Who am I?
From intramural women's prison in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, I come to introduce myself: I'm Dana Germano Karina Lopez. "The Galle" peer tell me.
I am detained since 1 February 2002. I fell in Sao Paulo, Brazil, together with 5 colleagues, accused of kidnapping. We condemned in the first instance to 16 years. On the appeal by the prosecution we increased the sentence to 30 years in prison. Not only is this a case full of legal technical irregularities, but a typical circus farce of judicial power to enrage popular wrestlers, or even recognize us as political prisoners, which is what we are.
After five long years serving the absurdity of my sentence in the Carandiru prison in Brazil, I could be moved to my native country, Argentina.
I was born here 46 years ago. My childhood was spent in the '70s, so special in these parts.
My parents, popular activists, began to be pursued in the '74, the year after arrests and raids, to sustained interrogation by my younger brother (8 years) and myself 10 years in the hands of the paramilitaries of the principles of the Triple A (Alianza Anti Argentina), passed into hiding.
This lasted two years until my father was kidnapped and taken to the Clandestine Detention Center "ESMA", where after unimaginable torture was one of the 30,000 missing in this country. Then my mother, with her woman's courage saves us life exile along with my brother in Sweden, in 1976. Then we moved to the Iberian peninsula, where I grew up with Basques and Catalans.
In 1998 I returned to Buenos Aires, to denounce and rebuild militancy and kidnapping of my father. Belonging to the group HIJOS (Children for Identity and Justice against Oblivion and Silence) international network, military and as milico escraches I encountered unpunished.
Today, although trials are carried out against humanity and genocidal dictators, injustice and impunity of the powerful always continue.
Vine transferred in November 2006 a bilateral treaty (Brazil-Argentina) on convictions. No criminal record, nor any cause in this country, I came up with something less than a month to get my leave of benefit (semi-freedom.) This right, protected by its own laws, and my share in December 2006. After long bureaucracies In December 2007 I was denied because the prosecutor's opinion Hermelo Oscar. Having once been a collaborator with the ESMA and the same set of tasks 3.3.2. who kidnapped my father, ruled against my right to the exits. Following the judicial bureaucracy, I face in the second instance to a room of the Chamber of Criminal Appeal, where the presiding judge is suspected of signing and authorization (illegally) of babies born in captivity, robbing them of their true identity. In December 2008 he returned to deny that benefit.
Continuing up the steps to the Supreme Court, where the prosecutor is according to the arguments of my attorney, with no conflict over which seven judges should discuss, failed in December 2009, three judges on my behalf, basing tax equal to four against my departure, nor afford the luxury of even argue the negative. My hopes of being able to enjoy my expectations were without legal right at the national level. Intend to continue to shut for 7 years of my life, by political vengeance.
know how injustices are the order of the day in these criminal law, defending the interests of the powerful as ever, social activists jailed and socially disadvantaged people who suffer social exclusion, poverty in our land.
While locked up, I consider myself a free woman. My ideas and everyday practices make my resistance forces continue battling with the time factor.
Work and am studying sociology at the UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires). I am part of CUE (Ezeiza University Center) within the unit. I try with my colleagues that our rights are met, so trampled daily by prison service militarized.
The questions are many, the overwhelming uncertainty, helplessness overwhelming, but our resistance continues ...
I was able to internalize the São Paulo prison system Brazil, for nearly five years, and now I have more than four years in Unit 3 of Ezeiza. In both instances the surface I felt the suffering of many women deprived of their liberty, which I still surrounding by daily life.
My concern is how so many women are in situations of confinement, forgotten, only to be savagely discriminated against by our Latin American societies. Even in cases in which after suffering needlessly with the punishment of imprisonment (and all that it entails) over the delayed processes are absolved of guilt and position, leading to lifelong spiritual and institutional brand having gone through this ordeal.
Liberty, that sacred right that every day that passes is respected unless it is not valued by our judicial systems, as if people involved. We turn to become a case number, which imperceptibly becomes a nuisance to everyone.
is amazing how people become blinded to this reality so cruel that suffers an important part of society.
As a political prisoner, I found dozens of positions by those called "left" that do not take care of our social prisoners, as if they were a necessary evil Critics of the system and try to fight.
believe that the differences between a political prisoner and a prisoner social ends at the same time we fall together in the enclosure.
course I do not mean for certain crimes "sick" as rapists and torturers, but the high percentage of prison population imprisoned for failing to respect private property or codes of many laws who continue to protect major "criminals" who run our economic system.
all know that major drug traffickers or arms and submitting to the corrupt human misery to thousands of people, do not tread these places called prisons.
Who is not clear that being poor is the greatest offense charged?
Well, before "that" everyone knows, is still more comfortable looking the other way, ignoring or calling our society as usual, "there must be a" ...
is very sad that our people, with the historic fights back, the bloodshed and so many lives, not interested to realize that each of these women are victims of an enclosed economic and even judicial dictatorship, at times, and excessive hardships they face in so-called "democracies ".
is not only what causes sadness, helplessness, but the indifference of society, leaving his fate to some of our people, that is worthy rebels against such injustice, subjugation, discrimination , exclusion, and other troubles to which it is subjected.
How not to legitimize the innate rebelliousness, to inhumane conditions to which we are destined to belong to the economically disadvantaged?
How not to pursue our social prisoners as part of ourselves?
From intramural who consider ourselves political prisoners, we have an ethical obligation to fight side by side with our colleagues in social prisoners to improve conditions for living people feel that, despite much injustice will continue to resist without forgetting the most basic concept: solidarity.
Disclaimer:
The February 1, 2002, a group of Latin American revolutionary was arrested in the town of Sierra Negra, Sao Paulo, Brazil accused of involvement in the kidnapping of Brazilian billionaire Washington Olivetto. These revolutionaries are members of two political organizations in Chile.
These Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, a member of the FPMR (Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front) Channels Alfredo Moreno and Marco Rodríguez Ortega, EGP-MIR (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria-Ejercito Guerrilla of the Poor), the Colombian colleagues Marta and William Urrego Mejia Becerra Gaona, and the English-Argentine partner Karina López Germano.
This operation to kidnap a billionaire came within the context of international efforts to deepen the revolutionary struggle in the continent, was political in nature and had a political objective. After their arrest they were brutally tortured. In the first instance, were sentenced to 16 years imprisonment, the court recognized the political nature of the facts. But in November 2003 under pressure from the right, the Superior Tribunal of Sao Paulo denied the political nature of the action and increase the penalties to 30 years in prison and an unusually severe regime.
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