{"id":10497,"date":"2014-08-12T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2014-09-02T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T15:03:53","slug":"transcripcion-de-la-conferencia-de-prensa-del-ezln-con-medios-libres-autonomos-alternativos-o-como-se-llamen-del-10-de-agosto-del-2014-en-la-realidad-zapatista-chiapas-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=10497","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Transcripci\u00f3n de la Conferencia de prensa del EZLN con Medios Libres, aut\u00f3nomos, alternativos o como se llamen, del 10 de agosto del 2014, en La Realidad Zapatista, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico.<!--:--><!--:en-->Transcription of the EZLN Press Conference with the free, autonomous, alternative, or whatever-you-call-it media, August 10, 2014, in La Realidad Zapatista, Chiapas, Mexico<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10442  aligncenter\" title=\"gracias\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias-350x175.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=10441\"><strong>VE O ESCUCHA LAS PALABRAS DEL SUBCOMANDANTE GALEANO AQU\u00cd<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primera parte: palabras del SupGaleano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buenos d\u00edas ciudad G\u00f3tica\u2026 Ya que acaben de tomar sus fotos all\u00e1 en el templete, ac\u00e1 vamos a empezar la conferencia de prensa.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1yanse  sentando por favor para que empezamos ya en unos minutos y se puedan  ir. Por favor acom\u00f3dense, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras. Sentados.<\/p>\n<p>Buenos d\u00edas ciudad G\u00f3tica (\u00e9se es un saludo a un compa\u00f1ero que tuitea as\u00ed).<\/p>\n<p>Eso  que acaban de ver hace unos momentos, en t\u00e9rminos militares se llama  maniobra de diversi\u00f3n, en t\u00e9rminos comunes es magia. Y eso que tom\u00f3 unos  minutos, a otro le toc\u00f3 hacerlo 20 a\u00f1os para que as\u00ed saliera.<\/p>\n<p>Quer\u00edamos  empezar, aprovechando que est\u00e1n los medios libres, aut\u00f3nomos,  alternativos o como se llamen, y compa\u00f1eros de la Sexta nacional e  internacional, para darles las gracias. Y para darles las gracias les  voy a contar la historia de una muerte.<\/p>\n<p>Este  25 de agosto van a cumplirse 10 a\u00f1os de la muerte del Teniente  Insurgente de Infanter\u00eda Eleazar. En 2004, pero desde 2003, empez\u00f3 con  una enfermedad de \u00e9sas que s\u00f3lo aparecen en doctor <em>House<\/em> o cosas as\u00ed, que se llama Guillain-Barr\u00e9, que consiste en un deterioro  paulatino de todo el sistema de vida hasta que muere. No tiene cura, hay  que mantener al enfermo con vida artificial, conectado.<\/p>\n<p>Empez\u00f3  a enfermarse y lo llevaron a Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez a un hospital. Ah\u00ed le  diagnosticaron eso y empezaron a decirle que mejor se fuera, que no era  grave; aunque cuando a m\u00ed me dijeron qu\u00e9 enfermedad era s\u00ed sab\u00eda de qu\u00e9  se trataba; porque los m\u00e9dicos, como lo ve\u00edan ind\u00edgena sab\u00edan que no iba  a poder pagar el tratamiento. En realidad es un tratamiento de  supervivencia, no tiene cura.<\/p>\n<p>Mta\u2026 a ver si pueden jalar a los milicianos a la sombra, si no ah\u00ed se van a cocer vivos, Lico\u2026<\/p>\n<p>El parche es para que piensen que tengo ojo de vidrio, pero no. Yo y mis malditas ocurrencias, ahora lo tengo que traer puesto.<\/p>\n<p>Bueno,  esa enfermedad\u2026 en Chiapas, me imagino que en el resto del pa\u00eds, la  posici\u00f3n con el paciente es que el m\u00e9dico calcula si es que puede pagar o  no el tratamiento. Si no lo puede pagar, eso seg\u00fan sus c\u00e1lculos,  entonces le dicen que no tiene nada o le dan unos cuantos placebos para  que piense que se va a curar y lo mandan a morir a su casa.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  dijimos que no. Empezamos a gastarnos el fondo de guerra o fondo de  resistencia, hasta que ya no pudimos sostenerlo. Nos dirigimos entonces,  estoy hablando del 2003 cuando todav\u00eda nos quer\u00eda un cierto sector de  la intelectualidad art\u00edstica, para pedirles apoyo para poder seguir  manteniendo con vida a este compa\u00f1ero. Se rieron de nosotros, o sea los  ind\u00edgenas se pueden enfermar de viruela, de sarampi\u00f3n, de tifoidea, de  todas esas cosas, pero no de una enfermedad tan aristocr\u00e1tica, digamos,  porque s\u00f3lo le da a uno en millones de casos, como es la Guillain-Barr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando  ya no pudimos sostenerlo nos llevamos al Teniente Eleazar a Oventic y  ah\u00ed con los aparatos que pudimos conseguir lo mantuvimos con vida, hasta  que un 25 de agosto hace 10 a\u00f1os, muri\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p>Diez  a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, con la desgracia del asesinato del compa Galeano, se  destruyeron por parte de los paramilitares de la CIOAC-Hist\u00f3rica la  escuela y la cl\u00ednica que eran aut\u00f3nomas, o sea eran de los zapatistas de  aqu\u00ed de La Realidad. Y para la reconstrucci\u00f3n no acudimos a pedir el  apoyo de esa gente, sino que acudimos a la gente de abajo, a nuestros  compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eroas de la Sexta nacional e  internacional.<\/p>\n<p>El  compa\u00f1ero Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, aqu\u00ed presente, con el  Comandante Tacho, junto con las autoridades zapatistas de La Realidad,  hicieron un c\u00e1lculo del material, junto con los compa\u00f1eros que le saben a  la construcci\u00f3n, y calcul\u00f3 209 mil pesos y pelos. El c\u00e1lculo que  nosotros hac\u00edamos es:<\/p>\n<p>Bueno,  pues la banda est\u00e1 jodida, ah\u00ed rasc\u00e1ndole lo que puede tal vez se  llegar\u00e1 a la mitad y la otra mitad la podemos agarrar del fondo de  resistencia o le pedimos apoyo a los otros caracoles.<\/p>\n<p>La  historia de lo que pas\u00f3 ustedes la conocen porque ustedes son los  protagonistas. Y ustedes me refiero no s\u00f3lo a los que est\u00e1n aqu\u00ed, sino a  los que a trav\u00e9s de ustedes se enteran de lo que est\u00e1 pasando aqu\u00ed, o  sea nuestros compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras y <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em> de la Sexta en todo el mundo. Quintuplicaron excedido, ya la \u00faltima cuenta quintuplic\u00f3 esa solicitud de apoyo.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  quer\u00edamos darles las gracias por eso, porque nunca antes el EZLN hab\u00eda  recibido tanto apoyo y ese apoyo fue superior a los que s\u00ed tienen.  Porque nosotros sabemos que los compa\u00f1eros de la Sexta no dieron lo que  les sobraba, sino lo que les faltaba. Estuvimos leyendo en sus medios  libres, en sus <em>tuiter<\/em> y en sus feisbuc, historias que nos llenan de orgullo.<\/p>\n<p>Sabemos  que muchos batallaron incluso para conseguir la paga para venir para  ac\u00e1, incluso le rascan para llevarse cada d\u00eda algo a la boca, o para  cambiarse de \u2013iba a decir calzones\u2013, o de lo que usen, y como quiera  hicieron el esfuerzo para conseguir esto y dar una muestra de lo que es  el apoyo entre compa\u00f1eros y no la limosna que viene de arriba.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  lo primero que quiero que le digan a los compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras de  todo el mundo, en sus lenguas, idiomas, modos, tiempos y geograf\u00edas, es  gracias, de veras. Han dado una hermosa lecci\u00f3n, no s\u00f3lo a esa gente que  all\u00e1 arriba reparte limosnas, a los gobiernos que abandonan sus  obligaciones y adem\u00e1s promueven la destrucci\u00f3n, sino tambi\u00e9n nos han  dado una hermosa lecci\u00f3n, la m\u00e1s hermosa que hemos recibido en los  \u00faltimos a\u00f1os desde que sali\u00f3 la Sexta Declaraci\u00f3n a nosotros, los  zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>El  sentido de esta conferencia de prensa era cumplir un debe.  Originalmente esta conferencia de prensa iba a ser en Oventic, cuando  iba a ser la compartici\u00f3n con los pueblos indios, y luego iba a ser  cuando el funeral del compa\u00f1ero Galeano, el homenaje pues. Y era  principalmente las \u00faltimas palabras o la despedida del Subcomandante  Marcos y las primeras palabras del Subcomandante Insurgente, ahora  Galeano, entonces se iba a llamar de otra forma.<\/p>\n<p>Y  es importante lo que les platico, lo que iba a ser, o sea c\u00f3mo se hab\u00eda  pensado, para proponerles otra posible lectura de lo que fue el  homenaje a Galeano y este tr\u00e1nsito entre la muerte y la vida que fue la  desaparici\u00f3n del finado Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, que el diablo  le est\u00e1 retorciendo las narices, eso s\u00ed, guapo el hombre, lo que sea de  cada quien&#8230; \u00c9se fue sarcasmo, no s\u00e9 si se\u2026 todav\u00eda puedo distinguir esas  cosas.<\/p>\n<p>Miren,  compa\u00f1eros, para entender lo que pas\u00f3 la madrugada del 25 de mayo hay  que entender lo que hab\u00eda pasado antes, lo que iba a ser. He le\u00eddo y  escuchado interpretaciones m\u00e1s o menos acertadas, la mayor\u00eda de ellas  completamente descabelladas, sobre lo que signific\u00f3 esa madrugada del 25  de mayo. Algunas ingeniosas, como por ejemplo, que todo era un truco  para eludir la pensi\u00f3n familiar o la paternidad.<\/p>\n<p>Pero  la mayor\u00eda prescind\u00eda de todo lo que hab\u00eda pasado, por ejemplo, se  manej\u00f3 que los zapatistas dec\u00edan que los medios de paga no exist\u00edan, que  ahora eran el enemigo, que era una acci\u00f3n contra los medios de paga,  etc\u00e9tera. Pero si tienen un poco de memoria, en la invitaci\u00f3n original,  el evento era abierto para todos, cuando era en Oventic. Quiere decir  que tambi\u00e9n iban a entrar los medios de paga.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que iba a pasar entonces es que Marcos se iba a morir y se iba a  despedir de los medios de paga, a explicar c\u00f3mo los ve\u00edamos entonces, a  darles las gracias e iba a dirigirse y a presentarse con los medios  libres, alternativos, aut\u00f3nomos o como se llamen. Quiero decir con esto  que una posible lectura, a lo mejor no es la m\u00e1s acertada, lo de la  madrugada del 25 de mayo del 2014 significa que el EZLN est\u00e1 cambiando  de interlocutor, y por eso les cont\u00e9 la historia del finado Teniente  Insurgente de Infanter\u00eda Eleazar, veterano de guerra, que combati\u00f3 en  1994.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00ed,  los zapatistas no s\u00f3lo no hemos dicho que los medios de paga no  existen, como alguien dijo esa tonter\u00eda por ah\u00ed, lo que est\u00e1 pasando es  otra cosa con los medios de paga, que no tiene que ver con nosotros y  tiene que ver con este avance del capitalismo a nivel mundial.<\/p>\n<p>Los  medios de paga han presentado algo que es maravilloso dentro del  capitalismo, porque es de las pocas veces donde vemos que el capitalismo  convierte en mercanc\u00eda la no producci\u00f3n. Se supone que el trabajo de  los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n es producir informaci\u00f3n, circularla de modo  que se consuma para sus distintos p\u00fablicos o receptores, y el  capitalismo ha conseguido que los medios cobren por no producir, es  decir, por no informar.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que ha pasado en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os es que con el avance de los medios  masivos de comunicaci\u00f3n no de posesi\u00f3n privada, o sea que est\u00e1n en  litigio o en pelea, o que son como terreno de lucha como el internet, la  prensa tradicional ha ido perdiendo poder, poder de difusi\u00f3n y por  supuesto, capacidad de comunicaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Tengo  aqu\u00ed unos datos y voy a citar al autor porque pide que cada vez que se  usen sus datos se le cite, que es Francisco Vidal Bonifaz, \u00e9l hace un  an\u00e1lisis del tiraje de los principales peri\u00f3dicos en M\u00e9xico<strong> (nota: probablemente el de la voz se refiere al libro \u201cLos Due\u00f1os del  Cuarto Poder\u201d, editorial planeta, donde el autor, Francisco Vidal  Bonifaz hace un an\u00e1lisis exhaustivo de la prensa en M\u00e9xico. En ese libro  y en el blog \u201cLa Rueda de la Fortuna &#8211;<\/strong><strong> ruedadelafortuna.wordpress.com-,<\/strong><strong> se pueden encontrar esos datos, as\u00ed como los tirajes de cada  publicaci\u00f3n, el estatus econ\u00f3mico y educativo de sus lectores, etc. El  libro y el blog son recomendables para cualquiera que quiera conocer m\u00e1s  a fondo lo referente a la prensa mexicana. Nota cortes\u00eda de \u201cLos  Tercios Compas\u201d)<\/strong>.  Los principales peri\u00f3dicos en M\u00e9xico, en esta especie de provincialismo  inverso que tienen los chilangos, consideran peri\u00f3dicos nacionales los  que se producen en el DF, aunque el tiraje de los que hay en provincia  sea mayor.<\/p>\n<p>En  1994 se tiraban, a veces en sentido m\u00e1s que figurado, m\u00e1s de un mill\u00f3n  de ejemplares entre los principales peri\u00f3dicos. En 2007 la producci\u00f3n  hab\u00eda ca\u00eddo a 800 mil, el n\u00famero de lectores tambi\u00e9n hab\u00eda disminuido  escandalosamente. De una u otra forma el periodismo de investigaci\u00f3n y  el de an\u00e1lisis, que es el terreno que le hubiera permitido a los medios  de paga competir con la informaci\u00f3n instant\u00e1nea que es posible por  internet, fue abandonado y dejado de lado.<\/p>\n<p>Los  medios de paga -en realidad no es un insulto, es una realidad, es un  medio que vive de la paga \u00bfno?-. Alguien dice \u201cno, es que eso de medio  de paga se oye muy fuerte, muy feo, mejor usen medio comercial\u201d. Se oye  peor un medio comercial que un medio de paga.<\/p>\n<p>Los  peri\u00f3dicos no viven de la circulaci\u00f3n, o sea de las ventas de su  material, viven de la publicidad. Entonces para vender la publicidad  necesitan demostrarle al que va a comprar publicidad a qui\u00e9n se est\u00e1n  dirigiendo y cu\u00e1les son sus lectores. Por ejemplo, si dice \u2013estos son  los datos hasta 2008 porque luego todos los peri\u00f3dicos cerraron la  informaci\u00f3n sobre ellos mismos\u2013, El Universal y Reforma llegaban casi al  70% de toda la publicidad que se paga en la ciudad de M\u00e9xico, el resto,  30% se lo peleaban los dem\u00e1s peri\u00f3dicos.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  cada peri\u00f3dico tiene un perfil, digamos, de su lector, una clase a la  que se dirige, su nivel de educaci\u00f3n, todo eso, y es lo que se le  presenta al que compra la propaganda. Es decir, si yo soy El Despertador  Mexicano y mi principal consumidor son ind\u00edgenas pues entonces le vendo  al Huarache Veloz una plana de publicidad para que venda huaraches, o  pozol, o lo que sea.