“A dispossession towards the loose louse
It’s not just a craving I reflect in your eyes
To demonstrate my old commitment
Hip-hop wet towel cleaning
The red fist that waved in battle
My people are no longer silent, awake with their anger
The rich with their gold filling themselves with praise
The poor with their flowers filling with love
We will be the actors of the revolutions”
Jhonny Cariqueo Yañez
17 years ago, within the framework of the Day of the Young Combatant in 2008, one of the days of greatest political street violence was experienced. Specifically, in the commune of Pudahuel, in the commemoration of the previous September 11, Cabo Vera had been killed by a bullet in the head, while on March 26, 2008, a powerful explosive device detonated in a bank in the commune, creating a subversive atmosphere and a spirit of revenge on the part of the police.
Jhonny Cariqueo Yáñez, 23, a young rapper and anarchist who participated in different hip-hop and neighborhood collectives, was arrested on March 29, 2008 at the intersection of La Estrella and San Francisco in the commune of Pudahuel, after a commemorative activity for the Day of the Young Combatant. He was transferred to the 26th Police Station where he was brutally beaten, during the arrest Jhonny began to feel strong pains in his arm and chest and was transferred to an emergency center where tests were suggested, however, the miserable police refused to accept the checks. On the morning of March 30, he was transferred to the 1st Police Station of Santiago, where he was released at 4:00 p.m.
The next day, March 31. Jhonny lies down in his bed and begins to show symptoms of cardiac arrest being assisted by his family, however, in a few minutes the comrade Jhonny Cariqueo would die.
Anarchic memory has been able to maintain the memory of the comrade present in the street, through incendiary action, activities, documentaries, murals, spaces, explosive actions and projects with his name, demonstrating that no death of our comrades is a sentence to oblivion.
Jhonny Cariqueo Presente
Nothing is over, everything continues