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(Español) Comunicado del Concejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ), por el asesinato impune de nuestros hermanos José Lucio Bartolo Faustino y Modesto Verales Sebastián
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.
Communiqué from the CNI-CIG and the EZLN on the murder of José Lucio Bartolo Faustino and Modesto Verales Sebastián
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