{"id":12929,"date":"2015-05-05T00:39:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T05:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2015-11-29T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:00:09","slug":"el-muro-y-la-grieta-primer-apunte-sobre-el-metodo-zapatista-palabras-del-supgaleano-en-la-inauguracion-del-seminario-%e2%80%9cel-pensamiento-critico-frente-a-la-hidra-capitalista%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=12929","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->El Muro y la Grieta. Primer Apunte sobre el M\u00e9todo Zapatista. Palabras del SupGaleano en la Inauguraci\u00f3n del Seminario \u201cEl Pensamiento Cr\u00edtico frente a la Hidra Capitalista\u201d<!--:--><!--:en-->The Wall and the Crack. First Note on the Zapatista Method. Words by SupGaleano in the Inauguration of the Seminar \u201cCritical Thought and the Capitalist Hydra\u201d<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>El Muro y la Grieta.<br \/>\nPrimer Apunte sobre el M\u00e9todo Zapatista.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13254\" title=\"komanilel (13)\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Escucha aqu\u00ed: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/pensamiento\/3may_sup-galeano.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<p>Mayo 3 del 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Buenas tardes, d\u00edas, noches tengan quienes escuchan y quienes leen, sin importar sus calendarios y geograf\u00edas.<\/p>\n<p>Mi nombre es Galeano, Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano. Nac\u00ed la  madrugada del 25 de mayo del 2014, en colectivo y a pesar m\u00edo, y bueno,  tambi\u00e9n a pesar de otros, otras y <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>. Como  el resto de mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros zapatistas, me cubro el rostro  cuando es necesario mostrarme, y me descubro para ocultarme. A pesar de  no cumplir a\u00fan el a\u00f1o de vida, el mando me ha asignado el trabajo de  posta, vig\u00eda o centinela en uno de los puestos de observaci\u00f3n de esta  tierra rebelde.<\/p>\n<p>Como no estoy acostumbrado a hablar en p\u00fablico, y menos ante tantas y  tan finas (j\u00e1 -perd\u00f3n, debe ser el hipo del p\u00e1nico de escena-), digo  finas personas, les agradezco su comprensi\u00f3n para con mis balbuceos y mi  reiterado trastab\u00edllelo en el dif\u00edcil y complicado arte de la palabra.<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Crack in the Wall.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> First Note on Zapatista Method.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13254\" title=\"komanilel (13)\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/komanilel-13.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen here: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/pensamiento\/3may_sup-galeano.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<p>May 3, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Good afternoon, good day, good night to all listening and reading, no matter your calendars and geographies.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Galeano, Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano. I was born in  the small hours of the morning on May 25, 2014, collectively and quite  in spite of myself, and well, in spite of others also.<a name=\"_ednref1\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_edn1\">[i]<\/a> Like the rest of my Zapatista <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em>,  I cover my face whenever it is necessary that I show myself, and I take  the cover off whenever I need to hide. Although I am not yet one year  old, the authorities have assigned me the task of <em>posta<\/em>, of watchman or sentinel, at one of the observation posts in this rebel territory.