<\/p>\n<p>Nada  m\u00e1s que todos los peri\u00f3dicos de prensa, incluso los que se dicen de  izquierda, presentan en su an\u00e1lisis el perfil de su lector, todos,  absolutamente todos, tienen entre el 60 y el 70% de sus lectores en las  clases con alto poder adquisitivo. Los \u00fanicos que reconocen que sus  lectores son de bajo poder adquisitivo y de baja educaci\u00f3n son Esto, el  Ovaciones y La Prensa. Todos los dem\u00e1s peri\u00f3dicos se dirigen a la clase  alta, digamos, o a los de arriba.<\/p>\n<p>Es  evidente que esa clase con mayor poder adquisitivo puede acceder a la  informaci\u00f3n en forma m\u00e1s instant\u00e1nea. \u00bfPara qu\u00e9 esperarse a ver qu\u00e9 va a  pasar, qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando en otra parte del mundo, a que sale el  peri\u00f3dico, si en ese instante puedo saber qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando en Gaza, por  ejemplo? \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 me voy a esperar al noticiero o a leer si ah\u00ed puedo  ver?<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed  no hay terreno de competici\u00f3n porque la s\u00faper velocidad en esos medios  de comunicaci\u00f3n hace que las exclusivas o las primicias en una noticia  se esfumen ante la competencia de esta velocidad. Entonces todos estos  medios, incluyendo los progresistas, se est\u00e1n peleando por el rating, o  sea, por ese p\u00fablico de clase media-alta y de alta, hay otra clase que  es riqu\u00edsima, que es m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de todo, yo creo que son los que producen  la informaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f3lo  tienen dos opciones para sobrevivir los medios de paga, porque son de  paga. O contratan su supervivencia con quien todav\u00eda puede pagar, o sea  la clase pol\u00edtica, que hace sus comerciales y su propaganda pero en otro  sentido, incluso si ven las tarifas que ponen cada peri\u00f3dico por  desplegado de plana entera, media plana, tres cuartos, hasta el m\u00f3dulo  que le dicen, que es el m\u00e1s chiquito, hay una tarifa especial para  publicaciones no comerciales, que son las gubernamentales, y otra tarifa  para las gacetillas, que son por ejemplo las entrevistas, que nadie  entiende qu\u00e9 hace en un peri\u00f3dico porque a nadie le interesa qu\u00e9 vaya a  decir tal gente, es que paga. Las tarifas m\u00e1s altas son las no  comerciales, o sea las que paga el gobierno, y las gacetillas, las  inserciones pagadas disfrazadas de informaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>La  otra opci\u00f3n que ten\u00edan era desarrollar el periodismo de investigaci\u00f3n y  de an\u00e1lisis que no ofrec\u00eda internet. No ofrec\u00eda hasta que aparecieron  espacios como al que hoy nos referimos como medios libres, aut\u00f3nomos,  alternativos (etc\u00e9tera voy a decir ya, porque en eso se me va la vida).  Lo que s\u00ed se pod\u00eda hacer es que, de lo que est\u00e1 pasando de la  informaci\u00f3n que fluye as\u00ed atropelladamente, se hiciera un an\u00e1lisis, una  disecci\u00f3n, se acomodara y se investigara qu\u00e9 hay detr\u00e1s, por ejemplo, de  la pol\u00edtica del gobierno israel\u00ed en Gaza o de la pol\u00edtica de Manuel  Velazco en Chiapas, o as\u00ed en cualquier parte.<\/p>\n<p>Nadie  con un m\u00ednimo de criterio se informa a trav\u00e9s de los peri\u00f3dicos de lo  que est\u00e1 pasando. Ustedes son un mal ejemplo porque ustedes no son clase  media-alta ni alta pues, si fueran no estar\u00edan aqu\u00ed. O sea la broza, la  banda dice \u201cno, pues quiero enterarme qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando en Chiapas, voy a  leer el profundo an\u00e1lisis period\u00edstico de investigaci\u00f3n de Elio  Enriquez\u201d. Nadie lo hace.<\/p>\n<p>Nadie  dice \u201c\u00bfqu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando en Gaza? Voy a leer a Laura Bozzo para que me  diga c\u00f3mo est\u00e1 explicando\u201d. No, ese terreno ha sido completamente  abandonado, en cambi\u00f3 son a trav\u00e9s de las p\u00e1ginas y de los blogs donde  se est\u00e1 cubriendo ese terreno.<\/p>\n<p>Este  l\u00e1nguido desaparecer o retroceder de los medios de paga no es  responsabilidad del EZLN, por supuesto tampoco es responsabilidad del  finado SubMarcos. Es responsabilidad del desarrollo del capitalismo y de  esta dificultad para adaptarse. Los medios de paga van a tener que  evolucionar a convertirse en medios de entretenimiento, es decir, si no  te puedo informar cuando menos divi\u00e9rtete conmigo. S no incide por el  otro lado el periodismo de an\u00e1lisis y de investigaci\u00f3n, que cualquier  reportero que sea honesto, de un medio de paga, te puede decir \u201cno, pues  es que eso no me lo publican\u201d; y gana m\u00e1s el peri\u00f3dico por no publicar  ese tipo de art\u00edculos que por publicarlos.<\/p>\n<p>Es  esto que les dec\u00eda de que la no producci\u00f3n se convierte en una  mercanc\u00eda, en este caso el silencio. Si un periodista medianamente  decente y con un m\u00ednimo de \u00e9tica hace una investigaci\u00f3n sobre la  implicaci\u00f3n de los gobiernos estatales de Salazar Mendiguch\u00eda, Juan  Sabines Guerrero y Manuel Velazco con la CIOAC-Hist\u00f3rica, saldr\u00eda que  hay mucho dinero que se est\u00e1 moviendo ah\u00ed, incluyendo el que reparte la  se\u00f1ora Robles de la campa\u00f1a nacional contra el hambre.<\/p>\n<p>Pero  se vende mejor el no publicar ese art\u00edculo que el publicarlo, porque  qui\u00e9n lo va a leer, \u00bflo van a leer los enemigos de esos pr\u00f3ceres de la  patria? En cambio callando y mejor hablando de lo bien que est\u00e1 quedando  la capital Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez con las obras urban\u00edsticas que est\u00e1n  haciendo Toledo, que es el presidente municipal, y Manuel Velazco, eso  s\u00ed vende aunque sea pura mentira. Nosotros checamos los twitters de los  periodistas, son periodistas de paga, trabajan en medios de paga pues,  pero que s\u00ed est\u00e1n informando de eso, de la imagen de guerra que presenta  la capital de Chiapas por estas obras completamente anacr\u00f3nicas y  absurdas que se est\u00e1n haciendo.<\/p>\n<p>Pero  por ejemplo, viene gente que viene de Veracruz, yo creo que esa gente  dir\u00eda \u201cbueno, pues es que nosotros para saber que est\u00e1 pasando en  Veracruz leemos el Heraldo de Xalapa \u2013si es que existe\u2019. Van a decir  \u2018oye, no chingues Sub, por qu\u00e9 est\u00e1s si \u00e9sos no tienen nada que ver\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  el problema que tenemos todos en el mundo es, si ni la informaci\u00f3n, ni  el an\u00e1lisis, ni la investigaci\u00f3n est\u00e1n ya en los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n,  si es que alguna vez estuvieron, entonces d\u00f3nde los vamos a encontrar.  Hay un vac\u00edo pues en el espacio medi\u00e1tico que est\u00e1 en disputa.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que se trataba de se\u00f1alar tambi\u00e9n en esa despedida es que los medios  que tanto se hab\u00edan preciado de crear personajes, se preciaban por  ejemplo de haber creado ellos a Marcos, aunque desde entonces se han  esforzado por crear personajes y no s\u00f3lo no consiguen construir un  personaje internacional, mucho menos nacional, aunque les pagan, como  L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<p>No  se puede. Ahorita los personajes que han surgido, que han conmovido o  movido algo la informaci\u00f3n a nivel nacional, no provienen de los medios,  m\u00e1s bien son a pesar de ellos. No s\u00e9 si lo voy a decir bien, Julian  Assange, que con la revelaci\u00f3n de todos los documentos le demostr\u00f3 a los  medios de comunicaci\u00f3n a nivel mundial que no estaban informando lo que  estaba ocurriendo y se convierte en un referente. Aunque es parte de un  colectivo los medios trabajan sobre \u00e9l. Incluso hay una pel\u00edcula sobre  \u00e9l como personaje, aunque todos sabemos que es un colectivo.<\/p>\n<p>La  se\u00f1orita Chelsea Manning, que se hizo una operaci\u00f3n para ser ahora  Chelsea Manning, y Snowden, todos \u00e9sos lo que han hecho es revelar lo  que est\u00e1 oculto y lo que debi\u00f3 haber sido trabajo de los medios de  comunicaci\u00f3n el haber revelado. Pero los que realmente han trastocado el  mundo de la informaci\u00f3n son colectivos donde el individuo est\u00e1  completamente diluido, como <em>Anonymous<\/em>, que ahora se dice \u201ces que de <em>Anonymous<\/em> ya no se sabe nada, no se muestran\u201d. Lo que es absurdo porque si son an\u00f3nimos por qu\u00e9 les vamos a pedir que se muestren.<\/p>\n<p>En  fin, lo que nosotros hemos visto es que el anonimato del colectivo es  el que est\u00e1 pasando a suplir y a poner en crisis este af\u00e1n medi\u00e1tico de  los de arriba de encontrar individualidades y personalidades.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  pensamos que tiene que ver mucho con la formaci\u00f3n del medio. Si en los  medios de paga es una estructura que envidiar\u00eda cualquier ej\u00e9rcito en  cuanto a su verticalidad, autoritarismo y arbitrariedad, con lo que es  un medio colectivo, o sea medio alternativo, libre, aut\u00f3nomo, etc\u00e9tera,  es otra forma de trabajo y otra forma de hacer.<\/p>\n<p>Digamos  que en los medios de paga importa m\u00e1s qui\u00e9n hizo la informaci\u00f3n. Si  ustedes revisan las noticias que hubo en los medios de paga cuando se  cumplieron 20 a\u00f1os del alzamiento, en enero de este a\u00f1o, la mayor\u00eda de  las noticias son de lo que los periodistas hicieron 20 a\u00f1os antes, no de  lo que pas\u00f3: \u2018yo entrevist\u00e9 a Marcos\u2019, \u2018yo hice la tal entrevista\u2019, \u2018yo  fui el primero que entr\u00e9\u2019, \u2018yo escrib\u00ed el primer libro\u2019. Qu\u00e9 pena que  en 20 a\u00f1os no hayan hecho otra cosa de la que acordarse.<\/p>\n<p>Pero  es ese criterio el que pesa. La exclusiva. No saben lo que importa  tanto en un periodista y lo que lo lleva a hacer, a que haga pues, por  conseguir una exclusiva. El hecho de poder tener la exclusiva de la  \u00faltima entrevista de Marcos o la primera de Galeano vale, cuesta,  incluso aunque no se publique, porque como les explico, tambi\u00e9n callar  es una mercanc\u00eda y se puede vender.<\/p>\n<p>En  cambio yo quiero pensar que en los colectivos de los que forman parte  ustedes y otros que no pudieron llegar, la forma de trabajo hace que  pese m\u00e1s la informaci\u00f3n que qui\u00e9n la produce. Cierto, hay unos que  todav\u00eda tienen que aprender a redactar, pero la gran mayor\u00eda rivaliza en  ingenio, en an\u00e1lisis, en profundidad y en investigaci\u00f3n de lo que est\u00e1  ocurriendo.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que nosotros vemos es, en este desmadre que est\u00e1 el mundo capitalista,  d\u00f3nde conseguimos la informaci\u00f3n. Si nos vamos a internet y <em>googleamos<\/em>,  como se dice ahora, Gaza, pues podemos encontrar que los palestinos son  unos asesinos que est\u00e1n inmol\u00e1ndose nom\u00e1s para destruir moralmente al  ej\u00e9rcito israel\u00ed, o al rev\u00e9s. Puedes encontrar lo que sea. \u00bfD\u00f3nde vas a  encontrar la informaci\u00f3n de lo que realmente est\u00e1 pasando? Lo ideal es  que los palestinos nos dijeran qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando, no a trav\u00e9s de otros.<\/p>\n<p>En  este caso, por ejemplo, nosotros decimos, \u00bfno ser\u00eda mejor saber qu\u00e9  est\u00e1n diciendo los zapatistas? a que alguien nos diga lo que \u00e9l cree que  deb\u00edan haber dicho, ni siquiera es lo que creen que dijimos, es lo que  debimos haber dicho. Como quien dice que en el texto de la luz y la  sombra, Marcos dice que ya nunca va a escribir, por lo tanto Galeano no  va a poder escribir, aunque no se fijaron que cuando todos se  despidieron, el gato-perro queda. Hay muchas cosas que se pueden ver ah\u00ed  pero no importa ahorita.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que nosotros queremos se\u00f1alar es, la mejor informaci\u00f3n es la que  proviene del actor no del que est\u00e1 cubriendo la noticia. Los que pueden  hacer eso son los medios libres aut\u00f3nomos y alternativos. Lo que les  estoy diciendo, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras y <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em>,  es una tendencia, no es algo que va a pasar ahorita. O sea, no se  pongan como pavorreales, a decir \u201cahora s\u00ed que somos la neta y el mundo  depende sobre nosotros\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Es  una tendencia que nosotros vemos con esta maldici\u00f3n que tenemos de ver  las cosas antes de que pasan. Vemos que los medios de paga, como medios  de informaci\u00f3n, est\u00e1n en franca decadencia, no por su culpa pues, tiene  que ver con haber abrazado a una clase pol\u00edtica que tambi\u00e9n va en  decadencia para sobrevivir y eso se entiende.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  no criticamos que alguien trabaje en un medio y de eso viva. S\u00ed  pensamos que la dignidad y la decencia tienen un l\u00edmite y que hay  l\u00edmites que ya se est\u00e1n pasando, pero eso es cosa de cada qui\u00e9n,  nosotros no los vamos a juzgar. Lo que vemos es que el problema en un  medio de paga es la supervivencia, entonces su supervivencia va por un  lado al que no est\u00e1n siguiendo y est\u00e1n siguiendo m\u00e1s a lo inmediato.<\/p>\n<p>A  largo plazo el medio de paga, como algo que compras y consumes, va a  desaparecer. \u00bfPara qu\u00e9 compras el peri\u00f3dico si lo puedes consultar en la  red? Pero adem\u00e1s no vas a buscar la informaci\u00f3n ah\u00ed, no vas a buscar el  an\u00e1lisis de lo que est\u00e1 pasando.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  nosotros decimos, si nosotros queremos saber qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando en  Michoac\u00e1n, lo ideal ser\u00eda que nos dijeran los de Michoac\u00e1n qu\u00e9 est\u00e1  pasando. Nosotros pensamos que si la gente de otras partes del mundo o  del pa\u00eds quiere saber qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando con los zapatistas hay cuando  menos un espacio donde s\u00ed se pueden enterar.<\/p>\n<p>Quiero  decir con esto que nosotros no queremos militantes para eso, militantes  de la comunicaci\u00f3n zapatista, para eso est\u00e1 la maldita idea de los  tercios medios. Nosotros queremos escuchas, o sea que la gente que  quiere enterarse se entere de algo veraz, o de un an\u00e1lisis profundo o de  una investigaci\u00f3n real, tomando en cuenta lo importante que es una  noticia o una informaci\u00f3n, y no qui\u00e9n la produce.