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Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution
Células Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata Práxedis G. Guerrero
LeaderCollective leadership
Dates of operationSeptember 8, 2009 (2009-09-08)–2014 (2014)
CountryMexico
IdeologyInsurrectionary anarchism
Individualist anarchism
Illegalism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-catholicism
Anarcho-communism
Anti-imperialism
Magonism
Political positionFar-left
StatusDefunct
Part ofInformal Anarchist Federation
AlliesCI-MSA, ITS
OpponentsGovernment of Mexico
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The Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution (Spanish: Células Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata Práxedis G. Guerrero, CARI-PGG/FAI) was an anarchist urban guerrilla group that centered its attacks in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, extending some attacks to neighboring states. This group, along with a dozen other cells, came to be considered a serious threat to the stability of the Mexican capital according to publications made by CISEN.[1][2]

History

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The group was named in honor of Práxedis G. Guerrero, the philosopher, poet, editor, journalist and fighter opposed to the Porfiriato, linked to the Flores Magón Brothers and killed during one of the first armed actions of the Mexican Revolution.[3] The European police became more interested in the fight against anarchism (which they equated with terrorism) than against drug trafficking. This was demonstrated by a report on "terrorist tendencies in the EU" explaining the alarm of Europol. According to a report from the National Center for Planning, Analysis and Information to Combat Crime (CENAPI), groups of this ideology emerged from a network of anarchists with a presence in Chile, Spain, France and Italy, and were being investigated by Europol. According to the report, these groups were motivated mainly by the defense of animals and against nanotechnology. However, in the last years of the group, its tactics evolved, having as references the terrorists Mauricio Morales and Theodore Kaczynski.[4] The group was coordinated with groups such as the Individualists Tending to the Wild, the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, the Mariano Sánchez Añon Insurrectional Cell, and the Brigades of Revolutionary Action for Propaganda of the Deed and the Simon Radowsky Armed Action, with which they organized sabotage and coordinated attacks around the country, especially in the State of Mexico and Mexico City.[5][6][7]

First Attacks

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The group's first attack was on September 8, 2009: it claimed responsibility for a homemade explosive in a Bancomer branch in the mayor of Tlalpan, in Mexico City,[8][9][10] reporting another explosion on September 10 at an automotive agency belonging to Renault, these attacks being in response to spending on the remodeling of the North Prison and the repression exercised by the government against insurgent cells.[11][12] The detainees were arrested the following year after a failed attack in which a militant was injured.[13]

On May 3, the group carried out an attack with explosives on a Santander branch in the Narvarte neighborhood of Mexico City, in retaliation for the murder of two indigenous activists in the state of Oaxaca, in addition to claiming a fire against two trucks belonging to the Atayde Hermanos circus.[14][15][16] On October 5, 2010, they claimed responsibility for the burning of two patrols in the municipality of Chicoloapan de Juárez, without the authorities commenting on this incident. The group carried out several similar attacks in the State of Mexico.[17][18]

Attacks

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On May 24, 2011, the group claimed responsibility for an explosive attack against a Starbucks coffee shop in Paseo de la Reforma, and the following day, claimed responsibility for the attack with homemade explosives that occurred early Monday at the Santander bank branch in Benito Juárez and another in Iztacalco.[19][20][21][22] Months later, on September 23 a branch of the Federal Electricity Commission was attacked with explosives that damaged the facade and the lobby of the building. The group claimed responsibility for the attack, exclaiming that "The use of electricity, in addition to constituting one of the main threats to the planet, is a key source of manipulation and social control."[23][24] In subsequent months, arson or explosive attacks were claimed, but not reported by the press or authorities.[25]

On October 3, they claimed responsibility for two coordinated explosions, an explosion in the Santander bank located in the Toriello Guerra neighborhood of Mexico City,[26][27] and an explosive device in the home of the PRI politician Manuel Cañedo in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.[28][29]

On November 24, 2011, a package bomb was sent to the Attorney General's Office, specifically the package was addressed to the attorney general Miguel Mancera, but it was sent by mistake to the head of the Attorney General's Office Marisela Morales, the package was intercepted and destroyed by the authorities of Mexico City. The attempted attack was claimed by the Sole-Baleno insurrectionary nucleus belonging to the CARI-PGG. In the same year, the Chilean ambassador to Mexico, Germán Guerrero Pavez, on behalf of a similar anarchist group.[30][31][32] Days later, the Célula Anarquista Revolucionaria – Gabriella Segata Antolini, member of CARI-PGG, claimed to have sent an explosive package addressed to Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera, which did not detonate and was deactivated by the authorities.[33][34][35][36] On December 12, 2011, the group claimed responsibility for the explosion at the doors of the Italian Institute of Culture in Coyoacán, which left the door and glass damaged.[37][38][39][40]

