Seventh part: A Streaming Beetle

November 2023

Durito forwarded me this that reached one of his millions (so he said) of fans:

And he adds the following:

“Although it is a nice touch that they have changed the black color to blue, which protects my secret identity, the reason might be that they want to avoid paying copyright. Above all, for my discreet participation in the SAG-AFTRA strike, alongside my admired Susan. In any case, I appreciate HBO’s humble tribute to the greatest superhero that planet Earth has ever given birth to: myself.»

Almost at the same time, I received this from the HBO Community Manager:

«In relation to the announcement of the programming of the aforementioned film, HBO clarifies that it does not refer to Don Durito (DD for legal issues) nor is it a reference to the next anniversary of the EZLN. It’s a mere coincidence. HBO reiterates its commitment to the system and is already taking steps to reprimand those responsible for our programming for this regrettable misunderstanding. HBO does not make films, nor does it schedule the exhibition of films, of real superheroes, only fictional ones. And, anticipating demands from the aforementioned DD, we want to warn that all the documentation that protects our innocence is already in our legal department. We will not accept demands greater than 10 million USD, although we would be willing to redirect the compensation to Guerrero, as long as it is a reasonable amount that does not exceed the amount referred to and is discussed by the Union Congress of the cemetery called Mexico. We are at your disposal to reach a reasonable arrangement. Sincerely. The CEO of HBO»

I think this has already gotten out of control.

Now Durito will be unbearable. Well, that was it, but more (or is it Max?).

From the office of the DD Artistic Representative (for legal issues).

The Captain.
November 2023.

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Fuente: Avispa Midia

Por Elmer Ponce

Siete comunidades de Sayaxché, Petén, ha perdido sus cosechas por las lluvias de los últimos días. Las familias han tenido que dejar sus casas y buscar refugio, porque el nivel del agua creció tanto que es imposible mantenerse en ellas. Las autoridades reconocieron no tener la capacidad para atender la emergencia.

Las intensas lluvias de un segundo frente frío en Guatemala y la creciente del río Salinas dejaron inundadas varias viviendas en la comunidad de El Roto Viejo, en la microrregión de Tierra Blanca, en Sayaxché, Petén.

Esta pequeña comunidad de 800 personas, integrada por unas 144 familias, ha tenido que dejar sus casas por que el agua las inundó a tal grado que ya no pueden permanecer en ellas, por lo que han buscado refugio en los albergues habilitados en la zona, en escuelas o iglesias.

Otros tienen sus viviendas en alto y se resguardan ahí de la lluvia que no cesa.

Pese a la emergencia, hay quienes prefieren permanecer en sus casas, para cuidar sus pertenencias, pues lo poco o mucho que posean es el fruto de los esfuerzos logrados por su trabajo. Colocando sus pertenencias en las vigas o en el tabanco como los locales les denominan.

(Continuar leyendo…)

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Por Sare Frabes

El Centro Agroecológico Tlacuache Fantasía es un espacio que forma parte de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), en ciudad de México (CDMX), ubicado justo frente al Metro Universidad. Es un espacio donde antes había grandes cantidades de basura y ratas. Desde 2013, diversos voluntarios lo han recuperado. Pero hoy están siendo criminalizados por las autoridades de la universidad y del gobierno de CDMX.

El pasado 2 de octubre, las voluntarias que actualmente forman parte de este espacio recibieron una notificación de la Fiscalía General de la República, requiriendo que María Vargas Hernández, quien había fungido como voluntaria anteriormente, se presente a las autoridades por ocupación de este inmueble.

La notificación está apegada al artículo 395 fracción del Código Penal Federal el cual establece: “Se aplicará la pena de tres meses a cinco años de prisión y multa de cincuenta a quinientos pesos: I. – Al que de propia autoridad y haciendo violencia o furtivamente, o empleando amenaza o engaño, ocupe un inmueble ajeno o haga uso de él, o de un derecho real que no le pertenezca”.

De acuerdo con un comunicado emitido por las activistas de agroecología, quien interpuso la demanda han sido autoridades de la propia Universidad.

“Aclaramos que muchxs voluntarixs han conformado el espacio y que María fungió como voluntaria del espacio de 2020 a 2023, no obstante, no es responsable del proyecto”, aclaran las integrantes del espacio.

