FRAGMENTS OF LA REALIDAD I.

May 2014.

The wee hours of the morning…it must be like 2 or 3 o’clock, who knows. It sounds like silence here in reality [La Realidad]. Did I say “it sounds like silence?” Well it does, because the silence here has its own sound, like the chirping of crickets; some sounds up front, stronger and dissonant; and others always constant, below. There is no light nearby. And now the rain is adding its own silence. The rainy season has arrived here already, but it is not yet heavy enough to wound the earth. Just enough to scratch it a little, a constant pitter-patter. A little scratch here, barely a puddle over there. As if to give a warning. But the sun, the heat,[i] hardens the earth quickly. It is not time for mud; not yet. It is the time of shadow. True, it’s always the time of shadow. It goes anywhere and everywhere, without regard for time. Even where the sun is the most ferocious, the shadow can still be found, clinging to walls, trees, rocks, people. As if the light gave it even more strength. Ah, but night…in the earliest hours of the morning, this is truly the time of [the] shadow. Just as during the day it brings you relief, in the tiny hours of the morning it awakens you as if to say, “and what about you? Where are you?” And you stammer in your slumber, until you can answer clearly—answer to yourself—“in reality.”

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Ante la geografìa nacional del agravio, el despojo y la violencia, las comunidades rurales y urbanas tienen cada vez más claro que la emancipación sólo es posible con la construcción y la defensa de proyectos de vida autonómicos. Este 6 y 8 de mayo, académicos e integrantes de diversas luchas se encontraron para confirmarlo, festejarlo y fortalecerse. Aquí una síntesis de las voces de este encuentro.

Si vieran que bonito es. Testimonios de académicos de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM, Comuner@s de Cheran K’eri, Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositoras a la Presa la Parota y Movimiento Popular-La Dignidad de Buenos Aires.
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La autonomía según nosotrxs. Participación de Enrique Reynoso, integrante del Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente UNOPII.
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Zapatista Army for National Liberation

Mexico.

May 8, 2014

To the Compañeras and Compañeros of the Sixth:

Compas:

To tell you the truth, the communiqué was all ready. It was succinct, clear, precise, how communiqués should be. But…well…maybe later.

For now the meeting with the compañeros and compañeras bases of support of the community of La Realidad is about to begin.

We listen.

We have known the tone and the emotion with which they speak for a long time: pain and rage.

So it occurs to me that a communiqué will not adequately reflect this.

Or at least not fully.

True, maybe a letter won’t do so either, but at least the words that follow are an attempt, even if they are only a pale reflection.

Because…

It was pain and rage that made us challenge everything and everyone 20 years ago.

And it is pain and rage that now again makes us lace up our boots, put on our uniforms, strap on our guns, and cover our faces.

And that leads me to don the old and tattered hat, the one with three red five-pointed stars.

It is pain and rage that has brought us to Reality (La Realidad).

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An ambush against zapatista bases at the caracol of La Realidad on May 2, 2014, resulted in the murder of José Luis Solís López (Galeano), teacher at the Escuelita Zapatista, 15 zapatistas injured, two classrooms and a clinic destroyed, damage to vehicles and other goods belonging to the autonomous zapatista project. Eye witnesses from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights center reported what happened.

Little School, Sharing, and Rebuilding: Communiqué by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

Words by the EZLN General Command in the Voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW: Subcomandante Marcos’s last words

FAREWELL, SUBCOMANDANTE (Radio Zapatista)

FRAGMENTS OF LA REALIDAD I – Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

PAIN AND RAGE – Letter by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Denunciation by the Good Government Council “Hacia la Esperanza”

Buletin by the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Spanish)

Militantes del Verde y PAN participaron en asesinato de líder zapatista: Frayba (La Jornada)

NotiFrayba: Agresión a Bases Zapatistas en sede de la Junta de Buen Gobierno de La Realidad (Audio – Spanish)

JBG envía al EZLN caso del compañero asesinado por integrantes de Cioac (La Jornada – Spanish)

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El pasado 1° de abril de 2014 fue excarcelado, por orden del juez Mariano Domínguez Hernández, Elmar Darinel Díaz Solórzano quién le dio un tiro en la cabeza a Tatiana Trujillo Rodríguez, el 19 de abril de 2010, en Ocosingo Chiapas. En otro acto de injusticia, el 19 de febrero de 2014, el juez Juan Carlos Alfaro Cruz otorgó el auto de formal libertad a Romeo Pumian Flores, quien asesinó a Citalli del Lourdes Molina Aguilar el 29 de junio de 2013 en Tuxtla Gutiérrez. A cuatro años del feminicidio de Tatiana Trujillo Rodríguez, y en el segundo aniversario del de Itzel Yanet Méndez Pérez, familiares y organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos siguen exigiendo justicia, para ellas y las demás asesinadas en Chiapas.

Ante lo anterior, se realizó el lunes 21 de abril de 2014 una conferencia de prensa en las oficinas del Frayba (Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas), por invitación de:

• Familiares de Tatiana Trujillo Rodríguez
• Familiares de Citlalli del Lourdes Molina Aguilar
• Familiares de Itzel Yanet Méndez Pérez
• El Observatorio Nacional de Feminicidio
• Alerta Popular Permanente contra la Violencia de Género y el feminicidio en Chiapas

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One year after the death of our compañero Juan, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, we invite media collective and society in general to a political event on 26 April 2014 at Cumbre Na´choj, to remember our compañero.

The adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle from San Sebastián Bachajón explain the interests behind the waterfalls of Agua Azul and the surrounding region.

