“If the Streets Spoke”: Words of Mónica Caballero on a New March 29th

March 31, 2024 / informativoanarquista

If the streets of this city spoke, they’d tell us stories of barricades and of fire, mixed with sweat, blood and tears. In these stories would be the small and resilient figure of Luisa Toledo, who moved generations with a few words. It was also she who, the more years that passed since the murder of her sons Eduardo and Rafael at the hands of the police, never stopped going out on the street so that their death wouldn’t stop being commemorated and above all their lives as combatant youth.

Today, March 29th, new stories of barricades and fire will emerge, those which rose up for Eduardo and Rafael, and in turn for the dozens of combatant youth who decided to take the step into offensive attack against domination.

The stories of the youth who fought the dictatorship give us a rich and nourishing path, on which various young people of today grew up and forged new paths for those to come.

If the streets spoke they’d tell the stories of the young combatants of yesterday and today, and we must do the im/possible so that they tell the stories of those to come. Just like Luisa Toledo did with blood, sweat and tears.

Only the forgotten truly die. May the barricades never stop burning.

Mónica Caballero Sepúlveda

Anarchist prisoner

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notes:

Anarchist Comrade Mónica Caballero was transferred on the morning of 11th April to San Miguel prison to the San Joaquín Women’s Detention Center, under heavy security measures by the Gendarmerie operational group.

Translated by Act for freedom now!