(Continuar leyendo…)

Sin presencia de principales responsables del caso, padres y madres de Ayotzinapa denuncian ante la CIDH obstaculización de la justicia
Washington DC, 9 de noviembre de 2023.- Frente a la ausencia de autoridades de alto nivel responsables en el esclarecimiento de los hechos del caso de desaparición de estudiantes normalistas de Ayotzinapa, padres y madres de las y los estudiantes presentaron ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) la actualización de los últimos eventos del caso y presentaron solicitudes puntuales, esto durante la audiencia convocada por la CIDH como parte del seguimiento de la medida cautelar 409-14.

Cristina Bautista, madre de Benjamín Ascensio Bautista, y Mario González padre de César Manuel González Hernández, acompañados por representantes de Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación A.C., el Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña “Tlachinollan” y el Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centro Prodh), enfatizaron que a más de 9 años de los hechos aún no han alcanzado verdad ni justicia, ni se conoce el paradero de los estudiantes; por el contrario, se mantiene la obstaculización por parte del Ejército para entregar información relevante para el esclarecimiento de lo ocurrido, no hay claridad en las líneas de investigación y han recibido evasivas de las autoridades. Lo anterior se vio reflejado en la falta de comparecencia en la audiencia de autoridades relevantes en el asunto, como el actual Subsecretario de Derechos Humanos y Presidente de la COVAJ y el actual titular de la Fiscalía Especial para el caso.

“Veo que el Estado no toma en serio el caso Ayotzinapa. El nuevo Fiscal, el nuevo Subsecretario no están presentes. Como padres y madres no nos rendiremos, por el amor de nuestros hijos nos mantenemos de pie”, expresó Cristina Bautista.

Mario González añadió: “Ahora vemos toda la descalificación hacia nosotros, la falta de respeto de no venir los principales [autoridades] para poder hablar con ellos. Un ejemplo de ello es la salida del GIEI, que buscaron tener acceso a una serie de documentos de los Centros Regionales de Fusión de Inteligencia, que podrían contribuir a saber qué pasó con nuestros hijos. Esos documentos tienen muchísima información, son reportes militares, son transcripciones de llamadas entre perpetradores, son pistas. Y no entendemos por qué el Ejército no quiere entregar esa información”.

Junto con sus representantes, los padres presentaron cuatro peticiones puntuales ante las y los comisionados de la CIDH:

1. Dado que se ha informado que el Presidente de la República supervisará directamente las investigaciones, se solicitó que continúe haciendo uso de todos los mecanismos extraordinarios de supervisión de la medida cautelar sobre el caso, incluyendo el acompañamiento a las familias a cada una de las reuniones que se convoquen desde Presidencia.

2. Se concrete un mecanismo técnico de revisión adicional de los archivos castrenses por parte de la CIDH, requiriendo al Estado que informe por escrito si acepta esta propuesta.

3. Que en cuanto se elija a la próxima Comisionada o Comisionado Relator para México se lleve a cabo una visita al país y en particular a la Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa, para que pueda conocer de primera mano el estatus del caso y encontrarse con las familias.

4. Que la CIDH continúe la supervisión de las medidas cautelares en el caso, sin dejar de estar alerta de posibles acciones legales que se puedan iniciar en contra de las víctimas, representantes y funcionarios públicos que han trabajado por esclarecer el caso en los últimos años.

Frente a estas peticiones, la representación del Estado mexicano se limitó a leer una comunicación enviada por el fiscal del caso, Rosendo Gómez Piedra, en donde se dedicó a denostar el trabajo del anterior titular de la Unidad Especial de Investigación y Litigación para el caso Ayotzinapa (UEILCA), así como de la propia CIDH, y no de presentar las líneas actuales de la investigación. La comunicación, además, contuvo afirmaciones preocupantes como la minimización de los efectos perniciosos de la tortura frente a los procesos penales, que derivaron en la libertad de posibles responsables.

Los padres y madres y organizaciones acompañantes lamentaron esta respuesta ya que se da un mensaje de irrespeto a las familias y de una clara intención de eludir la supervisión internacional sobre este caso, como en otros de desaparición en México.

Asimismo, sobre el desmantelamiento de varios mecanismos establecidos para esclarecer los hechos y responsables en el caso —lo que incluye la salida de GIEI del país por falta de condiciones, la posible criminalización del ex fiscal especializado y la incertidumbre sobre el futuro de la COVAJ—, se señalaron dos razones por esos retrocesos institucionales que efectivamente han devuelto el caso al 2018: la politización de las investigación y el empoderamiento del Ejército.