<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--more--><!--:es--><\/p>\n<p>Tom\u00e9 el nombre de Galeano del de un compa\u00f1ero zapatista, un maestro y  organizador, ind\u00edgena, que fue atacado, secuestrado, torturado y  asesinado por paramilitares amparados en una supuesta organizaci\u00f3n  social: la CIOAC-Hist\u00f3rica. La pesadilla que acab\u00f3 con la vida del  compa\u00f1ero maestro Galeano, inici\u00f3 la madrugada del 2 de mayo del 2014.  Desde esa hora, nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, iniciamos la  reconstrucci\u00f3n de su vida.<\/p>\n<p>Por esas fechas, la direcci\u00f3n colectiva del EZLN decidi\u00f3 dar muerte  al personaje autodenominado SupMarcos, en aquel tiempo portavoz de los  hombres, mujeres, ni\u00f1os y ancianos zapatistas. A partir de entonces, el  cargo de vocero del Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional le  corresponde al Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s. Por su voz hablamos, por  sus ojos miramos, en sus pasos andamos, \u00e9l somos.<\/p>\n<p>Meses despu\u00e9s de ese 2 de mayo, la noche se alarg\u00f3 en el M\u00e9xico de  abajo y le puso un nuevo nombre a la ya larga nominaci\u00f3n del terror:  \u201cAyotzinapa\u201d. Como se ha dado una y otra vez en el mundo, una geograf\u00eda  de abajo era as\u00ed se\u00f1alada y nombrada por una tragedia planeada y  ejecutada, es decir, por un crimen.<\/p>\n<p>Ya hemos dicho, en voz del Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, lo que  para nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas, signific\u00f3 y significa Ayotzinapa.  Con su venia y la de mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros jefas y jefes  zapatistas retomo sus palabras.<\/p>\n<p>Ayotzinapa es el dolor y la rabia, s\u00ed, pero no s\u00f3lo eso. Tambi\u00e9n y  sobre todo, el terco empe\u00f1o de los familiares y compa\u00f1eros de los  ausentes.<\/p>\n<p>Algunas, algunos de estos familiares que no han dejado caer la  memoria, nos dieron el honor de compartir junto nuestro y est\u00e1n aqu\u00ed con  nosotros en tierras zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>Escuchamos la palabra de Do\u00f1a Hilda y Don Mario, madre y padre de  C\u00e9sar Manuel Gonz\u00e1lez Hern\u00e1ndez, y tenemos la presencia y la palabra de  Do\u00f1a Bertha y Don Tom\u00e1s, madre y padre de Julio C\u00e9sar Ram\u00edrez Nava. Con  ellas y ellos tenemos el reclamo por los 46 ausentes.<\/p>\n<p>A Do\u00f1a Bertha y a Don Tom\u00e1s les pedimos que hagan llegar estas  palabras a los dem\u00e1s familiares de los ausentes de Ayotzinapa. Porque ha  sido su lucha lo que hemos tenido presente para arrancar este  semillero.<\/p>\n<p>Creo que m\u00e1s de una, uno, <strong><em>unoa,<\/em><\/strong> de la Sexta  y del EZLN, coincidir\u00e1n conmigo en que hubi\u00e9ramos preferido que no  estuvieran aqu\u00ed como est\u00e1n. Quiero decir, que s\u00ed estuvieran, pero no  como dolor y rabia, sino como abrazo compa\u00f1ero. Que no hubiera pasado  nunca ese 26 de septiembre. Que el calendario hubiera echado una mano  compa\u00f1era y se hubiera saltado esa fecha, y que la geograf\u00eda se hubiera  extraviado y no hubiera anclado en Iguala, Guerrero, M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>Pero si despu\u00e9s de esa noche de terror, la geograf\u00eda se extendi\u00f3 y  profundiz\u00f3, alcanzando los rincones m\u00e1s apartados del planeta, y si el  calendario sigue rendido ante esa fecha, ha sido por el empe\u00f1o de  ustedes, por la grandeza de su sencillez, por la incondicionalidad de su  entrega.