FDLP-Ecuador – NOBOA’S FASCIST REGIME: MURDERERS!

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a statement by the Defense Front of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador (FDLP-EC).

HONOR AND GLORY TO EFRAÍN FUERES!

Justice for Efraín Fueres! Turning point in the popular uprising

The fascist government of Noboa and its repressive and terrorist apparatuses have murdered our comrade Efraín Fueres in Cuicocha, Cotacachi. This crime marks a turning point in the people’s uprising: there is no turning back, no negotiation, no demobilization.

Since yesterday, we have witnessed a day of stoic character in Cotacachi, La Esperanza, and Ilumán (Imbabura). Residents, poor peasants, small artisans, and indigenous people, protected by the strength of the taitas and yachaks, combated throughout the night against the terrorist forces of the State: the Armed Forces and the National Police.

Inexhaustible, combative, and indomitable, the masses set an example that sets new standards for the people’s uprising.

The terrorist groups of the Noboa regime are trying to arrest comrades who are determined in confronting them. They have used huge amounts of riot gear and deployed thousands of armed and equipped troops, with the support of helicopters and armored vehicles. This offensive has crashed against the determination of the people, who are willing to fight until the anti-people’s measures of the Noboa government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are defeated.

Over the last decade, we have witnessed an explosion of crime: prison massacres, violence in working-class neighborhoods, terrorist attacks, extortion, etc., without the State deploying the same fierce repression against it as it does against the masses. It is clear: the government and the old State are enemies of the vast majority.

Honor and justice

The people’s uprising has paid its share of blood. The death of the comrade Efraín Fueres must not be left in the dark or forgotten, much less diluted at the negotiating table, as the opportunistic leadership intends. Those responsible must be identified and punished. In his honor, and in honor of those who have disappeared, wounded, imprisoned, and sent to the slaughterhouse of the prisons of Esmeraldas and Portoviejo, we cannot falter.

Immediate demands

• Total repeal of anti-people’s measures.
• State accountability for the prisoners, the wounded, and the dead.
• Immediate freedom for the 12 of Otavalo.
• Investigation and punishment of the perpetrators and masterminds of the murder of Efraín Fuertes.
• Cessation of the criminalization of protest and withdrawal of repressive forces from our communities.

If the regime does not comply, it will face the most resounding political defeat. Here and now, the people reaffirm: no pacts, no concessions, no agreements. Only organized dignity will pave the way.

COMRADE EFRAÍN FUERES: PRESENT IN THE STRUGGLES OF THE PEOPLE!

FREEDOM FOR THE TWELVE OF OTAVALO!

LET’S STOP THE FASCIST NOBOA REGIME WITH A PEOPLE’S UPRISING!

DECLARE THE ARMED FORCES AND NATIONAL POLICE TERRORISTS; MURDERERS OF THE PEOPLE!