Lateinamerika

A few days after the announcement claiming the participation of the so-called “Militias“ in the murder of Marielle Franco, the civil police invaded a pagode show promoted by the militia in Santa Cruz, metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, killing 4 security and arresting 159 people.

The action was coordinated by 3 different levels of the civil police, including special forces.
They invaded the event, shooting and killing the 4 security of the event. Everyone who was inside were impeded from leaving the area, arrested and brought to Bangu Prison Complex. Raul Jungmann, the Public Security Minister, in the attempt to promote the action, declared it was a hard blow against the Militia and everyone who was arrested had involvement with the organized crime.

We share this revolutionary Brasilian HipHop which is a good soundtrack of May Day

 Ameaça Vermelha - Aliança Operário-Camponesa

The chorus goes as follows:

Exploração de povos dá pra poucos a riqueza
Trabalhador vai boicotar a eleição burguesa
Derrota após derrota, a vitória é uma certeza
E Viva a Aliança Operário-Camponesa (2x)
Exploitation of the people gives weath to few
Workers will boycott bourgeois election
Defeat after defeat, victory is a certainty
And Long Live the Workers-Peasant Alliance (2x)

The activist of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), an organization of the Catholic Church, José Amaro Lopes de Sousa, was arrested by the Civil Police in Anapu, southwest of Pará, on the morning of March 27.

He is being investigated by the Anapu Civil Police for alleged involvement in a series of crimes, criminal association, threat, sexual harassment and extortion. Democratic organizations and entities qualify these as "slanderous accusations."

The comrades in Mexico held an impressive demonstration in Oaxaca on April 11th. It was mobilised from eight regions in Oaxaca for this demonstration.

COLLAGE

At this demonstration, on the 99th day of the murder of Emiliano Zapata, the comrades made the following points:

On the 14th and 15th of April the 8th Summit of the America‘s took place in Lima, Peru. The first Summit was held in 1994, originally initiated by the former US-President, Bill Clinton, to promote prosperity through economic integration and free trade by gathering together all leaders of North, Central and Latin America (obviously meaning to promote US-prosperity and power through imperialist oppression).

On Friday, a good many number of reports on the most recent actions of the comrades in Colombia surfaced on the website El Comunero depicting the great initiatives and successful campaigns launched and led by the comrades of MESP and MERyP. The following is a brief summery on the actions of the comrades in recent weeks.

On the 6th of April, the National Police of Peru once againbroke down the gate to the San Marcos University Campus. For weeks the students of the university struggle against fees that have to be paid to attend the university.
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Just one week ago, on the 31st of March, Policebroke down the gates and allegedly found molotovcocktails on the premises. They attacked the students and took six of them prisoner.

At least once a year the comrades of the FERP organize Popular Support Brigades in the areas of the Mapuche. But these are not mere touristic ventures in which one gets to drive through the areas of the Mapuche for an evening: Each year, great delegations of sympathizers, masses and activists are mobilized to go to the countryside for a lengthy period and to live, work and fight side by side with the Mapuche. As already done in the last years, the comrades also in this year assembled a video about the work of the Popular Support Brigades.