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Por Sare Frabes

^{David Hernández Salazar durante Asamblea del Congreso Nacional Indígena en marzo, 2023. Foto: Aldo Santiago}

La Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transporte inició una denuncia penal por el delito de ataque a las vías de comunicación contra el indígena binnizá, David Hernández Salazar, quien lucha contra la construcción de un parque industrial del Corredor Interoceánico en su comunidad Puente Madera, municipio de San Blas Atempa, en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. La notificación ocurrió el 18 de octubre de 2023.

La denuncia fue interpuesta ante la Fiscalía General de la República por la representación legal de la Secretaría. En dicha notificación requieren la comparecencia del defensor de derechos humanos para el desahogo de la audiencia inicial el día 1 de diciembre de 2023. Hasta el momento, el defensor y sus representantes legales no tuvieron mas información sobre los hechos a los que se refiere la denuncia, informan las organizaciones de derechos humanos Front Line Defenders y la RED TDT.

Salazar, que hace parte de la Asamblea de los Pueblos Indígenas del Istmo en Defensa de la Tierra y el Territorio (APIIDTT), enfrenta otra denuncia penal por parte del Municipio de San Blas Atempa y por particulares. La denuncia se encuentra en la Vicefiscalía Regional del Istmo ubicada en Tehuantepec.

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Por Sare Frabes

^{En marzo del 2022, miles de zapatistas se movilizaron simultáneamente en cinco municipios de Chiapas para protestar contra todas las guerras. Foto: Tercios compas / Enlace Zapatista}

El pasado domingo (5), el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN), a través del cuarto comunicado difundido durante el último mes, tras meses sin declaraciones oficiales, anunció la desaparición de los Municipios Autónomos Rebeldes Zapatistas (MAREZ), así como las Juntas de Buen Gobierno (JBG).

El documento, firmado por el Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, afirma que la decisión de los pueblos zapatistas se “realiza después de un largo y profundo análisis crítico y autocrítico”, así como tras consultar a las comunidades autónomas de Chiapas.

En consecuencia, el EZLN comunicó la invalidez de todos los sellos, membretes, cargos, representaciones y futuros acuerdos con cualquier MAREZ o JBG; los acuerdos sostenidos antes de esta fecha se mantendrán hasta el final de su vigencia . También compartieron que los Caracoles permanecerán cerrados al exterior hasta nuevo aviso.

“Las razones y el proceso por el que se tomó esta decisión se las iremos platicando poco a poco en los escritos siguientes. Sólo les adelanto que esta valoración, en su fase final, se inició hace unos 3 años. También les iremos explicando cómo es y cómo se ha ido gestando la nueva estructura de la autonomía zapatista”, contextualiza el vocero zapatista.

Chiapas: completo caos

El vocero zapatista detalla que las principales ciudades de Chiapas viven “en un completo caos. Las presidencias municipales están ocupadas por lo que nosotros llamamos ‘sicarios legales’ o ‘Crimen Desorganizado’. Hay bloqueos, asaltos, secuestros, cobro de piso, reclutamiento forzado, balaceras. Esto es efecto del padrinazgo del gobierno del estado y la disputa por los cargos que está en proceso. No son propuestas políticas las que se enfrentan, sino sociedades criminales”, asevera el comunicado.

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Fourth Part and First Approach Alert.
Several Necessary Deaths.
November 2023

To the people who subscribe the Declaration for Life:

We inform you of the following:

FIRST. – A few months ago, after a long and profound critical and self-critical analysis, and after consulting all the Zapatista towns, it was decided to disappear the Zapatista Rebel Autonomous Municipalities (MAREZ) and the Good Government Juntas.

SECOND. – All seals, letterheads, positions, representations and agreements with the name of any MAREZ or any of the Good Government Juntas are invalid from this moment on. No person can present themselves as a member, authority or representative of any MAREZ or Good Government Junta. The agreements held before this date, with Non-Governmental Organizations, social organizations, collectives, solidarity groups and instances in Mexico and the world are maintained until their expiration, but new agreements cannot be made with these bodies of Zapatista autonomy, for the simple reason that they no longer exist.

THIRD. – The Caracoles remain, but they will remain closed to the outside world until further notice.

FOURTH. – We will tell you the reasons and process by which this decision was made little by little in the following texts. I can only tell you that this evaluation, in its final phase, began about 3 years ago. We will also explain to you what the new structure of Zapatista autonomy is like and how it has been developing.

All that, and more things, will appear at the right time.

FIFTH. – We inform you that we will hold a celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion. This, in the months of December 2023 and January 2024. All people who signed the “Declaration for Life” are invited.

However, it is our duty, while inviting you, to discourage you. Contrary to what the official press, self-proclaimed cool-progre-chill, reports and misinforms, the main cities of the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas are in complete chaos. The municipal presidencies are occupied by what we call “legal hitmen” or “Disorganized Crime.” There are blockades, assaults, kidnappings, “cobro de piso”, forced recruitment, shootings. This is the effect of the protection of the state government and the dispute over the political charges that is in process. What is being confronted are not political proposals, but rather criminal societies.

So, of course we tell you that, unlike other years, it is not safe.

San Cristóbal de las Casas, Comitán, Las Margaritas and Palenque, to mention some municipal seats, are in the hands of one of the disorganized crime cartels and in dispute with another. This is confirmed by the so-called hotel, tourism, restaurant and service industries. Those who work in these places know this and have not reported it because they are threatened and, furthermore, because they know that any request is useless, because the state and municipal authorities are the ones who commit crimes and know no limit in the robbery they are doing.

In rural communities the problem is even more serious. This is what is being shouted by those who live in all the regions of Chiapas, particularly in the entire border strip with Guatemala.

