{"id":10791,"date":"2021-02-17T00:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=10791"},"modified":"2021-02-17T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:46:01","slug":"chile-reject-the-persecution-of-maria-rivera-by-the-carabineros-the-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2021\/02\/17\/chile-reject-the-persecution-of-maria-rivera-by-the-carabineros-the-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile: Reject the persecution of Mar\u00eda Rivera by the Carabineros &#038; the Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-content td-pb-padding-side\">\n<em><span lang=\"en-US\">On 16 February, <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">our comrade Mar\u00eda Rivera <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">was charged with \u201cImproper Sedition\u201d and summoned to testify in court as a defendant. She is a<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> leader of the MIT, of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Defensa Popular<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> (<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Popular Defence<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">)<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> and candidate for <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">the<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> Constituent for District 8 (on the People\u2019s List). The lawsuit was filed by Carabineros<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/reject-the-persecution-of-maria-rivera-by-the-carabineros-and-the-justice\/#sdendnote1sym\" name=\"sdendnote1anc\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> officers, for openly <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">demanding<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> the troops of the repressive forces to stop massacring our people.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>By MIT \u2013 Movimiento Internacional de Trabajadores<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">We reject the Carabineros\u2019 and the judiciary\u2019<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">s<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">suit<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">The <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Carabineros <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">are<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> one of the most <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">contested<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> institutions by the Chilean people and ha<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ve<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> no legitimacy to <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">make <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">judicial or other actions against social activists. We also know that Justice is at the service of the families that own this country and the foreign capitalists. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">T<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">hat is why <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">they<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> condemn and persecute the activists and let <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">go<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> free the Carabineros <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">and military<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> murderers and the corrupt rich who exploit the workers and plunge the people into misery and the contagion of Covid.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">This attack against our comrade and our organisation comes in the context of the persecution and imprisonment of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">protesters<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> who do not accept to <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">bow <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">down<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> and continue to fight for real social transformations. Since the signing of the Peace <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Agreement<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> we have <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">exposed<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> the undemocratic <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ongoing <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Constituent Process, because elections are being held <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">while <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">there are hundreds of political prisoners, thousands of persecuted people and <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Carabineros continue to kill workers and young people in the streets of the country.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">Since the beginning of this <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">r<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">evolution, our organisation made a legitimate call to the Carabineros and Armed Forces troops not to attack and massacre their own people. We reaffirm this call to all Carabineros and <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">military<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> troops: do not obey your corrupt officers to massacre your own people!<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">We also reaffirm that our comrade and our organisation will not be silenced!<\/span><br \/>\nWe call on all social and human rights organisations, fighters, collectives, independent candidates and those who are in favour of the struggle to stand in solidarity with our comrade.<br \/>\nFrom now on we will start a national and international campaign in defence of our comrade! We will not accept any intimidation, we will not accept that they attack our comrade, our organisation and a revolutionary candida<span lang=\"en-US\">te<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">!<\/span><br \/>\nMIT\u2019<span lang=\"en-US\">s<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> National <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Leadership<\/span><br \/>\nNotes:<br \/>\n<a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/reject-the-persecution-of-maria-rivera-by-the-carabineros-and-the-justice\/#sdendnote1anc\" name=\"sdendnote1sym\">1 <\/a>Carabineros: The Chilean Federal Police.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 February, our comrade Mar\u00eda Rivera was charged with \u201cImproper Sedition\u201d and summoned to testify in court as a defendant. She is a leader of the MIT, of Defensa Popular (Popular Defence) and candidate for the Constituent for District 8 (on the People\u2019s List). The lawsuit was filed by Carabineros1 officers, for openly demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882120,"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27806],"tags":[30066,27867,30095],"class_list":["post-10791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internacionalinternational","tag-chilean-revolution","tag-constituent-assembly","tag-maria-rivera"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdQxqk-2O3","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13882120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}