Joint CNI-EZLN Declaration on the Invasion of Communal Lands of the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla and the Attack against the Indigenous Yaqui Lauro Baumea
Joint National Indigenous Congress – EZLN Declaration denouncing the invasion of the Communal Lands of the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla and the attack on Indigenous Yaqui Lauro Baumea
To the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla
To the Yaqui Tribe
To the National and International Sixth
To the Peoples of the World
Once more we express our pain and rage as the peoples in rebellion and resistance who make up the National Indigenous Congress. We unite our voices, our rage, and our pain in response to what is happening in the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla and to the members of the Yaqui Tribe who are defending their water source.
Our brothers and sisters of Xochicuautla have defended their forests against the construction of the private highway between Toluca and Naucalpan, because they know that life itself emerges from these trees, mountains, and waters. They were granted legal protection prohibiting this work on communal lands, but since October 8 of this year, workers from the construction company under the protection of public “Citizen Security” Forces of the State of Mexico have been invading their lands and cutting down hundreds of trees. The bad government doesn’t care if we below use their laws to defend ourselves; they break those laws themselves in order to destroy us. They made them for the same reason.
EZLN and organized civil society illuminate Chiapas for students and Yaquis
San Cristóbal de las Casas. 22 de octubre de 2014.
Hoy Guerrero y Sonora brillan en Chiapas, en sus caminos nublados, en sus veredas y brechas lodosas. Miles de mujeres y hombres bases de apoyo del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional se unen a la jornada global de protestas “Una luz por Ayotzinapa”, refrendando su solidaridad con las familias de los estudiantes de la Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos y con los presos políticos de la Tribu Yaqui. Para ello, se colocan cuando atardece a la orilla de decenas de caminos mojados que conducen a sus comunidades autónomas. Llevan en sus manos una luz encendida que luego clavan en la tierra cuando no llueve tanto, o mantas que exigen “presentación con vida de los 43 alumnos desaparecidos”, “castigos a los responsables de asesinatos y desaparición forzada”, así como “libertad incondicional para los hermanos yaquis Mario Luna Romero y Fernando Jiménez Gutiérrez”. Se congregan en las inmediaciones de sus comunidades y sus caracoles porque, a casi un mes de la barbarie policiaca en Iguala, 43 estudiantes siguen desaparecidos mientras nadie responde por los 25 heridos, por el cerebro en coma del joven Aldo Gutiérrez Solano, por el rostro baleado a quemaboca de Édgar Andrés Vargas, por el cuerpo desollado de Julio César Mondragón ni por otras 5 personas asesinadas el 26 de septiembre.
