To the readers of this blog:
On Saturday, January 5, 2019 a bomb explosion occurred around noon near the busy Plaza Italia in central Santiago in Chile, and was heard several streets away. Police sealed off the immediate area.
Chile´s Interior Minister Andres Chadwick said the police were investigating the attack as a “terrorist crime” and that the veracity of group's claims were being investigated. The explosion at a bus stop wounded five people in the center of the Chilean capital.
A militant environmental group, supposedly following the ideas by Theodore Kaczynski aka the Unabomber, claimed the attack on its website. Two years ago the group -- identifying themselves as “Individualists Tending to the Wild” -- said they were behind a parcel bomb attack that injured the head of state-owned copper mining giant Codelco.
This eco extremist group bécame known in Mexico after they claimed the responsibility for the killing of José Jaime Barrera Moreno, Chemical Services Chief of the Faculty of Chemistry in UNAM, (Autonomous University of Mexico) in 2011. They wage war on scientists and researchers. They claim they wage war on civilization and progress.
Below is their communiqué in 2016:
NINTH COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE INDIVIDUALISTS TENDING TOWARD THE WILD
The hyper-civilized along with their structures of social life deserve fire and explosives. We are not sympathetic at all with disgusting “class struggle” and we spit on humanist precautions of some for the common citizenry. Those masses would not hesitate to snitch to the police (refer to the “citizen’s arrest”), so that’s why they will only get Uncivilized Fire.
We are un-ideological individuals. We thus
**** on all ideologies. Our motivations for attack are the rivers, volcanoes, the ocean, the forests, the puma, the meadowlark, and all that is wild.
We have shown as a faction that attack against civilization is possible with minimum resources. We have brought to it chaos, destabilization, and why not, terror.
We detest civilized life, its rights and processes, its values and progress. Thus, its recreational areas are and will be targets for eco-extremists. Malls, movie theaters, clubs, restaurants, etc. are civilization itself and thus are targets.
It’s for that reason and many more that we attacked and take responsibility for the fire in the food court and rooftop of the mall in the center of the capital this past May 24 (2016). For all until now the act was an accident. Well, not anymore!
Let it be known that this was arson, an egoist and savage Fire. With these words we, the Individualists Tending Toward the Wild, declare that we were the authors of this attack; we who again lurked about your disgusting city like a content Patagonian Puma.
The backpack hid the material and, surrounded by citizens, we got off the bus and headed to the chosen spot. In those moments, your heart tells your mind that there’s no turning back, that you have no doubts on this chosen path. With each step we walked with the spirits of the native peoples of the past, with the stars and the wind. We got there and it was only a matter of getting to the agreed upon place. Our “disguise” gave us the capability of getting into places where others can’t. With our hearts racing and our hands trembling we abandoned our explosive device hidden experimentally within a carton of milk. The escape was doubly tense, but once outside we laughed with pleasure (and not silently). People looked at us like, “What’s wrong with these guys?” And we disappeared….
In hiding and far away, today almost a month later, this is our moment!
In the frozen southern lands, we remain among those who resist all that is artificial. This resistance is not passive, but violent and wild. It does not fear the consequences of these acts, facing off against the techno-system. Our fiery terror comes from our most primitive instincts, those which artificiality has not been able to eradicate within us.
Accomplice greetings to ITS in the North, to eco-extremists everywhere, to the Italian Sect and the Mystical Horde of the Forest!
Let it be known that there is War in the South!
Individualists Tending Toward the Wild – Chile
– Uncivilized Southerners