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Comunicado de presxs indígenas en lucha
Comunicado de Marcelino Ruiz G. saludando a todxs aquellxs que luchan contra los megaporectos y por la vida. “Y hacemos un llamo de solidaridad a todas y todos las tejedoras y los tejedores de luz y esperanza para elaborar un tejido de resistencia para nuestra madre tierra.”
CERSS No 10
Comitán, Chiapas, México.
Comunicado de presxs indígenas en lucha
Organización Vineketik en Resistencia adherentes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona del EZLN
Al Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
A la sociedad civil nacional e internacional
A la Sexta nacional e internacional
Al Congreso Nacional Indígena
Al Consejo Indígena de Gobierno
A la Red contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad
A los medios de comunicación
Al Pueblo Creyente
A las organizaciones independientes
Al pueblo de México y del mundo
Hermanas, hermanoas y hermanos reciban un cordial y combativo saludo desde nuestra trinchera de lucha y resistencia.
En esta acción global en contra de los megaproyectos de muerte y en defensa del agua y del territorio de los pueblos indígenas, desde estas cuatro paredes de la prisión nos solidarizamos con nuestrxs compañerxs en esta lucha conjunta en contra de los malos gobiernos capitalistas y las industrias arrasodoras de la madre tierra y del ambiente, por la contaminación de nuestros ríos, el despojo de nuestras tierras para la expropiación de los recursos naturales.
Como pueblos indígenas exigimos respeto a nuestros territorios, así como respeto a nuestra madre tierra, como así también a los pueblos y seres que la habitan.
Y también recordamos el asesinato de nuestro compañero Samir Flores por defender el territorio y exigimos justicia y castigo a los asesinos.
Y hacemos un llamo de solidaridad a todas y todos las tejedoras y los tejedores de luz y esperanza para elaborar un tejido de resistencia para nuestra madre tierra.
Y también decimos alto a las represiones y encarcelamientos a lxs luchadorxs indígenas, campesinos y normalistas y desapariciones forzadas de parte de los gobernantes corruptos.
¡Cancelación inmediata al Proyecto Integral Morelos!
¡Fuera Bonafont!
¡Fuera CONAGUA de Xalapa Veracruz!
¡Libertad a lxs presxs políticxs!
¡Viva el EZLN!
Atentamente
Marcelino Ruiz Gómez
Aldama and the Neoliberal Project of Plunder

Displaced women and families in the municipality of Aldama, after they had to take refuge from the constant attacks from the community of Santa Martha. Photo: Isaac Guzmán
Just this morning, May 26th, we received messages from compañeros in the highlands of Chiapas that gunfire in the direction of the communities of Aldama has become more fierce over the past 4 days. In the municipality of Aldama, which includes the Zapatista support base community of Magdalena de La Paz, consistent paramilitary fire from the Santa Martha community in the neighboring municipality of Chenalhó threatens the lives and livelihoods of its residents. Under these conditions, milpa cannot be sown, coffee can’t be picked, and children cannot go to school.
Under the nose of government officials and with incentives from political parties and “social programs,” territorial conflicts have escalated across the Mexican countryside; and in Chiapas, several such conflicts (Nuevo San Gregorio, Moisés Gandhi, and Chilón to name a few) have worsened as the June 6th elections approach. The violence follows a predictable cycle of territorial dispossession, with extractive megaprojects on one hand and militarization on the other. Government programs intended to entice party affiliation and shred the rural social fabric prey on indigenous communities in a perpetual internal colonization.
The twists and turns of the relationship between what is now Aldama and Chenalhó date back to 1921, when the original municipalities of Santa María Magdalena (Aldama) and Santa Martha (Chenalhó) were subordinated under the municipal seat of San Pedro Chenalhó. Over the course of several decades, the families of these indigenous communities struggled together against displacement and submission by wealthy mestizos, sharing territories and celebrations. However, in 1975, a misallocation under the Secretary of Agrarian Reform catalyzed the current day dispute over 59 hectares between the two communities. In 1999, in an attempt to constrain Zapatista support bases in Santa María Magdalena, the Secretary of Agrarian Reform tried to force the two communities under a new municipality of Aldama. But residents of Santa Martha rejected the proposal and strengthened their affiliation with Chenalhó, whose leaders, with ties to the perpetrators of the perpetrators of the 1997 Acteal massacre, have actively fostered paramilitary rule.
Since February 2018, more than 2,000 residents of Aldama have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Among the casualties, a trustee of the municipality and member of the National Indigenous Congress was tortured and murdered, and a nun from a humanitarian brigade was shot in the leg., This past May 8th, Pedro Lunes Pérez of Chocó (Aldama) was killed in his home by paramilitary gunfire, as the National Guard patrolled nearby.
Attempts to resolve the conflict have failed to dissipate the rancor. On the part of officials, they appear to be half-hearted at best, for no effort has been made to disarm the perpetrators of the violence. From carelessness to negligence to all-out corruption, the three levels of government have served only to fan the flames of conflict between communities. Under López Obrador’s administration, militarization continues to intensify throughout southeast Mexico, particularly in zones of Zapatista support, to reinforce the economic advantage and firepower on the side of the paramilitaries.
We might ask why all levels of government have failed so miserably to intervene in a meaningful solution. In fact, the same question might be asked of other global conflicts in the news this past week. And the answer is this: destabilizing the autonomy of the people, catalyzing conflict through inequity, and perpetuating rifts via dis-information are all cornerstones not only of the 4T, but of the hegemonic neoliberal project globally — a project bent on territorial dispossession and plunder.
- Burguete, Cal y Mayor, Araceli. “Aldama-Santa Marta, Chenalho: Las Aristas de un Conflicto.” Chiapas Paralelo. 2019. https://www.chiapasparalelo.com/opinion/2019/01/aldama-santa-marta-chenalho-las-aristas-de-un-conflicto/
- Hernandez Navarro, Luís. “Noviembre en Aldama.” La Jornada. 2020. https://www.jornada.com.mx/2020/11/24/opinion/026a2pol
- Hernández Navarro, Luís. “Los Demonios Chiapanecos.” La Jornada. 2019. https://www.jornada.com.mx/2019/06/04/opinion/016a2pol
- Mariscal, Ángeles. “Si no Hay Reconciliación, que Se Aplique La Ley Contra Civiles Armados Piden En Chiapas.” Pie de Página. 2020. https://piedepagina.mx/si-no-hay-reconciliacion-que-se-aplique-la-ley-contra-civiles-armados-piden-en-chiapas/
- Rompeviento TV. 2019. “Aldama, Chenalhó y los paramilitares: AMLO, Alejandro Encinas y Ernesto Ledesma.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWOwRiiakzY

















