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Al Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
Al Congreso Nacional Indígena
Al Concejo Indígena de Gobierno
A los pueblos de Guerrero
A los pueblos de México
A la sexta nacional e internacional
A las redes de resistencia y rebeldía
A las redes de apoyo al CIG

Territorio Comunitario, Guerrero, 7 de Mayo de 2019

El CIPOG-EZ es la casa de los pueblos Na Savi, Me´pháá, Nahua, Ñamnkué y Afromexicanos del estado de Guerrero. Reconocemos nuestra historia reciente desde 1992 cuando comenzamos a luchar por nuestro derecho a la autonomía y libre determinación, constituimos el Consejo Guerrerense 500 años de Resistencia que creció con el surgimiento del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional y se articuló con el Congreso Nacional Indígena. Así llegamos hasta el 2001, luchando para que los Derechos y la Cultura indígena fueran reconocidos en la constitución, pero ningún partido, ningún político profesional quiso frenar la guerra de exterminio que aún continua.

En la Costa Montaña de Guerrero nuestras comunidades llevaron a la práctica nuevas formas de gobierno comunitario, constituyendo sus propias instituciones. Nació la Policía Comunitaria en 1995 y la Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias en 1998. Así se demostró que entre las montañas, entre la miseria y la represión en la que nos han tenido sumidos, los pueblos somos capaces de recuperar la paz y la tranquilidad. Estos modos de organización y de gobierno tampoco fueron inventados, vienen de cinco siglos de resistencia indígena y de nuestras experiencias como pueblos.

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COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CNI-CIG AND THE EZLN ON THE COWARDLY KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF COMPAÑEROS FROM THE EMILIANO ZAPATA POPULAR INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF GUERRERO

The National Indigenous Congress [CNI], the Indigenous Governing Council [CIG], and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation [EZLN] condemn with pain and rage the kidnapping and murders of José Lucio Bartolo Faustino, CIG council member from the Nahua indigenous community of Xicotlán, and Modesto Verales Sebastián, delegate of the National Indigenous Congress from the Nahua indigenous community of Buenavista. Both were part of the Emiliano Zapata Popular Indigenous Council of Guerrero [CIPOG-EZ], which is a member organization of the CNI-CIG. This crime was carried out by narco-paramilitary groups who operate in the municipality of Chilapa de Álvarez and who are protected by the Mexican Army as well as by municipal and state police.

At 3pm yesterday, May 4, our compañeros were attending a meeting with other members of the CIPOG-EZ in Chilpancingo, Guerrero. On their way back to their communities they were kidnapped and murdered by these narco-paramilitary groups which operate with total complicity and protection from all three levels of the bad government, which pretend to address the indigenous communities’ demands for security and justice. The indigenous communities have repeatedly denounced to the federal government the impunity with which the criminal Celso Ortega wages violence against them. It is important to mention that our murdered compañeros and their communities have for years been organizing their own Community Police in order to resist the violence, extortion, and poppy cultivation imposed by two criminal groups in the area, Los Ardillos and Los Rojos. These two groups control municipal presidencies across the region and are protected by the Mexican army and the municipal and state police. At one point they even managed to get one of their leaders named president of the Guerrero State Congress.

We hold all three levels of bad government responsible for this cowardly crime as they have been complicit in repressing our peoples’ organization in defense of their territories. We also hold the bad government responsible for the safety and security of our brothers and sisters of the CIPOG-EZ.

As the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, we send our collective embrace and solidarity to the family members and compañeros of José Lucio Bartolo Faustino and Modesto Verales Sebastián, and we share with them our commitment to continue this path of autonomy and dignity for which our fallen compañeros provide a light and an example.

We denounce the intensification of neoliberal repression against the originary peoples, nations, and tribes who do not consent to these projects of death in Guerrero and in all of Mexico, nor to the violence which is used to impose these projects and to repress, kidnap, disappear, and murder those of us who have decided to sow a new world from the indigenous geographies that we are.

We demand justice for our compañeros.