What is read, heard and seen in the majority of local and national media is just a bad and shameless echo of the state government’s social networks. The truth is that the official authorities are the problem. Yes, like in the rest of the country.

Federal, state and local military and police forces are not in Chiapas to protect the civilian population. They have the sole purpose of stopping migration. That is the order that came from the North American government. As is their way, they have turned migration into a business. Human trafficking is a business of the authorities who, through extortion, kidnapping and buying and selling of migrants, shamelessly enrich themselves.

So, we do not advise you to come. Unless, of course, you organize yourselves very well to do so.

So, although we are not waiting for you, we are inviting you. The tentative dates of the commemorations are between December 23, 2023 and January 7, 2024, the central celebration being December 30-31 and January 1-2. We will tell you the place afterwards. That is to say, we do want you to come, although we don’t recommend it.

Even if you don’t arrive, don’t worry. We will still send you photos and videos.

Well, that is if there still is a world in those dates, anyway.

See it for yourselves.

From the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés
Mexico, November 2023.

Third Part: Deni

The late SupMarcos said that the reasons for the uprising could not be understood without first knowing the story of Paticha, the girl under 5 years old who died in his arms due to lack of a fever pill. I now tell you that you will not be able to understand what Insurgent Subcommander Moisés will later explain to you in detail if you do not know the history of Deni.

Dení is an indigenous girl, of Mayan blood and Mayan roots. She is the daughter of an “insurgenta” and an “insurgente” indigenous Zapatistas. When she was born, about 5 years ago, they gave her that name to honor the memory of a woman comrade who died many years ago.

The late SupGaleano met Dení when she was a Patz. In other words, a tamalito, because of how fat she was. In fact, that’s what the Sup called her: “Patz.” Now she is skinny, because she walks from one place to another. When the insurgents meet to do a job, Dení begins, according to her, to give them autonomous health classes. And she draws some doodles that, as she later explained, are health promoters. She says that female promoters are better because from time to time, men do not understand “as women that we are.” She firmly posits that, to be a health promoter, one has to know how to inject in a way that does not hurt. “Because, what if you need an injection and you don’t want to, because it hurts?”

Now we are in a meeting of the Zapatista leaders. Dení’s father and mother are not present, but the girl arrived following Tzotz and Pelusa, who are lying at the feet of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés and, apparently, are paying attentiont to what is being said.

Someone is explaining:

“Deni is present here and she is, let’s say, the first generation. In 20 years, Dení will have a female offspring and she will name her “Denilita”, she would be the second generation. Denilita, 20 years later, is going to conceive a girl who will be called “Denilitilla”, she is the third generation. Denilitilla, now 20 years old, is going to have a girl who will be called “Denilititilla”, she would be the fourth generation. Denilititilla, when she turns 20, will give birth to a girl and will call her “Denilí”, the fifth generation. At 20 years old, Denilí is going to have a girl who will be called “Dení Etcétera”, she is the sixth generation. «Deni Etcetera, 20 years later, that is, in 120 years, will have a girl whose name we cannot see, because her birth date has already been removed from the calendar, but she is the seventh generation.»

Here Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés intervenes: “So we have to fight so that that girl, who is going to be born in 120 years, is free and is whatever she wants to be. So we are not fighting for that girl to be a Zapatista or a ‘partidista’ or whatever, but rather for her to be able to choose, when she has judgment, what her path is. And not only that she can decide freely, but also and, above all, that she takes responsibility for that decision. That is, take into account that all decisions, what we do and what we don’t do, have consequences. So, this is about that girl is able to grow up with all the elements to make a decision and to take responsibility for its consequences.

That is to say, that she doesn´t blame the system, the bad governments, her parents, her relatives, the men, her partner (whether male or female or whatever), the school, her friendships. Because that is freedom: being able to do something without pressure or obligation, but being responsible for what was done. In other words, knowing the consequences beforehand.”

SubMoy turns to look at the now deceased SupGaleano, as if to say “your turn.” The deceased who is not yet deceased (but who already knows that he will soon be), foresees that one day he will have to talk about this to strangers and begins:

“Will that Deni to the N Power no longer speak ill of the darned men? Yes, she is going to do it, as usual. But her arguments will not be that because they made fun of her, despised her, violented her, harassed her, raped her, beat her, disappeared her, murdered her, dismembered her. No, it’s going to be because of normal things and issues, like the darned man farting in the bed and stinking the blanket; or that he doesn’t hit the toilet bowl; or that he burps like a calf; or that he buys his favorite team’s shirt, puts on shorts, socks, and special soccer shoes, and then sits down to watch the games while stuffing himself with popcorn with lots of hot sauce; or that he takes great care in choosing the “outfit” that he will wear for decades: his favorite t-shirt, his favorite pants, and his favorite flip-flops; or because he doesn’t let go of the television control; or that he doesn’t tell her that he loves her, even though she knows that he loves her, but a little reminder is not bad from time to time.»

Among those listening, the women nod their heads affirmatively as if to say “well, yeah, as usual”; and the men smile nervously.

The SubMoy knows that it is SupGaleano’s trick and that now he is going to start, in what he calls “gender solidarity”, to ill speak about women, so he interrupts him just when the now deceased is starting to say: “But the thing is that the women…»

“Well,” says SubMoy, “now we’re talking about a girl who’s going to be born in 120 years and we’re going to focus on that.” The one who senses that he will be dead sits down, regretting not having been able to present his brilliant thesis against women. The SubMoy continues:

“Then we have to think about that girl. To see far, pues. And, looking at what seems very far away, we need to see what we have to do for that girl to be free.

And this is important because the storm is already upon us. The same one we warned about almost 10 years ago. The first thing we see is that the destruction comes faster. What we thought would happen in 10 years is already here.

