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Communique from the CNI-CIG and the EZLN in Response to the Recent Violence Against Originary Peoples
Communique from the CNI-CIG and the EZLN in Response to the Recent Violence Against Originary Peoples
To the peoples of the world:
To the CIG support networks:
To the national and international Sixth:
To the media:
Neoliberal capitalism is marking its steps with the blood of our peoples as war is intensified against us wherever we refuse to cede our land, our culture, our peace and our collective organization, and because we refuse to give up our resistance or resign ourselves to dying off.
We denounce the cowardly attack on May 31 against the indigenous Nahua community of Zacualpan, which is part of the CNI, in the municipality of Comala, Colima, where narco-paramilitaries fired high-caliber weapons at a group of young people, killing one and critically injuring three more.
We hold all three levels of bad government responsible for this event, in particular the head of public security, Javier Montes García, as it is the bad government that allows these narco-paramilitary groups to operate in the region. We demand full respect for the traditions and customs of the Nahua indigenous community of Zacualpan.
We condemn the aggression and destruction carried out in the early morning hours of May 31 against the Rebollero and Río Minas communities, part of the Binizza community of San Pablo Cuatro Venados in the municipality of Zachila, Oaxaca. There, a group armed with high-caliber weapons and heavy equipment came in firing on the community, destroying dozens of homes and forcing the population, including children, to flee. In all, 24 homes were demolished in the attack and the communities’ corn and other food supplies set on fire, including seeds saved for planting. The group also burned the families’ personal items such as clothing and shoes and stole their livestock, power generators, and water pumps.
We condemn the repression and displacement of our compañeros and compañeras of the Otomí indigenous community who have maintained a temporary encampment at #7 Londres Street in the Juárez neighborhood in Mexico City since the September 19, 2017 earthquake. At 11 am on May 30, they were violently evicted by shock troops sent by the bad government and real estate companies, working alongside hundreds of riot police at the service of Néstor Núñez, mayor of the Cuauhtémoc district.
We condemn the narco-paramilitary siege sustained by criminal groups—supported and protected by the bad government and all of the political parties—against the communities of the Emiliano Zapata Popular Indigenous Council of Guerrero (CIPOG-EZ) in the municipalities of Chilapa and José Joaquín de Herrera, who struggle peacefully to build their autonomy.
We call on all the peoples of Mexico and the world to be attentive to and in solidarity with the struggle of the Guerrero communities and to break the violent siege against them which limits their access to food and medicine and is waged in the interests of the capitalist appropriation of indigenous territory. We urge support for the collection of provisions to be sent to the affected communities, including corn, rice, beans, canned chili peppers, sugar, sardines, tuna, toilet paper, diapers, and medicine, to be collected at the UNIOS headquarters in Mexico City, #32 Carmona y Valle Street, Colonia Doctores.
We reiterate that our Mother Earth is not for sale to big capital or to anybody, that our existence is not up for negotiation and thus neither is the resistance of our peoples.
Attentively,
June 2019
For the Full Reconstitution of our Peoples
Never Again a Mexico Without Us
National Indigenous Congress
Indigenous Governing Council
Zapatista Army for National Liberation
(Español) Acciones en solidaridad con el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional y con el Congreso Nacional Indígena se replican en países.
En México, se realizan acciones en más de 10 estados.
En tan sólo tres meses, cinco defensores del territorio que se organizaban en torno al Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI) han sido asesinados. Se trata de Samir Flores Soberanesde Amilcingo, en el estado de Morelos y de Bartolo Hilario Morales, Isaías Xanteco Ahuejote, Bartolo Faustino y Modesto Verales Sebastián; estos últimos pertenecientes al Consejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata.
En el mismo lapso de tiempo, el Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas publicó un informe en el que da cuenta de la intensificación de la estrategia contrainsurgente contra Pueblos Originarios Bases de Apoyo del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional en lo que va del gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Ahí se informa que “desde fines del 2018, se duplicó el número de incursiones del Ejército mexicano a la sede de la Junta de Buen Gobierno (JBG) Hacia la Esperanza, en el Caracol de La Realidad (Municipio oficial de Las Margaritas). Las BriCo observaron 19 patrullajes terrestres, (con soldados armados con metralletas) y 5 sobrevuelos desde helicópteros, de enero a abril de 2019. Preocupante es la regularización de los sobrevuelos a las comunidades y el aumento de los movimientos militares en el último mes”.
Ante esta grave situación, organizaciones, redes, colectivos e invidualidades se han dado a la tarea de organizar una serie de movilizaciones en diferentes partes de México y del mundo para mostrar su solidaridad con el EZLN, y reivindicar la lucha por la Vida y contra la Guerra en todo el mundo.
Hasta el miércoles 29 de mayo, había registradas más de 20 acciones en México, Argentina, EUA, Grecia, Francia y Austria. La información sobre dichas actividades pueden consultarse en la página Porque Acordamos Viviry registrarse al porqueacordamosvivir@gmail.com
Para sumarse a la acción desde redes sociales, también se convoca a utilizar los #NosotrxsConElEZLN #NosotrxsConElCNI y #JornadasPorLaVidaEZLNyCNI
En la Ciudad de México, la cita fue a las 07:00am en la entrada de Palacio Nacional, por la tarde también se llevaron a cabo otras actividades.











































