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Thirteenth Part: TWO FOOTBALL GAMES AND THE SAME REBELLION
Thirteenth Part: TWO FOOTBALL GAMES AND THE SAME REBELLION.
“Football is the continuation of politics by other means.”
Don Durito de La Lacandona (“DD”, for legal purposes).
November 2023
I.- Eve of the Journey for Life – Europe chapter.
A football challenge has been received from a European women’s team that resists and fights.
SupGaleano has appointed himself “technical director” of the “Ixchel – Ramona” team, made up of militiawomen. As it should be, the Sup has studied the rival team. He gathers the compañeras who will make the trip. Analyzes in detail the skills and characteristics of each of the players. He goes to Subcommander Moisés and gives his diagnosis: “they are going to tear us into pieces.” SubMoy looks at it with a “so?” face, as if taking it for granted. But the now deceased has not finished: “But I have a secret plan, as Dení says. With that we will revolutionize football and redefine it in its essence: the game.”
Subcommander Insurgent Moisés, coordinator of the tour, is quite busy with the preparation courses, birth certificates, passports and the design of the route to follow, so he leaves SupGaleano to proceed “at his discretion.” The future deceased smiles and says: “Discretion is my second last name” (don’t ask me what his first last name was because it would take several pages to explain it to you).
The deceased in the making begins the preparation of the women’s team. But, for his strategy to be successful, he needs the support of the fearsome, terrible and terrifying “Popcorn Commando”, which, at that moment, is trying to open a hole in the training ship in which the so-called “Squadron 421” was prepared. Disillusioned because, before finishing the work below the waterline, the ship had been transformed into an imposing two-engine plane, they went to consult with SupGaleano what they could do to set the aircraft on fire. The Sup convinced them that it was not advisable to burn it, that it was better to wait until it was in full flight to shoot it down from within. The beloved Amado and Chinto objected: if the plane falls, Commando Palomitas will also fall. The Sup responded that it was not the time to dwell on trifles. Furthermore, the Command was required for a higher task, than sabotaging an air trip that did not even complete the payment for the tickets, not to mention the lack of passports, and that the majority of the so-called “Division Aerotransportada La Extemporánea” was getting dizzy in the truck.
When the Popcorn Commando, the Sup, Tzotz, Tragón and Pelusa met in the ultra-secret bunker that is in the Puy platform of the Tzotz Choj area, they proceeded to refine the details of what, from then on, would be known worldwide as the “Brilliant and Excellent Plan to Defeat a Rival Better Prepared, Trained and Equipped than Us” (BEPDRMPEEN, for its acronym in Spanish), subtitle “And that they have better technique and control of the ball.”
The top secret meeting continued its normal course. That is to say, Chuy took away Lupita’s chamoy lollypop, Verónica gave Chuy a slap and, as if it were the Supreme Government, she kept Chuy’s lollypop, Lupita’s and her own. El Chinto and the beloved Amado insisted that their bicycles had broken down “just like that” and that the Monarch had to fix them. Pelusa, Tragón and Tzotz looked at the table looking for cookies, and Sup gave a master class on “How to win a soccer game with everything against you.”
The apparent chaos subsided when the Sup took out, from who knows where, a box of “Choki The Devil’s Cookie”, and only then – after 5 packages had been dispatched – the missions were distributed, the schedule was made, and they stuffed themselves with the sixth package “in honor of the future fallen men.” “And women,” Chuy felt obliged to add, only to receive from Verónica another zap model “gender equality does not apply in misfortune.” Lupita approved the action with the chamoy lollypop that Sup gave her so she wouldn’t continue crying.
The “three times T” Popcorn Command, the Sup and the canine wing of the command then went to the hotbed and, with the militia members gathered, the new “passive-aggressive” scheme was explained and practiced, which, as it should be, had in a leading role the aforementioned Command.