<\/p>\n<p>No conocemos a sus hijos. Pero los conocemos a ustedes. Y no es otra  nuestra intenci\u00f3n que la de que la admiraci\u00f3n y el respeto que les  tenemos sea una certeza para ustedes, a\u00fan y en los momentos m\u00e1s  solitarios y dolorosos a los que se enfrenten.<\/p>\n<p>Es cierto, no podemos llenar calles y plazas en las grandes ciudades.  Cada movilizaci\u00f3n, por peque\u00f1a que sea, representa para nuestras  comunidades una merma importante en su econom\u00eda, ya de por s\u00ed dif\u00edcil,  como la de millones de personas, y sostenida al l\u00edmite por las rebeld\u00eda y  resistencia de m\u00e1s de dos d\u00e9cadas. En nuestras comunidades digo, porque  nuestros apoyos no son la suma de individualidades, sino que son acci\u00f3n  colectiva, reflexionada y organizada. Son parte de nuestra lucha.<\/p>\n<p>No podemos brillar en las redes sociales, ni hacer llegar sus  palabras m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de nuestros corazones. Tampoco podemos apoyarlos  econ\u00f3micamente, aunque bien sabemos que estos meses de lucha les han  golpeado en su salud y en sus condiciones de vida.<\/p>\n<p>Ocurre tambi\u00e9n que nuestro ser rebelde y en resistencia las m\u00e1s de  las veces es visto con resquemor y desconfianza. Movimientos y  movilizaciones que en distintos rincones se levantan, prefieren que no  hagamos expl\u00edcita nuestra simpat\u00eda. A\u00fan sensibles al \u201cqu\u00e9 dir\u00e1n\u201d  medi\u00e1tico, no quieren que su causa sea asociada de manera alguna a \u201clos  encapuchados de Chiapas\u201d. Lo entendemos, no lo cuestionamos. Nuestro  respeto a las rebeld\u00edas que pululan en el mundo incluye el respeto a sus  valoraciones, a sus pasos, a sus decisiones. Respetamos s\u00ed, pero no  ignoramos. Estamos pendientes de todas y cada una de las movilizaciones  que enfrentan al Sistema. Tratamos de comprenderlas, es decir, de  conocerlas. Sabedores somos que el respeto nace del conocimiento, y que  el miedo y el odio, esas dos caras del desprecio, nacen no pocas veces  de la ignorancia.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque peque\u00f1a es nuestra lucha, algo hemos aprendido en estos a\u00f1os, d\u00e9cadas, siglos. Y esto queremos decirles:<\/p>\n<p>No crean en quienes les dicen que la sensibilidad y la simpat\u00eda, el  apoyo, se mide en calles abarrotadas, en plazas colmadas, en grandes  templetes, en el n\u00famero de c\u00e1maras, micr\u00f3fonos, encabezados  period\u00edsticos, tendencias en redes sociales.<\/p>\n<p>La inmensa mayor\u00eda en el mundo, no s\u00f3lo en nuestro pa\u00eds, es como  ustedes, hermanas y hermanos familiares de los ausentes de Ayozinapa.  Personas que tienen que pelearle al d\u00eda y a la noche un pedazo de vida.  Gente que debe luchar para arrancarle a la realidad algo para  sostenerse.<\/p>\n<p>Cualquiera de abajo, hombre, mujer, <strong><em>otroa<\/em><\/strong>,  que conozca la historia que les duele, simpatiza con su lucha en demanda  de verdad y justicia. La comparte porque en sus palabras ven la  repetici\u00f3n de sus historias, porque se reconocen en su dolor, porque se  identifican con su rabia.<\/p>\n<p>La mayor\u00eda no ha ido a marchar, no se ha manifestado, no ha creado  temas en redes sociales, no ha roto cristales, no ha incendiado  veh\u00edculos, no ha gritado consignas, no ha usurpado templetes, no les ha  dicho que no est\u00e1n solas, solos.<\/p>\n<p>No lo han hecho simple y sencillamente porque no han podido hacerlo.<\/p>\n<p>Pero han escuchado y respetan su movimiento.<\/p>\n<p>No desfallezcan.<\/p>\n<p>No crean que porque quienes antes estuvieron a su lado se han ido,  despu\u00e9s de cobrar su parte o despu\u00e9s de ver que no podr\u00edan cobrarla, su  causa es menos dolorosa, menos noble, menos justa.