(Español) Ayuno en solidaridad con presos en huelga de hambre en Chiapas
- Presos tsotsiles continúan lucha por su libertad desde los CERSS Núm. 05 y Núm. 10
A las 6 de la mañana, del día de hoy, 10 personas iniciaron un ayuno en exigencia de libertad para 7 presos tsotsiles que han denunciado violaciones a derechos humanos en sus procesos jurídicos. Durante 12 horas permanecerán en plantón, sin consumir alimentos, sólo miel y agua, en la entrada del Centro Estatal de Reinserción Social para Sentenciados Núm. 05, (CERSS Núm. 5) en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México.
Estarán en ayuno: 7 familiares de presos (Andrea Hernández Díaz, Elena Gómez Hernández, Carla Guadalupe Meza Méndez, Facundo Ruiz Gómez, Eva María Ruiz Pérez, Susana y Beatriz de la Cruz Ruiz); 2 integrantes del Grupo de Trabajo No Estamos Todxs (Juan Pablo Nava y Jorge Abel Pérez Rodríguez; y Juan Pérez Álvarez, quien estuvo en prisión 16 años y obtuvo su libertad el pasado 14 de mayo.
El objetivo de esta acción de protesta es solidarizarse con 7 presos tsotsiles quienes continúan la lucha por su libertad a 83 días de que iniciaron una huelga de hambre. Posterior a un lapso de 30 días de ayuno, 5 de ellos reiniciaron la huelga de hambre el 14 de mayo de 2019: Adrián Gómez Jiménez, Juan de la Cruz Ruiz, Abraham López Montejo, Germán López Montejo (Desde el CERSS Núm. 05, en San Cristóbal de Las Casas) y Marcelino Ruiz Gómez. (Desde el CERSS Núm. 10, en Comitán de Domínguez).
Debido a la situación penitenciaria en la que se encuentran y por los días transcurridos sin alimentos ni atención médica adecuada, hay un deterioro importante en la salud física y emocional de los 5 presos en huelga de hambre1. Existe el riesgo de que su salud se agrave debido a la decisión de los presos de continuar en huelga de hambre ante la omisión del gobierno del Estado de Chiapas.
A la fecha, sus demandas no han sido debidamente resueltas. Un ejemplo es la falta de acceso a sus expedientes penales: El pasado 24 de mayo la familia de Juan de la Cruz Ruiz pagó 3.500 pesos para la entrega de la copia de su expediente; y por el de Adrian Gómez Jiménez les solicitaron 10 mil pesos. Esta situación intensifica las condiciones de discriminación a población económica y socialmente vulnerable.
Los presos tsotsiles en huelga de hambre y sus familias en ayuno exigen al Estado mexicano: continúe las investigaciones de las denuncias por Tortura y otras violaciones a derechos humanos; atienda la solicitud de libertad inmediata y garantice la seguridad e integridad de las personas privadas de su libertad que ejercen su derecho de libre expresión y manifestación2.
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






