Orcao
Paramilitaries Attack Zapatista Support Bases, Set Fire to Autonomous School
Communique from the AJMAQ Network of Resistance and Rebellion denouncing the recent paramilitary attack carried out against Zapatista Support Bases and the burning of an autonomous Zapatista secondary school
To the People of the World
To the Indigenous Governing Council
To the National Indigenous Congress
To the National and International Sixth
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion
As the AJMAQ Network of Resistance and Rebellion, adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, we denounce the cowardly armed attack suffered by our compañeros and compañeras Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. These Support Bases belong to the Autonomous community of Moisés and Gandhi, pertaining to the Good Government Council “Nuevo Amanecer en Resistencia y Rebeldia por la Vida y la Humanidad” Caracol 10 Floreciendo la Semilla Rebelde. The attack was carried out by paramilitaries of the Regional Organization of Ocosingo Coffee Growers (ORCAO).
At 10am, ORCAO paramilitaries from the community of San Antonio las Flores, inside the February 7 Region, went to check water lines. After only a few minutes of checking the lines, they began shooting from different locations toward the community of Moisés y Gandhi.
As they were shooting intermittently, several high caliber bullets impacted three houses of the community, putting the community’s Zapatista Support Bases at risk.
The armed attack continued throughout the day. At 4:30 in the afternoon a group of paramilitaries approached the community’s Autonomous Zapatista Secondary School, “Siguiendo el Caminar de los 2 Mártires,” setting fire to three classrooms, burning them instantly. It is important to remember that the autonomous school suffered an armed attack on October 14 by ORCAO. Today they carried out their threat and intent to put an end to autonomous education.
This group of paramilitaries has carried out actions under the protection of the municipal authorities of Ocosingo, where the poorly named Green Party governs (an extension of the PRI who does the dirty work for MORENA), and whose principal leader is a functionary of the municipality. They act under the protection of the governor Rutilio Escandón Cadenas in exchange for votes that the Green Party gave him to become governor of Chiapas. A favor paid back with a favor.
Among the actions carried out by the paramilitary group, which have been denounced publicly yet remain in total impunity, are: the looting, robbery, and burning of the Rainbow Store on August 22, 2020, located at the Cushuljá intersection, in the municipality of Ocosingo.
On November 8, 2020, the Good Government Council of Patria Nueva denounced “the kidnapping and torture of a compañero Zapatista Support Base of the community of San Isidro, annex of Moisés y Gandhi, by the ORCAO paramilitary organization.”
On September 11, 2021, the paramilitary group kidnapped two members of the Good Government Council, José Antonio Sánchez Juárez and Sebastian Núñez Pérez, holding them incommunicado until September 19.
Faced with the acts carried out by the ORCAO paramilitaries, the complicity of the municipal government of the Green Party, along with the state and federal government of MORENA,
We demand:
An immediate end to the aggressions against the autonomous community of Moisés y Gandhi.
An end to the counterinsurgency against the Zapatista communities initiated by the PRI, continued by the PAN, and implemented now by MORENA.
Respect for the autonomies being constructed by the EZLN in their rebel territory.
Below and to the left is the heart.
They are not alone!
AJMAQ Network of Resistance and Rebellion
New aggressions by the paramilitary group ORCAO in Zapatista territory
The Good Government Council of Caracol 10 informed the AJMAQ network that last night, 13 October 2021, a strongly armed group of the paramlitary organization ORCAO (Regional Organization of Coffee Growers from Ocosingo) once again attacked the Zapatista community of Moisés y Gandhi, in an armed aggression that lasted 7 hours and that resulted in the forced displacement of several zapatista families.
This takes place slightly over a month after two Zapatista autonomous authorities were kidnapped by the same group. After that event, and in the context of the lon history of paramilitary violence by ORCAO against Zapatista communities, the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the EZLN published a communiqué warning that Chiapas is on the verge of civil war and callingfor national and international solidarity. That call resulted in expressions of solidarity and mobilizations throughout Mexico and the world. AIn spite of all this and the repeated demands to the three levels of the government to stop paramilitary aggressions against the communities that organize peacefully in defense of life, the ORCAO continues to enjoy complete impunity in its criminal actions.
Below, the communiqué by Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía AJMAQ:
Jobel, Chiapas, México
14 October 2021
To the people of the world
To the National Indigenous Congress
To the Indigenous Government Council
To the National and International Sixth
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion
Brothers and sisters, compañeros and compañeras,
The Good Government Council “Nuevo Amanecer en Resistencia y Rebeldía por la Vida y la Humanidad”, Caracol 10 “Floreciendo la Semilla Rebelde,” informed Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía AJMAQ that, slightly over a month after the arbitrary detention of the autonomous authorities José Antonio Sánchez Juárez and Sebastián Núñez Pérez, by the paramilitary group of the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers from Ocosingo (Orcao).
That same group, last night, 13 October 2021, at approximately 20:30, once again attacked the bases of support of the EZLN of the autonomous community of Moisés and Gandhi.
At 1:25 this morning, the gunfire increased, reaching the Autonomous Middle School. At 2:20, the strongly armed group were positioned only 90 feet from the homes of the families bases of support of the EZLN, who were therefore forcefully displaced in search of a safe shelter.
The aggressions of the paramilitary group ended at approximately 3:30, according to information from the Good Government Council.
We demand respect to the land and territory of the Zapatista peoples, their autonomy and free determination.
No more criminal actions by the ORCAO paramilitary group!
No more harassment against the autonomy and life built by the EZLN!
Red de Resistencia y Rebeldía AJMAQ






El pasado 11 de septiembre, en la comunidad 7 de Febrero, municipio de Ocosingo, Chiapas, fueron desaparecidos José Antonio Sánchez Juárez y Sebastián Núñez Pérez, ambos son autoridades civiles autónomas de la Junta de Buen Gobierno (JBG) “Nuevo Amanecer en Resistencia y Rebeldía por la Vida y la Humanidad” con sede en la comunidad Patria Nueva, Caracol 10 “Floreciendo la Semilla Rebelde” del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN).