<\/p>\n<p>El camino que han llevado hasta ahora ha sido intenso, cierto. Pero ustedes saben que todav\u00eda falta mucho por andar.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSaben? Uno de los enga\u00f1os de arriba es convencer a los de abajo de  que lo que no se consigue r\u00e1pido y f\u00e1cil, no se consigue nunca.  Convencernos de que las luchas largas y dif\u00edciles s\u00f3lo cansan y nada  logran. Trucan el calendario de abajo sobreponi\u00e9ndole el calendario de  arriba: elecciones, comparecencias, reuniones, citas con la historia,  fechas conmemorativas que s\u00f3lo ocultan el dolor y la rabia.<\/p>\n<p>El Sistema no le teme a los estallidos, por muy masivos y luminosos  que sean. Si un gobierno cae, hay en su alacena otros para reponer e  imponer. Lo que lo aterroriza es la perseverancia de la rebeld\u00eda y la  resistencia de abajo.<\/p>\n<p>Porque abajo es otro el calendario. Es otro el paso. Es otra la historia. Es otro el dolor y otra la rabia.<\/p>\n<p>Y ahora, al pasar de los d\u00edas, este abajo disperso y plural que  somos, ya no s\u00f3lo est\u00e1 atento a su dolor y a su rabia. Tambi\u00e9n estamos  atentos a su persistencia, a su seguir, a su no rendirse.<\/p>\n<p>Cr\u00e9anos. Su lucha no depende del n\u00famero de manifestantes, del n\u00famero  de notas period\u00edsticas, del n\u00famero de menciones en redes sociales, del  n\u00famero de giras a las que los inviten.<\/p>\n<p>Su lucha, nuestra lucha, las luchas de abajo en general, dependen de  la resistencia. De no rendirse, de no venderse, de no claudicar.<\/p>\n<p>Bueno, claro, eso seg\u00fan nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas. Habr\u00e1 gente  que les diga otras cosas. Les dir\u00e1n que es m\u00e1s importante estar con  ellos, ellas. Por ejemplo, que es m\u00e1s importante llamar a votar por tal o  cual partido pol\u00edtico porque as\u00ed encontrar\u00e1n a los ausentes. Y que si  no llaman a votar por tal o cual partido no s\u00f3lo habr\u00e1n perdido LA  oportunidad de recuperar a quienes les hacen falta, tambi\u00e9n ser\u00e1n  c\u00f3mplices de que el terror siga en nuestro pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfYa ven c\u00f3mo hay partidos pol\u00edticos que se aprovechan de las  necesidades materiales de la gente? \u00bfQue ofrecen despensas, \u00fatiles  escolares, tarjetas, pases para el cine, cubetas, gorras, tortas y agua  pintada en empaque tetra pack? Bueno, pues tambi\u00e9n hay quien se  aprovecha de las necesidades sentimentales de la gente. La esperanza,  amigos y enemigos, es la necesidad que mejor se cotiza all\u00e1 arriba. La  esperanza de que todo va a cambiar, de que ahora s\u00ed el bienestar, la  democracia, la justicia, la libertad. La esperanza que los iluminados de  arriba le arrebatan a los jodidos de abajo y luego se la venden. La  esperanza en que la soluci\u00f3n a las demandas est\u00e1 en el color de uno de  los productos en la alacena del sistema.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez es gente que sabe m\u00e1s que nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas. Son  sabios, sabias. Es m\u00e1s, cobran por saber. El conocimiento es su  profesi\u00f3n, de eso viven\u2026 o con eso defraudan.<\/p>\n<p>Ya ven que ellos saben m\u00e1s y, refiri\u00e9ndose a nosotras, nosotros,  dicen que estamos \u201cperdidos all\u00e1, en las monta\u00f1as, qui\u00e9n sabe d\u00f3nde\u201d, y  dicen que llamamos a la abstenci\u00f3n y que somos sectarios (tal vez  porque, a diferencia de ellos, nosotros s\u00ed respetamos a nuestros  muertos).