Following the old and proven Zapatista rule of “Do not play with the enemy’s rules”, the Sup developed a kind of mixture of rugby, with nineteenth-century dramaturgy, with some Anime, with cinema very much like Hollywood corner with Cannes, with Monet’s impressionism, a pinch of Allan Poe crossed with Conan Doyle, something of Cervantes’ epic, the brevity of Joyce, the perspective of Buñuel, a pinch of Brecht mixed with Beckett, the seasoning of some tacos al pastor, a very rebajada cumbia, Anita Tijoux and Shadia Mansour breaking borders -free Palestine-, and, well, I didn’t take note of everything, but the only thing missing was the ball.
The strategy in question had 3 phases:
The first was that Verónica grabbed a Zapatista doll and headed determinedly towards the opposing goal, she stood in front of the enemy goalkeeper and spoke to her in Cho’ol. The goalkeeper, of course, world not understand anything, but there stood Lupita and Esperanza Zapatista who would translate with signs that the girl was giving her the doll. And Esperanza, as her name indicates, offered to take a photo with the girl and the doll. For the photo, they should tell the goaly to put the ball down, because Verónica wanted her to hug her. At the moment this happened, Esperanza kicked the ball “into the back of the net” and the entire team shouted “Goal!” It was practiced countless times with success. The only thing that could not be achieved was for Verónica not to take the doll from the goalkeeper and run away.
The second variant consisted of the Zapatista goalkeeper receiving the ball, placing it under her sports shirt, as if she were pregnant, and beginning to walk as if pregnant. The entire Zapatista team came to help her and take her to medical services. Of course, since they were in foreign territory, the teammates made a mistake and went to face the enemy goal, where, miraculously, the Zapatista goalkeeper dropped the ball that, barely rolling, went beyond the enemy line and gave birth to a Goal that he forgot from Messi and Cristiano. Meanwhile, the TTT Popcorn Commando surrounded the sister responsible for the board and “exhorted” her to accept the goal achieved “with the sacrifice of the Zapatista comrade and her little ball.”
The third variant implied a risk for the protagonist, since she had to fake fainting. It was practiced only once in the seedbed because the terrain there is gravel (stone and sand), and it was expected that there would be grass in the enemy field. The compañera had to faint in the middle of the field. Subcommander Moisés, alarmed, would run to see his companion and, with him, the entire Zapatista bench would run. All the compañeras cried out, in their respective mother tongues, for medical service. As expected, the enemy would have no medical service, so a stretcher would be prepared in advance. The referee would like to call the paramedics, but SubMoisés would allege practices and customs of the native peoples, so the Zapatistas themselves lift the fainted woman and place her on the stretcher. Confused by the pain and sorrow of seeing their sister fall in combat, the militia members would not succeed in heading to the bench carrying the stretcher, so they would end up reaching the enemy goal. At that moment, the first gods, those who made the world, would do their work and the injured compa would wake up without the need for any male toad, commoner or royalty, to kiss her, and she would find the ball at her feet, just on the goal line and with a kick she would seal the fate. It was to be expected that, animated by the joy of seeing their companion safe, the militiawomen would shout “Goal!” By that time, the Popcorn Commando would already be at the foot of the scoreboard to ensure that life was celebrated.
I don’t really remember the fourth – I know I said there were 3, but weren’t the three musketeers actually 4? -, although it was similar in wit, creativity and mischief to the other three.
According to what the militia women told me upon their return, in the territories they call “Italy” and “Spanish State”, the enemy sisters quickly understood what the matter was about and began to play with the same style. I don’t know whether FIFA could classify it as football but, judging by the photos and videos they showed me, it was a party. Result: there was no winner or loser… and Verónica returned with the doll that, presumably, belonged to the now deceased SupGaleano. No, she didn’t give it back.
“And that was the message for geographies around the world: do not play with your enemy’s rules, create your own rules,” SupGaleano declared to me before his last sigh.
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II.- How many Cyprus can fit in a soccer game?
This was told to me by Subcommander Insurgent Moisés, when he told me details and anecdotes from the so-called “Europe chapter” of the Journey for Life. What I tell below is what I managed to rescue from the narration, full of admiration and respect, of Subcommander Moisés.
