Joint CNI and EZLN-CG communiqué on the attack by federal forces against the indigenous community of Santa María Ostula

To the Nahua Indigenous Community of Santa María Ostula, Aquila, Michoacán:
To the National and International Sixth:
To the people of Mexico and the World:
July 21, 2015
Given the violent events perpetrated against the indigenous community of Santa María Ostula on July 19, 2015, by a large commando made up of members of the Federal Preventative Police, the Secretary of National Defense, and the Secretary of the Navy in which Ostula community police commander Cemeí Verdía Zepeda was detained, in which federal soldiers murdered, WITH A BULLET TO THE FACE, THE 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD EDILBERTO REYES GARCÍA, and in which the following people were injured: the child Yeimi Nataly Pineda Reyes, 6-years-old; Edith Balbino Vera; Delfino Antonio Alejo Ramos, 17-years-old; Horacio Valladares Manuel, 32-years-old; José Nicodemos Macías Zambrano, 21-years-old; and Melesio Cristino Dirzio, 60-years-old…
WE DENOUNCE:
The criminal behavior of the above listed military and police bodies and their complicity with organized crime, in this case the Knights Templar, enacted in order to escalate the war of conquest that has been waged for years now against the Nahua indigenous community of Santa María Ostula. The goal of this war of conquest is to occupy the community’s territories in favor of mining and transnational tourist interests, and to punish this community for having dared to take back the land from which they had been displaced and for having defended themselves—by putting into practice their right to live—from organized crime, which today serves as the paramilitary branch of the Mexican State.
Los zapatistas no están solos.
Tras las agresiones a las bases de apoyo Zapatistas, Adherentes a La Sexta , integrantes de la Red contra la Represión y alumnos de la escuelita zapatista, se manifestaron con pintas y quema de basura electoral frente a las oficinas del Partido Verde Ecologista ( PVEM) en el D.F. para responsabilizar a Manuel Velazco Coello (Gobernador del Estado de Chiapas y miembro del PVEM) por las agresiones sufridas, y para mostrar la solidaridad con las comunidades zapatistas ante posibles futuras agresiones, pues se teme que en el marco de las próximas elecciones en Chiapas , se desate la violencia contra aquellos que no contemplan la partidocracia como opción .
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Por lo anterior, individuos y colectivos simpatizantes, hacen un llamado a estar pendientes y solidarios con las comunidades zapatistas y a realizar una jornada global del 11 al 19 de Julio denominada “Los pueblos zapatistas no están solos”.
México D.F 8 de Julio 2015.





