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Ah! \u00a1Es tan c\u00f3modo decir y repetir ocurrencias y mentiras! Tan  barato difamar y calumniar, y luego predicar la unidad, el enemigo  principal, la infalibilidad del pastor, la incapacidad del reba\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Hace muchos a\u00f1os, las zapatistas, los zapatistas no hac\u00edamos marchas,  no grit\u00e1bamos consignas, ni enarbol\u00e1bamos pancartas, ni levant\u00e1bamos  los pu\u00f1os. Hasta que una vez marchamos. La fecha: el 12 de octubre de  1992, cuando all\u00e1 arriba celebraban 500 a\u00f1os del \u201cencuentro de dos  mundos\u201d. El lugar: San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico. En vez  de pancartas llevamos arcos y flechas, y un silencio sordo fue nuestra  consigna.<\/p>\n<p>Sin mucha bulla, la estatua del conquistador cay\u00f3. Si volvieron a  levantarla no importa. Nunca podr\u00e1n levantar de nuevo el miedo a lo que  representaba.<\/p>\n<p>Unos meses despu\u00e9s, volvimos a las ciudades. Tampoco esa vez llevamos  consignas ni pancartas, y no llevamos arcos y flechas. Esa madrugada  ol\u00eda a fuego y p\u00f3lvora. y fueron nuestros rostros los levantados.<\/p>\n<p>Meses despu\u00e9s vinieron algunas, algunos de la ciudad. Nos contaron de  las grandes marchas, de las consignas, de las pancartas, de los pu\u00f1os  levantados. Claro, agregando siempre que si es que estos pobres inditos e  inditas que somos, porque cuidaban la equidad de g\u00e9nero, sobreviv\u00edamos,  era gracias a ellos y ellas, que en la ciudad hab\u00edan detenido el  genocidio de los primeros d\u00edas de ese a\u00f1o de 1994. Las zapatistas, los  zapatistas, no preguntamos si antes de 1994 no hab\u00eda genocidio, ni si ya  se hab\u00eda detenido, ni si \u00e9sos de la ciudad estaban platicando algo  ocurrido o estaban pasando la factura. Los zapatistas, las zapatistas  entendimos que hab\u00eda otros modos de lucha.<\/p>\n<p>Hicimos despu\u00e9s nuestras marchas, nuestras consignas, nuestras  pancartas y levantamos los pu\u00f1os. Desde entonces nuestras marchas son un  p\u00e1lido reflejo de aquella marcha que alumbr\u00f3 la madrugada del a\u00f1o 94.  Nuestras consignas tienen la rima desordenada de las canciones en los  campamentos guerrilleros de monta\u00f1a. Nuestras pancartas son  trabajosamente elaboradas por batallar para encontrar equivalentes a lo  que en nuestras lenguas se describe en una palabra, y en otros idiomas  se necesitan tres tomos de El Capital. Nuestros pu\u00f1os levantados m\u00e1s que  retar, saludan. Como si al ma\u00f1ana se dirigieran y no al presente.<\/p>\n<p>Pero algo no ha cambiado: siguen levantados nuestros rostros.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, nuestros autodenominados acreedores de la ciudad nos  exigieron que particip\u00e1ramos en las elecciones. No entendimos, porque  nosotras, nosotros, nunca les exigimos que se alzaran en armas, ni que  resistieran, ni que se rebelaran contra el mal gobierno, ni que honraran  a sus muertos en la lucha. No les exigimos que se cubrieran el rostro,  que se negaran el nombre, que abandonaran familia, profesi\u00f3n, amistades,  nada. Pero los modernos conquistadores, vestidos de izquierda  progresista, nos amenazaron: si no los segu\u00edamos, nos dejar\u00edan solas,  solos, y ser\u00edamos los culpables de que la derecha reaccionaria fuera  gobierno. Les deb\u00edamos, dijeron, y presentaron la cuenta a pagar impresa  en una boleta electoral.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, no entendimos. Nos alzamos para  mandarnos nosotras mismas, nosotros mismos, no para que otro nos  mandara. Se enojaron.<\/p>\n<p>Tiempo despu\u00e9s los de la ciudad siguen marchando, gritando consignas, levantando pu\u00f1os y pancartas, y ahora agregan <strong><em>tuits<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>hashtags<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>likes<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>trending<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>topics<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>followers<\/em><\/strong>,  en sus partidos pol\u00edticos est\u00e1n los mismos que apenas ayer eran la  derecha reaccionaria, en sus mesas se sientan juntos y departen los  asesinos y los familiares de los asesinados, r\u00eden y brindan juntos por  la paga obtenida, se lamentan y lloran juntos por los puestos perdidos.<\/p>\n<p>Mientras tanto las zapatistas, los zapatistas tambi\u00e9n marchamos a  veces, gritamos consignas imposibles o callamos, en veces levantamos  pancartas y pu\u00f1os, siempre la mirada. Decimos que no nos manifestamos  para desafiar al tirano, sino para saludar a quien, en otras geograf\u00edas y  calendarios, lo enfrenta. Para desafiarlo, construimos. Para  desafiarlo, creamos. Para desafiarlo, imaginamos. Para desafiarlo,  crecemos y nos multiplicamos. Para desafiarlo, vivimos. Para desafiarlo,  morimos. En lugar de <strong><em>tuits<\/em><\/strong>, hacemos escuelas y cl\u00ednicas, en lugar de <strong><em>trending<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>topics<\/em><\/strong>, fiestas para celebrar la vida derrotando a la muerte.<\/p>\n<p>En la tierra de los acreedores de la ciudad sigue mandando el amo, con otro rostro, con otro nombre, con otro color.<\/p>\n<p>En la tierra zapatista mandan los pueblos y el gobierno obedece.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez por eso es que los zapatistas, las zapatistas, no entendimos  que ten\u00edamos que ser los seguidores, y los l\u00edderes de la ciudad los  seguidos.<\/p>\n<p>Y todav\u00eda no entendemos.<\/p>\n<p>Pero puede ser que s\u00ed, que la verdad y la justicia que ustedes, nosotras y nosotros, todos, todas, <strong><em>todoas<\/em><\/strong>,  buscamos, se consiga gracias a la d\u00e1diva de un l\u00edder rodeado de gente  tan inteligente como \u00e9l, un salvador, un amo, un jefe, un patr\u00f3n, un  pastor, un gobernante, y todo s\u00f3lo con el m\u00ednimo esfuerzo de una boleta  en una urna, con un <strong><em>tuit<\/em><\/strong>, con una presencia en  la marcha, en el mitin, en la lista de afiliados\u2026 o callando frente a  la farsa que simula inter\u00e9s patri\u00f3tico donde s\u00f3lo hay ansia de Poder.<\/p>\n<p>Si s\u00ed o no, es lo que tal vez nos digan otros pensamientos en este semillero.<\/p>\n<p>Lo que nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, hemos aprendido es que no. Que  de arriba s\u00f3lo vienen la explotaci\u00f3n, el robo, la represi\u00f3n, el  desprecio. Es decir, de arriba, s\u00f3lo llega el dolor.<\/p>\n<p>Y de arriba les demandan, les exigen que los sigan. Que ustedes les  deben el que se conociera mundialmente su dolor, que ustedes les deben  las plazas colmadas, las calles llenas de color e ingenio. Que ustedes  les deben por el trabajo de polic\u00eda ciudadana que se\u00f1al\u00f3, persigui\u00f3 y  sataniz\u00f3 a \u201canarco-inflitrados-fuchi-gu\u00e1cala\u201d. Que ustedes les deben las  manifestaciones bien portadas, las notas period\u00edsticas, las fotos a  colores, las rese\u00f1as favorables y las entrevistas.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas, s\u00f3lo decimos:<\/p>\n<p>No teman quedarse solos de quienes nunca han estado en verdad con  ustedes. Son ellas y ellos quienes no los merecen. Quienes llegan a su  dolor como a un espect\u00e1culo ajeno, que gusta o que disgusta, pero del  que nunca ser\u00e1n parte real.<\/p>\n<p>No teman ser abandonados por quienes pretenden no acompa\u00f1arlos y  apoyarlos, sino administrarlos, domarlos, rendirlos, usarlos y, despu\u00e9s,  desecharlos.<\/p>\n<p>Teman, s\u00ed, olvidar su causa, dejar caer su lucha.