You have already explained it here. You have told us what you see in your Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Cho’ol, Tojolabal, Mame, Zoque, Quiché areas. You already know what is happening with Mother Earth because you live and work on it. You know that the weather is changing. “The climate”, as the citizens say. That it rains when it’s not the time for it, that it is dry when it’s not supposed to. And so. They know that sowings can no longer be decided like our previous ones did, because the calendar is crooked, changed, pues.

But not only. We also see that the animals’ behaviors have changed, they appear in areas that are not their custom and in seasons that are not their turn. Here and in the geographies of brother peoples, what they call “natural disasters” increase, but they are a consequence of what the dominant system, that is, capitalism, does and does not do. There is rain, as usual, but now it is fiercer and in places and seasons that are not the same as before. There are very terrible droughts. And now it happens that, in the same geography – for example here in Mexico -, on one side there are floods and on the other there is drought and they are left without water. There are strong winds, as if the wind became angry and said “ya basta” and wanted to knock everything down. There are earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues like never before. As if Mother Earth were saying that’s it, no more. As if humanity were a disease, a virus that must be taken outside, vomiting destruction.

But, in addition to seeing that Mother Earth is as if dissatisfied, as if protesting, there is the worst part: the monster, the Hydra, capitalism, which is like crazy stealing and destroying. He now wants to steal what he didn’t care about before and continues destroying the little that remains. Capitalism now produces misery and those who flee from it: migrants.

The COVID Pandemic, which is still ongoing, showed the inability of an entire system to give a real explanation and to take the necessary measures. While millions died, a few became richer. Other pandemics are already looming and the sciences give way to pseudo-sciences and quackery turned into political projects for government.

We also see what we call Disorganized Crime, which are the very same bad governments, from all political parties, that hide and fight over money. This Disorganized Crime is the main trafficker of drugs and people; the one who gets the majority of federal supports; the one who kidnaps, murders, disappears; the one who makes business with humanitarian aid; the one who extorts, threatens and collects “derecho de piso” with taxes that are used so that a candidate may say that now things are going to change, that now they are going to behave well.

We see brother indigenous peoples who, tired of scorn, mockery and lies, arm themselves to defend themselves or to attack the Caxlanes. And the citizens are getting scared, when it was them, with their shitty ways, who fueled that hatred that they now suffer and that no longer has control. Just as in the proud Jovel, they reap what they sow.

And we also see with sadness that they fight even among indigenous people of the same blood and language. They fight among themselves to get the miserable supports of bad governments. Or to take away from one another the little they have or that arrives. Instead of defending the land, they fight for alms.

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​We warned the citizens and the original brothers of all this almost 10 years ago. There will be those who paid attention, and there are many who did not even take us into account. As they saw and still see as if all that horror was very far away, in time and distance. As if they only saw what’s in front of them. They don’t see any further. Or they see, but they don’t care.

As we know, in all these past years, we have been preparing for this darkness. For 10 years we have been preparing for these days of pain and sorrow for those of us who are all the colors of the earth. 10 years self-critically reviewing what we do and what we don’t do, what we say and don’t say, what we think and look at. We have prepared ourselves despite betrayals, slander, lies, paramilitaries, information sieges, contempt, resentment and attacks from those who reproach us for not obeying them.

We did it in silence, without noise, calmly and serenely because we looked far away, as our previous ones taught us todo. And out there yelling at us to just look here, just a calendar and a geography. What they want to make us look at is very small. But as Zapatistas that we are, our gaze is the size of our heart, and our journey is not one day, one year, one six-year period. Our step is long and leaves a mark, even if we do not look at it now or ignore and despise our path.

We know well that it has not been easy. And now everything is worse, and anyway we must look at that girl in 120 years. In other words, we have to fight for someone we are not going to know. Neither us, nor her children, nor her children’s children, and so on. And we have to do it because it is our duty as Zapatistas that we are.

Many misfortunes are coming, wars, floods, droughts, diseases, and in the midst of collapse we have to look far away. If migrants now number in the thousands, soon they will be tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands. Fights and death will come between brothers, between parents and children, between neighbors, between races, between religions, between nationalities. The great buildings will burn and no one will be able to say why, or who, or for what. Although it seems like not anymore, but yes, it’s going to get worse.

But, just as when we work the land, before planting, we see the tortilla, the tamales, the pozol in our homes, so we have to see that girl now.

If we don’t look at that girl who is already with her mother, but in 120 years, then we won’t understand what we are doing. We are not going to be able to explain it to our own colleagues. And much less will be understood by people, organizations and sister people from other geographies.

We can now survive the storm as Zapatista communities that we are. But now it is not only about that, but about going through this and other storms that will come, it’s about surviving the night, and reaching that morning, 120 years from now, where a girl begins to learn that being free is also being responsible for that freedom.

For that, looking at that girl there in the distance, we are going to make the changes and adjustments that we have been discussing and agreeing on together in these years, and that we have already consulted with all the Zapatista peoples.

If someone thinks that we are going to receive a prize, or a statue, or a museum, or some golden letters in history, or payment, or gratitude; well, it’s time for him to look elsewhere. Because the only thing we are going to receive is that, when we are about to die, we will be able to say “I did my part” and know that it is not a lie.

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Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés remained silent, as if waiting for someone to walk out. Nobody did. They continued discussing, contributing, planning. Lunch time arrived and they came to ask when they were going to stop to rest.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés answered: “After a while, within 120 years.”

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I’m going to be honest with you, as usual. I, the captain, can dream of that moment when a girl is born without fear, that she is free and that she takes responsibility for what she does and what she does not do. I can also imagine it. I could even write a short story or a tale about it. But these women and men that I have in front of me and by my side, Zapatista indigenous people all of Mayan roots, my bosses, do not dream or imagine that girl. They see her, they look at her. And they know what they have to do so that that girl is born, walks, plays, learns and grows in another world… in 120 years.

