{"id":3897,"date":"2020-06-04T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/04\/organizations-and-activists-from-the-caribbean-and-central-america-demand-freedom-for-chilean-political-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:06:28","slug":"organizations-and-activists-from-the-caribbean-and-central-america-demand-freedom-for-chilean-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/04\/organizations-and-activists-from-the-caribbean-and-central-america-demand-freedom-for-chilean-political-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVISTS FROM THE CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AMERICA DEMAND FREEDOM FOR CHILEAN POLITICAL PRISONERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Coordinadora-18-de-Octubre\"
Chile experienced a massive social upsurge starting in October last year, initially by students against the increase in transportation but later it became widespread and mobilized millions of Chileans questioning the model inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship and demanding, among other things, a new constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The capitalist government of Pi\u00f1era responded to the protesters with a repression that left thousands injured, mutilated, dozens of sexual abuses and torture, thousands of arbitrary arrests and dozens of murders. The participation of the repressive forces in assemblies and provocations was also documented. To date, around two thousand five hundred (2,500) people, including dozens of minors, are still being held in Chilean prisons for having exercised their right to protest, under a \u201cpreventive detention\u201d that has extended, in many cases, beyond the time of a possible sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the Caribbean and Central America we join the voices in Chile and around the world demanding FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS and warning about the risk to which prisoners are deliberately subjected, crowded into unhealthy prisons, in the context of the covid pandemic19. Pi\u00f1era\u2019s message is that anyone who protests can be killed, tortured or exposed to the pandemic indefinitely in Chile\u2019s prisons. With the unity of the Chilean working people and the peoples of the world we will defeat this criminal intention of Pi\u00f1era.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to promote awareness of this just cause, we will seek united action from the organizations and individuals who have signed this declaration.<\/span><\/p>\n

FREEDOM FOR ALL CHILEAN POLITICAL PRISONERS!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dominican Republic<\/span>
Socialist Workers’ Movement (IWU-FI)<\/span>
Revolutionary Socialist Militancy (MRS)<\/span>
Hugo Cede\u00f1o, former president of the Federation of Associations of Teachers of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (FAPROUASD)<\/span>
Wagner Gomera, President of FAPROUASD<\/span>
Miguel A. Jorge L., President of the ADP teachers union Section – Santiago<\/span>
Manuel Mar\u00eda Mercedes, President of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)<\/span>
Pastor de la Rosa, Secretary of Union Affairs of FAPROUASD<\/span>
Ingrid Luciano, teacher at UASD<\/span>
Marcos Adames, socialist activist<\/span>
Rafael Capell\u00e1n, mathematician and teacher<\/span>
Carlos Feliz Cuello and Archibal Catalina, Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)<\/span>
Jaime Rodriguez, lawyer<\/span>
Evelio Santos, agronomist, Chispa Socialista<\/span>
H\u00e9ctor Turb\u00ed, economist and activist<\/span>
M\u00e1ximo Rafael Almonte, activist<\/span>
Juan Bison, activist<\/span>
Tob\u00edas Fern\u00e1ndez, teacher and lawyer, in charge of the Labor Area of the CNDH. Directive member of the Base Committee of the Benito Juarez High School, of the ADP<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haiti<\/span>
HaitianosRD Collective<\/span>
Jacques Charlemagne, Reseau des Organisation de la Zone Ouest (ROZO)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Honduras<\/span>
Tom\u00e1s Andino Menc\u00eda, Center for Political and Social Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Costa Rica<\/span>
Atlantic Farmworker Coordinator<\/span>
Costa Rican Housing Coordinator<\/span>
Socialism and Freedom Group (GSL)<\/span>
Orlando Barrantes, leader of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Movement (MTC)<\/span>
David Morera Herrera, sociologist, member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (PRT)<\/span>
Giovanni Beluche V., doctor<\/span>
Adri\u00e1n Ja\u00e9n Spain, sociologist, university professor at UCR and ITCR, member of the Revolutionary Party of Costa Rica<\/span>
Patricia Ramos Con, attorney in the Office of Gender Equity at ITCR<\/span>
Miguel Barrios Guti\u00e9rrez, retired construction worker, member of the PRT EC<\/span>
Antonia Tellez, Committee in Defense of Migrants Grace Serrano, leader of the Urban Popular Action Movement and the CC of the PRT<\/span>
Marvin Marin, secretary of conflicts of the General Central of Workers<\/span>
Rafael Barrantes Bonilla, Communications Collective La Voz<\/span>
Manuel Sandoval Coto, Director of Sinpae union<\/span>
V\u00edctor Segura, organizational secretary of the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Panama<\/span>
Socialist Proposal (IWU-FI)<\/span>
Priscilla V\u00e1zquez, President of the Social Security Employees Association<\/span>
Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Garrido P\u00e9rez, linguist and professor of Spanish language and literature; Trotskyist activist<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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