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  vemos que a largo plazo los medios libres, aut\u00f3nomos, alternativos, van  a llenar o pueden llenar \u2013no sabemos si lo van a hacer\u2013, pueden llenar  ese vac\u00edo que se est\u00e1 produciendo ahora en el intercambio de informaci\u00f3n  a nivel mundial. Internet no lo llena aunque lo crean, en internet  puedes encontrar lo que t\u00fa quieras, si est\u00e1s a favor de algo encuentras  argumentos a favor, si est\u00e1s en contra de algo ah\u00ed mismo encuentras los  argumentos en contra.<\/p>\n<p>Se  necesita pues que esa informaci\u00f3n tenga un espacio donde se acomode,  que sea legible. Y \u00e9se es, nosotros decimos que a grandes rasgos y en  una tendencia, es el que van a cubrir los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n  alternativos, aut\u00f3nomos, libres, o como se llamen.<\/p>\n<p>Y  eso es lo que les quer\u00edamos decir cuando iba a ser en Oventic, que no  tienen una puta idea de la chamba que se les viene encima. Que no es que  nosotros los atiborremos de que ahora vengan a La Realidad, ahora vayan  a tal lado y ah\u00ed van los tercios medios, o los quintos, como vaya a  salir, los quintos no, pens\u00e9, pero es albur, entonces mejor les pusimos  tercios medios (<strong>nota:  es evidente que al de la voz le afecta el estar tuerto, porque en  realidad debi\u00f3 decir \u201clos tercios compas\u201d y no \u201clos tercios medios\u201d, y  ya le mandamos una en\u00e9rgica protesta para que la publique en el mismo  espacio y la misma importancia que su gazapo. Nota cortes\u00eda de \u201cLos  Tercios Compas\u201d)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>No,  lo que se les viene es la esperanza de mucha gente. Nosotros no tenemos  esperanza en ustedes, tenemos confianza en ustedes, no en ustedes nada  m\u00e1s los que est\u00e1n aqu\u00ed sino en lo que son, la tendencia de que puedan  cubrir ese espacio.<\/p>\n<p>El  problema que nosotros vemos es el de la paga ahora s\u00ed. Los medios  aut\u00f3nomos, libres, todo eso, se sostienen\u2026 la mayor\u00eda de las veces es  que los que le entran se cooperan pero tienen otra chamba, entonces el  medio aut\u00f3nomo, libre, alternativo, es como los tercios medios <strong>(nota: gazapo y protesta reiterados. Atentamente \u201cLos Tercios Compas\u201d),<\/strong> o sea funciona cada que puede porque hay que ir a chambear, hay que  talonearle para poder conseguir la paga. O duran mientras dure la lana,  ya cuando se acaba la lana pues el medio desaparece. Y tambi\u00e9n puede ser  que dure, ojal\u00e1 no pase as\u00ed, cuando el calendario impone su l\u00f3gica a  los integrantes, es decir, cuando crecen y maduran, como dicen all\u00e1  arriba, y se dejan de locuras y de rebeld\u00edas.<\/p>\n<p>Pensamos  pues de que tienen ese problema y lo tienen que resolver de alguna  forma, no s\u00e9 c\u00f3mo. Yo veo que en algunas p\u00e1ginas ya aparecen cosas como  consejos para bajar de peso, c\u00f3mo no envejecer, plancha para la piel, no  s\u00e9 c\u00f3mo le dicen, lifting, \u00e9se que se ponen, cosas as\u00ed y esoterismo y  la chingada. S\u00ed, pues el que ve ese medio alternativo pues no se fija en  esas cosas y algo le entra de paga. Algunos hacen as\u00ed, pero incluso  para que les den eso ustedes tienen que demostrar que alguien entra a su  p\u00e1gina, alguien adem\u00e1s de ustedes.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  brome\u00e1bamos hace muchos a\u00f1os con los que se encargaban de la p\u00e1gina  antes de todo esto, que dec\u00edan \u201cno, es que tal comunicado tuvo tantas  entradas\u201d. Le digo \u201cmentira, somos nosotros que estamos clic, clic,  clic, clic, clic, pero no\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No  s\u00e9, lo mismo que los llev\u00f3 a trabajar en colectivo, aparte de que  varios pues le hacen a la artesan\u00eda urbana o no s\u00e9 c\u00f3mo le dicen, que  producen y todo eso, a lo mejor mismo en colectivo pueden encontrar la  forma de que ese medio no se caiga, que se mantenga y que crezca. No les  queda otra, compa\u00f1eros, lamento darles esa informaci\u00f3n, pero o crecen o  van a desparecer. Incluso a los que espor\u00e1dicamente sacan informaci\u00f3n,  s\u00f3lo les queda eso porque tambi\u00e9n entre ustedes empieza a haber ese  desarrollo. Ojala que esa disparidad de desarrollo sea por la  profundidad del an\u00e1lisis, por la capacidad de la investigaci\u00f3n y lo que  sea, y no porque unos s\u00ed resolvieron la paga y otros no.<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed lo vean pues, porque s\u00ed hay mucha gente que est\u00e1 esperando m\u00e1s de ustedes de lo que ustedes se imaginan.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  s\u00f3lo para aclarar el resumen. Los medios de paga existen, son reales,  tienen su importancia, esta importancia se est\u00e1 disminuyendo  tendencialmente y lo que ha hecho el EZLN es cambiar radicalmente su  pol\u00edtica de medios. No queremos hablar con los de arriba, ya les va a  explicar el Subcomandante Mois\u00e9s m\u00e1s eso en la sesi\u00f3n de preguntas y  respuestas, que consiste en que los medios zapatistas en que nosotros  hacemos las preguntas y ustedes dan las respuestas, no al rev\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  lo que ha hecho el EZLN es decir: ya no nos importan \u00e9sos a los que  hab\u00eda que dirigirse a trav\u00e9s de Durito, del Viejo Antonio, de la prensa  de paga pues, sino que ahora nos interesa la gente que entiende el hecho  mismo de un gato-perro; ese reconocimiento de la diferencia y el  reconocer que hay cosas que no entendemos y no porque no las entendamos  las vamos a juzgar o a condenar \u2013como un gato-perro que existe, no me lo  van a creer pero existe, es real.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que a nosotros nos interesa es hablar con ustedes y escucharlos a  ustedes, y con eso quiero decir a la gente que a trav\u00e9s de ustedes nos  escucha y que a trav\u00e9s de ustedes habla con nosotros. Si nosotros  quisi\u00e9ramos saber qu\u00e9 est\u00e1 pasando en tal lado, nosotros primero  buscamos en los medios libres alternativos, es poca la informaci\u00f3n pues,  pero aun as\u00ed que es poca, es mucho mejor que cualquier medio de paga,  que adem\u00e1s hay que inscribirse con tarjeta de cr\u00e9dito para que puedas  leer a los Laura Bozzo que hay en cada lado.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9  pas\u00f3 entonces que alter\u00f3 este plan de despedida? O sea de decirle a los  medios de paga \u2018gracias por lo que\u2026\u2019, aunque la mayor\u00eda de ellos fueron  c\u00f3mplices involuntarios y a su pesar, de lo que fue, lo que vieron hace  rato, una maniobra de diversi\u00f3n o un acto de magia, y advertirles a  ustedes pues ahora s\u00ed que la maldici\u00f3n que se les viene encima.<\/p>\n<p>La  mayor\u00eda de ustedes son j\u00f3venes. Nosotros pensamos que la rebeld\u00eda no  tiene que ver con el calendario, no deber\u00eda tener que ver con el  calendario, porque nosotros vemos gente que ahora s\u00ed que ya tiene edad,  no tiene juicio pues porque\u2026 (inaudible), pero siguen siendo rebeldes. Y  nosotros tenemos la esperanza que ustedes sigan, aunque no sea ustedes  pues, a lo mejor algunos se dividen el trabajo, \u201cpues ustedes a  conseguir la paga y nosotros a esto, nos turnamos o algo as\u00ed\u201d, pero no  la dejen pues esa chamba, es realmente importante.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9  fue lo que pas\u00f3? Porque si ustedes toman en cuenta este plan original  donde iban a entrar todos los medios de paga, se manten\u00eda todav\u00eda dos  semanas antes, 15 d\u00edas antes de que se dijera no, no van a entrar al  homenaje de Galeano.<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que pas\u00f3 fue una muerte. Sobre este hecho s\u00f3lo le\u00ed, no digo que no  existe, un art\u00edculo de John Gibler, que resulta que anda por ah\u00ed. \u00c9l  contaba que le dec\u00eda a alguien lo que hab\u00eda sido el homenaje a Galeano y  esa persona con la que hablaba le dec\u00eda \u2018\u00bfpero todo eso s\u00f3lo por un  muerto?\u2019, y el trataba de decir pues es que un muerto, le explic\u00f3 pues  lo mejor que pudo. Y nosotros queremos decirle lo importante que es para  nosotros un muerto.<\/p>\n<p>Si  nosotros dejamos pasar una muerte dejamos pasar dos, si dejamos pasar  dos ser\u00e1n diez, luego cien, luego mil, luego decenas de miles como en la  guerra contra el supuesto narcotr\u00e1fico que hizo Calder\u00f3n, se dej\u00f3 pasar  una muerte y despu\u00e9s se dejaron pasar decenas de miles. Nosotros no. S\u00ed  vamos a morirnos de muertes naturales o de muertes justas, decimos que  es luchando, pero no vamos a permitir que nadie, ninguno de nuestros  compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eroas sea asesinado impunemente, no lo  vamos a permitir. Y vamos a mover todas las fuerzas aunque sea uno solo,  o el m\u00e1s ignorado, o el m\u00e1s despreciado, o el m\u00e1s desconocido.<\/p>\n<p>Y  el coraje que ten\u00edamos con Galeano, es que ese compa\u00f1ero Galeano era el  que se encargaba de recibir a \u00e9sos de prensa de paga, les cargaba sus  mochilas, los llevaba en sus caballos hasta donde hac\u00edan las entrevistas  o hac\u00edan sus reportajes, los recib\u00eda en su casa y les daba de comer. A  \u00e9sos que ignoraron y despreciaron su muerte, y levantaron a los  paramilitares como si fueran h\u00e9roes, v\u00edctimas de una arbitrariedad,  vaya, a la hora que llegaban ni siquiera se tomaron la molestia de  preguntarle c\u00f3mo se llamaba y durante 20 a\u00f1os \u00e9l se encarg\u00f3 de  recibirlos, con alguno de ellos hasta cruz\u00f3 apuestas de futbol cuando  eran los mundiales de futbol.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  esper\u00e1bamos una reacci\u00f3n de alguien con quien llevas una relaci\u00f3n as\u00ed,  pero ni siquiera sab\u00edan qui\u00e9n era. Ellos ven\u00edan a entrevistar a Marcos,  ellos ven\u00edan a ver a Marcos, ellos ve\u00edan que el caballo, que el arma,  que si qu\u00e9 ley\u00f3, aunque el finado Marcos s\u00ed sab\u00eda qu\u00e9 libros hab\u00eda  le\u00eddo. Todas esas cosas ve\u00edan y no le importaba qui\u00e9n era el que lo  estaba recibiendo.<\/p>\n<p>Tal  vez lo entendemos que no les importa pues era un ind\u00edgena, que adem\u00e1s  ni siquiera ten\u00eda rostro, pero que le daba de comer, le cargaba las  cosas, le ayudaba en el caballo, lo acompa\u00f1aba, le dec\u00eda d\u00f3nde recorrer,  de qu\u00e9 hab\u00eda que cuidarse, de todo eso. Entendemos que no le importara  pero a nosotros s\u00ed nos importa, Galeano y todos y cada uno de los  zapatistas. Hicimos ese desmadre y seguiremos haciendo cada vez ese  desmadre, porque no vamos a permitir una sola muerte, no va a aparecer  una sola que quede impune.<\/p>\n<p>Y  por eso cambiamos todo, y en el coraje que ten\u00edamos fue que el  Subcomandante Mois\u00e9s, que es el que manda ahora en eso, dijo no entra  nadie de prensa, y no entr\u00f3 nadie de prensa de paga aunque originalmente  iban a entrar todos.<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed  en ese cuarto estuvo el cad\u00e1ver del compa\u00f1ero Galeano. Hay un video  donde est\u00e1 el cad\u00e1ver, est\u00e1n rodeados y est\u00e1n los compa\u00f1eros  recrimin\u00e1ndoles a los de la CIOAC la muerte de Galeano. No los tocaron,  compa\u00f1eros, yo que se supone que soy un ser controlado y todo eso cuando  menos les hubiera dado un empuj\u00f3n. Nada, les est\u00e1n gritando pero no los  tocan. En cualquier otro lado ah\u00ed mismo los hubieran linchado porque  eran corresponsables de esa muerte y ah\u00ed estaba el cad\u00e1ver.<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed  llegamos nosotros. Nosotros est\u00e1bamos en Oventic preparando, yo estaba  ensayando con una silla de ruedas, aqu\u00ed ese d\u00eda entr\u00e9 a caballo, ah\u00ed iba  a entrar en una silla de ruedas para alimentar esto de que estaba muy  enfermo, muy jodido, ya luego al final me iba a levantar porque ya me  dol\u00edan las rodillas de estar practicando.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando  supimos nos venimos para ac\u00e1 y vimos, y miren lo que no sali\u00f3 en la  prensa ni va salir, el de ah\u00ed, aqu\u00ed saliendo, el de ah\u00ed, el de ah\u00ed, el  de ah\u00ed, el de ah\u00ed, son los que estuvieron en la bronca y ven\u00edan aqu\u00ed a  la puerta del Caracol a burlarse de los compa\u00f1eros que estaban aqu\u00ed  encerrados para que no los agredieran, as\u00ed como est\u00e1n ustedes, estaban  ellos.<\/p>\n<p>Y  se burlaban de c\u00f3mo bailaba, dec\u00edan del finado, con los garrotazos que  le estaban dando, se burlaban de c\u00f3mo le dispararon, c\u00f3mo lo  machetearon, todas esas cosas que hemos editado en la investigaci\u00f3n  porque son dolores que son nuestros. La investigaci\u00f3n ya la termin\u00f3 el  Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, no se va a hacer p\u00fablica para evitar la  venganza. Se le va a entregar al Frayba con los nombres y todo eso, ya  sabemos qui\u00e9n fue.<\/p>\n<p>En  esa situaci\u00f3n est\u00e1bamos, compas, y no pod\u00edamos contestarles ni siquiera  en lo m\u00ednimo porque era una pradera seca, con tantito, una chispita, se  prend\u00eda todo, y hubiera sido un aquelarre de sangre aqu\u00ed. Aguantamos y  aguantamos pero ese coraje no lo soltamos. Todav\u00eda no lo soltamos.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces la respuesta, John Gibler, es, para los zapatistas una muerte injusta es demasiado y por eso estamos dispuestos a todo.<\/p>\n<p>Este  manejo de los medios impone una l\u00f3gica inhumana, absurda, fuera de  lugar en todo el mundo. Miren, por ejemplo los ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as en  Palestina han demostrado una gran paciencia para morirse, porque se  muere uno y no le hacen caso, y van sumando cad\u00e1veres hasta que primero  los grandes medios de comunicaci\u00f3n voltean a ver, y siguen muriendo para  que ya salga la imagen. Y siguen muriendo para que la imagen sea vista y  tienen que morirse de una forma escandalosa pues, indignante, para que  la gente de arriba empiece a decir \u201coigan, no, qu\u00e9 estamos haciendo  ah\u00ed\u201d, o sea para hacer algo.<\/p>\n<p>Cada  vez nos sorprende m\u00e1s a los zapatistas lo poco de humano que hay en la  humanidad de arriba. