Radio Zapatista

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Una compañera y un compañero de colectivos de medios libres de comunicación fueron atacados por el grupo oficialista del comisariado ejidal de San Sebastián Bachajón, Alejandro Moreno Gómez. Los compañeros fueron rodeados, detenidos, jaloneados, golpeados y amenazados con machetes para que entregaran una cámara Cánon 70D, un celular y un tripié.

Aproximadamente a las 6:30 de la tarde del día 21 de marzo, los compañeros se dirigían a documentar el desalojo y la quema de la sede regional que ejidatarios adherentes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona construyeron en el mes de enero.

Los compañeros se bajaron en la caseta de cobro y caminaron hacia la sede regional de los adherentes a la sexta de Bachajón, donde se encontraban cuatro camiones de la policía del Estado de Chiapas. Más de 200 oficialistas armados con machetes, algunos de ellos alcoholizados, los detuvieron a veinte metros de la sede. Posteriormente los rodearon, comenzaron a empujarlos y a decirles que borraran las fotografías. Lo cual fue hecho.

El relato de los hechos tal y como sucedieron es el siguiente:

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Los ejidatarios de San Sebastián Bachajón, adherentes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, denunciaron que este sábado 21 de marzo, alrededor de las 8 de la mañana, más de 600 elementos de las fuerzas de seguridad pública incendiaron la nueva sede regional de San Sebastián Bachajón, con la participación de autoridades oficialistas del ejido. Esta sede, inaugurada el 29 de enero de este año, se encontraba a un kilómetro entre el crucero de Agua Azul y el límite con el municipio oficial de Tumbalá, y se creó después del desalojo violento de la caseta de cobro a Agua Azul ese mes, “para seguir cuidando las tierras y exigir la retirada del mal gobierno”, según dijeron los ejidatarios en un comunicado.

Lee el comunicado completo aquí.

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION.

March 2015.

To the compas of the Sixth in Mexico and in the World:

Compas:

I have been asked to let you know that…

Despite the significant increase in military activity in the vicinity of the Zapatista Caracoles (aggressive patrols, intimidating checkpoints, threatening flyovers)—particularly in the caracoles of La Realidad and Oventik (the first has just opened a school-clinic, and the second will host the tribute to Don Luis Villoro Toranzo)…

Despite the growing belligerence of the paramilitary groups sponsored by the Chiapas government…

Despite the tired “new” lies in the paid media /no, there is not and there has not been any proposal for dialogue; no, not since 2001, that is to say that no federal official has approached the EZLN in the last 14 years for any reason other than in an attempt to assasinate the Zapatista leadership; no, the federal and state governments are not looking to improve the living conditions of indigenous people in Chiapas, rather, they are trying to divide communities; no, the only governmental approaches that Jaime Martinez Veloz claim for himself were not to Zapatistas but to the paramilitaries backed (before he took over) by Luis H. Alvarez, Juan Sabines Guerrero, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, and now Manuel Velasco Coello, Rosario Robles Berlanga and Enrique Peña Nieto, one of whose groups (the CIOAC-H) is responsible for the murder of the compañero teacher Galeano; no, and so forth and so on/…

Despite the fact that truth and justice are still missing in Ayotzinapa…

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Read: Antonia y la furia de los patriarcas (in Spanish).

To support the families displaced from Banavil, visit the site of the campaign Rostros del Despojo: www.rostrosdeldespojo.org.

Information:
www.caravana43.com

For information on the entire caravan, see: www.caravana43.com.

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THE MOTHERS OF THE 43 STUDENTS OF AYOTZINAPA BROKE DOWN BORDERS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

On March 8^th, 2015, International Women’s Day, the mothers of the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa broke down borders by sending a powerful video-message to the global gathering “Women’s Struggles Transform the World!” held in New York and convoked by Movement for Justice in El Barrio.

The worldwide struggle of the 43 disappeared of Ayotzinapa has been headed by the mothers of the students. These amazing mothers have touched the hearts and motivated countless people from throughout the world to join with them. A living testament that this “other world” we desire is currently being inspired and created, from the bottom-up, by women. The mothers of the 43 chose to break down borders with this heartfelt video-message which is yet another reminder of their contribution to movements everywhere.

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San Cristóbal de las Casas, 17 de marzo del 2015

Ejidatarios de San Sebastián Bachajón, adherentes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona nos informan que hoy, 17 de marzo, partidistas de la comunidad Suquil Ulub se encuentran realizando un bloqueo en el crucero de las cascadas de Agua Azul. Los ejidatarios adherentes se deslindan de formar parte de este.

Al mismo tiempo, denuncian que en días pasados han sido agredidos por los partidistas. Hoy en la mañana dos compañeros ejidatarios que se encontraban realizando su cargo de vigilantes fueron golpeados.

Responsabilizan a Alejandro Moreno Gomez, Samuel Diaz Guzman y los 3 niveles de gobierno de las agresiones y de lo que pueda ocurrir. San Sebastían Bachajón continúa exigiendo la libertad de sus presos y se mantienen en resistencia por la defensa de su territorio ancestral. Los compañeros piden estar atentos a la situación del Ejido San Sebastián Bachajón.

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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
10 March 2015

The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), has documented, through the Civilian Observation Brigades (BriCO), systematic incursions by the Mexican Army, who are harassing the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) bases of support, in the territory of the Good Government Council of La Realidad, Jungle-Border zone, Caracol I “Toward Hope” (JBG).

The military actions in the territory of the JBG consist of incursions in convoys with trucks, hummers, jeeps, and motorized equipment; with members of the Mexican Army that range from 4 to 30 people. There are also low flights with light aircraft and helicopters photographing and filming members of the BriCO, zapatistas, and the JBG facilities. Since July 2014 these actions have been increasing, both in the size of the troops and the frequency with which they happen. (See the record of military activity at La Realidad).

Frayba is concerned with the increasing harassment by the Mexican Army in zapatista territory, since it constitutes actions to provoque and besiege that harm the rights to autonomy and free determination stipulated in the Mexican Constitution, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the San Andrés Accords.

Therefore, this Human Rights Center demands: Respect for the free determination and autonomy of zapatista peoples; and an end to the harassment by the federal government through the Mexican Army.

Finally, we recall that on May 2, 2014, members of the Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y Campesinos Histórica (CIOAC-H), ambushed zapatista bases of support in the territory of the JBG of La Realidad; durng the attack, the armed group murdered José Luis Solís López, “Maestro Galeano,” and destroyed the Autonomous Clinic and School. The aforementioned organization is part of the municipal government of Las Margaritas and has the protection of the state government of Manuel Velasco Coello, which has allowed it to carry out aggressions, forced displacements, and murders in the region. (See Frayba Bulletin 16 on the aggression to zapatista bases of support at La Realidad on 5 May 2014.)