Just as clearly as when they look at the mountain. There is something in their gaze, as if they were looking beyond time and space. They look at the tortilla, the tamales and the pozol on the table. And they know that it is not for them, but for a girl who is not even in the intention of those who will be her parents, because they have not been born. Neither them, nor their parents, nor their grandparents, nor their great-grandparents, nor their great-great-grandparents, and so on up to 7 generations. Seven generations that begin to count from this Dení, the First Generation Dení.

I tell you, we are going to achieve it. It’s just that it’s going to take a little time, but not much either.

Just a little over a century.

From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.

Capitán Insurgente Marcos.

Mexico, November 2023.

P.S.- Every bomb that falls in Gaza also falls in the capitals and major cities of the world, it’s just yhat they haven’t realized it yet. From the rubble the horror of tomorrow’s war will be born.

P.S. SEVERAL WARS BEFORE (the day before, almost 120 years ago):

– “Wouldn’t it be better to declare war frankly?

The professor answered simply: -Our Government undoubtedly wants others to declare it. The role of the victim is always the most pleasant and justifies all subsequent decisions, no matter how extreme they may seem. Over there we have people who live well and do not want war. It is convenient to make them believe that it is the enemies who impose it on us, so that they feel the need to defend themselves. Only superior spirits come to the conviction that great advances are only achieved with the sword, and that war, as our great Treitschke said, is the highest form of progress.” The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916). by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Spain 1867-1928).

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Por Jeny Pascacio

Esta es la cuarta entrega de Desaparecer en la frontera sur de México, un trabajo de Avispa Mídia que da cuenta de la violencia que viven las comunidades y ciudades de la frontera de Chiapas con Guatemala, que forman parte de las rutas de trasiego en pugna por dos cárteles del crimen organizado.

En la primera parte, investigadoras y organizaciones explican cómo el crimen organizado se instaló en la geografía chiapaneca, en territorios que hoy se disputan con violencia desmesurada contra la población. En la segunda y tercera parte, las víctimas de desaparición y las comunidades narran el horror que viven por esta guerra, minimizada por el gobierno morenista de Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Los testimonios ahora nos llevan a la historia de Cassandra Isabel Arias Torres que fue desaparecida por un grupo armado el 17 de diciembre de 2022 en el municipio de Berriozábal, ubicado en la zona Centro de Chiapas.

Primera parte

Segunda Parte

Tercera parte

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A partir de 2021, varios municipios de Chiapas comenzaron a percibir el incremento de la violencia e inseguridad, como ya fue reportado en esta serie. Además de las regiones limítrofes con Guatemala, en el centro de la entidad también incrementó la violencia.

El 17 de diciembre de 2022, Cassandra Isabel Arias Torres, de 18 años de edad, estaba muy emocionada por la boda de su madre, Isabel Torres, tanto que le regaló el vestido y le ayudó con los preparativos del festejo que iniciaba a las 14h en el salón Tierra Bonita, ubicado en la cabecera municipal de Berriozábal.

Durante la celebración, Cassandra se encontraba en una mesa al fondo del salón con otros familiares y su novio, mientras Isabel, su madre, atendía a los invitados junto a su ahora esposo. Cuando comenzó a oscurecer, pidieron al encargado del recinto encender las luces pero nunca respondió al llamado, entonces decidieron continuar la fiesta sólo con las lámparas de interior.

Alrededor de las 20h un grupo armado irrumpió en el lugar. Descendieron de tres camionetas blancas y dijeron ser de la Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE), portaban chalecos con las insignias oficiales, estaban encapuchados y vestidos de negro de pies a cabeza.

Al ingresar al salón de fiestas, dijeron: “¡Todos abajo!’, los invitados y yo nos metimos debajo de la mesa y escuché que mi hija (Cassandra) gritaba desesperada para saber dónde estaba su hijo”, relató Isabel.

Con agresividad, los encapuchados arrebataron los teléfonos móviles y carteras a varios de los asistentes. En un principio esposaron a diez personas para llevárselas, pero al final las dejaron en la entrada y sólo se llevaron a Cassandra, a su novio, a uno de sus tíos y al músico que amenizó el festejo.

En cuanto el grupo armado se retiró, Isabel y su esposo fueron tras ellos en otro vehículo pero no pudieron alcanzarlos. Otro de los familiares se dirigió a la comandancia municipal, pero los policías estaban “escondidos” y dijeron que no podían hacer nada, que no era de su competencia.

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Casi dos horas más tarde y después de varias llamadas al 911, al lugar de los hechos llegaron algunos elementos de la Policía Estatal, Guardia Nacional, Sedena y algunos municipales. Cuando algunos de los asistentes daban detalles de lo sucedido a las autoridades se escucharon disparos afuera del salón.

“Les dije que fueran a ver, qué tal que ahí tenían a mi hija y se quedaron viendo entre ellos (policías y militares), pero nadie se movió. Al terminar de dar la declaración le preguntaron a mi esposo si íbamos a meter la denuncia, respondimos que sí y el policía nos preguntó si estábamos seguros de que ‘podríamos’ contra esa gente”, dijo Isabel.

De acuerdo a la familia de Cassandra, los uniformados se limitaron a grabar en video las declaraciones que dieron y “nunca nos dijeron para qué”.

Al siguiente día (18 de diciembre), el músico y el tío de Cassandra fueron liberados al oriente de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, municipio a 23 kilómetros de distancia de Berriozábal. Los encapuchados les advirtieron no acudir a las autoridades de lo contrario Cassandra sería asesinada.

Cuando Isabel recibió el mensaje entró en pánico, por lo que decidió no acudir a la autoridad e iniciar una búsqueda por su cuenta. Entre las primeras acciones, difundió en redes sociales la imagen de Cassandra; pero los días pasaron y no hubo noticias del paradero.

