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(Español) Diego López Méndez, víctima de tortura, acusado de un homicidio que no cometió
El 18 de julio de 2012, Diego López Méndez estaba trabajando cuando llegaron 4 judiciales vestidos de civil a su lugar de trabajo. Lo detuvieron y se lo llevaron en una camioneta blanca para ser torturado, acusándolo de un homicidio que no cometió. Ante el horror de la tortura, y pensando que lo matarían, finalmente se autoinculpó para salvar su vida. Eso fue hace seis años y medio. Desde entonces, ha estado preso.
Diego López es un indígena tseltal, padre de un niño de 6 años. La condición de madre, que está muy enferma, se ha agravado con el sufrimiento por la injusta prisión.
La única evidencia en su contra es su propia confesión, firmada bajo tortura. Quien lo inculpó también fue torturado para que lo hiciera.
Este martes, 12 de febrero, Diego comparecerá en audiencia de derecho frente al Juez Penal de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, César Rodríguez Robles, quien a partir de entonces tendrá 15 días para dictar su sentencia. Ese mismo día 12 de febrero, a las 5 p.m., se llevará a cabo una concentración en la plaza de la Catedral de esa ciudad, en solidaridad con Diego López Méndez. Invitamos a quienes estén en la ciudad a comparecer para exigir su libertad.
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Letter to the zapatista women from the women who struggle in Mexico and the world
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LETTER TO THE ZAPATISTA WOMEN
FROM THE WOMEN WHO STRUGGLE IN MEXICO AND THE WORLD
(signed by 891, Organizations, Collectives, Networks, and Individuals)
To our compañeras Zapatistas
To the women of the world who struggle
To the grandmothers, mothers, sisters, youth and girls
To those who have the heart of a woman
We the undersigned are women of Mexico and the world, convened by the Zapatista women on March 8th, 2018 in the First International Political, Artistic, Cultural and Sports Encounter of Women Who Struggle.
We reaffirm that every one of us committed ourselves to struggle, each one from our own place of origin or new home places, from our distinct cultures and occupations, so that “not one more woman in the world, regardless of color, size, or place of origin, should feel alone or afraid anymore”. We committed ourselves to the light that all of you shared with us in our gathering, and to the light that all of you represent to all of us. We keep that light alive in order to be, to walk and to struggle together.
Today we proclaim that we will not allow the bad governments to destroy your worlds and displace you from the territories that provide the roots, heartbeat and direction to your lives and dreams. We will denounce, through multiple venues and modes, the misuse of practices of cultural resistance, staging ancestral people’s rituals to justify megaprojects of death and sickness imposed by the patriarchal capitalist system.
Given the conditions of war that we continue to face every day as women, we reaffirm our agreement to “stay alive, and for us to live is to struggle, each one according to her means, her time and her place.”
Now is the time to tell the bad governments, past and present, in every corner and place in the world, that we repudiate, from our multiple locations and territories, the practices of concessions, extraction, and the misuse and abuse of our Mother Earth. “Fracking,” gas and oil pipelines, massive hydroelectric dams, extensive agro-industrial monocultures of crops and trees, and infrastructure for corporate tourism in indigenous territories, all benefit major commercial projects, at the cost of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples’ lives and territories. In the face of profit-seeking interests, we will struggle for Life, for the lives and territories of people and other living beings.
As women, we know the value of life and for this reason we work to build conditions that support life. We declare that yes, we can do this, we women with our collective hearts. You are not alone compañeras zapatistas, friends, and sisters, and neither are your children, families and peoples!
Quotations excerpted from Zapatista Women (2018) Zapatista Women’s Opening Address at the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle. March 8, 2018. Caracol in the Tzots Choj zone. March 26, 2018, Enlace Zapatista:
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2018/03/26/zapatista-womens-opening-address-at-the-first-international-gathering-of-politics-art-sport-and-culture-for-women-in-struggle/
