May 2, 2024 Received by mail informativoanarquista
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March 29, 2024
Some Anarchists coordinated in the peripheries of Santiago; Cerro Navia, La victoria, Villa Francia…
On this date of pain and rage, of memory and also action we took up the path of confrontation with power and those who sustain it.
Since the 80s, as local youth over the generations, we’ve witnessed how the marginalized fall into the networks of drug consumption and by extension into the logic and dynamics that this world carries. We don’t hesitate for one second in pointing out those responsible for this: power and its many tentacles that aim to suffocate any type of flame that opposes its logic at any cost, no longer with the rifle, but now with coca paste, cocaine, and countless other alienating substances.
We position ourselves as enemies of any form of control, of any type of authority. We understand and affirm that the drug trade is one more form of this. The drug dealers as sustaining and promoting of a capitalist economic model, sheltered and in complicity with the forces of order, they advance in these times through quantum leaps, winning spaces and corners in the peripheral neighborhoods across the territory dominated by the state of chile.
Just like in past decades, in the present it’s the drug dealers who often dictate the rhythm and stride of the streets and allies of the neighborhoods. Where the residents must take shelter and accept said forms of domination. Establishing a logic of violence such as “every man for himself”, and “survival of the fittest”. Creating conflicts within the spaces inhabited by the exploited and marginalized of this capitalist society. It’s clear to us that as much as in the past, many comrades have fallen into the clutches of drugs or the drug trade. We watch with concern how these dynamics of relations are being promoted and accepted in spaces of combat.
As Anarchists we consider it necessary and imperative to question and take action directly and without hesitation against those who sustain any type of power and authority. We declare the drug trade our enemy, just like the police.
We call on others to retake the spaces, the streets, the plazas. So that our peers may develop their social relations in tranquility, without the constant fear of being subject to a stray bullet, or a robbery. We don’t believe that the solution is more police in the neighborhoods. The deepening and perfection of the police state is the perfect solution for the powerful, making way and opening new markets for the drug trade.
In this time where these conducts and forms emanating from logic associated with the drug trade, from “fittest”, to “coolest”, it’s urgent to be able to create spaces of confrontation and tension with these logic. It’s time for us, the marginalized and exploited, to come back to ourselves in order to confront the problems that arise with new forms of social control.
With: Pablo, Eduardo, Rafael, Claudia, Mauri, jhony, Araceli, Matías, Norma and all the youth combatants who gave their lives in the war against the state and power.
By and with their example, for those who are here, and for those yet to come…
Narcos and dealers out of the neighborhoods…
No narcos, no thugs, no police. Streets for revolt.
Direct action against what oppresses you. Fire and lead to any type of authority.

Comments
Ok now this is epic
anon (not verified) Tue, 05/14/2024 - 17:47
Ok now this is epic
Why is drug dealing any worse
anon (not verified) Tue, 05/28/2024 - 14:34
Why is drug dealing any worse than (say) selling alcohol?
Shouldn't anarchists be trying to decommodify drugs rather than suppress them?
i would argue the only
lumpy (not verified) Tue, 05/28/2024 - 16:19
In reply to Why is drug dealing any worse by anon (not verified)
i would argue the only difference between alcohol or say, corporate pharmaceuticals versus the illicit drug trade is the degree of control over the markets that the state has. in many countries, the black market is also partially controlled by the state but that control is contested, elsewhere, the black market oligarchs have become so powerful that they've seized control of the state.
all of which is to say that small scale anarchist efforts to influence their surrounding communities might involve conflict with local drug dealers who are behaving like cops or mass murdering psychos or whatever, or maybe the anarchists are the ones providing clean drugs in a more responsible way? who knows? it would vary hugely from one place to the next.
but "decommodifying" tho ... that's just ... like, you must mean very far in the future after capitalism is gone or something?
how tf would anyone be able to do that without completely transforming the entire rest of the economy first?
yeah, that's right. people
anon (not verified) Tue, 05/28/2024 - 16:31
In reply to i would argue the only by lumpy (not verified)
yeah, that's right. people focus on the fact that they're drug dealers and not the fact that they are abusive thugs and warlords. it's not the substance they're peddling. similarly, thinking of all the corporations that peddle products and behave like occupying armies to secure the resources they need, and the production and distribution.
yeah, i'd be wary of the
lumpy (not verified) Tue, 05/28/2024 - 16:40
In reply to yeah, that's right. people by anon (not verified)
yeah, i'd be wary of the stigma of "criminal" or "drug dealer" or any similar cop-think but i don't know if these particular anarchists in chile are that naive or not
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