Información oculta

El alcalde de Berriozábal, Jorge Arturo Acero Gómez, abanderado por Morena, se encargó de negar ante medios de comunicación la desaparición forzada de Cassandra y minimizó el hecho al decir que sólo se trató de una riña.

Pero el 10 de enero de 2023, con mucho temor y desesperación, Isabel acudió por primera vez a la Fiscalía en Tuxtla Gutiérrez para hacer la denuncia. Le sorprendió que el Ministerio Público tenía conocimiento del caso de Cassandra mucho antes de la declaración.

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Por meses, la única declaración que obró en la carpeta de investigación fue la de Isabel, pero después de varias protestas en las que exigió justicia, se integraron las declaraciones de su esposo, su padre y su hermano, quien fue privado de libertad junto con Cassandra.

De acuerdo con Isabel, falta el informe completo y actualizado de la geolocalización de los teléfonos móviles que se llevaron los encapuchados. Según datos de la FGE, algunos de los celulares siguen activos y han cambiado el chip en repetidas ocasiones.

A pesar de la evidencia, la Fiscalía se niega a realizar la búsqueda bajo el argumento de que las ubicaciones que se muestran son aproximadas. Ante esta incapacidad declarada por la propia Fiscalía, Isabel solicitó la renovación de la geolocalización y la intervención de expertos en tecnología.

“Cuando se actualice la geolocalización pediré que se haga la búsqueda en vida, porque tampoco quieren buscarla”. Isabel pidió, incluso, las imágenes del Centro de Atención y Vigilancia Permanente (CAVIP) que funciona con 47 cámaras colocadas en puntos estratégicos de la cabecera municipal, donde desaparecieron a Cassandra.

Para que la investigación avance también se pidió la declaración del secretario de Seguridad Pública municipal, Germán Alegría Santos y de cuatro policías municipales que acudieron al salón de fiestas con las fuerzas federales; pero tampoco hay respuesta.

Las madres que resisten 

En marzo de este año, Isabel acudió a las afueras de la Séptima Región Militar en Tuxtla Gutiérrez para interceptar al presidente, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, que visitó la entidad e instruyó a la Fiscalía investigar el caso. Pero los días pasaron y la justicia tampoco llegó.

Dos meses después, Isabel tuvo conocimiento de las acciones de protesta del colectivo de Madres en Resistencia, integrado en su mayoría por familias de víctimas de feminicidio, quienes no dudaron en brindar acompañamiento a Isabel Torres cuando lo solicitó.

Para finales del mismo mes, las madres se plantaron por más de una semana a las afueras del Palacio de Gobierno para exigir hablar directamente con el gobernador, Rutilio Escandón Cadenas, y el Fiscal General, Olaf Gómez Hernández.

El plantón fue levantado por un compromiso hecho por el propio mandatario estatal que ordenó revisar minuciosamente los casos, pero al final no se concretó ninguna acción. El nulo acceso a la justicia llevó a Isabel a encabezar otra campaña de búsqueda a pie, con marchas y mítines en la Fiscalía y Palacio de Gobierno.

De esas acciones logró dos búsquedas en campo por parte de la Comisión Estatal de Búsqueda, aunque para las Madres en Resistencia sólo sirvió para evidenciar las carencias e incapacidad de la autoridad que no tiene herramientas, planeación, comunicación y ni protocolos específicos de seguridad.

“La primera búsqueda fue en el mismo perímetro donde está un lugar llamado la Piedrona (en Berriozábal), la segunda fue en un terreno que está frente al primer perímetro. En la primera búsqueda no llegamos a ningún acuerdo, las autoridades trabajaron sin pedirnos opinión ni nos informaron cómo sería la búsqueda ni nada; llegan a echar relajo y a platicar”, explicó Isabel.

En la primera investigación en campo, un integrante de la propia Comisión de Búsqueda alertó sobre la presencia de una camioneta azul con cuatro hombres sospechosos a bordo. El vehículo pasó por la carretera, regresó y se detuvo frente a ellas, “únicamente descartaron que fueran personas de la Fiscalía pero no dieron seguimiento a pesar de que esa camioneta estaba vigilándonos”.

Hasta el último día 

Con ayuda de las abogadas feministas de Colectiva Cereza, Isabel consiguió que desde principios de septiembre, la Fiscalía ofrezca una recompensa de 500 mil pesos por información anónima sobre el paradero de Cassandra Isabel Arias Torres.

El pasado 12 de octubre, Isabel y las Madres en Resistencia cerraron la avenida principal de la capital de Chiapas para protestar por la ausencia de Cassandra en su cumpleaños número 19, “es el primero que ella no está, con nosotros, con su hijo”, un pequeño de 4 años que desde hace 10 meses se pregunta por su mamá.

“Pido a las personas que se llevaron a mi hija que si está con vida que me la regresen y si no está con vida que me digan dónde está para tener un lugar para llorarle y llevarle flores, porque no tengo paz en mi corazón de no saber dónde está. La sigo esperando con los brazos abiertos. Hija te amo, te sigo buscando y hasta el último día de mi vida te buscaré”.

Por ahora el activismo de Isabel la lleva a realizar labores que le corresponde a la Fiscalía, pues cada vez son más las familias de víctimas de desaparición forzada que buscan su acompañamiento para exigir justicia.

Reclaman a las autoridades que actúen, investiguen, sancionen a servidores públicos implicados en las desapariciones o con vínculos con el crimen organizado. De acuerdo a Colectiva Cereza, al menos cinco casos de los cuales acompaña fueron levantados por elementos de la policía de investigación de la FGE y Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (SSyPC), y las pruebas ya fueron entregadas a Rutilio Escandón Cadenas.

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Second Part: Do dead people sneeze?

