Words by Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda, Anarchist Prisoner
Ideas are the fuel that gives the necessary energy to give content and execute the practices antagonistic to capitalist domination.
The union between idea and practice seems to be the only possibility for both to transcend and perpetuate themselves. It could hardly be otherwise.
What would become of our ideas if they were not carried out or at least tried? They would probably remain as a set of beautiful daydreams on paper, and our practices, if they were not strengthened with ideas, like logic, they would lack the theoretical support to sustain them.
In this sense, the constant coherence between ideas and practices has made the struggles against capitalism transcend. That transcendence is in the Wall Mapu.
There are many generations of weichafe who with blood, tears and many smiles have managed to make their struggles their best inheritance for those to come. Weichafes like Matías was.
I remember the day they killed Catrileo, I could never forget the audio of the lamuen who called the radio to say that they were fleeing with their brother’s body. I was struck by the voice of that Mapuche who was carrying with him the still warm corpse of Matías who had just been murdered.
I tried the moment I heard the story to empathize with that man and until that moment few things had seemed so terrible and at the same time so dignified.
Since that day I have been constantly looking to the south of the territory dominated by the Chilean state and the Argentine state and on many occasions I smile when I see that we have the same fuel.
There is no state that can stop the paths antagonistic to capitalism.
Matías Catrileo may your memory be transformed into action.
Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda. Anarchist Prisoner.
COF Women’s Guidance Center
January 2025
Sent to La Zarzamora