Las y los comisionados señalaron la ausencia de autoridades claves, lo cual limitó la posibilidad de hacer preguntas concretas sobre dónde está hoy el caso Ayotzinapa, en las responsabilidad de preparación, no sólo de líneas de investigación, sino de acciones dirigidas para completar esas líneas, cómo se ha llevado a cabo las investigaciones de los altos mandos, el proceso de órdenes de aprehensión, el otorgamiento de medidas sustitutivas a la prisión preventiva de figuras importantes, entre otros temas.

“Los familiares de personas desaparecidas también son víctimas y llevan 9 años. Y 9 años de sufrimiento y de espera. Yo tengo que decir con mucha franqueza: una justicia que tarda no es justicia. Es una verdad que se demora, por más que hay explicaciones y valoro que den explicaciones, pero me atrevo a decir que si le preguntan a los solicitantes ‘¿qué están esperando?’, es ‘dónde están sus hijos'”, dijo la comisionada Julissa Mantilla. Al tiempo que la Comisionada Esmeralda Troitiño lamentó estar por concluir su mandato sobre México sin que el caso haya sido esclarecido.

Ante los señalamientos de los padres y madres, las organizaciones acompañantes, y ante los cuestionamientos de la Comisión Interamericana, el Estado se comprometió a dar posteriormente respuestas puntuales; mientras que las y los comisionados se comprometieron a dar seguimiento, como lo han hecho durante estos 9 años, desde que sucedieron los hechos.

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SIXTH PART: POSTSCRIPT WHO SEEKS HOPING TO FIND.

November 2023.

P.S. THAT SAYS WHAT IT SAYS. – As one of the late Sups said: “history repeats itself twice: once as a tragedy and the other time as well.” And this axiom of life comes to the point, because I received a package with a small note. No, it is not from SEGALMEX (those export, they do not import). The package has a postmark from “a distant geography”, in distant Europe. The date is blurred, but on the return address appears: “I am not Don Durito de La Lacandona, do not confuse. I’m just an AI entity.” That sentence should have been enough to put me on alert, but anyway I read the note and opened the package. The note is brief and says:

“My dear and never missed Cyrano: I will be brief and precise. I’m going over there to help you. Don’t wait for me because I’m going incognito. I still haven’t decided whether I’m dressing up as a cloud or as Bad Bunny or as Luis Miguel or as Al Pacino. In any case, something that allows me to go unnoticed, if you know what I mean. For now, and since it’s stormy, I’m sending you my latest book. That’s all. From a corner in… Slovenia?… hey, what’s the name of this place? Cyprus? Hey? I think I’m going to put “Eastern Europe”… Huh? It’s not that either? Ok, then to hell with the geography up there: “from Fuck The Cardinal Points” Known Address. Zip Code… Hey, what’s the zip code? Huh? 666? Nah, just kidding, right? Right? Can anyone out there confirm that this is a joke? Hello? Hello? Signature: Durito disguised as an AI.”

Yes I know. But believe me, when it comes to Durito, this is a brief and precise message. The book has on the cover, does anyone doubt it?, a beetle… in a tuxedo?!, and the very reassuring title «Survival Manual in the Case of World Collapse.» And, further down, “Everything you wanted to know to face the end of the world with style and elegance. Design the ideal outfit for the end of time. Be the sensation in the Apocalypse. Yessss!”

The book in question only has a blank page and a postscript lost in a corner: “LOOK FOR THE ONE WHO ALREADY LIVES THE HELL THAT AWAITS YOU ALL. SEEK THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING”.

P.S. FOR THE SEEKERS. – Before them, we only knew, for example, about the FNCR ladies. But later others appeared, it seems to me that since the six-year term of Vicente Fox. First a few and scattered throughout the geography. Then more. Then in groups. Now, in this entire clandestine graveyard called “Mexico,” they go from one place to another, looking for who they need. There is no one to help or support them. They are alone in the sense that they only have themselves. Yes, there are men too, but the majority are women. No, they are not fashionable. The disappeared do not vote, and that is what it is about. The entire electoral political spectrum, all the electoral flags, all the party acronyms, have already passed through the governments, and the profession of “SEEKER” is growing.

Years ago, in the written procedures, there was a line where “occupation” was written. Typically, women wrote “housewife,” “office worker,” “employee,” “professionist,” “student,” and so on.

