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Las Heras, Santa Cruz
10-27-2012

I want to greet all the comrades that are carrying out the act-festival in support of our comrades in Syria that are dying everyday at the hands of the dictator Al-Assad. I want to send a big hug to everyone who fight for bread, work, dignity and freedom in Syria from here, from the militarized Las Heras under a regime just like the one of Videla, but this time with the democratic mask of the Kirchners.
     I was imprisoned for three years with five companions, bearing the worst tortures and humiliations, sent to the jail by that fascist judge Ruata de Leone that today has passed the baton to the judge Quelín. As it happens with over 6,000 comrades all over the country, we are still prosecuted and unable to leave town.
     I remember when I saw the pictures of the comrades that were tortured in Abu Graib and in Guantánamo, that were treated the same as we were treated. Our comrades in Syria and the entire region are fighting so that no one from our class suffers again what we suffered here in Las Heras and that thousands of our brothers suffer all around the world.
     That’s why I am unconditionally with you, because I know that if we succeed there, we will be in better conditions to triumph for our demands.
     A big hug to my comrades that fight tirelessly in the battlefield in Syria, that prove that we are millions of workers and oppressed who don’t have a price and that are not willing to break and will fight until the end to conquer the bread.
     I fully repudiate all the currents that fill their mouths talking about “socialism”, “classism” and “revolution” and don’t move a single finger for our comrades in Middle East, while others directly support this murderer Assad. They are the same currents that silenced the fight for our freedom, while sending condolences to the family of the police officer Sayago, that known repressor of workers, making him pass as a  “fellow worker”.
     That’s why I call from Las Heras on all the workers and young combative students to take in their hands the proposals from the International Committee in Support of the Syrian Masses. Down Al Assad! Freedom to all the political prisoners in the world!

Darío Catrihuala, ex political prisoner for three years in hands of the oil companies and the Kirchners
Today I’m prosecuted and unable to leave Las Heras