On March 1, 2012, the group claimed responsibility for sending a package bomb to the Greek embassy in Mexico. On September 22, 2012, the SSPDF Task Force located two small gas tanks tied to the entrance of a bank in Mexico City. No injured or detained persons were reported.[41][42] In July 2016 the group released a statement confirming the dissolution of the group and giving a "review" on the actions of the group and others.[43]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "50 células anarquistas en guerra contra el capitalismo y el Estado Ed. 510". Contralínea (in Spanish). October 16, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "La amenaza anarquista". El Financiero (in Spanish). October 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Historia con Aerosol". Letras Libres (in Spanish). May 9, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "Alarma por los anarquistas mexicanos". Europa Focus. April 21, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  5. ^ "Los Grupos Anarquistas que operan en la CDMX, paraiso anarco". La Silla Rota (in Spanish). May 30, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  6. ^ "El fuego y la estopa. El anarquismo insurreccional en México". Nexos (in Spanish). Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  7. ^ "El Idioma de la Furia". Al Día-Periodismo de libre expresión (in Spanish). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  8. ^ "Explosión en sucursal bancaria". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  9. ^ "Explosión en banco de Tlalpan". Plano Informativo (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  10. ^ "Investiga PGJDF a una mujer y 2 hombres por explosión". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). September 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  11. ^ "Explota artefacto en agencia automotriz de Venustiano Carranza". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  12. ^ "Supuesto grupo rebelde se atribuye ataque contra agencia automotriz". La Jornada (in Spanish). September 10, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  13. ^ "PGJDF indaga a detenido por explosión de artefactos en el sur". Excelsior (in Spanish). June 27, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  14. ^ "Detonan explosivos en sucursal bancaria del DF". Proceso (in Spanish). Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  15. ^ "Comunicado de CARI-PGG reivindicando el ataque explosivo contra banco Santander en México D.F., mayo de 2010". Guerra Social en México (in Spanish). Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  16. ^ "Reivindicación de ataque contra camiones de circo en México D.F. abril 2010". Guerra Social en México (in Spanish). Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  17. ^ "México – Las Células Autónomas de Revolución Inmediata – Praxedis G. Guerrero queman dos patrullas". Culmine.noblogs.org (in Spanish). Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  18. ^ "CARI_PGG reivindico el taque incendiario contra 2 patrullas en Chimalhuacan, Estado de México, 5 octubre 2010". Guerra Social en México (in Spanish). Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  19. ^ "Grupo anarquista se adjudica petardazos en el DF". Revista Proceso. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  20. ^ "Explotan 2 sucursales bancarias en DF". El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  21. ^ "GRUPO ANARQUISTA SE ADJUDICA ATAQUE A BANCOS". Hombres del Poder (in Spanish). Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  22. ^ "Estallan artefactos explosivos en bancos del DF". Animal Politico (in Spanish). May 23, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  23. ^ "Atacan sucursal de la CFE en Iztacalco". Proceso (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  24. ^ "Reivindicación de ataque a la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) en DF, México". La Haine-Liberación Total (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  25. ^ "Reivindicación del ataque explosivo contra una patrulla de la policía estatal ASE en México". La Haine-Liberación Total (in Spanish). Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  26. ^ "Atribuyen a grupos anarquistas explosión en cajero de Santander". Revista Proceso. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  27. ^ "Estalla un artefacto en un banco en Tlalpan". Excelsior. October 3, 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  28. ^ "Explota artefacto en cajeros en Tlalpan". La Silla Rota (in Spanish). October 3, 2011. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  29. ^ "Comunicado de los ataques explosivos a un Banco Santander y a la casa de político del PRI, México". La Haine-Liberación Total (in Spanish). Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  30. ^ "Oculta México atentado fallido contra embajador de Chile". Dossier Politico (in Spanish). Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  31. ^ "Paquete bomba dirigido al procurador del DF llega a la PGR". Proceso (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  32. ^ "Reivindicacion del paquete explosivo dirigido a las oficinas generales de la Procuraduria General de la Republica, México". La Haine-Liberación Total (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  33. ^ "Rivera: Sembraremos paz ante bomba enviada al Arzobispado". Excelsior (in Spanish). November 30, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  34. ^ "Se adjudican anarquistas atentado al Cardenal Rivera". MVS Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  35. ^ "Reivindicación del paquete contra arzobispo Norberto Ribera, México". La Haine-Liberación Total (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  36. ^ "Norberto Rivera ya había recibido un paquete con explosivos". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  37. ^ "Se registra explosión en el Instituto Italiano de Cultura". MVS Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  38. ^ "Atacan el Instituto Italiano de Cultura". Excelsior (in Spanish). December 12, 2011. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  39. ^ "Explosión daña puerta de Instituto Italiano de Cultura". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  40. ^ "PGJDF investiga explosión en Coyoacán". El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  41. ^ "Hallan artefacto explosivo en sucursal bancaria de la colonia Obrera". Excelsior (in Spanish). September 18, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  42. ^ "Anarquistas se adjudican ataques a bancos por 'compañero' detenido". Aristegui Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  43. ^ "México: Unas cuantas palabras, aclaraciones y posicionamientos de parte de algunxs compas que conformamos las CARI-PGG". Contrainfo (in Spanish). July 3, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
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