CHILE: URGENCY REQUIRES FORCEFULNESS – LET’S GET ALFREDO CÓSPITO OUT OF ISOLATION
BY FRANCISCO SOLAR
The hunger strike as a tool of struggle is the last resort that the prisoner has to combat the suffocating life of prison. It is an extreme measure in which the body is used as the final trench of combat. Urgency determines the decision to carry out a struggle with these characteristics. An urgency that, undoubtedly, the situation of comrade Alfredo Cóspito, whom Power tries to silence under an insane isolation, presents today.
They perceived his actions as hard blows which, if replicated and multiplied, would put the imposed order in jeopardy.
They saw in his writings and proposals important contributions to seditious ideas and practices that constitute a danger to any expression of authority.
And they are not wrong.
For these reasons they have decided to apply the 41 bis to Alfredo. In the face of this attack we have no choice but to respond with strength, with decision, being clear that this is a struggle for Alfredo and for all of us who take a stand against power. Understanding the importance of fighting this battle, seeing it as an opportunity to strengthen ties and complicities in an internationalism of action.