Chile) Account of a New Day of the Youth Combatant (March 29). After 40 Years, the Streets Still Shout Memory and Total Liberation

10 April 2025 Act for freedom now!

April 2, 2025 / informativoanarquista

Translated by Act for freedom now!

Like every March 29, with greater or lesser intensity, the Day of the Youth Combatant is commemorated in different points of the territory dominated by the chilean state. This year the date fell on a Saturday, leading high school students from the Liceo de Aplicación, Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño, INBA, Liceo 1, Instituto Nacional and Liceo Eduardo de la Barra (Valparaíso), university students on the campuses of Juan Gómez Millas, Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco) and Universidad de Playa Ancha (Valparaíso), and comrades in general to start riots and confrontations with the police in high schools, universities and in the center of Santiago on Thursday the 27 and Friday the 28. Various gestures of agitation also accompanied these days.

On the night of Saturday the 29, the streets Cerro Navia, Estación Central, Quinta Normal, San Bernardo, Huechuraba, Peñalolén, among others, were lit up. Comrades confronted the police with molotovs, stones and homemade or industrial guns in a new commemoration of the Day of the Youth Combatant in combative memory of Eduardo and Rafael Vergara Toledo, Luisa Toledo, Mauricio Maigret, Claudia López, Mauricio Morales, Sebastián Oversluij, Luciano Pitronello, Belén Navarrete. They along with many other dead comrades still remain present through anarchist action, absolutely removed from any iconic or symbolic role or elements of admiration.

Ultimately, the day resulted in a total of 42 arrests. They passed through arraignment and were released the following day.

Accounts from the days Thursday March 27 and Friday March 28

Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco)