a gram of markets in his anal opening, hours later hear the PE
teacher talking about "physicality" ...

A few days ago a group of female relatives of prisoners from jail of women faced with
police in the street by the arbitrary suspension of visits by the union affiliated to PIT
CNT repressors. The TV image reflected the deepest loneliness, so lonely and in their very
lives, submerged in poverty and ignorance they have to endure the brunt of poverty system
it generates. They fight without conscience, fighting from the "guts" as the child
smelling pichi that will tell the teacher that fence to put?sima recontra thousand mother
who bore and paste a classmate of pineapple "side part" as the teenager who look askance
and distrust physical education teacher who tells him to drop his body anime on the web.

Alone against a system that wants to exterminate, but heroism in jail, will not "dungeon
memories" of these prisoners of 2012, which has no cure cultural supports terror. Family
members can now organize marches where Viglietti sing. Where supports silences, their
lives hell carries the rhythm of the cumbia villera. These damn poor left without
marqueting makes us hate them both.

And if they are alone ... Where are the others?

Bron : a-infos-en@ainfos.ca