CNI
Invitation to the Fifth National Assembly of the National Indigenous Congress
INVITATION TO THE
FIFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS
The indigenous peoples, nations, tribes and neighborhoods that make up the National Indigenous Congress, the Indigenous Governing Council, and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, in the face of the disease which affects our Mother Earth and is expressed as a serious pandemic and which has dealt a blow to the life and economy of our communities and the entire world, hear ourselves in the voice of the originary peoples who cry out from the geographies where they resist and struggle against the capitalist war that tries to take over indigenous and rural territories. This war is waged through aggressive extractivist policies across the whole national territory as well as through megaprojects of death: the Interoceanic Highway in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, the Integral Project for Morelos in the states of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala, the Mayan Train in the states of the Mexican Southeast, and the Mexico City International Airport in the center of the country. It operates through the implementation of a combination of policies and mechanisms for the continuation of “free trade” subordinated to the United States and Canada, policies which are also aimed at containing migration. It seeks to stop or debilitate the organization and resistance of our peoples by supplanting our traditional authorities and holding staged indigenous consultations.
These policies and megaprojects are driven by the neoliberal government of the Fourth Transformation[1] in the service of global capital and against the autonomous organization of our peoples. All the above is being achieved through the militarization of the country (through creation and deployment of the National Guard and the militarization of the entire national territory), the complicity of the criminal cartel-states, the creation of programs that try to rupture communal organization, as is the case with Sembrando Vida[2], and the passage of laws favorable to large transnational business consortia, such as the Federal Law for the Promotion and Protection of Native Corn.
The CNI and CIG together with the Zapatista communities, acting as a congress when we are together and a network when we are apart, are that collective word that we make our own: we weave ourselves together in and through this word, determined that our resistance grow as large as the capitalist threat to life.
For our peoples there is no option to give in, give up, or sell out, when it’s Mother Earth and life itself that the governments, businesses, militaries and drug cartels want to take as spoils of war.
WHEREAS:
- There is an intensification of the repression, threats, formation of shock troops and criminalization of communities that resist the Integrated Project for Morelos, which the bad federal government decided to impose illegally with the use of its armed shock troops called the National Guard; nevertheless, the heroic legacy of Samir Flores Soberanes is kept alive by the sisters and brothers of the Popular Front in Defense of Land and Water in Morelos, Puebla, and Tlaxcala, who don’t give in, give up, or sell out.
- The war is escalating against the autonomous and originary communities of the CNI in the state of Chiapas. Meanwhile the governments guarantee impunity for the paramilitary groups they finance and which attack the towns and their sister communities day and night.
- The bad federal government, together with its armed forces, is spreading fear and terror in shameless alliance with shadowy economic interests that intend to take over the territories of indigenous peoples and peasants. It cynically violates laws, court rulings, and court-ordered suspensions in order to impose its megaprojects that hand over the national territory to transnational economic interests.
- Resistance and rebellion are growing in the geographies of the originary peoples as dispossession and violent repression grow, perpetrated by the bad government at all levels together with paramilitary and narco-paramilitary groups that make possible their extractive and polluting projects. In the big cities, too, our peoples are resisting as demonstrated by the Otomí community in Mexico City.
- As originary peoples, from the struggles that we are, we see that sparks of hope are igniting against this war which is the same around the world, and from distant geographies we turn toward each other, toward the struggle for life, which forms a language through which we recognize one another.
- The EZLN has issued a convocation to begin a world tour in April of 2021, starting in Europe, and the CNI is invited to form a delegation to accompany this journey and bring our collective word.
WE INVITE the delegates and councilmembers of the CNI-CIG to the:
FIFTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS AND THE INDIGENOUS GOVERNING COUNCIL
To take place in
LA QUINTA PIEDRA, RECUPERATED TERRITORY OF THE NAHUA COMMUNITY OF THE TEPOZTLÁN EJIDO, MORELOS
23-24 JANUARY, 2021
With the following program:
23 January:
Inauguration
Working groups:
- Assessment of the dispossession and the capitalist war being waged against our peoples
- Proposal for the participation of a delegation from the CNI-CIG in the Zapatista world tour
24 January:
Open Plenary:
- Conclusion of working groups
- Agreements and resolutions
- Public communiqué
- Closing
Note 1: Given the current health circumstances we invite each town, community or indigenous organization, whichever applies, to nominate one or two delegates, with the goal of having an assembly that is widely representative while being smaller in numbers. Those who attend should comply with the measures of wearing a face mask, maintaining a safe distance and frequently washing their hands and face as well as any measures implemented during the meeting.
Note 2: Persons who are not delegates or councilmembers of the CNI/CIG will only be allowed to attend the assembly with an express invitation from the Coordinating and Monitoring Commission.
Sincerely,
December, 2020
For the Full Reconstitution of Our Peoples
Never Again a Mexico Without Us
National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council
Zapatista Army for National Liberation
[1] The López Obrador campaign deemed its governing project the “Fourth Transformation” (4T), supposedly on par with historic events such as Mexican Independence (1810), a period of reform in the mid-19th century, and the Mexican Revolution (1910).