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 es necesaria tanta sangre para que digan  algo? Y luego resulta que matizan su posici\u00f3n: \u201cs\u00ed m\u00e1tenlos pero no lo  muestren porque nos pone en evidencia\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert  Fisk, que escribe en El Independiente, de la Gran Breta\u00f1a, dec\u00eda de  otra forma esto que estamos diciendo: es que los grandes medios de  comunicaci\u00f3n est\u00e1n en crisis porque la gente que los lee \u2013que es clase  alta, de alto poder adquisitivo y bien informada, dicen\u2013, est\u00e1 indignada  que por qu\u00e9 los tratan como idiotas los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n tratando  de presentar la masacre que hay en Gaza como si fuera un enfrentamiento  o como si la culpa fuera de Hamas. Se siente la gente insultada pues,  no porque tengan paga son tontos, algunos s\u00ed lo son, pero s\u00ed tienen  inteligencia y se sienten insultados, y lo reconoc\u00eda en un art\u00edculo,  dec\u00eda \u2018es que estamos en crisis, la gente ya no nos cree, no nos toma en  serio, pero adem\u00e1s nos lo reclama\u2019. En otros lados eso ya tiene a\u00f1os  que est\u00e1 ocurriendo, como aqu\u00ed en M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>Esto  pues que est\u00e1 pasando en Palestina, de lo que nadie habla, de esa  paciencia mortal de la ni\u00f1ez palestina, y nosotros decimos que es  responsabilidad del gobierno de Israel. Nosotros siempre diferenciamos  los gobiernos de los pueblos, sabemos que est\u00e1 la tendencia natural,  aunque en otra ocasi\u00f3n hab\u00edamos dicho que el problema no es sionismo o  antisemitismo, como quiera siguen los grandes cabezas diciendo tonter\u00edas  por el estilo.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  no podemos decir que porque el gobierno de Israel es asesino, el pueblo  de Israel es asesino, porque entonces van a decir que el pueblo  mexicano es idiota porque el gobierno mexicano es idiota, y nosotros,  cuando menos, no somos idiotas. Hay gente en Israel, no sabemos cu\u00e1ntos,  noble, consiente, honesta, no necesita ser de izquierda, porque la  condena a lo que est\u00e1 pasando en Palestina no tiene que ver con la  posici\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, es una cuesti\u00f3n de decencia humana, nadie puede ver  esa masacre y decir que no est\u00e1 pasando nada o que es culpa de otro.<\/p>\n<p>Esto  que les explico de la crisis de los medios de paga y la emergencia de  los medios libres, alternativos o aut\u00f3nomos, es una tendencia en la que  en el largo camino de los medios libres o aut\u00f3nomos les van a pasar  cosas, yo no quer\u00eda dec\u00edrselos, pero hay que dec\u00edrselos.<\/p>\n<p>Hay  gente que se va a desmayar, dicen los compas, que es cuando se rinde  uno, cuando deja su trabajo, la lucha, es que se desmay\u00f3 dicen, es que  se dej\u00f3 la lucha.<\/p>\n<p>Gente  a la que los medios de paga le van a hacer as\u00ed, ven para ac\u00e1 \u2013a comer  mierda, dijo un subdirector de un peri\u00f3dico, pero te van a pagar por  comer mierda\u2013, sea porque escribe bien, porque tiene buenos an\u00e1lisis, o  porque encuadra bien la foto, el video o lo que sea.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>Y  se van a ir unos, otros que los van a traicionar, van a decir \u201cno, ni  madre, ese texto no es cierto, lo invent\u00f3\u201d, o lo que sea. Y otros que  van a claudicar. La claudicaci\u00f3n es una palabra que entienden bien los  compas, que quiere decir que est\u00e1s en un camino y dices \u201cah no, siempre  no, por aqu\u00ed no, mejor me voy por otro\u201d. Casi siempre en este caso tiene  que ver no con dejar una chamba, que a veces uno tiene que trabajar  para vivir, sino con dejar una posici\u00f3n respecto a lo que es el manejo  de la informaci\u00f3n, en este caso de los medios libres, aut\u00f3nomos o  alternativos.<\/p>\n<p>Los  problemas que van a tener es el de la paga, o sea tienen que  sobrevivir. Supervivencia. \u00c9se es su problema, no s\u00f3lo como medios sino  tambi\u00e9n como seres humanos tienen que comer todav\u00eda, \u00bfno? Aunque algunos  ya lo est\u00e1n superando pero\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lo  que queremos que sepan ustedes tambi\u00e9n, y a trav\u00e9s de ustedes otros  medios libres, es que nosotros s\u00ed les reconocemos ese esfuerzo y  sacrificio. Sabemos que es un pedo venir hasta ac\u00e1 para alguien que  tiene paga, para alguien que no tiene paga es algo heroico. Nosotros se  los reconocemos, lo conocemos, lo sabemos y los saludamos. Tengan seguro  pues que si alguien va a tomar en cuenta eso que est\u00e1n haciendo, somos  nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfD\u00f3nde  vamos a buscar la informaci\u00f3n? \u00bfEn los medios de paga? No. \u00bfEn las  redes sociales? Tampoco. \u00bfEn el inestable y encrespado mar de la red?  Tampoco, te digo, puedes encontrar lo que sea.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  hay un vac\u00edo sobre d\u00f3nde est\u00e1 la informaci\u00f3n. El medio que usan ahora  es tambi\u00e9n su l\u00edmite, llegan a m\u00e1s gente pero tambi\u00e9n es el l\u00edmite  porque la gente que no tiene internet de mediana velocidad, que yo los  reto a que bajen ahorita una p\u00e1gina de ustedes, mta, me cae que hay otra  guerra, otro alzamiento y hasta ganamos la guerra y no acaba de bajar  completo. Debiera haber una versi\u00f3n as\u00ed m\u00e1s ligera o algo as\u00ed, la de <em>esmarfon<\/em> o lo que sea. Pero la mayor parte de sus interlocutores, o de los que  debieran ser sus interlocutores no lo manejan, pero esto puede cambiar.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros  decimos que en estos tiempos el medio principal de comunicaci\u00f3n es la  escucha, por eso nosotros nos referimos a ustedes como los \u201cescuchas\u201d.  Hay gente, le dec\u00eda yo a Moi, que tiene necesidad de hablar, no le  importa si no la est\u00e1n escuchando, tiene que hablar y sobre lo que sea.  Pero hay gente que s\u00ed se preocupa porque la escuchen, y para que la  escuchen es que est\u00e1 apostando porque ese mensaje o esa palabra llegue  m\u00e1s lejos.<\/p>\n<p>La  preocupaci\u00f3n de los compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, del CNI que vieron, es que  tra\u00edan encargo de que los escucharan. A diferencia de la otra campa\u00f1a.  Yo me acuerdo de esas pesadillas m\u00faltiples, el div\u00e1n colectivo de  \u201caz\u00f3tese, nosotros vamos\u201d, que fue La Otra Campa\u00f1a, donde cada quien  dec\u00eda lo que le ven\u00eda, no le importaba si lo estaban oyendo o no, si le  estaban entendiendo o no, el chiste era sacar ahora s\u00ed que como quien  dice, su gana. Adem\u00e1s era gratis, imag\u00ednate lo que te sale eso en el  psicoanalista o en psiquiatra o como se diga ahora.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  nom\u00e1s avisarles que el medio es tambi\u00e9n el l\u00edmite y hay que buscar. La  fuente directa aparece ahora como la principal, y nosotros decimos: los  pueblos originarios son los especialistas en escuchar. En realidad les  estoy advirtiendo lo que se viene con el festival mundial de la rebeld\u00eda  y la resistencia, o sea como un exhorto a que no sea el papel\u00f3n de las  reuniones de La Otra, las preparatorias y todo eso, porque estos  compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras de los pueblos originarios son especialistas en  el arte de la escucha, en la comunicaci\u00f3n por excelencia.<\/p>\n<p>Que  el que est\u00e1 siendo el actor, o padeciendo, o ejerciendo una acci\u00f3n, te  diga c\u00f3mo lo ve, eso no impide que haya un an\u00e1lisis. Es lo que t\u00fa me  dices pero yo veo tales cosas. Es el trabajo pues del informador.<\/p>\n<p>Y  nosotros vemos tambi\u00e9n en este manejo de los medios, a partir de la  desgracia de la muerte de Galeano, que tambi\u00e9n en los medios est\u00e1 esta  diferencia entre la limosna y el apoyo. En los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n de  paga si te ponen atenci\u00f3n es algo que debes agradecer, y es algo que no  le perdonan a los zapatistas, \u201ctodav\u00eda de que les echamos la mano\u201d,  ellos dir\u00edan \u201cy nos muerdes la mano que te ayuda\u201d. Nosotros no queremos  indigestarnos, escupimos la mano, porque tambi\u00e9n la atenci\u00f3n de los  medios es para ellos una limosna.<\/p>\n<p>En  cambio, para los medios libres, alternativos, aut\u00f3nomos, etc\u00e9tera, no  es una limosna. Es un deber que est\u00e1n cumpliendo, que lo hacen a pesar  de todas las dificultades que tienen, y es lo que nosotros decimos \u201cun  medio compa\u201d. Ya s\u00e9 que Tacho les hizo pedazos, por eso sacamos lo de  los tercios compas, pues <strong>(nota: ahora s\u00ed el de la voz lo dijo correctamente. Atentamente \u201cLos Tercios Compas\u201d)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Pero  \u00e9sa es la diferencia entre un medio de paga y un medio compa. No es que  uno tiene dinero, o cobra, o no. La diferencia est\u00e1 en que para unos  somos una mercanc\u00eda, sea que hablen de nosotros o que no hablen; y para  otros somos un espacio de lucha como el que ellos tienen y como hay  miles en todos los rincones del mundo.<\/p>\n<p>En  el evento de ayer que era abierto a la prensa, s\u00f3lo vinieron tres  periodistas, cuatro, uno era de los tres vizcondes que calumniaron la  muerte de Galeano, \u00e9se no entr\u00f3. Los otros tres: era uno de Proceso, uno  que hace trabajo en prensa en la frontera sur y otra que trabaja con  Aristegui. Hasta ahorita s\u00f3lo hab\u00eda sacado el de Proceso, pero ning\u00fan  otro medio vino, no s\u00e9 si es as\u00ed tipo Paquita la del barrio, de  despecho, lo que sea pues.<\/p>\n<p>O  cu\u00e1ntos muertos, porque no era un acto del EZLN, era del CNI, o cu\u00e1ntos  muertos tiene que tener el CNI para que lo volteen a ver. \u201cMuchos\u201d,  dir\u00e1n los medios, para que se hace una mercanc\u00eda, y luego para ver si  vendemos que te mencionamos o vendemos que no te mencionamos.<\/p>\n<p>La  diferencia para nosotros es que el apoyo que se da al compa\u00f1ero no pone  condiciones porque sabe que en realidad es parte de la misma lucha.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  lo que nosotros vemos en este panorama ca\u00f3tico que les presento, es que  con la ultra rapidez y el atiborramiento, abigarramiento, de  informaci\u00f3n que hay, es parad\u00f3jico que el mejor nivel o el nivel supremo  de comunicaci\u00f3n sea la compartici\u00f3n, este nivel directo.<\/p>\n<p>Los  compas han descubierto algo que ustedes han descubierto en su trabajo,  que es el poder de la escucha. Si no es posible que todos estemos  escuchando esto entonces se necesita alguien que agarre esa palabra y la  aviente para atr\u00e1s decimos nosotros, o sea con los pueblos, que es lo  que hacen los escuchas. Y de una u otra forma es lo que hacen ustedes.<\/p>\n<p>Pero  como \u00e9ste es el (seg\u00fan nosotros, ya saben, nosotros no sabemos nada de  medios de comunicaci\u00f3n), el nivel supremo ahora es la compartici\u00f3n y por  lo tanto los que mejor lo manejan es a los que hay que escuchar. Me cae  que los pueblos originarios est\u00e1n cabrones en eso, de la paciencia,  todo eso, pero ya les va a platicar m\u00e1s el Subcomandante Mois\u00e9s de eso.<\/p>\n<p>Eso  es lo que yo les quer\u00eda decir. Compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras, no va a haber  preguntas porque me cae que en 20 a\u00f1os ya me preguntaron todo lo que me  ten\u00edan que preguntar, y yo creo que he recibido un certificado de  impunidad para no contestar nada, pero \u00e9sta se las deb\u00edamos.<\/p>\n<p>Todav\u00eda lo \u00edbamos a hacer en esa madrugada pero como a m\u00ed me tienen ahora de tercio medio <strong>(nota: mmh\u2026 el de la voz no aprende. \u00a1Los tercios compas!)<\/strong> y estaba checando que les estaban pirateando todo, dijimos no, mejor  que se lancen porque no es justo lo que est\u00e1n haciendo los medios de  paga, porque adem\u00e1s fue, no fue un robo, fue un despojo de desprecio. O  sea, voy a agarrar y no voy a decir de qui\u00e9n fue porque a qui\u00e9n le  importa ese pinche tuit o esa pinche p\u00e1gina que nadie ve.<\/p>\n<p>Que  era el reclamo, seg\u00fan nos cuentan, que hac\u00edan los grandes medios de  comunicaci\u00f3n que llegaron a San Crist\u00f3bal: \u201cese Marcos est\u00e1 loco, c\u00f3mo  escoge a gente que ni siquiera tiene diez entradas en su p\u00e1gina \u2013as\u00ed que  denle m\u00e1s clic (inaudible), lleguen si quiera a cien\u2013, y no nosotros  que tenemos millones de lectores\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces  se las deb\u00edamos, compa\u00f1eros, ah\u00ed est\u00e1. Galeano no se va a quedar  callado, a veces va a hablar Tacho, a veces Mois\u00e9s, a veces Galeano, a  veces el que sea, el gato-perro, el que sea. Lo importante aqu\u00ed es que  cambi\u00f3 el interlocutor, uno. Dos, lo importante es la tendencia que  nosotros vemos en su aparici\u00f3n como medios libres, aut\u00f3nomos,  alternativos, etc\u00e9tera.<\/p>\n<p>El hecho de que hayamos creado los tercios medios <strong>(nota \u00a1Arghhhh! L-o-s T-e-r-c-i-o-s C-o-m-p-as!)<\/strong> para que no tengan que pararse esta chinga de venir hasta ac\u00e1, para  estarles mandando material. Es no s\u00f3lo eso que reconocemos y valoramos  su trabajo, sobre todo reconocemos y valoramos el sacrificio y la chinga  que hacen para voltear a ver para ac\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso tambi\u00e9n a ustedes en especial y en general a todos los compa\u00f1eros de la Sexta, gracias.<\/p>\n<p>Es todo ciudad G\u00f3tica<strong>. (nota: el de la voz quiso imitar la voz del supervillano Mr Bane, pero no le sali\u00f3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fin de la intervenci\u00f3n del SupGaleano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Transcripci\u00f3n  del audio original a cargo de \u201cLos Tercios Compas\u201d. Eso s\u00ed, bajo  protesta y algo encabronad@s por los gazapos, pero ni modos, as\u00ed es la  chamba, que se sufre pues) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyleft:  \u201clos tercios compas\u201d 12 agosto del 2014. Se permite la reproducci\u00f3n sin  recurrir al autoerotismo, la circulaci\u00f3n underground y el consumo en  modo \u201cat\u00e1squense que hay lodo\u201d.<\/strong><!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10442  aligncenter\" title=\"gracias\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias-350x175.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gracias.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=10441&amp;lang=en\"><strong>WATCH AND\/OR LISTEN TO SUBCOMANDANTE GALEANO&#8217;S WORDS HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>First part: the words of SubGaleano<\/h4>\n<p>Good morning Gotham City\u2026 whenever you finish taking pictures of the  stage over there, we\u2019re going to start the press conference over here.<\/p>\n<p>Please take your seats so that we can start in a few minutes, and so  that afterward you can take your departure. Please find your places <em>compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras<\/em>. Please sit down.