RvsR: Farewell Compañero Kuy!
With profound sadness and indignation we have found out about the death
of our compañero Francisco Kuykendall, el Kuy. His death is an absence in our
lives and in our struggles.
On January 25th, 2014 our compañero Francisco Kuykendall Leal
died. His death is the consequence of the impunity with which the police
behave. December First, 2012, exercising his right to assemble, and going along
to perform a play in the vicinity of the Congress of the Union, a teargas
grenade was fired by the Policía Federal Preventiva directly at Kuy’s head. Those
responsible remain free, surely committing crimes against more social fighters.
Since that December First the brutality of the local police, not only in
Mexico City, and federal police was clear. That Enrique Peña Nieto, Andrés
Manuel López Obrador, or Josefina Vásquez Mota had been in their ascension to
power in this hurt and wounded Mexico has no connection, that politics already
was planned by the strong pressure from great national and transnational
capital. From there the tremendous and brutal repression of that December
first, from there which since that day practically any public protest is
heavily guarded, and more that a few times repressed, no longer by police, but
by uniformed hordes; since that day the rise in selective detentions, with
ridiculous accusations, are currently something common.
We know the damages which that teargas grenade provoked. The resistance
of our compañero was sustained for more than one year, aches, fevers,
infections, seizures, it is true, but also smiles, handshakes, and lively looks
were part of this last resistance process of our compañero.
Today we are left with, yes, sadness, but before all else rage. All those
responsible for his murder are unpunished: Enrique Peña Nieto, Manuel Mondragón
y Kalb, the armed beast who fired at him, without forgetting that the still
mayor of Mexico City Marcelo Ebrard, coordinated his hordes with the federal
ones.
This affront against social struggle, against the adherents to the Sixth
Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, must remain in our collective memory. This
crime committed against a compañero who decided to arm himself against
injustices with theater and performance, and offer his solidarity with his art,
we will not forget. From below and to the left we seek justice for the life of
a compañero who was set on making this world something more just, free, and
democratic.
May Kuy be certain that each member of this Network will continue to
construct with determination a non-capitalist world whose cements are the below
and the left from where we are and who we are.
¡Hasta siempre
compañero Kuy, hasta siempre!
Against plunder and
repression:
Solidarity!
Red Contra la
Represión y por la Solidaridad
(RvsR)
Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales
Originally published on January 27th, 2014
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