Claiming responsibility for the arson attack against an aggregates company on the Maipo River, Puente Alto, Chile.
Facts:
On the night of Saturday, October 1st, we materialized the attack in defense of the land and the waters of the Maipo River via an incendiary sabotage to Baeza Companies, located on the north bank of the Maipo River in the commune of Puente Alto, generating substantial damages valued in the hundreds of millions of pesos (380 million according to what they say).
Context:
Unlike other aggregates companies in the sector that can barely operate a couple of machines, Empresas Baeza generates millions of dollars in profits through the direct devastation of the Maipo riverbank by excavating it to extract aggregates and sand, leasing machinery for the excavation and movement of aggregates and earth, contracts with the Ministry of Public Works and highway construction, also counting on multiple bids granted by municipalities, which in great part come from mayors and councilmen belonging to the Renovación Nacional party, evidencing in passing links, networks and historical complicity of the Baeza family towards their militants. An example of their large profits is the family “mansion” as they usually call their summer house located on Lake Rapel, where they frequently go to enjoy the enchanting scenery, in stark contrast to the surroundings of their company, where one can breathe misery and social and ecological degradation.
On September 12 at the Liceo de Aplicación and Manuel Barros Borgoño pamphlets and banners were thrown and barricades and confrontations were mounted against the presence of Carabineros (COP).
