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Concejo Indígena de Gobierno
CNI-CIG Repudiates the aggression against the zapatista support bases and calls for solidarity
To the peoples of Mexico and the world.
The Indigenous Government Council-Indigenous National Congress repudiate the cowardly attack by members of the paramilitary group called the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO), who on Saturday August 22 around 11:00 in the morning robbed and burned the facilities from the Nuevo Amanecer del Arcoiris Trade Center, which is located in the place known as the Cuxuljá crossroad, Lucio Cabañas Autonomous Municipality, within the official municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas.
The paramilitary organization ORCAO has maintained constant pressure on and violence against the Zapatista communities for years; as is the case of the Moises Gandhi Autonomous Municipality, to stop the autonomous organization and to privatize the lands that have cost the struggle and organization of the original peoples, who are Zapatista support bases. They have intimidated and threatened the compañeros and compañeras that from below bet on hope, such as the various attacks against compañeros of the National Indigenous Congress, who were violated and kidnapped by paramilitaries from ORCAO, the Chinchulines, and people from the MORENA party.
We denounce the war that, from above, is being deployed against the Zapatista communities’ organizing, at the same time that above the bad governments seek to impose, throughout the country, megaprojects of death that we oppose and will oppose, because we are not willing to give up our territories and allow the destruction promised by the powerful.
We hold the paramilitary organization ORCAO, the MORENA party, the state government, and the federal government responsible for these events. They have not stopped sowing violence in the region in order to hit not only our sisters and brothers in the Zapatista communities, but to all the peoples who dream of fighting for life, of healing our mother earth and not letting her be privatized, so that the capitalist bosses and bad governments never return to the autonomous Zapatista territories, and may that light continue to flourish in the territories of the original peoples of the CNI-CIG and all of humanity.
We call on the compañeras y compañeros of support networks and networks of resistance and rebellion to speak out and mobilize against the war of extermination, which is dangerously sharpening against our sisters and brothers of the Zapatista peoples, who teach us to never stop sowing rebellion and hope.
To the peoples of Mexico and the world.
The Indigenous Government Council-Indigenous National Congress repudiate the cowardly attack by members of the paramilitary group called the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO), who on Saturday August 22 around 11:00 in the morning robbed and burned the facilities from the Nuevo Amanecer del Arcoiris Trade Center, which is located in the place known as the Cuxuljá crossroad, Lucio Cabañas Autonomous Municipality, within the official municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas.
The paramilitary organization ORCAO has maintained constant pressure on and violence against the Zapatista communities for years; as is the case of the Moises Gandhi Autonomous Municipality, to stop the autonomous organization and to privatize the lands that have cost the struggle and organization of the original peoples, who are Zapatista support bases. They have intimidated and threatened the compañeros and compañeras that from below bet on hope, such as the various attacks against compañeros of the National Indigenous Congress, who were violated and kidnapped by paramilitaries from ORCAO, the Chinchulines, and people from the MORENA party.
We denounce the war that, from above, is being deployed against the Zapatista communities’ organizing, at the same time that above the bad governments seek to impose, throughout the country, megaprojects of death that we oppose and will oppose, because we are not willing to give up our territories and allow the destruction promised by the powerful.
We hold the paramilitary organization ORCAO, the MORENA party, the state government, and the federal government responsible for these events. They have not stopped sowing violence in the region in order to hit not only our sisters and brothers in the Zapatista communities, but to all the peoples who dream of fighting for life, of healing our mother earth and not letting her be privatized, so that the capitalist bosses and bad governments never return to the autonomous Zapatista territories, and may that light continue to flourish in the territories of the original peoples of the CNI-CIG and all of humanity.
We call on the compañeras y compañeros of support networks and networks of resistance and rebellion to speak out and mobilize against the war of extermination, which is dangerously sharpening against our sisters and brothers of the Zapatista peoples, who teach us to never stop sowing rebellion and hope.
Sincerely,
For the integral reconstitution of our peoples
Never Again a Mexico Without Us
National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council
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(Español) In memoriam Heriberto Salas Amac.
AL CONGRESO NACIONAL INDÍGENA (CNI)
AL CONCEJO INDÍGENA DE GOBIERNO (CIG)
AL EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL (EZLN)
A LOS ADHERENTES NACIONALES E INTERNACIONALES A LA SEXTA DECLARACIÓN DE LA SELVA LACANDONA
A LAS REDES DE APOYO AL CNI-CIG
A LOS PUEBLOS DE MÉXICO y DEL MUNDO
A LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN
Desde la Cuenca del Valle de México, expresamos nuestro más profundo dolor por el sensible fallecimiento de nuestro compañero HERIBERTO SALAS AMAC la madrugada del 2 de julio de 2020; y el de su señora madre CATALINA AMAC CRUCES un día antes.
Para quienes tuvimos el privilegio de conocerlo y el orgullo de caminar a su lado en una o varias de las etapas de su trayectoria de más de 40 años dentro de la lucha sindical, campesina, social, en contra de los megaproyectos como el Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México (NAICM) y sus obras asociadas; y la defensa del territorio, bienes naturales, cultura y autonomía de los pueblos originarios, es motivo de satisfacción el reconocimiento regional, nacional e internacional que se le ha hecho a través de las enormes e innumerables muestras de solidaridad y cariño por su irreparable pérdida.
“CON TU EJEMPLO DE LUCHA NOS ENSEÑASTE EL CAMINO Y SEGUIRLO SERÁ LA MEJOR FORMA DE HONRAR TU MEMORIA”
A petición del propio Heriberto, sus cenizas serán esparcidas en el histórico cerro de Tepetzinco, en los ejidos de Nexquipayac, en la ribera del Lago de Texcoco.
Y mientras las restricciones sanitarias derivadas de la pandemia provocada por el coronavirus (COVID-19) nos permiten hacer una convocatoria lo más amplia posible para darle el homenaje que él merece, con la ayuda de tod@s iremos difundiendo aspectos relevantes de su vida y legado y compartiendo su visión y experiencias de lucha.
“Para nosotros la AUTONOMÍA es ser libres, es ser pueblo, estar con el pueblo
y construir juntos OTRO MUNDO POSIBLE”
Heriberto Salas Amac (1958-2020)
“Ce cuali in útli in ilcuicac”
(Un buen camino al paraíso)
COORDINADORA DE PUEBLOS y ORGANIZACIONES DEL ORIENTE DEL
ESTADO DE MÉXICO EN DEFENSA DE LA TIERRA, EL AGUA y SU CULTURA
FUNDACIÓN VIDA, NATURALEZA y LEGADO
DE LA CUENCA DE MÉXICO