justicia
Message from the Zapatista Army for National Liberation on the 100th Anniversary of the Assassination of General Emiliano Zapata
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO
April 2019
To the family and friends of Samir Flores Soberanes:
To the Assembly of the Amilcingo Resistance:
To the Morelos-Puebla-Tlaxcala People’s Front in Defense of the Land and Water:
To the National Indigenous Congress:
To the Indigenous Governing Council:
To the National and International Sixth:
To the CIG Support Networks and the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion:
To all those who struggle against the capitalist system:
Sisters and brothers:
Compañeros and compañeras:
This is Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, writing you on behalf of all of the Zapatista women, men, children, and elders. It is my job, as EZLN spokesperson, to communicate our collective word.
We also send you our collective embrace from the mountains of the Mexican southeast to the dignified lands of Emiliano Zapata and his successors in struggle—like Samir Flores Soberanes, our brother and compañero in the struggle to defend life. That embrace comes from all of the Tzotzil, Chol, Tojolabal, Zoque, Mame, Mestizo, and Tzeltal Zapatista peoples. Brothers and sisters, accept this embrace from all of the Zapatistas of the EZLN as a symbol of our respect and admiration.
We aren’t able to be present there with you as we would have liked, for the simple reason that the bad government has increased its military, police, and paramilitary presence in our lands, as well as its use of spies and informants. Flyovers by military planes and helicopters and armored vehicle patrols have once again reappeared here, just as during the presidencies of Carlos Salinas de Gortari [1988-1994], of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León [1994-2000] (political mentor of the current president), of Vicente Fox Quesada [2000-2006] after the betrayal of the San Andrés Accords, of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (that psychopath), and of that pompadoured thief in a suit and tie named Enrique Peña Nieto, but now with greater frequency and aggression.
Those patrols and flyovers are not monitoring the narco-trafficking routes, nor the routes of those exhausted caravans of our migrant brothers and sisters who are fleeing one unrecognized war to enter another, the latter hidden behind that yammering bully who occupies the [US] presidency. No, this death threat passes by air and by land through the indigenous communities who have decided to maintain their resistance and rebellion in defense of the land, and thus in defense of life.
(Español) Un país sano y digno, lo hacemos nosotros mismos los pueblos, nunca vendrá una transformación social de un gobierno que no respeta el modo de vida y organización de los pueblos.
Al Congreso Nacional Indígena
Al Concejo Indígena de Gobierno
A las y los defensores de los derechos humanos
A los medios libres y alternativos
A los medios de comunicación nacional e internacional
A la Sociedad Civil Nacional e Internacional
Hermanas y hermanos:
Nuevamente las víctimas y sobrevivientes de la masacre de Acteal, nos encontramos en la Tierra Sagrada, para honrar su memoria y demandar justicia para nuestros 45 hermanas y hermanos y más los 4 bebés no nacidos, quienes cayeron a mano de los paramilitares priistas y cardenistas de Chenalhó, por órdenes de los tres niveles de gobierno priista, el 22 de diciembre de 1997.
En el marco del Día Internacional del Derecho a la Verdad en relación con Violaciones Graves de los Derechos Humanos y de la Dignidad de las Víctimas, denunciamos que la masacre de Acteal sigue impune, llevamos más de 21 año sin conocer la verdad, ya hasta la fecha no ha habido voluntad política de garantizar la no repetición de hechos como el de Acteal, al contrario, se siguen asesinando a defensores de derechos humanos y criminalizando la protesta social.
En este Día Internacional del Derecho a la Verdad, volvemos a insistir a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), que ya emita el informe de fondo, lo más pronto posible. Consideramos que una justicia verdadera y digna a la masacre de Acteal, puede dar pie a que otros crímenes cometidos por los gobiernos priistas y panistas, también consigan verdad y justicia.