“There is a geography called Cyprus. Well, it’s broken, that is, in pieces. There are Cypriots, there are Greek Cypriots and there are Turkish Cypriots and I don’t remember how many more people have the last name Cypriot. The capitalists divided that land, cut it into pieces. And they also cut up their people, their language, their history, their culture. And it turns out that, although it is a small island, all the money wants it and, as they do, they divide it, but each party wants the other’s share. In other words, in the midst of the powerful and their wars, the people remain.
Well, then there is a soccer team in that geography called Cyprus. They have good players and they are professionals. So their job is to play soccer. So they are losing several games and they meet among themselves to analyze and they say that they are losing because the games’ strategy is wrong. They go and tell the owner of the team, that is, the boss, that they are losing because of that, that they already thought of a better strategy and that way they will win more games.
The boss, that is, the owner of the team, looks at them with contempt and tells them: “you win or lose as it suits me. Sometimes it suits me that you lose and that’s how it will continue.»
The players know how to play very well, but they also have a good heart. So, as they say, they rebel. They tell themselves resistance and rebellion, but in their language. And they send the owner of the team, that is, the boss, to hell. Then they make their own soccer team. And they organize themselves and make a stadium. That land is divided, so, in the middle, they say “no man’s land”, they make their stadium there and then they invite anyone who wants to play and practice. The other groups and collectives that fight, support them and are well organized. It doesn’t matter if you are Cypriot, Greek Cypriot, Turkish Cypriot or Cypriot I don’t know what. There is no charge, it is voluntary what each person wants to give. So, as they say, the pay is not what matters. So, from time to time they have their matches and there are no divisions of nationalities, no religions, no flags, there is only football. And it’s like a party.
In other words, as they say, those brothers broke those boundaries that the bosses and owners put in place.
“So they kind of made their Caracol. They have a football Caracol! I told them let’s see when we can have a soccer game there in their land or here in no man’s land,» says Subcommander Insurgent Moisés, spokesperson for the Zapatista communities, chief of the EZLN, and coordinator of the Journey for Life.
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- Cheers and that the games, like the rides, are not a competition but rather excuses to coexist among different people.
I attest
From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.
The Captain
Mexico, November 2023. 40, 30, 20, 10, 2 years later.
Music: «Somos Sur», for Ana Tijoux and Shadia Mansour
Images of the soccer match between the Ixchel-Ramona team and the enemy Italian sisters taken in the geography they call Rome, Italy, in November 2021. Added to images of mobilization of the Zapatista peoples against the wars in 2022. Tercios Compas . Copyleft November 2023
(Español) Organizaciones brasileñas alertan por incremento en asesinatos contra quilombolas
Fuente: Avispa Midia
Por Sare Frabes
Marcha del movimiento negro contra la violencia policial, celebrada en la ciudad de São Paulo el 24 de agosto, en protesta contra el asesinato de Bernardete Pacífico, lideresa acribillada con 12 tiros en Bahía.
En Brasil, la difusión de una investigación señala que, entre 2018 y 2022, los asesinatos contra quilombolas se duplicaron con respecto a un estudio previo, el cual había registrado agresiones contra las comunidades afrodescendientes entre 2008 al 2017. En 15 años, 70 quilombolas -descendientes de africanos que se rebelaron y huyeron de la condición de esclavos durante la colonización portuguesa- fueron asesinados en todo el país.
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El estudio titulado Racismo y violencia contra los quilombos en Brasil, difundido el pasado viernes (17), enfatiza que el 70% de los asesinatos sucedieron en territorios no titulados, siendo el estado de Maranhão, al norte del país, el que registró el mayor número de asesinatos.
Elaborada por la Coordinación Nacional para la Articulación de las Comunidades Negras Rurales Quilombolas (Conaq) y la organización Terra de Direitos, la investigación señala eventos de violencia contra los quilombos que muestran el recrudecimiento de las desigualdades practicadas históricamente contra las comunidades quilombolas en Brasil.
El estudio analizó 32 asesinatos registrados en 11 estados del país sudamericano y enfatiza que los conflictos por la tierra y la violencia de género están entre las principales causas de los asesinatos de quilombolas en Brasil. “Al menos 13 quilombolas fueron asesinados en el contexto de la lucha por su territorio y la defensa del mismo”, sostienen las organizaciones.
