ECUADOR: FREEDOM FOR COMRADE CHRISTIAN MONTERO!

article found originally in CEBRASPO via Demvolkedienen

We publish an unofficial, preliminary translation of an article by CEBRASPO - Brazilian Center for Solidarity of the People.

Cristian Montero, a political activist, was arrested by the Ecuadorian police, according to a statement by the The Front for the Defense of the Struggles of the People of Ecuador (FLDP). The activist has been accused of rebellion, paralysing public service and terrorism. In fact, he took part in the fight against the large mining companies that drive farmers out of the midlands.

According to a document, the FLDP denounces that the old state's goal is to demobilize the labor movement and peasant organizations under its leadership. "The regime's strategy" they affirm, "is also based on the purchase of weapons and other military equipment to directly commit the armed forces to oppress the people, but not only that, they implemented a whole contingent of intelligence agents gathering informations about the conscious element of the class and the people to continue neutralizing them. This whole campaign aims at one goal: to unleash the IMF's measures that the regime does not give up despite the October uprising. "

"The regime should understands this: oppression only nourishes the growing and determined protest of the people. The regime does not think that it will meet the poor and peasants armed with posters, pots, pipes, drums and sad songs. It will face a troop of the people with a correct, firm and determined proletarian leadership who is willing to use revolutionary violence to stop the government's campaign of repression and the economic policies that violate national sovereignty and attack the economy", concludes FDLP.

We, CEBRASPO, are demanding the immediate release of Cristian Montero and all democratic and revolutionary political prisoners in Ecuador, and we are repeating the serious charge of persecution by the old state of Ecuador against the most combative elements of the Ecuadorian uprising in October!