Statement condemning the brutal escalation of state repression ordered by Chilean President Sebastián Piñera

What we are witnessing in Chile is not a war, but a popular, legitimate, and massive uprising.

We express our condemnation of the brutal escalation of state repression ordered by Chilean President Sebastián Piñera through his declaration of a state of emergency and the militarization of the country's main cities. What we are witnessing in Chile is not a war, as the government has claimed, but a legitimate and massive popular uprising, a resounding "enough is enough" to the atrocious exclusionary policies of neoliberalism.

Aducir situaciones de guerra o la existencia de “enemigos poderosos” no es más que un subterfugio para intentar legitimar la represión desatada, al más puro estilo pinochetista, que ya ha causado más de 18 muertos/as decenas de mujeres violadas por las fuerzas del «orden», cientos de personas heridas y más de mil detenidos/as.

The people of Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico are each confronting, in their own way, the abuses of this predatory and murderous system that can no longer be sustained except through bullets, tear gas, and lies. Each in their own time, the people will prevail because they are on the side of justice in their demands.

Con el coraje de la desobediencia civil hoy chilenos y chilenas desafían en las calles la prepotencia de los poderosos. Acompañamos solidariamente su lucha y sus demandas, en la convicción de que el neoliberalismo caerá.

October 2019
CLACSO Working Group
Collective memories and resistance practices