Attentively
May 2019

For the Full Reconstitution of Our Peoples
Never Again a Mexico Without Us

National Indigenous Congress
Indigenous Governing Council
Zapatista Army for National Liberation

 
Source: Enlace Zapatista

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A los colectivos y adherentes a las Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona,
A las Redes de Apoyo al Congreso Nacional Indígena y al Concejo Indígena de Gobierno,
A las Redes de Resistencia y Rebeldía,
A la Red Contra la Represión y la Solidaridad,
A los Medios Libres, Autónomos o cómo se llamen,
A las organizaciones, los colectivos e individuos que luchan contra el capitalismo,
Al digno y Conciente Pueblo de México,

Compañeros y compañeras
Hermanos y hermanas:

Queremos comunicarles que nos encontramos profundamente preocupadas por el contexto de guerra, represión, acoso militar y paramilitar que enfrentan las comunidades autónomas, bases de apoyo e integrantes del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, como parte de la política contrainsurgente impuesta por mal gobierno y su actual administración encabezada por el partido MORENA y Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Sabemos que esta guerra es la continuación de una política de despojo que pretende arrebatar las tierras a las comunidades indígenas, para entregarlas a los empresarios e imponer sus megaproyectos y sus trenes del despojo como son el “Tren Maya”, el “Corredor Transístmico”, el “Proyecto Integral Morelos”, la “Guardia Nacional” y las “Zonas Económicas Especiales”

Tenemos claro que la principal estrategia y argumento del sistema capitalista y de los malos gobiernos es y ha sido siempre la represión, la persecución y la guerra en contra de los pueblos dignos y rebeldes, que resisten a las políticas de robo, saqueo y explotación.

Tampoco olvidamos que los pueblos construyen la resistencia desde la organización, la solidaridad, el apoyo mutuo y el compañerismo. Es por eso que los convocamos a una reunión organizativa, para que en unidad y cada quien sus modos y sus tiempos podamos construir y coordinar una Campaña permanente de solidaridad con los pueblos del EZLN y el CNI, que tenga como principales tareas visibilizar y denunciar la guerra contrainsurgente y el despojo de los megaproyectos, que afecta a las comunidades zapatistas y del CNI.

La reunión se llevará a cabo elmiércoles 8 de mayo de 2019, a las 5:30pm en el Foro José Revueltas, FFYL, CU.

Sin más por el momento, esperamos contar con su presencia, reciban un abrazo fraterno.

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Mujeres y la Sexta
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1 de Mayo de 2019

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The National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and its Indigenous Governing Council (CIG) denounced yesterday the forceful disappearance of Nahua CIG councilmember José lucio Bartolo Faustino and CNI delegate Modesto Verales Sebastián in the state of Guerrero. Both had traveled to the city of Chilpancingo to attend a meeting with other members of CIPOG-EZ, organization to which both of them belong. On their way back to their community, they were ambushed and kidnapped. The CNI reports that the vehicle in which they traveled was found with gun shots and that they are currently organizing search brigades. They also report that in recent times the communities that elected them have been under attack by criminal organizations tollerated by the municipal, state, and federal governments.

On April 26 and 27, the Encounter 25 Years of Zapatismo, Across Time & Space took place at California State University Los Angeles. The encounter brought together activists, scholars, militants, and members of organizations and collectives in the US who have been struggling for autonomy, justice and dignity in the country, many of them inspired by the Zapatista uprising. Also present were councilmembers of the Indigenous Governing Council and, via the internet, the intellectuals Raúl Zibechi and Gustavo Esteva and other Mexican activists and journalists, who analyzed the current situation experienced in that country and the organization of resistance and rebellion.

Since the Zapatista uprising on January 1, 1994, and especially after the Chican@-Zapatista Encounter in August 1997, zapatismo has inspired a large number of collectives and organizations in the US, especially of Chicanos, migrants, and people of color in general, who have adopted Zapatista forms of struggle to resist state violence, racism and repression against people of color, the prison industrial complex, gentrification and the systematic displacement of those from below, labor exploitation, deportations, raids, and much more. Thus, during these 25 years there have emerged artistic groups (see for example our documentary on the Chicano-Zapatista musical movement, Rhythms of Zapata), autonomous experiences of food sovereignty, community spaces, independent media collectives, groups of scholars proposing other epistemologies, self-defense organizations, exchanges and youth delegations to Chiapas, women’s groups, etc.

