Oaxaca
Communique from the CNI-CIG and the EZLN in Response to the Recent Violence Against Originary Peoples
Communique from the CNI-CIG and the EZLN in Response to the Recent Violence Against Originary Peoples
To the peoples of the world:
To the CIG support networks:
To the national and international Sixth:
To the media:
Neoliberal capitalism is marking its steps with the blood of our peoples as war is intensified against us wherever we refuse to cede our land, our culture, our peace and our collective organization, and because we refuse to give up our resistance or resign ourselves to dying off.
We denounce the cowardly attack on May 31 against the indigenous Nahua community of Zacualpan, which is part of the CNI, in the municipality of Comala, Colima, where narco-paramilitaries fired high-caliber weapons at a group of young people, killing one and critically injuring three more.
We hold all three levels of bad government responsible for this event, in particular the head of public security, Javier Montes García, as it is the bad government that allows these narco-paramilitary groups to operate in the region. We demand full respect for the traditions and customs of the Nahua indigenous community of Zacualpan.
We condemn the aggression and destruction carried out in the early morning hours of May 31 against the Rebollero and Río Minas communities, part of the Binizza community of San Pablo Cuatro Venados in the municipality of Zachila, Oaxaca. There, a group armed with high-caliber weapons and heavy equipment came in firing on the community, destroying dozens of homes and forcing the population, including children, to flee. In all, 24 homes were demolished in the attack and the communities’ corn and other food supplies set on fire, including seeds saved for planting. The group also burned the families’ personal items such as clothing and shoes and stole their livestock, power generators, and water pumps.
We condemn the repression and displacement of our compañeros and compañeras of the Otomí indigenous community who have maintained a temporary encampment at #7 Londres Street in the Juárez neighborhood in Mexico City since the September 19, 2017 earthquake. At 11 am on May 30, they were violently evicted by shock troops sent by the bad government and real estate companies, working alongside hundreds of riot police at the service of Néstor Núñez, mayor of the Cuauhtémoc district.
We condemn the narco-paramilitary siege sustained by criminal groups—supported and protected by the bad government and all of the political parties—against the communities of the Emiliano Zapata Popular Indigenous Council of Guerrero (CIPOG-EZ) in the municipalities of Chilapa and José Joaquín de Herrera, who struggle peacefully to build their autonomy.
We call on all the peoples of Mexico and the world to be attentive to and in solidarity with the struggle of the Guerrero communities and to break the violent siege against them which limits their access to food and medicine and is waged in the interests of the capitalist appropriation of indigenous territory. We urge support for the collection of provisions to be sent to the affected communities, including corn, rice, beans, canned chili peppers, sugar, sardines, tuna, toilet paper, diapers, and medicine, to be collected at the UNIOS headquarters in Mexico City, #32 Carmona y Valle Street, Colonia Doctores.
We reiterate that our Mother Earth is not for sale to big capital or to anybody, that our existence is not up for negotiation and thus neither is the resistance of our peoples.
Attentively,
June 2019
For the Full Reconstitution of our Peoples
Never Again a Mexico Without Us
National Indigenous Congress
Indigenous Governing Council
Zapatista Army for National Liberation
(Español) Frente a intentos de consulta, defender el territorio
Por Josefa Sánchez Contreras
Con pocos días de anticipación salió a la luz pública la convocatoria para las Asambleas Regionales Consultivas sobre la creación del “Programa de Desarrollo del Istmo de Tehuantepec” para ejecutarse los días 30 y 31 de marzo.
Las sedes anunciadas pretendieron abarcar a los pueblos indígenas de la región del Istmo: en el estado de Oaxaca, los zapotecos en Santiago Laollaga; los mixes, chinantecos y mazatecos en Jaltepec de Candoyoc, los ikoots en San Mateo del Mar, los Chontales en San Pedro Huamelula y los zoques en Santa María Chimalapa. En Veracruz, se contempló a los mixes, mixtecos, nahuas, afromexicanos y popolucas en la sede de Oteapan; finalmente, los chinantecos, zoques, zapotecos y totonaco en Uxpanapa.
Dicha convocatoria fue expedida por el gobierno mexicano mediante el Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (INPI) y la Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP). La materia a consultar, según apunta su documento oficial era:
La creación del “Programa de Desarrollo del Istmo de Tehuantepec” en los aspectos que tienen una relación directa con los pueblos y comunidades indígenas consultadas, de manera particular, la rehabilitación / reconstrucción del Tren transístmico.
Desde el anuncio de la consulta, ésta despertó posicionamientos por parte de pueblos y organizaciones. La Red de Defensoras y Defensores Comunitarios de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (Redecom) emitió un comunicado en el que señaló que “la urgencia con la que actúan las autoridades federales, al organizar los foros de consulta, da la impresión de ser una simulación”. El Congreso Nacional Indígena, el Concejo Indígena de Gobierno y el Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, por su parte, en un comunicado conjunto “rechazaron y desconocieron cualquier simulación que se proponga la imposición de mega proyectos de muerte”.
El 29 de marzo los pueblos ikoots se reunieron en San Mateo del Mar, presididos por el presidente de bienes comunales, el Alcalde Único Constitucional y la Organización Monapäkuy. Allí, en pleno ejercicio de su derecho al territorio y la libre determinación, los pueblos de San Dionisio del Mar, San Francisco del Mar, Álvaro Obregón, la Asamblea de Pueblos Indígenas del Istmo de Tehuantepec (APIIT), la Unión de Comunidades Indígenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo (UCIZONI) y el Centro de Derechos Humanos Tepeyac consensaron: No a la consulta simulada. En dicha reunión levantaron un acta donde exigieron al INPI y a la SHCP la suspensión de la consulta y manifestaron su disposición al diálogo.
No transcurrieron ni 24 horas y, al día siguiente, se hizo oficial el cambio de sede para consultar al pueblo ikoots en la Ciudad de Salina Cruz. Ante ello, desde San Mateo del Mar los ikoots emitieron un manifiesto que apuntó agudamente