October 2023

SupGaleano died. He died just as he lived: unhappily.

Of course, he took care, before passing away, of returning the name to the one who is flesh and blood inherited from Master Galeano. He recommended keeping him alive, that is to say, fighting. So Galeano will continue walking in these mountains.

In all other regards, it was something simple. He started humming something like “I know I’m piantao, piantao, piantao”, and, just before he expired, he said, or rather asked: “Do dead people sneeze?”, and that’s it. Those were his last words. No sentence for history, nor for a tombstone, nor for an anecdote told in front of a fire. Only that absurd, anachronistic, extemporaneous question: “Do the dead sneeze?”

He then remained still, his tired breathing suspended, his eyes closed, his lips finally silenced, his hands clenched.

We left. Almost as we left the ‘champa’, already at the doorway, we heard a sneeze. SubMoy turned to look at me and I at him, with a barely hinted “bless you.” None of us had sneezed. We turned back to see where the deceased’s body lay and nothing. SubMoy just said “good question.” I didn’t say a word, but I thought «he must surely be hanging with the moon walking down Callao.»

Then of course, we spared the funeral. Although we lost the opportunity for coffee and tamales.

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I know that no one is interested in another death, and least of all that of the now deceased SupGaleano. In truth, I tell you this because he left that poem by Rubén Darío with which he began this series of texts. If we ignore the obvious hint to the Nicaragua that resists and persists – it could even be seen as a reference to the current war of the State of Israel against the people of Palestine, but, at the time of his death, the terror that overwhelms the world today had not restarted-, he left that poetry as a reference. More as a response to someone who asked how to explain what is happening now in Chiapas, Mexico and the world.

And, of course, as a discreet tribute to maestro Galeano –from whom he inherited the name-, he left what he called a “reading report”:

Who started it? Who is to blame? Who is innocent? Who is the god guy and who is the bad guy? In what position is Francis of Assisi? Who failed: him, the wolf, the shepherds or all of them? Why does the man from Assisi can only conceive making an agreement based on the wolf giving up being what he is?

Even though this happened months ago, the text sparked allegations and discussions that continue to this day. So, I will describe one of them:

It is a kind of meeting or assembly or some sort of roundtable. The best of each house is there: learned specialists in everything, militants and internationalists of all causes except of those in their own geography, spontaneous people with a PhD in social networks (the majority), and one or two who, upon seeing the noise, approached to see whether they were giving away buckets, caps or t-shirts with the name of whatever political party it was. There were quite a few who came near to find out what all the fuss was about.

“You are nothing more than an agent of expansionist and imperial Zionism!,” shouted one.

“And you are just a propagandist of fundamentalist Arab Muslim terrorism!,” responded another, furiously.

There had already been several outbreaks of quarrel, but it had not yet gone beyond a “meet you outside” kind of pushing and shoving.

That point was reached because they were analyzing Rubén Darío’s poem “Los Motivos del Lobo”.

Not everything had been an exchange of adjectives, jabs and bad faces. It started like everything else in those parts: with good manners, forceful phrases, “brief interventions” – which usually lasted half an hour or more –, and a great deal of quotes and footnotes.

Purely male, of course, because the debate was organized by the so-called “Toby’s Hipertextual Club”

“The Wolf is the good guy,” someone said, “because he only killed out of hunger, out of necessity.”

“No,” argued another, “he is evil because he killed sheep, which were the shepherds’ sustenance. And he himself admitted that “sometimes he ate lamb and shepherd.”

And another: “the bad guys are the people from the village, because they didn’t fulfill the agreement.”

One sitting over there: «it’s Assisi’s fault, who gets the agreement by asking the wolf to stop being a wolf, which is questionable, and then doesn’t stay to hold the pact.»

And one sitting over here: “But Assisi points out that human beings are bad by nature.”

They reaffirm themselves on both sides. But it turns out that, if a poll were taken right now, the wolf would have a comfortable double-digit lead over the shepherd village. But a clever maneuver on social networks managed to get the hashtag “killer wolf” to be TT far above #deathtotheshpherds. So, the triumph of the pro-shepherd influencers over the pro-wolf influencers was clear, although only on social networks.

There were some who argued in favor of two States coexisting in the same territory: the Wolf State and the Shepherd State.

And some others for a Plurinational State, with wolves and shepherds, living under the same oppressor, sorry, I meant under the same State. Another responded that this was impossible, given the background of each party.

A man in a suit and tie stands up and asks to speak: “If Ruben (he said this, ignoring the Darío bit), followed the legend of Gubbio, then we can do the same. Let’s continue the poem:

The shepherds, using their legitimate right to defend themselves, attack the wolf. First by destroying his burrow with bombings, and then by entering with tanks and infantry. It seems to me, colleagues, that the end is set: the terrorist and animal violence of the wolf is annihilated and the shepherds can continue their bucolic life, shearing sheep for a powerful transnational corporation that makes clothing for another equally powerful multinational corporation that, in turn , owes an even more powerful international financial institution; which will lead the shepherds to become efficient workers on their own lands – yes, with all the legal labor benefits -, and will elevate that village to first world levels, with modern highways, tall buildings and even a tourist train where Visitors from all over the world will be able to appreciate the ruins of what once were meadows, forests and springs. The annihilation of the wolf will bring peace and prosperity to the region. Sure, some animals will die, no matter the number nor the species, but they are just perfectly forgettable collateral damages. After all, bombs cannot be asked to distinguish between a wolf and a sheep, nor to limit their blast wave so as not to damage birds and trees. Peace will be achieved and no one will miss the wolf.”

Someone else stands up and points out: “But the wolf has international support and inhabited that place in advance. The system cut down trees for pasture fields, and that altered the ecological balance, reducing the number and species of animals that the wolf consumed to live. And it is to be expected that the descendants of the wolf will take fair revenge.”