The monstrosity of a system has created another occupation: that of “seeker.” Perhaps the most terrible, distressing, painful and anachronistic of all occupations.

Few things are a greater sign of the failure of a political proposal in power than the existence and growth of the SEEKER occupation.

Imagine someone interviews you: “Hey, what do you do?” She answers “I seek.” “And how much do you earn for that job?” «Nothing». “And how do you do it?” “I don’t know, but I know I have to do it. And I have to do it because she/he knows that I will not rest until I find him/her.” “Is there anything you want to tell other people?” “Yes, look at me, I am you in the future if we do nothing.” The reporter starts crying. She is still crying. What about them? Well, they keep seeking.

Meanwhile, someone in the mountains of Southeast Mexico writes:

“To the Seekers:

We had thought of organizing a meeting with you that would not be one of pain, but of joy. You know: dances, songs, poems, movies, plays, children’s drawings, things like that. Not something that relieves you or heals that wound that does not close, but just a celebration, which your fight deserves.

But a nefarious being, one of those that is never absent, wanted to turn that meeting into an electoral lever for the ill-called opposition. Calling for a “critical vote” for Bertha and that nonsense that only serves to get an opportunist into office. That’s why we haven’t done it… yet. We were not going to allow your noble efforts to be tarnished.

But we tell you here what we were going to tell you there: Don’t stop seeking. Those absent people are valuable because of the blood they inherited, which is your own. We do not know those whom you are missing, but we know you and the nobility of your struggle. Don’t give up, don’t sell out, don’t claudicate. Although the horror you face is unfashionable, your cause is just and noble. And no politician can say the same thing. Your stubborn dignity teaches and shows the way. We wish more people would look at you the way we Zapatista people see you: with admiration and respect.”

P.S.- In Gaza. – The murdered Palestinian children are not collateral victims, they are Netanyahu’s main objective, they always were. This war is not to eliminate Hamas. It’s to kill the future. Hamas will only be the collateral victim. The government of Israel has already lost the media battle, because it turns out that the genocide, although disguised as revenge, does not have as many followers as they believed. Now it is capable of the most unimaginable cruelty. The one who perhaps could stop the massacre is… the people of Israel.

Cheers and may he who seeks find.

From the mountains of the mexican southeast.

The Captain
November 2023
40, 30, 20, 10 years after.

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Convocamos a movilizarse el 13 y 14 de noviembre por la libertad de Manuel Gómez Vázquez, Base de Apoyo del EZLN privado arbitrariamente de su libertad desde hace 2 años y 11 meses por ser zapatista, acusado de un delito que no cometió a través de falsificación de pruebas.

El 14 de noviembre dará inicio la audiencia de juicio oral que derivará en próximas fechas en una sentencia, por lo que es un momento importante para hacer ver al Estado que Manuel no está sólo y seguir exigiendo su libertad.

Les invitamos a hacer visibles sus movilizaciones en redes sociales para mostrar nuestra indignación y a etiquetar las cuentas del #Frayba para poder replicar y concentrar sus acciones.

#LibertadParaManuel
#RehénDelEstado
#FabricaciónDeCulpables
#ManuelNoEstáSolo
#Chiapas
#EZLN

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Fifth Part: “Sorry for the blow, lad”

November 2023

P.S. THAT WARNS. – We were already going to tell you what this whole thing is about, but reading, seeing and listening to the string of atrocities that the «specialists» in everything and knowledgeable in nothing say and write (about supposed withdrawals, dismantlements, advances of organized crime and «returns to the past” – Coletos had to be the majority -), we decided rather to let them continue burping.

