The tragedy taking place at the Japanese embassy in Lima (Peru), where a unit of the MRTA has 490 hostages belonging to the diplomatic body of various countries of the world, is the logical consequence of the barbarity that multinational capitalism has unleashed against the popular masses, by way of measures of structural economic change which drive millions of societally marginalized people quickly to a promise of death by starvation.

Latin America, understood as a geographic area of political factions where measures of the IMF and the World Bank are applied, has been precocious in this bleeding process.
From the Chile of Pinochet and the Chicago Boys (the group of liberal US economists), to the Mexico of the Salinas of Gortari and the Zedillos, to Menem's Argentina, there has been unleashed a wave of rebellion against the politics of starvation, death, brutal repression and special jails employed by the barbaric servants of multinational financial power. In the Peru of the usurper Fujimori, where 6000 political prisoners suffer the systematic politics of extermination (Fujimori's statement-from the jailtombs, only the dead will emerge-), the popular masses are inevitably forced to take radical measures to stop the general violence and violation of human and civil rights. And they are not emphatic or partidiary considerations if Amnesty International periodically denounces these facts to the UN assembly. We,The grass-roots committees, committees of solidarity, and social centers ask that the announced forthcoming tragedy in Lima not be realized and we ask for the minimal guarantees that the irreparable not take place, reaffirming our demands:

-An economic compromise in Peruvian economics for a model that follows the well-being of the people;

-The liberation of political prisoners and all those who are or are not presumed to belong to political organizations in arms;

-the guaranteed free release for the group which disrupted the embassy;

-Respect of the international treaty of conventions with respect to prison, reclusion, isolation, and human and civil rights;

-immediate retraction of the antiterrorist law n. 25475.

COMITADO DI SOLIDARIETA' CON I POPOLI DEL LATINO AMERICA "CARLOS FONSECA".