[2] Sembrando Vida (Sowing the Seeds of Life) is a government program developed under the López Obrador administration that claims to create jobs in local communities through the planting of trees.
(Español) CIPOG-EZ continúa las movilizaciones de solidaridad con el Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y el Agua de Morelos, Puebla y Tlaxcala con el EZLN y exigimos justicia para nuestros muertos
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 las mujeres que luchan
A la sexta nacional e internacional
A las redes de apoyo al CNI-CIG
Las mujeres, hombres, niñas, niños, abuelas y abuelos de las comunidades indígenas; Na Savi, Me´pháá, Nahua, Ñamnkué, Mestizas y Afro mexicanas del estado de Guerrero, que estamos organizados en nuestro Concejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata(CIPOG-EZ), y somos parte del Congreso Nacional Indígena y el Concejo Indígena de Gobierno (CNI-CIG) en conjunto con nuestros pueblos hermanos de la Organización Campesina de la Sierra del Sur (O.C.S.S.).
Continuamos hoy 1 de diciembre del 2020 las movilizaciones en solidaridad con nuestras hermanas y hermanos del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y el Agua de Morelos, Puebla y Tlaxcala. No podemos tolerar que en nombre del «progreso» de la autoproclamada 4T pasen por encima de la ley, pase por encima de la dignidad y de la vida de nuestros hermanos y hermanas Nahua. Y seguimos realizando bloqueos y movilizaciones, porque vemos que los medios de comunicación, solo guardan silencio cuando se violentan los derechos de los pueblos, y guardan esas noticias para los espacios que no se ven, que no se leen o ni siquiera las cubren.
Volvió el silencio cuando reclamamos nuestros derechos, está volviendo ese México que prefiere voltear la cara para no ver los cadáveres de los indios muertos, para no ver las imágenes de dolor de tantas familias desplazadas. Volvieron los intelectuales que dicen que no sabemos, que no entendemos, que este si es «progreso» de a deberás, que nos están manipulando. Pero nosotros vemos las cosas muy diferentes, vemos como AMLO mintió descaradamente y dijo una cosa e hizo otra cosa aquí y allá.
Vemos como le siguen echando bala, como los siguen hostigando y sigue la violencia cada vez más fuerte contra nuestros hermanos y hermanas de diferentes comunidades en Chiapas, comunidades atacadas del CNI-CIG, vemos como se continua la guerra contra las bases de apoyo Zapatista y vemos como siguen impunes los paramilitares. Y vemos como los malos gobiernos federal y estatal hacen como que no pasa nada, voltean a mirar a otro lado, se van a cenar con grandes empresarios a los que por cierto antes les llamaba mafia.
Y aquí en Guerrero la cosa va peor, ya que logramos romper el cerco narco-paramilitar como CIPOG-EZ, hemos platicado en colectivo con las comunidades que durante más de un año han estado cercadas por «Los Ardillos» un grupo narco-paramilitar que goza de la impunidad de los tres niveles de gobierno en México. Hay mucho miedo, dolor, rabia e indignación.
Nos contaron como llego hasta acá llego Alejandro Encinas enviado por López Obrador en Enero del 2020 para ofrecer migajas y comprar conciencias, para tratar de tapar la barbarie de los 18 asesinatos de nuestras bases, promotores, promotoras y concejales del CNI-CIG a manos de «Los Ardillos». Pero no llego la justicia, no les importo y no les importa la vida de nosotros como pueblos, solo vinieron para ver qué tanta fuerza teníamos, y a quien podían comprar y a quien podían callar y medir si el impacto afectaría su 4T. Solo a eso viniste Encinas, la justicia no te acompaña, solo tus cálculos políticos. No vemos una 4T, vemos un nuevo PRI.
Por eso has negado una y otra vez las medidas cautelares para los promotores del CIPOG-EZ por qué quieres vernos muertos, quieres que no estorbemos y que no se denuncie la barbarie, la tortura, la violencia, el terror, y la complicidad del Estado. Pero los pueblos supieron reorganizarse, y están con todas sus fuerzas venciendo el miedo y el terror. Les pedimos a nuestras hermanas y hermanos que nunca nos han dejado solos, que estén atentos, que estén alerta, ya comienzan a llegar nuevamente las amenazas a nuestras vidas, por romper el cerco, por denunciar la complicidad gubernamental, pero sobre todo por atrevernos a luchar por nuestra libertad, dignidad, justicia y democracia.
ATENTAMENTE:
Consejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata(CIPOG-EZ)
Regiones: Costa Chica, Costa Montaña, Montaña Alta y Montaña Baja de Guerrero,
Organización Campesina de la Sierra del Sur (O.C.S.S.).
¡Alto a la Guerra paramilitar contra las comunidades Zapatistas del EZLN!
¡Alto a la Guerra narco-paramilitar contra las comunidades indígenas del CNI-CIG!
¡Justicia para todos nuestros presos, asesinados y desaparecidos del CNI-CIG!
¡Nunca más un México sin nosotros y nosotras!
O.C.S.S.



