Alejandro Astorga Valdés. An Internationalist at the Service of the Great Homeland
In resignation, there is only death; In resistance, there is the desire to live.
Alejandro Astorga Valdés
To the international community,
To the Peruvian people,
To the Tupacamaristas:
On January 1, 2025, the Tupacamarista comrade Alejandro Astorga Valdés, an internationalist who from a very young age embraced the cause of the Chilean proletariat, physically departed. He fought tirelessly against the dictatorship in his country together with his comrades from the Revolutionary Left Movement MIR. Later, moved by his proletarian ideological firmness and his commitment to justice, he decided to join the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement – MRTA, convinced that the liberation of Chile, Peru and all of Latin America should be a joint struggle against capitalist exploitation and imperialism.
Comrade Alejandro leaves us not only a legacy of struggle, but also an accumulation of victories that strengthen the new generations of Tupacamaristas, who continue to fight on the different fronts of struggle against the Peruvian oligarchy and U.S. imperialism, historical enemies of the peoples. His combative morale and revolutionary mystique will continue to illuminate the path of those who struggle for the emancipation of the peoples and the construction of a great socialist homeland, a project of national and social liberation that can only be achieved through the unity of the working and popular masses.
To his family and his fighting companions, we extend our most sincere revolutionary hug of solidarity. It is a pride to have shared with fellow Alejandro revolutionary tasks that marked milestones in popular resistance. His bravery was demonstrated by heroically resisting Fujimori’s corrupt dictatorship, without ever bending over adversities. In his revolutionary praxis, he embodied the love of social transformation and the spirit of proletarian internationalism, faithful to the Guevarista motto of homeland or death.
Alejandro’s example, his sacrifice and his firmness in the revolutionary struggle, are impregnated in the struggles of the countryside and the city. His immortal spirit will live on in every Tupacamarista, inspiring those who fight the oppression and plundering of our resources by transnational capital.
Neither the class enemy in Peru nor in Chile managed to bend his will to fight. His example will remain alive in the firmness and commitment of the new revolutionary generations, which will live up to the challenges imposed by history.
Until victory always, comrade Alejandro Astorga Valdés!
Alejandro Astorga Valdés… ¡Presente!
With your example… We will win!
When a Tupacamarista dies… He never dies!
With the masses and the weapons, homeland or death… we will win!
January 3, 2025
National Directorate
MRTA