La investigación señala que, a comparación con el estudio previo que registró las agresiones violentas durante un periodo de 10 años, el promedio anual de los últimos cinco años se duplicó, al pasar de 3.8 a 6.4 asesinatos por año. “Se registraron cuatro asesinatos de quilombolas en los años con menor número de violencia en el período analizado. En los años de 2019 a 2021 se registraron picos de 8 asesinatos”, resaltan.
El estudio revela que, al menos, 15 de estos crímenes tuvieron como objetivo a líderes reconocidos por las comunidades.
“El Estado brasileño debe tomar medidas inmediatas para proteger a los líderes de todo Brasil. Es deber del Estado garantizar que haya una investigación rápida y efectiva y que los responsables de los crímenes que han victimado a los líderes de estos Quilombos y a tantos otros rindan cuentas debidamente. Es crucial que se haga justicia, que se conozca la verdad y que se castigue a los responsables. Queremos justicia para honrar la memoria de nuestros líderes que perdemos, pero también para poder decir que, en Brasil, no se tolerarán los actos de violencia contra los quilombolas”, reclamó el coordinador ejecutivo de Conaq, Biko Rodrigues.
Feminicidios, al alza
En el reporte, destaca también el elevado número de feminicidios, pues nueve de los asesinatos fueron contra mujeres. “Los autores de la violencia [fueron] sus parejas actuales o ex parejas. Aunque se refiera al ámbito privado de las relaciones, las organizaciones entienden que la violencia contra las mujeres es un reflejo de la lucha política que llevan a cabo en el quilombo en defensa del territorio y de la supervivencia de las comunidades”, detallan las organizaciones.
La proporción de mujeres quilombolas asesinadas también se ha duplicado en el periodo registrado durante los últimos cinco años, en contraste con el registro de 10 años, entre 2008 a 2017, cuando fueron asesinadas ocho mujeres.
Las organizaciones señalaron que la investigación se inició tres meses después del asesinato de Maria Bernadete Pacífico, acontecido el pasado 17 de agosto. Bernadete, coordinadora de la Conaq, pertenecía a la comunidad de Pitanga dos Palmares Quilombo y era madre de Flávio Gabriel Pacífico dos Santos, otro reconocido líder quilombola, asesinado en 2017 en el contexto de una lucha por el territorio. Acorde a la oficina jurídica de Conaq, las investigaciones sobre el asesinato siguen en curso por parte de la Policía Civil.
Cabe destacar que, pese a que el asesinato de Bernadete no está incluido en el período analizado en la investigación, en lo que va del año 2023 se registra el asesinato de siete quilombolas.
La disputa por tierras
Otro de los hallazgos señala que el 70% de los asesinatos fueron motivados por conflictos de tierras pues sucedieron en territorios que no cuentan con la regularización de sus títulos. Al mismo tiempo, entre 11 quilombos, total o parcialmente titulados, la disputa por el territorio representó el 27% de los asesinatos.
En 10 de las 26 comunidades donde se registraron asesinatos, no hay casos abiertos en el Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria y Colonización (INCRA), autoridad encargada de la regularización de tierras quilombolas en Brasil.
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BOX Hallazgos
Algunos de los datos que revela el estudio sobre las agresiones durante el periodo 2018-2022 son los siguientes:
*Se registraron asesinatos en 26 comunidades quilombolas. En las comunidades de Rio dos Macacos (Bahía) y Cedro (Maranhão) hubo 3 asesinatos; en el Quilombo Conceição de Crioulas (Pernambuco) hubo 4.
*En 6 de los 32 asesinatos fue posible identificar la ocurrencia de amenazas anteriores a los asesinatos.
*Maranhão es el Estado con mayor número de asesinatos (09), seguido de Bahia, Pará y Pernambuco, con cuatro casos cada uno.
*El Noreste es la región con el mayor número, con 21 asesinatos registrados, lo que representa el 65,6% de todos los casos. El Norte es la región con el segundo mayor número, con 4 asesinatos mapeados.
