from Anarchist News Sometimes anarchist presence is so scarce that, more than once, they’ve augured our disappearance. Sometimes our fury is so intense that it provokes fear, and long periods of internal explanatory purge. Sometimes many, sometimes few, but constantly and with […]
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Peru: Protesters Threaten to Halt Antapaccay, Bambas Mines
from Mining.com Peru’s demonstrators have threatened to stop work at Glencore’s Antapaccay and MMG’s Las Bambas copper mines in protest against the country’s new president and to demand fresh general elections, according to La Republica. The demonstrators in south Peru said every state […]
Continue readingBrazil: Goldminers Carve Illegal “Road to Chaos” Out of Amazon Reserve
by Tom Phillips / The Guardian The surveillance plane eased off the runway and banked west towards the frontline of one of Brazil’s most dramatic environmental and humanitarian crises. Its objective: a clandestine 120km (75-mile) road that illegal mining mafias have carved […]
Continue readingChile: Explosive Package Attack Against Oxiquim SA
from Anarchist News The central offices of Oxiquim S.A. in Providencia, Santiago de Chile, were attacked with an anarchic attitude. The high-powered device failed to explode due to a surmountable technical detail, so let’s go for more. Oxiquim, giant of the Chilean […]
Continue readingFour Arrested in Chile for Meat Truck Arson
from Animal Liberation Press Office On the 18th of September the world woke up to the news that Grupo de Respuesta Animal had struck again in Chile, this time against a meat packaging facility that had been set alight. Now Chilean police […]
Continue readingChile: Grupo de Respuesta Animal Burns Meat Packing Plant
sent to Earth First! Newswire “Most of all I regret my restraint, because regardless of the damage we caused to those businesses, if those farms are still open, if even one animal was left behind, then it wasn’t enough. I do not […]
Continue readingColombia: Blockade by Communities Affected by Cerrejón Coal Mine
from London Mining Network Wayuú and Afro-descendant communities, resettled and historically affected by the Cerrejón Limited open-pit coal mine, decided to block the southern part of the mining operation in La Guajira due to the non-compliance of Cerrejón Limited, today, September 1, […]
Continue readingMining Company Faces its Worst Days in Chile
from London Mining Network Anglo American is one of the largest mining companies in the world. In Chile, it has mining operations in three regions of the country: Los Bronces in Lo Barnechea, the Metropolitan region, El Soldado in El Melón in […]
Continue readingSantiago, Chile: Arson attack against the Club de Huasos y Rodeo Gil Letelier + Grupo de Respuesta Animal’s claim.
from Anarchist Federation In the early morning of May 26, 2022, anonymous hands set fire to the Gil Letelier Huasos and Rodeo Club in the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Santiago, in addition to leaving pamphlets and bullets as a threat. A […]
Continue readingMapuche Political Prisoners Denounce the Boric Government and Chilean Gendarmerie
from Anarchist Federation Communique from Mapuche political prisoners in Angol denouncing repression and racism from the new Boric government and Chilean gendarmerie against Mapuche political prisoners and communities in resistance. The original in Spanish was published by Aukin and can be found here. To read […]
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