
I like this photo a lot in particular. It was taken on thursday 4 of this month. It was taken by a friend of mine, Fabian Ramos, from Pio Nono Bridge. I must tell that that day there were encounters with special police forces, that, in front of our negative of letting traffic go, proceeded to repress the protest. The image shows clearly how they didn't doubt in using mustard gas bombs against our study house, so they could accomplish their goal: bring back all the Bellavista area to normality.
As i state in my other blog:
(Link) the following facts happened:
7.30 - 8.30: Finished the storm of the 15th tower of San Borja, we decided to come back to our loved faculty, not before doing some noise before. Once we arrived to Pio Nono bridge, we found Gabriel Boric, who came with some more people, carrying the banners to cut the traffic. This action started immediately, and it affected the drivers' mood. Some of them almost run over us on their rage. We kept going while we cut the traffic, until finally, past Pio Nono bridge, some cops in charge of monitoring people of the ANDHA group, started to rip off the banners and push the people. That is where the GOPE, the Guanaco and the Zorrillo came, willing to stop with the movement. People begun to access the school courageously, when at the right of it, in a construction place, a mustard gas bomb was launched and the smoke ran over the ambient. Once we got inside the school, we realized that there were some martyrs, three in total, that were caught by the special forces and treated rather badly. This was a milestone, because it appeared in every single TV channel and it was a hard hit for Victor Perez, who was having a really bad meeting right then.
This will give anyone who reads this an idea of how the facts of that day were, and what that image means for a lot of us.
If there's people that feels some pressure in the chest when they see a photo of the bombing of Palacio de la Moneda, a lot of us feel just about the same by looking at this "bombing" to our school in Pio Nono.
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