<\/p>\n<p>Pero mientras se mantengan, mientras resistan, tendr\u00e1n el respeto y la admiraci\u00f3n de mucha gente en M\u00e9xico y en el mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Gente como la que est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed hoy con nosotras, nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>Como Adolfo Gilly.<\/p>\n<p>Esto que ahora dir\u00e9, no se iba a decir. \u00bfLa raz\u00f3n? Que inicialmente  tanto Adolfo Gilly como Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez Casanova hab\u00edan dicho que tal vez  no estar\u00edan presentes, ambos por problemas de salud. Pero aqu\u00ed est\u00e1  Adolfo, y a \u00e9l le pedimos ahora que le cuente luego a Don Pablo esta  parte.<\/p>\n<p>El finado supMarcos contaba que alguna vez alguien le cuestion\u00f3 que  el EZLN tuviera tantas atenciones para Don Luis Villoro, Don Pablo  Gonz\u00e1lez Casanova y Don Adolfo Gilly. El argumento impugnador se basaba  en las diferencias que, frente al zapatismo, estas tres personas  manten\u00edan, y en cambio, que no tuviera las mismas deferencias para  intelectuales que eran cien por ciento zapatistas. Imagino que el Sup  encendi\u00f3 la pipa y entonces explic\u00f3: \u201cEn primera, dijo, sus diferencias  no son con lo que es el zapatismo, sino con las valoraciones, an\u00e1lisis o  posiciones que el zapatismo asume frente a diversos asuntos. En  segunda, prosigui\u00f3, yo en lo personal he visto a estas tres personas  frente a mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros jefes. Ac\u00e1 han llegado  intelectuales de gran prestigio y, bueno, algunos no tan prestigiados.  Han llegado y han dicho su palabra. Pocos, muy pocos, han hablado con  las comandantas y comandantes. S\u00f3lo frente a esas tres personas he visto  a mis jefes y jefas hablar y escuchar de igual a igual, con confianza y  camarader\u00eda mutuas. \u00bfC\u00f3mo lo hicieron? Bueno, pues habr\u00eda que  preguntarles a ellos. Lo que yo s\u00e9 es que eso cuesta, que lograr la  palabra y el o\u00eddo de mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros jefes y jefas, en  respeto y cari\u00f1o, cuesta y mucho. La tercera es que, abund\u00f3 el Sup, te  equivocas al pensar que como zapatistas buscamos espejos, v\u00edtores y  aplausos. Nosotros apreciamos y valoramos las diferencias en los  pensamientos, claro, si son pensamientos cr\u00edticos y articulados, y no  esas chambonadas que ahora abundan en el progresismo ilustrado.  Nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas, no valoramos de un pensamiento si  coincide o no con el nuestro, sino si nos hace pensar o no, si nos  provoca o no, pero sobre todo, si da cuenta cabal de la realidad. Estas  tres personas han mantenido, cierto, posiciones diferentes y hasta  contrarias a la nuestra frente a situaciones diversas.<\/p>\n<p>Nunca, nunca han estado en contra nuestra. Y, a pesar de los vaivenes de la moda, han estado de nuestro lado.<\/p>\n<p>Sus argumentos contrarios y, no pocas veces, contradictorios a los  nuestros, no nos han convencido, cierto, pero nos han ayudado a entender  que hay diversas posiciones y pensamientos diferentes, y que es la  realidad la que sanciona, no un tribunal autoerigido sea en la academia,  sea en la militancia. Provocar el pensamiento, la discusi\u00f3n, el debate  es algo que nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas valoramos y mucho.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso nuestra admiraci\u00f3n al pensamiento anarquista. Es claro que no  somos anarquistas, pero sus planteamientos son de los que provocan y  alientan, los que hacen pensar. Y cr\u00e9eme que el pensamiento cr\u00edtico  ortodoxo, por llamarlo de alguna forma, tiene mucho que aprender en ese  aspecto, pero no s\u00f3lo en eso, del pensamiento anarquista. Por ponerte un  ejemplo, la cr\u00edtica al Estado como tal, es algo que en el pensamiento  anarquista lleva ya mucho camino andado.