“Ah, so the wolf also killed other beings. “He’s just like the shepherds,” someone replies.

Thus, they continued, giving as good arguments as those indicated here, full of wit, a wealth of erudition and many bibliographical references.

But the restraint did not last long: it went from wolf and shepherds to the Netanyahu – Hamas war and the discussion escalated until it reached what heads this anecdote, postmortem courtesy of the now deceased SupGaleano.

But at that moment, at the back of the room, a small hand was raised asking to speak. The moderator couldn’t see whose hand it was, so he gave the floor «to the person who is raising his hand back there.»

Everyone turned to look and was about to shout out in scandal and disapproval. It was a girl who was carrying a teddy bear, almost equal to her in size, and she was wearing a white blouse with embroidery and pants with a kitten near her right ankle. Anyways, the classic “outfit” for a birthday party or something like that.

The surprise was such that everyone remained silent and kept their eyes on the girl.

She stood up on the chair, thinking that this way they would hear her better and asked:

“What about the kids?”

The surprise then turned into a condemning murmur: “Which kids? What is this girl talking about? Who the hell let a woman enter this sacred precinct? And worse, she is a girl-woman!”

The girl got down from the chair and, always carrying her teddy bear with clear signs of obesity – the bear, of course -, headed to the exit door saying:

«The kids. That is, the pups of the wolf and the pups of the shepherds. Their little babies, ‘pues’. Who thinks about the kids? Who am I going to talk to? And where are we going to play?”

From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.

Captain Insurgent Marcos.

Mexico, October, 2023.

P.S.- Unconditional freedom for Manuel Gómez Vázquez (taken hostage since 2020 by the state government of Chiapas) and José Díaz Gómez (hostage since last year), indigenous Zapatista bases imprisoned for that reason, for being Zapatistas. Afterwards, don’t ask who sowed what you reap.

P.S.- OTIS Hurricane: Collection center for indigenous peoples in the state of Guerrero: at the address of the “Casa de los pueblos ‘Samir Flores Soberanes’”, located at Av. México-Coyoacán 343, colonia Xoco, Alcaldía Benito Juárez, Ciudad de México, C.P. 03330. Deposits and bank transfers in support of these towns and communities in the account number 0113643034, CLABE 012540001136430347, SWIFT code BCMRMXMMPYM, BBVA bank in Mexico, branch 1769. In the name of: “Ciencia Social al Servicio de los Pueblos Originarios”. Phone number: 5526907936.

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Ejido Tila, Chiapas, México; a 17 de octubre de 2023

A los medios nacional e internacional no gubernamental
A las organizaciones nacional e internacional no gubernamental
Al centro de derechos humanos no gubernamental
Al congreso nacional indígena
Al consejo indígena de gobierno
A los pueblos que luchan por la tierra y el territorio
A los pueblos originarios en defensa de la madre tierra

De parte del ejido tila reciban un cordial saludo, a todos y a todas las y los hermanos en resistencia por la madre tierra.

En el ejido de tila se vive una tensa situación, a manos de grupos criminales, el pasado viernes 13 de octubre del presente año aproximadamente a la 7:30 de la noche a quemarropa mataron a dos jóvenes de nombre Juan Carlos Jiménez Jiménez de 19 años de edad y Oscar Pérez Pérez de 17 años hijos de ejidatarios de la comunidad de sañoja a mano de la delincuencia organizada, aliados a los pobladores quienes el 11 de septiembre de 2020 tiraron el portón para infiltrar negocios clandestinos como la venta de droga, alcohol y tráfico de armas que comanda Francisco Arturo Sánchez Martínez, Rodrigo Martínez Parcero, doctora Adelaida cruz de Santis Martínez Parcero y su grupo conformado por Juan López López, Rosalino Martínez Santiago, Marco Antonio Sánchez Martínez, Andrés García Martínez, Vicente Gómez López los trompudos, Eugenio Ramírez Jiménez, Alfredo Pérez López, Reynaldo Ramírez Martínez, Darío cordero y la profesora Cecilia Vázquez López entre otros, grupo que ya fueron denunciados ante la fiscalía del estado por varios delitos, dentro de ellos por violación de la sentencia de amparo donde crearon un panteón clandestino en complicidad, han solapado a Rodrigo Martínez Parcero y la doctora Adelaida Martínez Parcero por ser trabajadores de la secretaria de salud de igual forma la doctora Adelaida Martínez Parcero es plurinominal del ayuntamiento municipal.

El pasado sábado 14 de octubre aproximadamente a las 11:10 de la mañana ejecutaron a dos jóvenes dedicados a la venta clandestina de droga de nombre José Gutiérrez Ramírez de 30 años de edad y el joven José Nazario Vázquez Jiménez ese mismo día a las 8:30 de la noche, el C. Rodrigo Martínez Parcero hizo detonaciones de arma de grueso calibre en su domicilio para intimidar a los compañeros ejidatarios, con la finalidad de seguir su política en contra de los compañeros.

También circula en las redes sociales la voz del mismo contador Rodrigo haciendo mención que forma parte del cartel Jalisco nueva generación, mientras Eugenio Ramírez Jiménez menciona por radio de comunicación con integrantes del supuesto comisariado legal Eduardo Gutiérrez Martínez que forman parte del cartel de Sinaloa, lo cual confirma que ya tienen a dos sicarios de Sinaloa dentro del poblado del ejido tila Chiapas y ya tiene checando domicilio dentro del casco poblacional y que en bolsa tendrán que salir algunos compañeros como paso en el año 1994.

Y este lunes 16 de octubre se encuentra ejecutado con arma de grueso calibre al joven Daniel Jiménez López de 26 años de edad tirado en la carretera a la altura del crucero que comunica la comunidad de carrizal y mariscal esto con la intensión de que el comisariado ejidal Lorenzo Jiménez Ramírez llegue hacer el levantamiento le hagan una emboscada ya que es la autoridad que fue nombrado por la asamblea general de ejidatarios por mayoría.