<\/p>\n<p>Good morning Gotham City (that is a greeting to a <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> who uses that as a twitter handle).<\/p>\n<p>What you just saw a few moments ago is what in military terms is  called a diversionary tactic, and in laymen\u2019s terms is called magic. And  what took just a few minutes to actually happen, took someone 20 years  of work to make happen that way.[i]<\/p>\n<p>We want to begin, taking advantage of the fact that we have the free,  autonomous, alternative, or whatever-you-call-it media here, as well as  <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> from the national and international Sixth, by  thanking you. And in order to thank you, I am going to tell you the  story of a death.<\/p>\n<p>This August 25 marks the 10-year anniversary of the death of Infantry  Lieutenant Insurgente Eleazar. In 2004, really in 2003, he began to  show signs of the kind of illness that only appears on Doctor <em>House<\/em> or stuff like that. It is called Guillain-Barr\u00e9, and it consists of a  gradual decline of all systems of the body until the patient dies. There  is no cure, and the patient must be kept connected to life support.<\/p>\n<p>When he began to get sick they took him to a hospital in Tuxtla  Guti\u00e9rrez. They diagnosed him with this illness and told him that he  should just go home, that it wasn\u2019t that serious. But when I heard what  he had I knew what they meant by those instructions. The doctors, when  they saw that he was indigenous, knew he would not be able to pay for  treatment. It\u2019s really treatment for survival, not a cure.<\/p>\n<p>#&amp;*%^$*\u2026 let\u2019s see if the <em>milicianos<\/em> can be moved into the shade, they\u2019re going to be cooked alive out there, Lico\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The eye patch is so everybody thinks I have a glass eye, but I don\u2019t.  Me and my damned ideas, now I have to walk around with this thing on.<\/p>\n<p>So, this illness\u2026 in Chiapas, and I imagine in the rest of the  country, doctors calculate whether the patient is going to be able to  pay for treatment or not. If, according to their calculations, the  answer is no, then the doctor tells the patient they don\u2019t have  anything, gives them a few placebos so they think they are going to get  better, and sends them home to die.<\/p>\n<p>But we refused to accept that. We began to spend from the war funds,  the resistance funds, until we couldn\u2019t maintain him any longer. At that  point, we\u2019re talking about 2003 when a certain artistic intellectual  sector still loved us, we asked them for help so that we could keep our <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> alive. They laughed at us. Apparently the indigenous can die of  smallpox, measles, typhoid, all these kinds of things, but not of such  an, shall we say, aristocratic illness, as Guillain-Barr\u00e9, which happens  to only one in a million.<\/p>\n<p>When we couldn\u2019t maintain him any longer, we took Lieutenant Eleazar  to Oventic and, with the equipment we were able to get there, we kept  him alive until one August 25, ten years ago, when he died.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later, along with the tragic assassination of the <em>compa<\/em> Galeano, paramilitaries from the CIOAC-Hist\u00f3rica destroyed the  autonomous school and clinic here in La Realidad, the ones that belonged  to the local Zapatistas. In order to rebuild, we didn\u2019t go to those  people [the artist-intellectual sector] for help, but to the people  below, our <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>, <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em>, and <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em> of the national and international Sixth.<\/p>\n<p><em>Compa\u00f1ero<\/em> Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, present here, and  Comandante Tacho, along with the Zapatista authorities of La Realidad  and the <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> who do carpentry, calculated the necessary  materials and came up with 209,000 pesos and some change. At that point  we were thinking:<\/p>\n<p>Well, this crowd is really down and out, maybe really scraping the  bottom of the barrel they will be able to come up with half of the money  and we can take the rest out of the resistance fund or ask for support  from the other <em>caracoles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You already know the story of what happened next, because you are the  protagonists. And by \u201cyou\u201d I don\u2019t just mean those of you who are here,  but all of those who, through you, find out what happens here, that is,  our <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>, <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em>, and <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em> of the Sixth all over the world. You quintupled the request; in the last  accounting we did, the support that had come in quintupled the budgeted  amount.<\/p>\n<p>We want to say thank you for this; never before has the EZLN received  so much support, and this support from below was more than those who do  have money had ever given. Because we know that the <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> of the Sixth didn\u2019t give what they had leftover; they gave what they  didn\u2019t even have. We have been reading in your free media, your twitter  accounts and on your facebook pages, stories that fill us with pride.<\/p>\n<p>We know that many of you struggled to come up with the funds to come  here, that some even struggle to feed themselves every day and to have a  fresh pair of\u2014I was going to say underwear\u2014of clothes, and that despite  that you made the effort to find a way to come and demonstrate what  support between <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> looks like, as opposed to hand-outs from above.<\/p>\n<p>So the first thing I want you to tell your <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> all over the world in your languages, tongues, ways, times, and  geographies, is thank you, for real. You have given a beautiful lesson  not only to those above who divvy up crumbs as hand-outs, to the  governments who abandon their obligations and even promote destruction,  but also to us; it is the most beautiful lesson that we Zapatistas have  received since the Sixth Declaration was released.<\/p>\n<p>The point of this press conference is to honor a promise. Originally  this press conference was going to be held in Oventic, along with the  exchange with indigenous peoples that was meant to happen there. Later  it was going to happen when we had the funeral for <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> Galeano, the homage that is. And it was principally meant to say the  last words or the farewell of Subcomandante Marcos, and the first words  of Subcomandante Insurgente, now Galeano\u2014at that point it was going to  be another name.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important that I tell you what this event was going to be, that  is, how we had conceived it, in order to propose to you another possible  reading of the homage to Galeano and this transition between death and  life that was created by the disappearance of the late Subcomandante  Insurgente Marcos, due to whom the devil is holding his nose. Now it  must be said, that was one good-looking guy, to each their own\u2026 That was  sarcasm, I don\u2019t know if you got it\u2026 I can still distinguish these  things.<\/p>\n<p>Look, <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>, in order to understand what happened in  the wee hours of that morning of May 25, you have to understand what had  happened before, what was going to happen. I have read and heard  various interpretations that are more or less correct, and a whole bunch  that are absolutely ridiculous, about what that May 25 morning meant.  Some are quite clever, such as for example the one that proposed that it  was all a trick to avoid paying child support.<\/p>\n<p>But most accounts completely disregarded everything that had  happened. For example, they said that the Zapatistas had said that the  paid media don\u2019t exist, that they were now the enemy, that this was an  action aimed against the paid media, etc. But if you have even a little  bit of memory, you\u2019ll recall that in the original invitation the event  was open to everyone, when it was to be held in Oventic. That meant the  paid media could also attend.<\/p>\n<p>What was gong to happen originally was that Marcos was going to die  and bid farewell to the paid media, explaining how we viewed them and  thanking them kindly and then he was going to speak and introduce  himself to the free, alternative, autonomous, or whatever-you-call-it  media. What I am implying is that one reading, perhaps not the most  correct, is that what happened in the wee morning hours of May 25, 2014,  meant that the EZLN was changing interlocutors. That is why I told you  the history of the late Infantry Lieutenant Insurgente Eleazar, war  veteran, who fought in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Zapatistas have not only not said that the paid media don\u2019t  exist\u2014somebody out there circulated that stupidity\u2014but we said something  entirely different: that what is happening with the paid media has  nothing to do with us and has everything to do with the advance of  capitalism at a global level.<\/p>\n<p>The paid media present something truly marvelous within capitalism,  because they represent one of the few times that capitalism has managed  to convert non-production into a commodity. Supposedly, the job of the  communications media is to produce information and circulate it for the  consumption of its various audiences or listeners. Capitalism has  managed to pay the media to <em>not<\/em> produce, that is, to not inform.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened over the past few years is that with the advance of  mass communications media that are not privately held\u2014that is, they are  currently being litigated or disputed, such as the battleground of the  internet\u2014the traditional press has lost power\u2014both the power of  dissemination and of course, the capacity to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few facts here and I am going to cite the author because he  asks that he is cited any time his information is used, Francisco Vidal  Bonifaz. He does an analysis of the print runs of the principal  newspapers in Mexico <strong>(note: it is probable that the speaker is  referring to the book \u201cLos Due\u00f1os del Cuarto Poder\u201d, published by  planeta editing house, where the author Francisco Vidal Bonifaz does an  exhaustive analysis of the press in Mexico. In this book and in the blog  \u201cThe Wheel of Fortune,\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/ruedadelafortuna.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">ruedadelafortuna.wordpress.com<\/a>,  you can find this information, the print run of each publication, as  well as the economic and educational levels of their readerships, etc.  The book and the blog are recommended for anyone who wants an in-depth  understanding of the situation of the Mexican Press. Note courtesy of \u201c<em>Los Tercios Compas<\/em>,\u201d \u201cThe Odd Ones Out\u201d). <\/strong>The newspapers classified as the principal newspapers in Mexico, in that inverse provincialism characteristic of <em>chilangos <\/em>[people  from Mexico City], are the ones that are produced in Mexico City, even  though the print run of newspapers produced in the states may be  greater.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 they put out, sometimes in a more than a figurative sense,  more that a million copies of the principal newspapers. In 2007,  production had fallen to 800,000, and the number of readers had gone  down scandalously. One way or another, investigative journalism and  journalistic analysis, which is the ground on which the paid media would  have been able to compete with the instantaneous information possible  through the internet, was abandoned or left aside.<\/p>\n<p>The paid media, which really isn\u2019t an insult, it\u2019s a reality; it is  media that lives off of money, right? Some may say \u201cno, the thing is  that \u201cpaid media\u201d sounds really bad, it\u2019s better to say \u2018commercial  media\u2019.\u201d But commercial media sounds worse than paid media.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers don\u2019t live off their own circulation, that is, off the  sale of their paper; they live off of advertisements. So in order to  sell advertisements they have to show those buying advertising space  what public they are targeting, who their readers are. For example, they  say\u2014and this is data from before and up to 2008 because after that all  of the newspapers censured any information about their own  publications\u2014that <em>El Universal<\/em> and <em>Reforma<\/em> took about 70% of the paid advertising in Mexico City, and the other newspapers fought over the remaining 30%.<\/p>\n<p>So each newspaper has a profile, we could call it, of its readers\u2014a  particular class strata and educational level it targets\u2014and that is  what it presents to companies buying advertising space. So if I am <em>El Despertador Mexicano<\/em> and my primary consumers are indigenous people, then I\u2019m going to sell  one page of advertising space to El Huarache Veloz [The Fast <em>Huarache<\/em>] in order to sell <em>huaraches<\/em> or <em>pozol<\/em> or whatever.[ii]<\/p>\n<p>The thing is that all of the newspapers, absolutely all of them,  including those that say they are leftist, present an analysis of their  readership profile that has 60 to 70% of their readers in the upper  ranges of buying power. The only ones who openly recognize that their  readers are of low buying power and low educational background are <em>Esto, Ovaciones<\/em>, and <em>La Prensa<\/em>. All the others target the upper class, that is, those above.<\/p>\n<p>It is evident that this class with high buying power can reach  information via a more instantaneous route. Why wait for the newspaper  to come to see what is happening in another part of the world if in an  instant I can know what\u2019s going on in Gaza, for example? Why I am I  going to wait for the TV news or the newspaper if I can see it  immediately?<\/p>\n<p>There is no competitive terrain there, because what the super-high  speeds of these forms of media means is that the idea of first or  exclusive access to news vanishes in the face of highspeed competition.  So all of these media outlets, including the progressive ones, are  fighting for a rating, that is, for an upper middle class and upper  class audience. There is another class that is very rich, beyond every  measure; I think they\u2019re the ones that produce the information.