(Chile) Balance of a New Day of the Young Combatant (March 29)

(Chile) Balance of a new Day of the Young Combatant (March 29). 40 years later, the streets still scream memory and total liberation

Like every March 29, with greater or lesser intensity, a new Day of the Young Combatant is commemorated in different parts of the territory dominated by the Chilean state. This year the date fell on Saturday, causing that on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 high school students from the Liceo de Aplicación, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, INBA, Liceo 1, Instituto Nacional and Liceo Eduardo de la Barra (Valparaíso), university students on the Juan Gómez Millas campus, Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (Valparaíso) and comrades in general were involved in riots and clashes with the police in high schools, universities and in the center of Santiago, different gestures of agitation also accompanied all these days.

On the night of Saturday 29, the streets of Cerro Navia, Estación Central, Quinta Normal, San Bernardo, Huechuraba, Peñalolén, among others, were lit. With molotovs, stones and homemade or industrial weapons, comrades confronted the police in a new commemoration of the Day of the Young Combatant with combative memory for Eduardo and Rafael Vergara Toledo, Luisa Toledo, Mauricio Maigret, Claudia López, Mauricio Morales, Sebastián Oversluij, Luciano Pitronello, Belén Navarrete, among many other dead comrades who are still present through anarchic action of absolutely any iconic, symbolic role or elements of admiration.

Finally, the day left a total of 42 detainees who went to detention control and were released in the course of the next day.

Records for Thursday, March 27 and Friday, March 28

Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco)