Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.

he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.

Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.

His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.

Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.

After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.

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  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I dislike when people punch left. Of course, you can critique people, ideas, and movements, but unless you have something constructive to say, your time is almost always better spent doing something else. I consider it counterproductive to give our enemies free ammunition.

    • rhubarb [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      It blows my mind when people who have read liberal criticism of their own brand of leftism, and have unavoidably seen how libs can barely get one fact in ten right about what they believe, then turn around and do the same kind of totalizing criticism of other tendencies. It would take me a lifetime of reading to be confident in making the kinds of statements these people make so casually.

      • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        My comment wasn't really targeted at every day individuals. I don’t care if you criticize your comrade Bob. But there's a common trend in Western leftist circles to tear down AES and attack people of other left-wing ideologies, like when Marxists and Anarchists fight. It's fine to discuss differences, but actively undermining left-wing projects only helps our enemies.

        Debate and discussion are healthy. But marking everyone who isn’t in lockstep with the party line as an enemy is not.

        Especially since there isn’t any large Western left to speak of. It’s not like there’s some purity we need to uphold when there isn’t even a real movement.

        I don't care much what flavor of left-wing you are, as long as it isn't some bullshit like Magacommunism.