<\/p>\n<p>Paid media have only two options in order to survive, precisely  because they are paid. They can contract their survival with those who  can still pay, that is, the political class, in return for its  commercials and propaganda, but in its own way. You can see this in the  fees that each newspaper charges for a full page ad, a half page, three  quarters page, down to the smallest section you can buy, and there is a  special charge for non-commercial advertising, which are the  governmental advertisements, and another fee for the \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d  news, for example those interviews that no one knows why appear in the  newspaper because nobody cares what that person has to say\u2014those are  paid. The highest fees are for the non-commercial ads, that is, the ones  paid by the government, and the miscellaneous news\u2014paid insertions  disguised as information.<\/p>\n<p>The other option they have is to develop investigative journalism and  journalistic analysis that isn\u2019t offered on the internet. Well, it  wasn\u2019t offered on the internet until spaces like what we now call free,  autonomous, alternative, etc. media existed. What they could do is make  an analysis, a dissection, of the information that is flowing through  incoherently, and investigate what\u2019s behind it, for example, the Israeli  government\u2019s policy in Gaza or Manuel Velasco\u2019s policy in Chiapas and  so on, wherever the case may be.<\/p>\n<p>No one with even minimum standards informs themselves about what is  happening through the newspapers. (You are all a bad example because you  are neither upper nor upper middle class, if you were you wouldn\u2019t be  here.) But, who says, \u201cwell I want to understand what\u2019s going on in  Chiapas, I\u2019m going to read the profound journalistic analysis of Elio  Henriquez.\u201d Nobody.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody says, \u201cwhat\u2019s happening in Gaza?\u201d I\u2019m going to read Laura  Bozzo to see how it is being explained.\u201d No, that terrain has been  completely abandoned [by newspapers], now it is webpages and blogs that  cover that terrain.<\/p>\n<p>This lethargic withdrawal or disappearance of the paid media is not  the responsibility of the EZLN, nor of course of the late SubMarcos. It  is the responsibility of the development of capitalism and the  difficulty of adapting to the new terrain. The paid media are going to  have to evolve into entertainment media, that is to say that if I can\u2019t  inform you, then at least I can entertain you. Because, as any honest  reporter from the paid media will tell you, they can\u2019t have an impact  via investigative and analytical journalism, \u201cthe thing is if I write  that, they won\u2019t publish it.\u201d And the newspaper earns more for <em>not<\/em> publishing those kinds of articles than for publishing them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I mean about how non-production becomes a commodity; in  this case, silence itself. Any reasonably decent journalist with even  minimal ethical responsibility who does an investigation on the  involvement of the state governments of Salazar Mendiguch\u00eda, Juan  Sabines Guerrero, and Manuel Velasco with the CIOAC-Hist\u00f3rica will find  that there is a lot of money moving around there, including the money  that Mrs. Robles distributes from the National Campaign Against Hunger.<\/p>\n<p>But it is more marketable to <em>not<\/em> publish that article than  to publish it, because who is going to read it, the enemies of these  heroes of the homeland? On the other hand, keeping quiet about that and  talking instead about how nice the capital Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez is looking  with the new urban developments that municipal president Toledo and  Manuel Velasco are putting into place will sell well, even if it\u2019s all a  lie. We check the twitter accounts of the paid journalists, those who  work for the paid media that is, and they are in fact reporting on this,  on the image of war presented in the Chiapan capital by these totally  anachronistic and absurd constructions.<\/p>\n<p>But for example, people from Veracruz come here, and I think if we  said, \u201cWell, if we want to see what\u2019s going on in Veracruz we read the <em>Xalapa Herald\u201d<\/em> (if that even exists), they would say, \u201cMan, Sub, don\u2019t fuck around, those people have nothing to do with anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the problem the whole world has is that if there is no longer  information, nor analysis, nor investigation in the communications media  \u2013 if there indeed at some point ever were \u2013 then where are we going to  find these things? There is a gap, then, in the media sphere that is  currently in dispute.<\/p>\n<p>What we were also trying to signal in that farewell was that the  media that had so prided themselves on creating media figures\u2014they were  so proud of having themselves created Marcos\u2014now, despite their efforts,  can\u2019t manage to create an international figure much less a national  one, even when they are paid to do so, as in the case of L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t be done. Now the figures that have emerged, that have moved  people or moved information at a national level, are created not by the  media but despite them. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m saying it correctly, but  Julian Assange became a referent when his revelation of documents showed  the communications media at a global level that they were not reporting  what was happening. Although he is part of a collective, the media only  report on him. There is even a film about him as a person, even though  we all know it is a collective at work.<\/p>\n<p>The young woman Chelsea Manning, who underwent an operation to become  Chelsea Manning, and Snowden\u2014what all of these people have done is  uncover what was hidden and what should have been the work of the  communications media to reveal. But those who have truly disrupted the  world of information are the collectives where the individual is  completely dissolved, like Anonymous. You hear it said \u201cbut nothing is  known about Anonymous anymore, they don\u2019t show themselves,\u201d which is  absurd because if they are anonymous how are we going to ask them to  show themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, what we have seen is that the anonymity of the collective is  coming to replace and to put into crisis that penchant of those above to  find, and make in the media, individuals and personalities.<\/p>\n<p>We think that this has a lot to do with the form or structure of the  media. If the structure of the paid media is the envy of any army in  terms of verticality, authoritarianism, and arbitrariness, the media  collective\u2014that is the alternative, free, autonomous, etc. media\u2014has  another structure of being and way of working.<\/p>\n<p>In the paid media, what matters is who does the reporting. If you  look at what came out in the paid media on the 20-year anniversary of  the uprising in January of this year, the majority of the articles were  about what journalists did 20 years ago, not what happened during the  anniversary: \u201cI interviewed Marcos,\u201d \u201cI did such-and-such interview,\u201d \u201cI  was the first to get in,\u201d \u201cI wrote the first book.\u201d What a shame that  in 20 years they haven\u2019t done anything else worth remembering.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the kind of thing that carries weight. The exclusive. You  have no idea how important it is and what a journalist will do to get  \u201cthe exclusive.\u201d The exclusive right to have the last interview with  Marcos or the first with Galeano has a value and a cost, even if it is  not published, because as I said, keeping quiet is also a commodity and  can be sold.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, I want to think that in the collectives to which you  belong and in others that couldn\u2019t come, the way you work makes the  information more important than who produced it. There are of course  those who still have to learn to write properly, but the great majority  can compete with their ingenuity, analysis, depth, and investigation of  what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>What we see is that in this shitstorm that is the capitalist world,  the question is, where do we get information? If we go to the internet  and google something, such as Gaza, we can find there that the  Palestinians are a bunch of murderers that are burning themselves alive  just to demoralize the Israeli army, or the reverse. You can find pretty  much anything. Where are you going to find information about what is  really happening? Ideally, the Palestinians would tell us what was  happening themselves, not through others.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, for example, we say, wouldn\u2019t it be better to know what  the Zapatistas themselves are saying? Wouldn\u2019t that be better than  someone else saying what they think we should have said, not even what  they think we said, but what we should have said. Like those who say  that in the text \u201cThe Light and the Shadow,\u201d Marcos says he\u2019s not going  to write anymore, which means Galeano isn\u2019t going to be able to write.  But they didn\u2019t notice that when everyone else bid farewell, the cat-dog  remains. There are a lot of things one can examine there, but that  doesn\u2019t matter right now.<\/p>\n<p>What we want to point out is that the best information is that which  comes from the actors themselves, not from the person who is reporting  on the event. Those who can do this are the free, autonomous, and  alternative media. What I am explaining to you, <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em>,  is still a tendency, not something that is happening right now.  Meaning, don\u2019t start acting like peacocks saying, \u201cnow we\u2019re the shit  and the whole world depends on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a tendency that we see due to that curse we\u2019re under of seeing  things before they happen. We see that the paid media, as information  media, are in free fall, not through any fault of their own, but because  they embraced a political class that is also in decline. They did this  in order to survive and that is understandable.<\/p>\n<p>We do not criticize those who work for the press and make their  living from this. We do think that dignity and decency have a limit and  there are limits that are being crossed, but this is something for each  person to evaluate for themselves; we are not going to judge them. But  what we do see is that the problem for the paid media is survival, and  while their [long-term] possibilities for survival indicate one  direction, they are going in another, one of more immediate concern.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run that paid media, like anything you buy and consume,  is going to disappear. Why would you buy the newspaper if you can check  the internet? But additionally, you aren\u2019t going to look for information  there, you aren\u2019t going to look there for analysis of what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>So we think, if we want to know what\u2019s happening in Michoac\u00e1n,  ideally it would be people from Michoac\u00e1n who would tell us. We think  that if people in other parts of the world or the country want to know  what\u2019s happening with the Zapatistas, there should be at least some  space where they can find out.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is that we are not looking for militants for that work,  militants of Zapatista communication; for that we have the cursed idea  of the \u201cOdd Ones Out\u201d Press [<em>Los Tercios Compas<\/em>]. What we want  are listeners, so that people who want to find out what is going on can  find something that is true, or they can find an in-depth analysis or a  real investigation, keeping in mind that the important thing is the news  or the information, not who produces it.<\/p>\n<p>We think that in the long run the free, autonomous, alternative media  are going to fill\u2014or could fill\u2014this gap that is occurring in the  exchange of information at a global level. The internet can\u2019t fill the  gap, though you may think it would; on the internet you can find  anything you want, if you\u2019re in favor of something you can find  arguments in favor, if you\u2019re against you can just as easily find  arguments against.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed is for this information to have a space where it  becomes legible. And this is what, in broad strokes and at this point  still tendentially, we think the alternative, autonomous, free, or  whatever-you-call-it press can provide.<\/p>\n<p>That is what we had wanted to tell you when this press conference was  going to be in Oventic, that you have no fucking idea of the task that  awaits you. It isn\u2019t that we are going to keep you running around: come  to La Realidad, now go to such and such place, and the \u201cOdd Ones Out\u201d  Press are going to go, or the Even Ones, or whoever. Okay not the even  ones, it\u2019s a pun, we chose \u201cOdd Ones Out\u201d Press for a reason\u2026 <strong>(Note: clearly the speaker is affected by his one-eyed condition, because he should be saying \u201cOdd Ones Out <em>Compas<\/em>\u201d  not \u201cOdd Ones Out Press.\u201d We hereby energetically protest this error  and insist that this correction be published in the same space and with  the same importance as the original blunder. Note courtesy of \u201cOdd Ones  Out <em>Compas<\/em>.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hopes of many people await you. We ourselves don\u2019t place our hope  in you, but rather our trust. Not just in you who are here, but in the  tendency that you are part of that can in fact fill that gap.<\/p>\n<p>The problem that we see is the pay, now we do have to talk about pay.  The majority of people who work in the free, autonomous, etc. media  have another job. So the autonomous, free, alternative media is like the  \u201cOdd Ones Out Press\u201d <strong>(note: error and protest to error reiterated. Attentively, \u201cOdd Ones Out <em>Compas<\/em>\u201c),<\/strong> everyone participates as they can because they all have to work, to put  in their time in order to make a little money. Or they participate as  long as there is money, and when the money runs out the media  disappears. It can also happen, and I hope it doesn\u2019t, that the media  lasts only until the calendar imposes its logic on the members; that is,  when they grow up and mature, as they say above, and leave behind such  rebellion and craziness.