To the people of Peru
To the people of México
To the people of Latin America
To the International Community

In light of the recent developments in Lima Peru in regards to the Japanese ambassador's mansion occupation by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA); we Unión del Barrio- as a Mexican Revolutionary Nationalist formation within the occupied territories (also known as the Southwestern United States) of México, struggling for the national liberation and re-unification of our lands- see the massacre carried out against the MRTA by the Alberto Fujimori- U.S. backed dictatorship- on April 22, 1997, as a campaign of genocide against our people who only seek justice, liberty and democracy.

It is evident through the Fujimori government's actions that they only understand the use of force and violence. It is for this exact reason that the MRTA had chosen the path of Revolutionary armed struggle. The miserable living conditions in the form of poverty, the lack of medical services for the Peruvian population, the hunger that plagues its indigenous population and the repression on the part of the Fujimori' government against those who have the courage to struggle against these injustices- only proves to the poor working and unemployed people throughout the world that the imperialist, neo-liberal policies of the United States and other capitalist countries leave the people of Peru with no other option but to raise the tools of liberation.

Unión del Barrio in it's 15 years of struggle for the national liberation of the Mexican people in the occupied territories- understands clearly that these attacks are the product of the growing crisis of the capitalist economy. It is because of this crisis that today we see the United States' special military forces in places like Peru, precisely because economic interests are at stake.

It is evident on this 22nd day of April that the counterinsurgency against the poor oppressed people of Latin America are kept under a state of siege not even able to voice their disgust for the government's economic neo-liberal policies. It was the objective of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement to attempt to liberate their comrades who where in prison for political reason that the occupation of the Japanese Embassy took place to begin with. Therefore with regards to the disregard for human life and human suffering, the Fujimori regime has shown its colors of brutal military rule in front of the whole world; exposing exactly to what extent his government is willing to go to silence, destroy and repress the voice of the Peruvian people and their struggle for democracy, peace and justice.

It is with the understanding that not Fujimori, Zedillo, Menem nor any other puppet neo-colonialist government will stifle the revolutionary march towards freedom and independence from capitalism that the struggling peoples of the Americas is currently waging. We fundamentally understand that history has chosen its course. With the rise of repression against the people of Peru, Mexico, Argentina and the rest of the colonized world, we have chosen to support the struggle of the MRTA as a global struggle for peace liberty and self-determination for the liberation of our lands, resources and labor for a free and independent indigenous people of this hemisphere.

With revolutionary honor, grace and humility the comrades of the MRTA have fallen victims to the same imperialist beast that has taken our lands; to the same imperialist force that denies us dignity, freedom and justice. It is for this reason that we recognize the struggle of the MRTA as a just and legitimate struggle for the international liberation against imperialist domination. The struggle of the fallen comrades in the Japanese Embassy still lives and will continue to live under the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. It is for this reason that the Revolutionary movements of all of Latin America with the EZLN and the EPR in Mexico, and the MRTA in Peru will continue to be a struggle that shall persist until its final victory.

¡Long Live the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement!
¡Long Live the Struggle For Freedom, Justice and Peace!