Cherán K’eri es una comunidad indígena pur’épecha ubicada en el estado de Michoacán, México. A partir del año 2000, el crimen organizado empezó a filtrarse en la comunidad. Con el tiempo, la presencia de los narcotraficantes y su poder de control sobre la comunidad se incrementaron substancialmente y empezaron a arrasar con los bosques más preciosos de la comunidad. Cuando los integrantes de la comunidad intentaban defenderlos, eran asesinados o desaparecidos. El bosque era devastado y la gente vivía aterrorizada; todo el mundo sentía que su vida estaba en peligro. Al atardecer, Cherán se convertía en un pueblo fantasma.
El 15 de abril de 2011, un grupo de mujeres decidió poner un alto a esa situación: empezó a tapar las calles para impedir el paso de los talamontes. Rápidamente, la comunidad entera reaccionó y se unió al levantamiento, quemando carros y levantando barricadas en todas las entradas del pueblo. Frente a eso, los políticos y policías municipales, llenos de miedo, huyeron de Cherán. La comunidad tomó las oficinas del gobierno municipal, así como los vehículos de la policía y sus armas, para empezar a brindarse seguridad. En paralelo, el pueblo decidió expulsar definitivamente a los partidos políticos, para retomar sus formas tradicionales de autogobierno.
A cuatro años de su levantamiento, comuneros y comuneras nos hablan de las distintas etapas por las que ya han pasado en la construcción de su nuevo mundo, en el que realmente se le da la voz al pueblo, en el que la que manda es la asamblea, mientras el gobierno está obedeciendo; el principio de un largo proceso de construcción de autonomía, del que todas y todos podemos aprender.
Cideci-Unitierra Chiapas invita a la presentación del libro:
“DES-ORDENANDO EL GÉNERO / ¿DES-CENTRANDO LA NACIÓN?”
Presentan:
Rosaluz Pérez
Mercedes Olivera
Sylvia Marcos
Xuno López
Márgara Millán
19 de marzo de 2015, 17:00 horas
Cideci-Unitierra Chiapas
Camino Viejo a San Juan Chamula s/n, Colonia Nueva Maravilla
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
The words of the EZLN’s General Command in the voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the Zapatista community La Realidad at the presentation of the Zapatista Autonomous School, “Compañero Galeano” and the Autonomous Clinic 26 of October, “Subcomandante Insurgente Pedro” to the Zapatista bases of support, March 1, 2015.
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Good morning to everyone, compañeros and compañeras of this zone, in this caracol of La Realidad, Selva Fronteriza zone.
We are here with you today, compañeros, compañeras of this zone, to officially turn over these buildings to the compañeros and compañeras bases of support of this Zapatista community, La Realidad, Nueva Victoria, as it is called in the struggle for us as the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.
Compañeros and compañeras, what we must make clear and understand is that the pain carried by each Zapatista continues, not only the Zapatistas in Mexico, but across the world, because we do not have with us the compañero whose name this new construction carries: compañero Galeano.
This construction was the fruit and the work, the efforts and the organization of the compañeros and compañeras of the International Sixth and the National Sixth. Here we are demonstrating what we Zapatistas are, in Mexico and in the world.
On Sunday, March 1, 2015, after more than six months of work, the building that houses a health clinic and a school was presented to the Zapatista bases of support of La Realidad. The solidarity of people and collectives throughout the world made this construction possible. Here we present to you the accounts, the words expressed during this event, and some photos from that day.
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-Construction began on July 31, 2014. It was finished at the end of February 2015.
-Work days: approximately 2015 compa/work days.
Note from The Tercios Compas[ii] on the compa/work day, abbreviated CWD. CWD is a Zapatista unit of measure that could be thought of as equivalent to Socially Necessary Labor Time (SNLT). However, in addition to the fact that it is not measured in hours, CWD is not a unit of measure of value. CWD is a referent in order to compare the individual and the collective (an individual would have taken almost 7 years to do what a collective did in almost 7 months), and to contrast that which is done below and to the left with that which is done above and to the right (a government from above would have taken 14 years and still wouldn’t have finished the job). For example: with billions in their budget, the Chiapas state government cannot finish building hospitals in Reforma, Yajalón and Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The one in Tuxtla Gutiérrez is just one of the examples that abound of the corruption of the “leftist-PRDista-AMLOista” Juan Sabines Guerrero (who, as his predecessor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía confessed, created and financed the paramilitary group known as CIOAC-H in Chiapas; the Aryan Velasco carries on those same politics). In 2012, to “inaugurate” the hospital in Tuxtla, they moved equipment there from other hospitals. After that psychopath Calderón and the criminal Sabines cut the ribbon, they dismantled everything. Now it is just a shell (information from “Chiapas Paralelo” chiapasparalelo.com and “Diario Contra Poder” diariaocontrapoderenchiapas.com). The Aryan Velasco hides his patron’s enormous fraud and follows in his footsteps. Meanwhile, the money paid out above is spent on media propaganda, binge parties, decor, and makeup and beauty salons. In addition, of course, to being spent on persecuting the small independent paid media that still exists in the state, and buying silence on social networks. It is one thing to use handouts to corral people into praising the Aryan rancher, and a very different thing to organize in order to build what the people need. More information on the concept of SNLT, in Capital, Volume 1, Section 1, Chapter 1. We don’t remember the author, but he was a Jew, so proceed with caution. More information on the concept of CWD later on. End of the note from the Los Tercios Compas, press that is neither free, nor autonomous, nor alternative, nor independent, but it is compa. Copyright still in process because the Junta de Buen Gobierno told us “more information later on” (sonofa….didn’t I tell you?).
On Sept. 26, 2014, municipal police attacked a group of students from Ayotzinapa school in Mexico’s Guerrero state. Of the 43 disappeared students, eight came from Tecoanapa. Now their fellow citizens have shut down the local government buildings and set up a people’s council. It’s a movement that is gathering momentum across Guerrero.