<\/p>\n<p>We think that you are going to have this problem and that you have to  figure out a way to resolve it, I don\u2019t know how. I see that on some  [web]pages there are ads with advice about how to lose weight, how not  to get old, how not to get wrinkles, something about that what\u2019s it  called, <em>lifting<\/em>, that thing they do to themselves, well stuff  like that and other esoteric nonsense. And well, people who are looking  at the alternative media aren\u2019t going to pay attention to things like  that and the media can make a little money that way. Some handle the  income question like that, although in order to be able to do that you\u2019d  have to demonstrate that someone other than yourselves goes to your  webpages.<\/p>\n<p>We used to joke many years ago with those who were in charge of our  page before all of this, who said \u201clook at this, such-and-such  communique had this many hits.\u201d And I would say, \u201cthat\u2019s a lie, it was  us going click, click, click, click, click\u2026 not really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, maybe the same thing that compelled you to work as a  collective, in addition to those of you that do urban artisan work or  whatever you call it, who make things, maybe you can also collectively  find a way to resolve this issue so that your media doesn\u2019t collapse, so  that it endures and grows. You don\u2019t have another choice, <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>,  I\u2019m sorry to say: you either grow or disappear. This includes those who  only sporadically publish information. This is your only choice,  because even among yourselves disparities will start to develop. I hope  that any disparity in development occurs because of the depth of your  analysis and investigative abilities and not because some manage to  resolve the issue of pay and some don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you figure it out, because there are a lot of people who are expecting more of you than you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>So, just in order to clarify and summarize: The paid media exist,  they are real, they have a certain importance, this importance is  tendentially diminishing, and what the EZLN has done is radically change  its media policy. We do not want to talk with those above, as  Subcomandante Mois\u00e9s will further explain in the question and answer  session, which is going to consist of the Zapatista media asking the  questions and you providing the answers, rather than the reverse.<\/p>\n<p>What the EZLN has done is to say: now we don\u2019t care about those  people we had to address through Durito, or through Old Antonio, those  of the paid press that is. Now we are interested in the people who  understand the fact of the cat-dog; who recognize difference and  recognize that there are things that we don\u2019t understand, but just  because we don\u2019t understand them does not mean we are going to judge or  condemn them\u2014like a cat-dog that exists; you\u2019re not going to believe me  but it\u2019s real.<\/p>\n<p>What we are interested in is talking and listening to you, and by  that I mean the people who talk and listen to us through you. If we want  to know what is happening in any particular place, we look first to the  alternative free media. There isn\u2019t that much information really, but  even the little that exists is much better than any paid media source.  Plus, you have to subscribe with a credit card to read whatever the  Laura Bozzo types publish anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>What happened then that changed this farewell plan? This plan to tell  the paid media \u201cthanks for everything\u2026\u201d (although the majority of them  were involuntarily and unwillingly complicit in what you saw here a  little bit ago, the diversion tactic or magic act), and to tell you all  the curse that awaits you?<\/p>\n<p>The majority of you are young. We think that rebellion has nothing to  do with the calendar, that it shouldn\u2019t have anything to do with the  calendar, because we see people who are older, not in their right mind  because (inaudible), but they continue to be rebellious. And we have the  hope that you all continue, even if it isn\u2019t you who are here anymore.  Maybe you divide up the work, \u201cyou guys figure out how to get money and  we dedicate ourselves to this, and we rotate or something like that,\u201d  but don\u2019t abandon this work, it is truly important.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened? Take into account the original plan, where the paid  media were going to be present too. This was still the plan two weeks  before, it was only 15 days before the event that we said no, they\u2019re  not coming to the homage for Galeano.<\/p>\n<p>What happened was a death. On this fact I have only read, and I\u2019m not  saying there aren\u2019t other things out there, an article by John Gibler,  who happens to be here somewhere. He wrote that he was telling someone  about the homage to Galeano and that person said, \u201cbut all this for one  dead man?\u201d And he tried to explain the best he could what one dead man  meant. And we want to to say how important one death is to us.<\/p>\n<p>If we let one death go, then we let two go, and if we let two go then  there will be ten, and later a hundred, later a thousand, later tens of  thousands, like in the supposed war on narcotrafficking waged by  Calder\u00f3n, who permitted one death and later permitted tens of thousands.  Not us. Yes, we will die of natural causes or just causes \u2013 in struggle  that is \u2013 but we are not going to permit anyone, any of our <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em> to be murdered in impunity. We will not allow it. And we will move all  of the forces in our power even if it is for just one person dead, even  if that person is the most ignored, the most disdained, the least known.<\/p>\n<p>The rage we felt with Galeano\u2014this <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> Galeano was the  one who was in charge of receiving the paid press, he carried their  bags and brought them on horseback to where the interviews or reports  were done, he received them in his house and fed them. These people who  ignored or disrespected his death, who heroized the paramilitaries as  victims of arbitrary judgement, they didn\u2019t even bother to ask him his  name all the times they came here\u2014and for 20 years he was in charge of  receiving and hosting them. He even made bets with one of them on who  would win the World Cup each time it came around.<\/p>\n<p>We were waiting for a reaction from those who had that kind of  relationship with him, but they didn\u2019t even know who he was. They came  to interview Marcos, to see Marcos; they saw the horse and the gun, they  wanted to know what he read, although everyone already knew what books  the late Marcos had read. All of these things interested them, but not  the man who was receiving and welcoming them here.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we can understand that he didn\u2019t matter to them because he  was another indigenous person, without a face, who fed them, carried  their things, helped them onto the horse, accompanied them, told them  where to step, what to watch out for, all of that. We understand that he  did not matter to them, but to us he does, Galeano and each and every  one of the Zapatistas. We created all this ruckus and we will do so  again and again because we will not permit a single death to go by with  impunity.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s why we changed everything, and out of our rage Subcomandate  Mois\u00e9s, who now commands those things, said that no press were going to  come in, no paid press, even though originally everybody was going to  be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The cadaver of <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> Galeano was here in this room [gesturing behind him]. There is a video where you can see the cadaver, surrounded by <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> reproaching the CIOAC for Galeano\u2019s death. They didn\u2019t touch them, <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>. I, who am supposedly a controlled being, with all that had happened I would have least given them a shove. But the\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> didn\u2019t, they were yelling at them but they didn\u2019t touch them. Anywhere  else there would have been a lynching right there on the spot, because  they were responsible for the death and the cadaver was right there.<\/p>\n<p>Then we arrived. We had been in Oventic getting ready for the events  to be held there, I was practicing with a wheelchair. Today I came in on  a horse, but there I was going to enter in a wheelchair in order to  feed the rumors about me being really sick and in bad shape. Later I was  going to stand up because my knees were hurting me from practicing.<\/p>\n<p>When we found out what happened we came here and we saw what was  going on\u2014and look, what didn\u2019t and won\u2019t come out in the press was that  that guy that lives there [gesturing outside the <em>caracol<\/em>] right  outside, and there, and there, and there, and there, are those that  were involved in the conflict, and they came here to the door of the <em>Caracol<\/em> to mock the <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> who were enclosed here to avoid being accosted, just where you are now, that\u2019s where the <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> were.<\/p>\n<p>They were mocking how the deceased danced with the blows they were  dealing him, they made fun of how they shot him, cut him with machetes,  all of this that we have edited from the investigation because it is our  pain. Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s has now finished the  investigation, but we will not make it public in order to avoid acts of  revenge. We will hand it over to Frayba with all of the names and  everything; we already know who did the killing.<\/p>\n<p>That is the situation we found ourselves in, <em>compas<\/em>, and we  couldn\u2019t allow ourselves even the slightest reaction because it was like  a dry prairie here, with even a spark everything was going to go up in  flames and there would have been a river of blood. We had to withstand  the rage and keep bearing it and we still have not released it. We have  not yet released this rage.<\/p>\n<p>So the answer, John Gibler, is that for the Zapatistas one unjust  death is too many, and that is why we were willing to do anything and  everything.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of media management imposes an inhuman, absurd logic,  uncalled for in any part of the world. Look, for example at the little  girls and little boys in Palestine who have demonstrated a great  patience in dying, because one dies and nobody pays any attention, and  the cadavers keep piling up until finally the mass media turns to see  what\u2019s happening and the children keep dying so that there are images to  print. They keep dying so that the image is seen and they have to die  in the most scandalous ways, outrageous ways, so that the people above  begin to say, \u201chey wait, what are we doing there,\u201d that is, to do  something.<\/p>\n<p>We as Zapatistas are always surprised at how little humanity there is  in the humans who exist above. Why is so much spilled blood necessary  for them to say something? And even then they qualify their position:  \u201cfine, kill them but don\u2019t show it because it implicates us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert Fisk, who writes in <em>The<\/em> <em>Independent<\/em> of Great  Britain, put what we are saying now another way: the large mass media  outlets are in crisis because the people who read them\u2014which is the  upper classes, well-informed and of high consumption capacity\u2014are  indignant because that same media treats them like idiots, trying to  present the massacre in Gaza as if it were a confrontation between two  sides or as if the fault lay with Hamas. If people feel insulted\u2014and  just because they have a salary doesn\u2019t mean that they are dumb, well  some are\u2014but they have intelligence and they feel insulted. Fisk  recognizes this in an article, saying \u201cwe are in crisis, people don\u2019t  believe us anymore, they don\u2019t take us seriously, and what\u2019s more,  they\u2019re openly complaining about us.\u201d In some places this has been going  on for years, like here in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>What is happening in Palestine that nobody talks about\u2014this mortal  patience of the Palestinian children\u2014is the responsibility of the  Israeli government. We always distinguish governments from the people,  we understand the temptation to conflate them, but we\u2019ve said on another  occasion that the problem isn\u2019t between Zionism and antisemitism, even  if the big heads continue spouting such silly things.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t say that because the Israeli government murders, the Israeli  people are murderers, because then they will say that the Mexican  people are idiots because the Mexican government is idiotic, and we, at  least, are not idiots. There are people in Israel, we don\u2019t know how  many, who are noble, conscientious, honest, and they don\u2019t have to be  leftist because the condemnation of what is happening in Palestine has  nothing to do with a political position; it\u2019s a question of human  decency. Nobody can see that massacre and say nothing is happening or  that it is somebody else\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>What I am explaining about the crisis of the paid media and the  emergence of the free, alternative, or autonomous media is a tendency in  which, over the long haul, you will run into a lot of problems. I  didn\u2019t want to tell you this but it has to be said.<\/p>\n<p>There are people who are going to\u00a0<em>desmayar<\/em> [falter or faint] \u2014 the\u00a0<em>compas<\/em> say\u00a0<em>desmayar<\/em> when someone gives up, when they leave their work, the struggle\u2014when they say\u00a0<em>desmayar<\/em> they mean someone has left the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>There are people [among you] that the paid media are going to summon,  to say come over here\u2014to eat shit, as one newspaper assistant editor  said, but they\u2019re going to pay you to eat shit\u2014maybe because they write  well, or they have a good analysis, or because they frame the photos  nicely or the video or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>And some are going to go. Others are going to betray you, they\u2019re  going to say \u201cno, hell no, that text isn\u2019t real, they made it up,\u201d or  whatever. And others are going to give up [<em>claudicar<\/em>].