This encounter was therefore an opportunity to exchange experiences and connect struggles, while reflecting on the changes in Zapatismo in these 25 years, the civilizational crisis we face, and the situation for the peoples under the current Mexican administration.

Of fundamental importance was the participation of the councilmembers Betina Cruz Velázquez and Fortino Domínguez Rueda, of the National Indigenous Congress / Indigenous Governing Council (CNI-CIG). From his perspective as a member of the Zoque people, Fortino led us on a voyage through the history of the CNI up to the creation of the CIG and its relevance for indigenous peoples in Mexico and the world, in the context of the destruction caused by the current phase of capitalism. Betina Cruz in turn undertook a decisive and carefully documented analysis of this destruction, now led by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his so-called “fourth transformation.”

This was complemented by the analyses by Raúl Zibechi and Gustavo Esteva, who discussed the relevance of zapatismo for Latin American social movements (or societies in movement, as Zibechi proposes) and, again, the threat that the current Mexican government represents for indigenous peoples and for the construction of Zapatista autonomy. Also via the internet, from Mexico, the activists María Laura Orozco and Evangelina Ceja and the journalist Arturo de Dios analyzed the use of forced disappearance as a tool of the state, based on specific cases. And a member of the Radio Zapatista collective explained what the Zapatistas understand by the “storm” and the civilizational crisis underway.

From the standpoint of education, the influence of the Zapatista uprising on universities in the US was discussed, as well as the contributions of Zapatista education toward a decolonial and deschooling thought in that country. The topics of borders, identities, nations, and states oriented several roundtables, as well as patriarchy, feminism, and queer subversion. Former members of the now extinct organization Estación Libre shared the experience of their efforts to connect the struggles of people of color in the US and the ideas and practices of zapatismo. Food justice was present in the discussion of various autonomous experiences in food sovereignty in California, such as the South Central Farm, Zapotepec, and the Oxnard Heirloom Seed Library.

The Encounter also included a film festival, an art exhibit, a poetry recital, an evening of CompArte at the Floricanto Center, and a festive fandango at the Chicano organizational and cultural space Eastside Café.

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El Congreso Nacional Indígena y el Concejo Indígena de Gobierno denunciaron que el pasado 25 y 27 de abril un grupo de personas fuertemente armado irrumpieorn en la comunidad Chol de San José El Bascán, en el municipio de Salto de Agua, Chiapas, agrediendo a uno de los delegados del CNI de esa comunidad. Según la denuncia del CNI-CIG, el grupo está liderado por Artemio Álvaro Vázquez, autoproclamado dueño de las tierras de la comunidad, e incluye autoridades de la comunidad de Tioquipá El Bascán y otras 86 personas, convencidas por medio de promesas de regalo de tierras.

A continuación, la denuncia del CNI-CIG.

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Comunicado del Consejo Supremo Indígena de Michoacán ante la desaparición forzada de Nilda Rosario Francisco de la Cruz

¡Vivos se los llevaron, Vivos los queremos!
¡Presentación con vida de Nilda Rosario!

Comunidades P´urhépecha a 30 de abril del 2019.

Al Gobierno Federal. Al Gobierno de Michoacán.
A la Fiscalia General de la República. A la Fiscalia General del Estado de Michoacán.
A los Medios de Comunicación. Al Pueblo de Michoacán.

El Consejo Supremo Indígena de Michoacán (CSIM), consejo autónomo e independiente de gobiernos, partidos políticos y órdenes religiosas, conformado por autoridades civiles, comunales y tradicionales de más de 50 comunidades originarias, manifestamos por medio del presente comunicado lo siguiente:

En Michoacán, la desaparición forzada es una política de Estado presente desde 1974, fecha en que ocurrieron las desapariciones forzadas de 5 integrantes de la familia p´urhépecha Guzmán Cruz originaria de Tarejero, a 45 años de inicio de la desaparición forzada en la entidad, el Estado mexicano, entendido por las instituciones burocráticas federales y estatales, no ha sido capaz de resolver ni un sólo caso de desaparición forzada, esto con independencia de la filiación política del partido en el poder.

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