(Español) Policía asesina a maestros y pobladores en Nochixtlán, Oaxaca
Por Alejandro Reyes
En la mañana de este domingo, 19 de junio de 2016, elementos de la policía federal llegaron a la localidad de Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, para desalojar el bloqueo que miembros de la CNTE, estudiantes y padres de familia y personas solidarias mantenían desde hace ocho días. Con extrema violencia, la policía atacó a los maniestantes primero con gas lacrimógeno y balas de goma y después con armas de fuego durante varias horas. En la refriega perdieron la vida ocho personas.
Además, según información de la CNTE, más de 60 personas resultaron heridas, entre docentes y pobladores, a los cuales la policía les negó el acceso al hospital local. Los heridos fueron atendidos por la población en una iglesia y finalmente trasladados a otros hospitales. Según información de los Servicios de Salud de Oaxaca, 31 heridos de gravedad se encuentran ahora en el Hospital General “Pilar Sánchez Villavicencio” de Huajuapan de León y en el Hospital General “Benito Juárez” del IMSS en la ciudad de Oaxaca.
Se reporta también un número indeterminado de niños y niñas que se perdieron de sus padres y madres al momento de la represión, y cuyos familiares los siguen buscando.
Más de 20 personas fueron detenidas y hasta el momento se reportan 22 personas desaparecidas.
Según información de Regeneración Radio, Radio Pozol y Emeequis, los fallecidos son:
Notes on the War Against the Teachers in Resistance (The Hour of the Police 3)
Notes on the War Against the Teachers in Resistance
(The Hour of the Police 3)
June 2016
From the notebook of the cat-dog:
—We don’t know about the rest of the country, but in Chiapas those above are losing the media war.
We have seen entire families support the teachers, in the rural areas as well as the urban. And we aren’t talking about support of the “we see your raised fists” type, or that of “the people united will never be defeated” and other slogans that continue to be the same despite distances in calendar and geography because below solidarity continues to be a basic principle. But if in previous mobilizations among the rebellious teachers, the “citizens” (a term that hides inequality) were bothered and fed up, now things have changed.
There are more and more families helping the teachers, donating support for their trips and marches, becoming anxious when they are attacked, offering food, drink, and refuge. They are families who, according to the taxonomy of the electoral left, have been “dumbed down” by television, or are “sandwich-gobblers,”(i) “deranged,” “sheep,” “people without conscience.” But it seems that the outsized media campaign against the teachers in resistance has failed.
The resistance movement against the education reform has become a mirror for more and more people-people (meaning, not social and political organizations, but ordinary people). It is as if the resistance has awoken a collective sense of urgency in the face of the coming tragedy. It is as if every swing of a police baton, every canister of tear gas, every rubber bullet, and every arrest warrant were eloquent slogans: “today I attack her, him; tomorrow I’m coming for you.” Perhaps that is why, behind every teacher there are entire families that sympathize with their cause and their struggle.
Why? Why does a movement that has been fiercely attacked on all sides continue to grow? If they are “vandals,” “slackers,” “terrorists,” “corrupt,” and “opposed to progress,” then why do so many people below, no small number in the middle, and even a few above salute the teachers, even if sometimes in silence, for defending what anyone would defend?