Esto ha estado suscitando por la injusticia de los 5 responsables del gobierno del estado de Chiapas, tal como lo menciona la inejecución de sentencia 1302/2010 que ya fue discutido en la suprema corte de justicia de la nación el pasado 12 de septiembre de 2018. Lo cual la justicia de la unión da protección al ejido tila, al saber que el amparo promovido por el ejido salió a favor nombran Eduardo Gutiérrez Martínez bajo falsificación de firmas de compañeros ejidatarios y de finados para que le sea certificado su nombramiento ante el RAN en el periodo 2015 a 2018 y con la misma falsificación de firmas y huellas de los compañeros ejidatarios el RAN le otorga el nombramiento a Miguel Vázquez Gutiérrez en el periodo 2018-2021 para que ellos hagan negociación del amparo al saber la asamblea que tenían el nombramiento se inició un proceso ante el tribunal unitario agrario número 54 de Comitán por la inconformidad de los asambleístas ya que estas dos personas fueron nombradas por pobladores y en casa particular ya que estas dos personas no son asambleístas y Eduardo Gutiérrez Martínez se vuelve a reelegir como comisariado en este periodo 2021 a 2024 cuando el comisariado nombrado por la asamblea es Lorenzo Jiménez Ramírez.

Al saber que el ejido gana el amparo un grupo de pobladores ya antes mencionado tiran el portón de seguridad hecho por los ejidatarios y causan bloqueo afectando vía terrestre derivado de varias denuncias de los transeúntes el comisariado ejidal en ese periodo toma la decisión con la asamblea de desalojar el grupo de pobladores que estaban afectando, lo cual al llegar fueron recibidos a balazos con armas de fuego dejando varios heridos y muertos desde esa fecha se ha venido agudizando las persecuciones y han matado a varios compañeros a manos de los dirigentes e integrantes de pobladores y avecinados que son hijos del grupo paramilitar que operaron en la zona baja de tila.

Al ver que esta situación los ejidatarios tomaron la decisión de cercar el ingreso dentro del ejido tila hasta que se haga justica a los ejidatarios de tila y se ejecute la sentencia del amparo que bajo la corrupción del ayuntamiento municipal ha causado un conflicto y ha contratado la delincuencia organizada para seguir intimidando nuestro territorio ejidal bajo la complicidad de los 5 responsables del gobierno.

Nunca más un México sin nosotros

Atentamente

Tierra y libertad Ejido tila

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Fuente: Avispa Midia

Por Sare Frabes

^{Gráfica de Pueblos Unidos de la Región Cholulteca y de los Volcanes}

La organización de derechos humanos Front Line Defenders, en un comunicado, denunció que defensores del territorio de los pueblos nahuas del municipio de Juan C. Bonilla, en el estado de Puebla, articulados en la organización Pueblos Unidos de la Región Cholulteca y de los Volcanes, han sido objeto de ataques en años recientes por su defensa del territorio.

Los Pueblos Unidos de la Región Cholulteca y de los Volcanes es una organización integrada por 20 pueblos nahuas del valle de Puebla que históricamente han luchado contra violaciones de derechos humanos y despojo causado por la presencia e implementación de proyectos extractivos en sus territorios.

El último ataque sufrido es la represión ocurrida en el pueblo de San Lucas Nextetelco el 2 de octubre de 2023, durante una protesta en contra de la construcción de un complejo de seguridad pública en la comunidad.

Este complejo fue licitado, sin consulta alguna, por el gobierno del Estado de Puebla el pasado 5 de septiembre y tiene estimado concluir la construcción en el mes de diciembre de este año 2023, con un piso financiero mínimo de 8 millones de pesos.

La construcción del complejo de seguridad se da en un contexto de “un preocupante aumento de la militarización y la creciente construcción de complejos de seguridad y cuarteles militares en comunidades en el país donde existen resistencias y oposición a megaproyectos y en donde no ha habido consulta, previa, libre e informada”, alerta la organización.

El 2 de octubre de 2023, personas que se presentaron como empleados de DECOSA, la empresa que presuntamente se ha contratado para construir el complejo de seguridad, llegaron al pueblo de San Lucas Nextetelco, relata la organización. Los trabajadores se retiraron del lugar después de que los integrantes de la comunidad les entregaran un acta de la asamblea en oposición a la obra del complejo de seguridad, en el cual decidieron rechazar el proyecto.

Más tarde ese mismo día, sobre las 16h, esos mismos trabajadores volvieron al pueblo de San Lucas Nextetelco, llevando una máquina excavadora. Custodiada por elementos de la Policía Estatal de Puebla, rompieron el portón y comenzaron a trabajar.

Esto llevó a que integrantes del pueblo alertaran al resto de la comunidad, quienes acudieron a protestar e intentar impedir que siguiera la construcción del complejo de seguridad. Después de esto, llegaron al lugar un grupo de personas que presuntamente son movilizadas por el gobierno municipal de Juan C. Bonilla y que han sido identificadas previamente por la comunidad como “golpeadores”, señala Front Line Defenders.

Este grupo comenzó a agredir físicamente a integrantes de la comunidad, incluyendo a jóvenes y a adultos mayores que se manifestaban de manera pacífica. Llegaron más integrantes de San Luchas Nextetelco a fin de apoyar a los manifestantes, se enfrentaron con la policía y esto llevó al eventual retiro de los golpeadores y de los elementos de la Policía Estatal. Como forma de protesta, la comunidad decidió cerrar la carretera federal a la altura de San Lucas Nextetelco durante alrededor de 6 horas.

Otros ataques

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