In an operation that began at 5:00 today [January 15], using a helicopter and coordinated by the police, Patricia Troncoso Robles, a political prisoner in hunger strike since October 10th 2007, is being transferred to a hospital. Patricia, condemned by the Antiterrorist Law, has spent five years in prison and will spend other five to serve her 10-year term, due to the irregular judgment of the case "Poluco Pidenco". After undergoing a cardiac decompensation, Patricia Troncoso was transferred to Chillán Hospital. This was also done with an intention of dispersion, trying to isolate the political prisoner from those who show solidarity to her.

Although the Government continues to insist that she does not present risk of death, doctors do not discard a transfer to a well equiped center that fulfills the requirements of the case.

We insist on maintaining our solidarity, and we demand the actual government to stop sending the tycoons messages that torture the Mapuche people and, as the family of Patricia Troncoso said, we ask "doctor" Michelle Bachelet Jeria to keep her oath to save lives or instead to leave her profession.

Numerous were the calls to solve the situations of the political prisoners and of the Mapuche community, made both by diverse sectors of the civil society and by international organisms. These calls have not been considered by the regime of Bachelet.

The stubborness of the Chilean president has rendered her the title of "the new Iron Lady", in a clear reference to Margaret Tatcher, an admirer of Pinochet who tried to isolate, criminalize, put in jail, and subjugate the population of Northern Ireland, causing an outbreak in the country's conflict that caused many deaths, and only ended after a peace accord signed between the new authorities and the independentist movements.

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