From the mining district of Huanuni, we send a revolutionary greeting to our class brothers from South Africa in their 5th homage to our 34 Marikana comrades:
At this moment that the homicide perpetrated by the murderous police of Zuma – a lackey of the transnationals- to our companions of Marikana is still nagging, we adhere to the sorrow of all the South African mining family for our 34 martyrs.
We see ever more clearly how the imperialist transnationals and their servile governments in their thirst for profit combine to plunder our natural resources at the cost of shedding blood from the poor, who are only looking for a living wage and a family basket that could satisfy our children's hunger.
Thus, transnational corporations are present within all Latin American governments and are demonstrating their presence with massacres and deaths, as is the case of miners in Colombia who are bravely resisting in Segovia and Remedios. Also, Venezuelan workers are suffering under the government of Maduro that starves them. Here in Bolivia, we are fighting against the attack of the Evo Morales government that is a partner of transnational companies and is trying to privatize the few remaining mines as the state mining company of Huanuni.
Also in Argentina, 14 days ago, the Macri government and its gendarmerie took away young craftsman Santiago Maldonado as he was defending the cause of the Mapuche aboriginals, and he is still missing; in Mexico in 2014, the government of Pena Nieto took away 43 teaching school students, and all of them are also missing. We will never forget or forgive! Because they were taken alive, we want them back alive!
Our fighting organizations must unite to give a single cry and stop these attacks and also stop the transnationals and the governments servile to imperialism. The miners of the National Union of Artisanal, Industrial and Large-Scale Mining Workers in Colombia have called for a confrontation with transnational corporations at the international level. That brave call is the road we have to take in our hands, all of us the exploited!
A greeting of courage and hope to the widows of our fallen comrades in Marikana and their families! We will continue claiming for justice for our companions! With the struggle, better days will come!
From the mining district of Huanuni to all the miners in South Africa, our call for unity!
Long live the unity of workers across borders!
J.T., A.C., O.G., F.R., B.G., J.L.P.A., F.N.C.A., F.O.S.
Rank and file workers of Huanuni mining company
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