Tlatelolco, June 10, Aguas Blancas, Acteal, Atenco, ABC Nursery, Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa; An accumulation of violence, murders, and disappearances has raised the anger that flows through the veins of the mourning mothers, siblings, and friends who have lost their partners, their friends, their children. The most affected are no longer afraid. And you?
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En México, los fuegos arden, tanto literal como metafóricamente. Esto pasa porque miles de jóvenes sienten una acalorada indignación contra su corrupto gobierno, cómo se demostró en la resistencia que incluye la quema de edificios del gobierno el 13 de octubre en Chilpancingo, la capital del estado de Guerrero, México
¿Por qué les prendieron fuego? Los manifestantes estaban marcando el plazo no cumplido para que los oficiales del gobierno presentaran con vida a 43 estudiantes detenidos y desaparecidos por un grupo de policías corruptos.
To the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla
To the National and International Sixth
To the Peoples of the World
Today once again, our brothers and sisters of the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla have defended their territory against the destruction and voracious ambition of those above who want to impose their highway project at any cost and in violation of Mexican and international law.
Not content with having laid waste to the forests, the bad governments of Enrique Peña Nieto and Eruviel Ávila Villegas have kidnapped our sisters Felipa Gutiérrez Petra (67 years old), Rosa Saavedra Mendoza (54 years old), and Francisca Reyes Flores (28 years old), and our brothers Armando García Salazar (50 years old), Venancio Hernández Ramírez (57 years old), Domingo Hernández Ramírez (57 years old), Mauricio Reyes Flores (28 years old) and Jerónimo Flores Arcelino (73 years old).
We warn those above, in case they have forgotten, that as peoples and communities who have walked a long journey of resistance in defense of what we are, what we were, and what we will be, we will not tire of planting rebellion where they cut the flowers, oaks, and firs; we will not tire of building resistance where they impose the machinery of destruction.
To the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla
To the Yaqui Tribe
To the National and International Sixth
To the Peoples of the World
Once more we express our pain and rage as the peoples in rebellion and resistance who make up the National Indigenous Congress. We unite our voices, our rage, and our pain in response to what is happening in the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla and to the members of the Yaqui Tribe who are defending their water source.
Our brothers and sisters of Xochicuautla have defended their forests against the construction of the private highway between Toluca and Naucalpan, because they know that life itself emerges from these trees, mountains, and waters. They were granted legal protection prohibiting this work on communal lands, but since October 8 of this year, workers from the construction company under the protection of public “Citizen Security” Forces of the State of Mexico have been invading their lands and cutting down hundreds of trees. The bad government doesn’t care if we below use their laws to defend ourselves; they break those laws themselves in order to destroy us. They made them for the same reason.
San Cristóbal de las Casas. 22 de octubre de 2014.
Hoy Guerrero y Sonora brillan en Chiapas, en sus caminos nublados, en sus veredas y brechas lodosas. Miles de mujeres y hombres bases de apoyo del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional se unen a la jornada global de protestas “Una luz por Ayotzinapa”, refrendando su solidaridad con las familias de los estudiantes de la Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos y con los presos políticos de la Tribu Yaqui. Para ello, se colocan cuando atardece a la orilla de decenas de caminos mojados que conducen a sus comunidades autónomas. Llevan en sus manos una luz encendida que luego clavan en la tierra cuando no llueve tanto, o mantas que exigen “presentación con vida de los 43 alumnos desaparecidos”, “castigos a los responsables de asesinatos y desaparición forzada”, así como “libertad incondicional para los hermanos yaquis Mario Luna Romero y Fernando Jiménez Gutiérrez”. Se congregan en las inmediaciones de sus comunidades y sus caracoles porque, a casi un mes de la barbarie policiaca en Iguala, 43 estudiantes siguen desaparecidos mientras nadie responde por los 25 heridos, por el cerebro en coma del joven Aldo Gutiérrez Solano, por el rostro baleado a quemaboca de Édgar Andrés Vargas, por el cuerpo desollado de Julio César Mondragón ni por otras 5 personas asesinadas el 26 de septiembre.
In a conference a few days ago at Rincón Zapatista in Mexico City, journalist John Gibler shared the testimonies collected in his visit to the Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos school in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. Based on interviews and testimonies by witnesses, relatives, and friends of the dissappeared students, Gibler reconstructs these youths’ profile and shares a detailed chronicle of the attack against them on the night of September 26 in Iguala, Guerrero.
Por Koman Ilel
El pasado 28 de septiembre estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos, mejor conocida como Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, fueron perseguidos y atacados por elementos de la policía municipal y sicarios del cártel Guerreros Unidos, en la ciudad de Iguala, dejando el escalofriante saldo de 3 muertos, 13 heridos y 43 desaparecidos. Esta escuela normal es de gran tradición de lucha, siendo en la que se formaron los guerrilleros de los años 70, Lucio Cabañas Barrientos y Genaro Vázquez Rojas, y donde ha existido un fuerte movimiento estudiantil, que desde hace tiempo ha sido objeto de persecución y represión.
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