\u00a0<em>Claudicar<\/em> is a word that the\u00a0<em>compas<\/em> understand  very well, which means that you are on a path and you say, \u201cah no, I  don\u2019t want to do this after all, better that I take this other path.\u201d In  these cases it doesn\u2019t usually have anything to do with leaving a job  per se\u2014sometimes one has to work a job to live\u2014but rather with leaving a  particular position with respect to how information is treated, in this  case the position of the free, autonomous, or alternative media.<\/p>\n<p>The problems you are going to have are money-related. That is, you  are going to have to survive. And survival will be a problem not just as  media but as human beings who still have to eat, right? Though some of  you are overcoming this, but\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What we also want you to know, and for other free media to hear  through you, is that we recognize this effort and this sacrifice. We  know it is a huge pain to get here for people who have a salary, for  someone who doesn\u2019t have one it is practically heroic. We recognize  this, we know it, we understand it, and we appreciate it. You can be  sure that if anyone is going to take into consideration what this  requires of you, it\u2019s us.<\/p>\n<p>So where are we going to look for information? In the paid media? No.  Through the social networks. No. On the unstable and choppy sea of the  internet? No. There, like I said, anything goes.<\/p>\n<p>So there is a gap regarding where to find the information. The medium  you are using now is also limited: it gets to more people but also has a  limit because people who don\u2019t have internet of at least medium  speed\u2014and I challenge you to try to open any of your own pages here, <em>sonofa<\/em>\u2026  we could have another another uprising, and win the war and that page  still wouldn\u2019t have opened completely. There should be a lighter version  or something like that, the smartphone version or whatever. But the  majority of your interlocutors, or at least those who should be your  interlocutors, don\u2019t have this [fast internet], although that could  change.<\/p>\n<p>We think that at this time the principal means of communication has  to be to listen; that\u2019s why we were referring to you all as \u201clisteners.\u201d  There are people, I was just telling Moi, that have this need to talk,  and they don\u2019t care if anyone is listening, they just have to talk, it  doesn\u2019t even matter what what about. But there are also people who are  concerned as to whether they are being listened to, and this matters to  them because they want their words to go further out into the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> of the CNI came here  with the charge to be heard. This is different than during the Other  Campaign; I remember those multiple nightmares\u2014the collective divan of  \u201cget comfortable, cause here we go\u201d\u2014that was the Other Campaign, where  everybody said whatever crossed their mind. They didn\u2019t care if anyone  was listening or not, or understanding or not; the point was that they  could go on and on about whatever they wanted. And it was free! Imagine  what that would cost you to do that with a psychoanalyst or a  psychiatrist or whatever you call them these days.<\/p>\n<p>So the point is to remind you that the medium is also the limit and  you have to look for ways to get past this. Right now, the direct source  currently seems to be the primary one and we have to tell you that the  originary peoples are the real specialists in listening. My point here  is to warn you about what is coming with the World Festival of Rebellion  and Resistance, and to exhort you not to let it become the show-off  spectacle that the meetings of the Other turned into, and that includes  the preparatory meetings and all that. The\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> of the originary peoples are specialists in the art of listening, in communication\u00a0<em>par excellence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That the person who is the subject of a particular issue, or  suffering, or action is the one who tells you how they see things should  not be an impediment to providing an analysis. I take what you say at  face value but then I see these other things. That is the job of those  who dedicate themselves to providing information.<\/p>\n<p>We also see, ever since the tragedy of the death of Galeano, how  different types of media handle their work either as charity or support.  In the paid communications media, if they pay attention to you then you  should be grateful, and this is something for which they cannot forgive  the Zapatistas. \u201cWe\u2019re still trying to lend you a hand,\u201d they would say  \u201cand you bite the hand that feeds you.\u201d Well we aren\u2019t looking for  indigestion; we would spit on that hand, because what they are offering  with that kind of media attention is a charitable handout.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, for the free, alternative, autonomous, etc. media,  your reporting is not a hand-out. It is a duty that you are honoring,  despite all of the difficulties you may have in doing so. That is what  we call \u201cthe\u00a0<em>compa<\/em> media,\u201d I know Tacho tore them to pieces and that\u2019s why we published that stuff about the Odd Ones Out <em>Compas<\/em> <strong>(note: the speaker finally said it correctly. Attentively, \u201cOdd Ones Out <em>Compas<\/em>.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is the difference between the paid media and the\u00a0<em>compa<\/em> media.  It\u2019s not that one has money, or receives a salary or not. The  difference is that for some we are a commodity, whether they are  reporting on us or purposely not reporting on us, and for others we are a  space of struggle, like they have themselves and like there are in  every corner of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s event was open to the press, and only three journalists  came. Well, four, but one was one of the\u00a0three journalists that have  been given noble titles for having lied about the death of Galeano, that  one we didn\u2019t let in. Of the other three, one was from\u00a0<em>Proceso<\/em>, one does media work on the southern border, and another works with Aristegui. As of now only <em>Proceso<\/em> has  printed something, but no other media came, I don\u2019t know if this is all  Paquita La Del Barrio[iii] style, that is, out of spite, but either  way.<\/p>\n<p>How many dead\u2014because it wasn\u2019t an EZLN event, it was the CNI\u2019s  event\u2014how many dead would the CNI have to have for the media to pay  attention to them? \u201cA lot,\u201d the media would say, in order to really  become a commodity. Later they would decide if they were going to market  the fact that they covered it or market the fact that they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>The difference for us is that support from a\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> doesn\u2019t come with conditions, because they know they are part of the same struggle.<\/p>\n<p>So what we see in this chaotic panorama that I have described is that  with the super-speed saturation of jumbled information out there,  paradoxically, the highest or supreme level of communication that exists  is the exchange, this direct sharing.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>compas<\/em> have discovered something that you have also  discovered in your work, which is the power of listening. If it isn\u2019t  possible for us all to listen at the same time, then it is necessary to  have someone who takes these words and spreads them further, to the  people, which is what the \u201c<em>escuchas<\/em>\u201d [listeners, a job or duty  assigned for EZLN events, usually to young people in the Zapatista  communities] do. And one way or another it is what you all do too.<\/p>\n<p>But if this kind of exchange is now the supreme level of  communication (this is according to us, but as you know, we don\u2019t know  anything about communications media), then those who are best at such  things are those who need to be listened to. It seems to me that the  originary peoples are pretty fierce at this\u2014having the necessary  patience and all of that\u2014but Subcomandate Mois\u00e9s is going to talk to you  more about that.<\/p>\n<p>That is what I wanted to tell you.\u00a0<em>Compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em>,  there won\u2019t be any questions for me, as it seems to me that in the last  20 years you\u2019ve asked me everything you need to ask me, and I think I  have in fact received a Certificate of Impunity to not answer anything  anymore, but we\u2019ll have to show that to you later.<\/p>\n<p>We were still going to do this in the wee hours of the morning last  time, but since they now have me working as an Odd Ones Out Press\u00a0<strong>(note: hmm\u2026 the speaker just doesn\u2019t learn. Odd Ones Out\u00a0<em>Compas<\/em>!)<\/strong> and  I was checking and seeing that they were pirating everything off of  you, we decided it was better for you all to be able to get going  because it wasn\u2019t fair what the paid media were doing. It wasn\u2019t just  theft, it was a dispossession out of disrespect. That is, it was as if  they were saying I\u2019m going to take this and not say who it came from  because who gives a shit about that tweet or that page that nobody sees  anyway.<\/p>\n<p>That was what they were complaining about, according to what we are  told; the paid media got to San Cristobal and were saying \u201cthat Marcos  is crazy, how is he going to pick people that don\u2019t have 10 visitors to  their pages\u201d (hey so click on them more (inaudible) so you can at least  get to a hundred) \u201cand not pick us who have millions of readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So we owed you this conference,\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>, and here it is.  Galeano is not going to be quiet, sometimes Tacho is going to talk,  sometimes Mois\u00e9s, sometimes Galeano, sometimes somebody else, the  cat-dog, whoever. The important thing here is that: one, we have changed  interlocutors; and two, we recognize the importance of the tendency  that we see in your appearance as free, autonomous, alternative, etc.  media.<\/p>\n<p>We have created the Odd Ones Out Press\u00a0<strong>(note: aaaarrrrrrghhhhh! T-h-e\u00a0 O-d-d\u00a0 O-n-e-s\u00a0 O-u-t\u00a0 <em>C-o-m-p-a-s<\/em>!) <\/strong>so  that you don\u2019t have to bust your asses to get here every time; this way  we can send you material. It\u2019s not just that we recognize and value  your work, above all we recognize and value the sacrifice and incredible  effort you put out to turn toward us and see what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n<p>For this, to you in particular and to all of the\u00a0<em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> of the Sixth in general, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all, Gotham City.\u00a0<strong>(note: the speaker wanted to imitate the voice of the evil villain Mr. Bane, but it didn\u2019t really come out right).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>End of SubGaleano\u2019s discourse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Transcription from the original audio by \u201cThe Odd Ones Out,\u201d  under some protest and somewhat pissed off because of all the blunders,  but oh well, that\u2019s the way the work goes, let them suffer).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyleft: \u201cThe Odd Ones Out\u00a0<em>Compas<\/em>\u201d August 12, 2014.  Reproduction permitted without resorting to auto-eroticism. Underground  circulation allowed as well as overconsumption of the \u201cgo for it  there\u2019s more where that came from\u201d kind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[i] Before the press conference started, Zapatista authorities moved tables and chairs to the raised stage at one end of the <em>caracol<\/em>.  The independent media rushed over to set up their cameras and equipment  there, squeezing into the best positions for filming or photographing.  Then activity on stage ceased and the media eventually sought refuge  from the fierce sun under the stage. When a familiar tune was heard over  the sound system (\u201c<em>La Cigarra<\/em>\u201c, the song that the late  SubMarcos has included in various communiques in the past and which  marked his entrance on horseback to the homage in La Realidad in May of  this year), they scrambled back up to the cameras. The doors of the <em>caracol<\/em> opened and a formation of Zapatistas on horseback ceremoniously entered the <em>caracol<\/em>,  including Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s and Comandante Tacho. Some of  the media clustered around them, obstructing their path, and SubMois\u00e9s  gestured repeatedly for them to step aside so the entourage could  continue to the stage. Between the effect of the music and the masked  commanders on horses, almost none of the media noticed what was going on  at the other end of the <em>caracol<\/em>, where Subcomandante Galeano had quietly emerged from one of the rooms of the <em>Junta de Buen Gobierno<\/em> offices and sat down at a table on the small raised patio in front of  the building. He finally summoned the media\u2019s attention by speaking into  the microphone with the initial remark of this discourse.<\/p>\n<p>[ii] <em>H<\/em><em>uarache<\/em> comes from the Pur\u00e9pecha word for a  traditional sandal made from leather. It is also, as used here, the name  a popular Mexican dish consisting of an oblong corn <em>masa<\/em> base with meat and\/or bean and vegetable toppings. <em>Pozol<\/em> is a highly nutritious drink made from ground corn mixed with water. It  is commonly consumed in the Mexican countryside as a midday meal.<\/p>\n<p>[iii] A well-known Mexican singer of <em>rancheras<\/em> and other styles, known for her songs about being wronged by men.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VE O ESCUCHA LAS PALABRAS DEL SUBCOMANDANTE GALEANO AQU\u00cd. Primera parte: palabras del SupGaleano Buenos d\u00edas ciudad G\u00f3tica\u2026 Ya que acaben de tomar sus fotos all\u00e1 en el templete, ac\u00e1 vamos a empezar la conferencia de prensa. V\u00e1yanse sentando por favor para que empezamos ya en unos minutos y se puedan ir. 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