With their deep analysis and well-founded research, the zapatologists state: “an example of the Zapatista defeat is the loss of indigenous identity: young indigenous people already wear cowboy boots, instead of walking barefoot or in huaraches. And they get ready to flirt, new pants and shirt – or ironed! -, instead of wearing blanket pants and buying their wives according to indigenous uses and customs. And they ride motorcycles, instead of carrying their women coletas bosses on their backs. The only thing left is for young indigenous women to wear pants or, what a horror!, play soccer and drive vehicles, instead of serving the coleta ladies. They even dare to dance cumbias and ska instead of Bolonchon, and sing rap and hiphop instead of psalms and odes to the landowners. And, as another sign of the loss of their indigenous identity, they even pretend the absurdity of being subcommanders, commanders, and women commanders! And pretend to govern themselves. And they don’t ask permission to be however they want to be. And they travel and get to know other lands. And they work and earn their pay without a ‘tienda de raya’. And they do not have them in concentration camps, like in Gaza, so that they do not pick up “Sinaloa” ideas, that is, foreign ones – because the mayo-yoreme in Sinaloa, are all about narcocorridos, my man –. Because of Zapatismo, we anthropologists will no longer have any jobs. What a shame. And all because they did not follow the revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat or MORENA, same thing. A serious mistake of Zapatismo not to obey us. Because today, the indigenous people no longer look down when you bump into them. They look at you with irreverence, with defiance, with rage, as if we were the intruders and not them, as if we were the criminals and not them. Before, only the Zapatistas did that, now any ‘Chamulita’ stands up to you. And, as Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism-Maoism-Trotskyism-all-isms say, any indigenous person who is not like the anthropology manual says is a narco.”

We know for sure that, later, when the full meaning of this stage is known, they will have the minimum of honesty to say and publish: “We do not have the slightest idea of ​​what they did, what they do or what they will do. The best thing would have been to ask the Zapatistas and not the anti-Zapatistas.” Or are they not honest?

Tell those “journalists” that it is always better, although more uncomfortable and not profitable, to interview the actors, not the spectators, ‘villa melones’ and lazy paramilitaries. Investigative journalism is a professional job that often requires risks and discomfort. But, don’t worry, we understand that everyone looks for a living the best way they can.

So, as a greeting to the “zapatologists”, we continue with these P.S. made with love:

P.S. OF THE CAPTAINTY OF PUERTO DE MONTAÑA. – We had prepared a series of clever phrases to make fun of the political class as a whole (government and opposition), but now we think that there is no point, since each flock has its shepherd or each shepherd has its flock. Or does someone naively believe that the matter is between two shepherdesses?

Our silence in these years was not, nor is, a sign of respect or endorsement of anything, but rather that we strive to see further and seek what everyone, men, women and ‘otroas’, is looking for: a way out of the nightmare. While you learn, from subsequent writings, what we have been doing, perhaps you will understand that our attention has been elsewhere.

But we understand that more than one suffers from what we Zapatistas call a “theoretical torticollis” which is caused by looking up, too much, and affects good judgment, common sense, decency and honesty – in addition to being addictive and creating chronic dependency. We understand the limitations of your horizons of analysis. One thing is the desk, the academy, the journalistic column, the commissioned report, the government position, the revolutionary coffee gossip or social networks, and another thing is reality.

The latter not only does not pay, but it also charges very expensively. Shakira has already said it: ‘la realidad factura’ (reality costs), and it does not include VAT. Sorry.

We will not make firewood out of the fallen trees up there. Reality, that implacable fool, will do its thing and the last splinters will be those that organized crime takes from the “cobro de piso” in the proposals of each of them.

Some masturbate with the ‘mañanera’ (morning presidential conference). Others with destruction, deaths, murders, rapes, disappearances, hunger, war, diseases, pain and sorrow. None of them have a viable and serious political proposal, they just entertain… until they don’t anymore.

And, since we are talking about autoeroticism: given the choice between Bertha and Claudia, well, Wendy.

-*-

Okay, cheers and now what am I going to do with my costume to dance corridos tumbados? “Compa, que le parece esa gorra?”… What? That’s not the way it goes? Don’t I tell you? It is the loss of indigenous identity. I hope anthropologists arrive soon to save us.

From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.

The Captain

(Looking very handsome with his cowboy hat, not for bragging. Ajúa my people!)

Mexico 40, 30, 20, 10 years after

P.S. «CONTEXTUAL». – Televisa being Televisa and anthropologists being anthropologists:

https://www.nmas.com.mx/noticieros/programas/en-punto/videos/ezln-cierra-caracoles-avance-crimen-organizado/

Listen to Episode 1 and Episode 2.

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Patricia es integrante de la coalición indígena de migrantes de Chiapas que viajó en autobús de San Cristóbal de Las Casas a la Ciudad de México el 6 de noviembre, para acompañar un caso de defensa de derechos humanos. La última comunicación fue a media noche, donde avisa que “el viaje va bien”. No llegó a su destino en la Ciudad de México y, desafortunadamente, no se tiene noticias de ella desde entonces.

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