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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) Contrainsurgencia a Pueblos Originarios que construyen la vida digna
A dos años de la Asamblea Constituyente del Concejo Indígena de Gobierno, del Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI), que se conformó los días 26, 27 y 28 de mayo del 2017, las agresiones a los pueblos, comunidades y organizaciones se intensifican como parte de una estrategia para contener las resistencias civiles y pacíficas en defensa del territorio. En el epicentro de los hostigamientos y de la criminalización se encuentran las defensoras quienes son cuidadoras de sus milenarias culturas y de la Madre Tierra.
Una mirada a las resistencias en México nos ejemplifica las constantes violaciones a derechos humanos a pueblos que se oponen al despojo y defienden su derecho a la autonomía. Dos geografías: en Chiapas, integrantes del Congreso Nacional Indígena del pueblo Chol de San José El Bascán, en el municipio de Salto de Agua, se encuentran en riesgo de ataque armado y desplazamiento forzado.(1) En Oaxaca, el Comité en Defensa de los Pueblos Indígenas (CODEDI) es constantemente perseguido: cuatro de sus integrantes fueron detenidos arbitrariamente este año y el 19 de abril, un ataque armado en contra de CODEDI dejó 5 personas heridas en Huatulco. Front Line Defender en su campaña por proteger a personas defensoras explica que «CODEDI ha trabajado por más de 20 años en la promoción y protección de los derechos humanos de 50 comunidades indígenas en diferentes regiones en el estado de Oaxaca.» (2)
Desde diciembre del 2018, el CNI ha denunciado despojos, desplazamientos forzados, detenciones arbitrarias, desapariciones forzadas, amenazas, hostigamientos, criminalización e intentos de ejecuciones; destacan además los ataques a medios comunitarios que ejercen el derecho a la libre expresión en el marco del Convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo.
