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The death of young Esteban de León has unleashed a homophobic offensive driven by the spokesmen of the system -influencers, communicators and defenders of the bourgeois order- who, under the guise of morality and good manners, justify the crime and divert attention from the real causes: the social decomposition generated by this capitalist, patriarchal and misogynist regime.

While they sow hatred against sexual dissidence, the State and its institutions wash their hands. The Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office acted with negligence, as always when it comes to the poor. They are the same executioners who repressed with blood and fire in Darien and Bocas del Toro, and the same prosecutors who viciously persecute organized workers, educators and social fighters of SUNTRACS and other combative sectors of the people.

The government does not invest in prevention or protection; its only response is repression. With its criminal demagogy – life imprisonment, death penalty and more prison for the poor – it seeks to strengthen the repressive apparatus of the State, not to protect the people, but to contain their rebellion.

We denounce the complicity of the churches and their digital preachers, who mold consciences to divide the people and justify the structural violence of the system. Homophobia, machismo and violence are political weapons of the regime to keep the oppressed in submission and distract them from the class struggle.

From a revolutionary perspective, we affirm: the struggle against homophobia, patriarchal violence and state repression is an inseparable part of the struggle against capitalism.
Only a workers’ government, supported by the conscious mobilization of the people, will be able to put an end to this barbarism and build a society without exploitation and oppression.

For justice for Esteban de León!
Against the homophobia of the regime!
For a workers’ and socialist government!

Panama, November 10, 2025

Carlos Guevara – International Socialist League (ISL)