Claim of the explosive attack against Fundación Paz Ciudadana by the Brígadas Anárquicas Luis Ramírez Olaechea (Providencia, Chile, May 22, 2023)
Those who have been here, in the minority and diffuse practice, know that failing an attack is part of the many probabilities that arise in the bravery of the street, when we believe that everything is going well, we are surprised that something escapes from what was arranged and planned.
Deciding on an electrical system to detonate an explosive charge is not a whimsical decision, it is the result of studying the objectives, our forces and our resources for action. With a quick entry and withdrawal from the environment we prioritize the safety of our comrades, understanding that the materials at our disposal come and go, while the life and freedom of our brothers and sisters is the most valuable component of the arsenal.
These bitter situations are softened when we know from practice that although the State, police and prosecutors are careful to protect their territories, neighborhoods, institutions and infrastructures, the attack is still possible in contexts of control and passivity. The attack does not come to life in fervent virtual slogans, it is a threat when it bursts into the streets.
In the face of a mistake we could remain comfortably silent but we are proud to persist in action, charged with memory and militant solidarity. We take the words of the comrades in Bolivia, “Long live all the efforts of the anarchic struggle!” because to advance vertiginously along the paths of confrontation is a victory for our revolutionary horizons. We continue, we know that nothing is over and everything continues, and that our only defeat will be not to try.
On the objective
On April 2, 1992, a gang dressed in suits and ties burst into a large house located on the corner of Valenzuela Castillo and Marchant Pereira streets in the Providencia district in broad daylight to found what we know today as the Fundación Paz Ciudadana (Citizen Peace Foundation). No newspaper or television channel dared to treat them as high-risk criminals, despite the fact that among the attendees that afternoon were Agustín Edwards (great financier of the socio-political destabilization in the ’70s) and other prominent figures of Chilean political corruption such as Carlos Alberto Délano, as well as Nicolás Ibáñez and Nicolás Ibáñez, as well as Nicolás Ibáñez, a well-known ultra-right-wing businessman, who when he ran D&S boasted a life-size bust of Pinochet in the middle of his living room, and other members of Chile’s most powerful business groups such as Bernardo Matte and Guillermo Luksic.
Fundación Paz Ciudadana emerged when the longed-for social peace of the agreed transition was cracking and a hard blow was dealt to one of the country’s wealthiest families. A split of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez kidnapped Cristián Edwards, Agustín’s son. After this event, the need for an anti-crime plan and a new Penal Code became urgent, since the audacity of stalking the magnates of this estate could not be allowed.
From then on, the country’s managers were promoting modifications and renewed penal policies defended by Paz Ciudadana, which through (not so) technical reports and mediocre statistics in hand, shielded the bills that at the end of the day only sought to protect private property and the peace of large business groups and the upper echelons of power.
Far from the already known tactics such as paralyzing trucks, de-supplying the population and financing right-wing paramilitary groups, new times were approaching where the political-business union was necessary since these new policies could not be implemented only with the sole desire of the business community; it was necessary to seek votes that would allow the approval of each of these new laws. The ambitious project managed to bring together the political and business world, absorbing multiple figures of the moment, mainly from the Concertación. “I sign everything Paz Ciudadana says” said Ricardo Lagos in 2005, demonstrating that the importance of this sinister Foundation also covers the bidding of the government of the day.
We have attacked Paz Ciudadana because from its innocent repressive laboratory it has strived year after year to create a climate of insecurity that only seeks the implementation of laws that wall off the privileges, goods and peace of the most powerful, because for Paz Ciudadana there are no corporate thefts that have systematically affected most people and that paradoxically are the ones that have caused more damage in the daily lives of people, nothing like that. Paz Ciudadana does not know about abusive interests, collusion, police abuse, narco-corruption or tax fraud. Paz Ciudadana has never spoken out about massive thefts such as the tragedy of Casas Copeva, where 600 families were swindled by a construction company belonging to the Pérez Yoma family (one of its first directors) who had to sleep whole winters over puddles of water, mushrooms and peeling plaster, resisting the humiliating cold that sickened many children and ended up undermining the lives of thousands of people.
In practice, the reforms to the Penal Code promoted by this foundation resulted in more preventive imprisonment and higher sentences for situations which, compared to the millions of dollars defrauded in suits and ties, are quite illusory. A few years after the Foundation’s siege for the protection of its promoters’ assets began, a profitable managerial venture began to take hold: the concessioned prisons. This prison business was defended by Paz Ciudadana from its beginnings to date, evidencing the business agreements with the foundation and the large amount of capital that sustains this alliance. The profitable private security business started at that time is materialized today in the countless companies of guards, alarms and municipal police, companies that were strategically created by several founders of Paz Ciudadana.
One of the main contributions of this foundation is the media projection – through its high power of interference in the mass media – of an elaborate portrait that describes an internal national enemy, “implacable and powerful”, proposing that an unbeatable society would be much better off if there were no “they” who must be exterminated in a “war”, as if crime were not also the expression of a rotten system from its roots.
If in the ’90s a wave of fear was fomented to emphasize the need for security, we are currently living the second largest campaign of this type, with the difference that the militia are in the streets and we are debating in a kind of permanent State of Emergency to now, yes, finish configuring the long-awaited Police Democracy with armies of war assuming public security tasks. In the last few weeks we have seen how a repressive offensive called “Plan Streets Without Violence” has been implemented, where the “feminist”, pluri-policial and “ecologist” government has unleashed the repressive offensive against marginalized and impoverished territories, added to the intransigent call of the political class to incorporate in this repressive agenda the phenomenon of terrorism and subversion.
Currently, there are many foundations that are located in the shadows of power that move without major problems; they are the thinking heads of repressive, racist and extermination policies; with modern, inclusive and friendly speeches, they impose trends and influences in everyday life.
With this action we want to contribute to the harassment against these centers of confluence of the rich and powerful. The list is long, it is only a matter of time before the anarchic offensive reaches the doors of their homes. We will continue to attack the neighborhoods and centers of power, outwitting their “elite” police of which Minister Tohá is so proud.
“Memory is not just pages in history books. Memory is the force that forges in steel our will to be able to continue the struggle. It is the impulse that pushes us never to turn back. Memory sharpens our hatred and arms our vengeance. Memory is the land where we meet those we lost, those we never knew, those we would like to have by our side in the battle, a battle in which, as long as it continues, our brothers and sisters will live inside thousands of conspiracies planned everywhere around the world, through acts of vandalism and arson, executions, plans to escape from prison, and will never be left in the oblivion of time.”
Conspiracy Cells of Fire
14 years after the death in action of our comrade and brother Mauricio Morales. Combative and insurgent memory, to persist in the powerful fires that nourish our denials.
To Alfredo Cospito, our most affectionate revolutionary greetings. Your extensive hunger strike has demonstrated that anarchist insurrectional action has no borders; on the contrary, it expands creatively and employs all means of struggle against Power.
Long live the seditious fractions and the black urban guerrilla: Francisco, Monica, Aldo and Lucas, we continue to hold our heads high together with you.
Subversive prisoners, anarchists, Mapuche and anti-speciesists to the streets!
Brígadas Anárquicas Luis Ramírez Olaechea*
* Anarchist comrade who on October 22, 1929 attempted a tyrannicide against the dictator Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.
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Source: Dark Nights