On April 11, the report “Justice for San José del Progreso” was presented in San Cristóbal, the result of a Civil Observation Mission that took place in November 2012. The report demonstrates the systematic violations to human rights resulting from the imposition of the mining project developed by Fortuna Silver Mines since 2006. In the press conference, organized by International Service for Peace (SIPAZ), the case of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, was also discussed. There the population has struggled since 2008 against the serious violations caused by the canadian mining company Blackfire Exploration, which in 2009 resulted in the murder of activist Mariano Abarca.

Gustavo Castro (Otros Mundos Chiapas) – Context of mining in Mexico

Neftali Reyes (Servicios para una Educación Alternativa – EDUCA) – On the case of San José del Progreso, Oaxaca

Roberto Ortiz (Committee for the Promotion and Defense of Life in Chicomuselo “Samuel Ruiz”) – On the case of Chicomuselo, Chiapas.

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Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Mexico

March 2014.

To: The Sixth in Mexico and in the World

From: Subcomandante Insurgent Moisés.

Compañeras, Compañeros and compañeroas of the Sixth:

We send greetings from all of the Zapatista men and women of the EZLN.

We want to let you know about our next steps:

1. Native Peoples: During the week of May 26 to 30, 2014, in one of our caracoles, we will have an initial exchange with brothers and sisters from different native peoples and indigenous organizations. During this exchange, we will all share our ways of thinking and histories of struggle and resistance as indigenous peoples. For this initial exchange we are inviting particular organizations and native peoples from Mexico, including: the Kumiai, Rarámuri, Náyeri, Wixárika, Odam, Nahua, Zoque, Coca, Purépecha, Hñahñu, Mazahua, Amuzgo, Ñuu Savi, Me’phaa, Ñuhu, Totonaco, Popoluca, Binnizá, Chinanteco, Mazateco, Ikoot, Chatino, Afromestizo, Triqui, Maya Peninsular, Tzotzil. Tzeltal, Chol, Zoque, and migrants.

In the future, we will invite other native peoples from Mexico and the world. This exchange is a closed event and is ONLY for the native peoples and organizations that are explicitly invited. Those people who have not been invited will not be allowed to enter.

2. On Saturday, May 31, 2014, in the Caracol of Oventik, we, along with some of our indigenous brothers and sisters, will present the conclusions from our initial exchange and a circulate a declaration about how we will proceed in our struggle against the dispossession we suffer and for our indigenous rights and culture. This event is open, all are invited, and whoever wants and is able to may attend. This will begin at approximately 1400 hours.

3. On Sunday, June 1, 2014, also in the Caracol of Oventik, we will have a modest homage to our deceased compañero: Don Luis Villoro Toranzo. This event is open, all are invited, and whoever wants and is able to may attend. It will be at approximately 1400 hrs, and will include the participation of the comandantas and comandantes of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee- General Command of the EZLN, writer Juan Villoro, and Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

4. From Monday June 2, 2014 through Sunday, June 8, 2014, in the Caracol of Oventik and at the CIDECI facilities in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, there will be a seminar—that is, some talks—on the theme of “ETHICS IN THE FACE OF DISPOSSESSION.” This event is also in honor of our compañero Don Luis Villoro Toranzo. The seminar is open, all are invited, and those who want and are able to may attend.

The seminar will begin with a session in the Caracol of Oventik on June 2, 2014, at a time yet to be confirmed, with the participation of the EZLN. The seminar will continue on June 3 in CIDECI-UNITIERRA-Chiapas, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

This seminar is organized by the EZLN, CIDECI-UNITIERRA-Chiapas, and collectives of students from the Zapatista Little School in Mexico and the World. The following artists and intellectuals will participate, among others:

Carlos González, John Berger, Dr. Pablo González Casanova, Dr. Adolfo Gilly, Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein, Neus Espresante, María de Jesús de la Fuente de O’Higgins, Gustavo Esteva Figueroa, Juan Villoro, Dr. Raymundo Sánchez Barraza, Dr. Paulina Fernández Christlieb, Hugo Blanco Galdós, Raúl Zibechi, Dr. Marcos Roitman, Dr. Sylvia Marcos, Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, Greg Ruggiero, Karla Quiñonez, Dr. Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas, Corinne Kumar, Dr. John Holloway, Magdalena Gómez, Dr. Luisa Paré, Dr. Alicia Castellanos Guerrero, Maestra Ana Lydia Flores Marín, Dr. María Eugenia Sánchez Díaz, Dr. Eduardo Almeida Acosta, Julieta Egurrola, Dr. Arturo Anguiano Orozco, Dr. Fernanda Navarro, Beatriz Aurora, Efraín Herrera, Antonio Ramírez Chávez, Gloria Domingo Manuel “Domi,” Dr. Márgara Millán, Servando Gajá, Lic. Bárbara Zamora López, Malú Huacuja del Toro, Dr. Sergio Tischler Visquerra, Dr. Jérôme Baschet, Dr. Ángeles Eraña, Maestra Mariana Favela, Profesor Enrique Ávila, Claudia Aguirre, Alejandro Varas Orozco, Rosario Hernández, Manuel Rozental, Vilma Almendra, John Gibler, Dr. Eckart Boege Schmidt, Pablo Reyna Esteves, Roco, Guillermo Velázquez, Moyenei Valdés, Hebe Rosell, Amparo Sánchez “Amparanoia,” Modesto López, Marta de Cea, Nicolás Falcoff, Óscar Chávez, Sergio Rodríguez Lascano, and a few more who have not yet been confirmed.

5. During this seminar, the EZLN will announce a proposal for a new initiative for the National and International Sixth.

6. Over the next few days we will be announcing more details about these events.

Also, I wanted to let you know that, if his health permits, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos will be present and may participate in some of the public events.

That is all.

From the Mountains of Southeastern Mexico, Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

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