<\/p>\n<p>Pero volviendo a los 3 malditos, cuando cualquiera de ustedes, le  dijo el Sup a quien demandaba una rectificaci\u00f3n zapatista, pueda  sentarse frente a cualquiera de mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros sin que  ellas y ellos teman su burla, su veredicto, su condena; cuando logren  que les hablen en igualdad y respeto; que los vean como compa\u00f1eros y  compa\u00f1eras y no como jueces extra\u00f1os; que los cari\u00f1en, como se dice ac\u00e1;  o cuando su pensamiento, coincidente o no con el nuestro, nos ayude a  descubrir el funcionamiento de la Hidra; nos lleve a nuevas cuestiones;  nos invite a nuevos caminos; nos haga pensar; o cuando puedan explicar o  provocar el an\u00e1lisis de un aspecto concreto de la realidad; entonces y  s\u00f3lo entonces ver\u00e1n que tenemos para ustedes las mismas pocas atenciones  que podamos brindarles. Mientras tanto, agreg\u00f3 el Supmarcos con ese  humor \u00e1cido que lo caracterizaba, abandonen esos celos  heteropatriarcales, mundialistas, reptilianos e iluminatis.<\/p>\n<p>He recordado aqu\u00ed esta an\u00e9cdota que me fue referida por el SupMarcos,  porque hace unos meses, cuando nos visit\u00f3 una delegaci\u00f3n de los  familiares que luchan por la verdad y la justicia para Ayotzinapa, uno  de los pap\u00e1s nos cont\u00f3 de una reuni\u00f3n que tuvieron con el mal gobierno.  No recuerdo ahora si era la primera. Nos cont\u00f3 este Don Mario que los  funcionarios llegaron con sus papeles y su burocracia, como si  estuvieran atendiendo un cambio de placas y no un caso de desaparici\u00f3n  forzada. Los familiares estaban temerosos y rabiosos y quer\u00edan decir su  palabra, pero el bur\u00f3crata al frente alegaba que s\u00f3lo pod\u00edan hablar los  que estaban apuntados y los intimidaba. Cuenta Don Mario que los  acompa\u00f1aba un hombre ya de edad, \u201cde juicio\u201d dir\u00edan las zapatistas, los  zapatistas. Ese hombre, sin que nadie lo esperara, dio un manotazo en la  mesa y alz\u00f3 la voz exigiendo que se les diera la palabra a los  familiares que quisieran hablar. Don Mario nos dijo, palabras m\u00e1s,  palabras menos, \u201cno tuvo miedo ese se\u00f1or, y pues se nos quit\u00f3 tambi\u00e9n a  nosotros el miedo y hablamos, y desde entonces no paramos\u201d. Ese hombre  que, encendido de rabia, se plant\u00f3 frente a la desidia gubernamental,  pudo haber sido una mujer, o unoa otroa, y estoy seguro que cualquiera  de ustedes, hubiera hecho lo mismo o algo parecido en esas  circunstancias, pero lleg\u00f3 que le toc\u00f3 ser a quien se llama Adolfo  Gilly.<\/p>\n<p>Compas familiares:<\/p>\n<p>A eso nos referimos cuando les decimos que hay gente que est\u00e1 con  ustedes sin verlos como una mercanc\u00eda para comprar, vender, intercambiar  o robar.<\/p>\n<p>Y como \u00e9l, hay otras, otros, <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>, que no golpean la mesa pues porque no la tienen enfrente, que si no, pues ah\u00ed lo vean.<\/p>\n<p>Como zapatistas que somos, tambi\u00e9n hemos aprendido que nada de lo que merecemos y necesitamos se logra con facilidad ni r\u00e1pido.<\/p>\n<p>Porque la esperanza para el arriba es una mercanc\u00eda, s\u00ed. Pero para el  abajo es una lucha por una certeza: Vamos a conseguir lo que merecemos y  necesitamos porque nos estamos organizando y estamos luchando para  ello.<\/p>\n<p>Nuestro destino no es la felicidad. Nuestro destino es luchar, luchar  siempre, a todas horas, en todo momento, en todos los lugares. No  importa que el viento no sea favorable. No importa que tengamos el aire y  todo en contra. No importa que venga la tormenta.<\/p>\n<p>Porque, cr\u00e9anlo o no, los pueblos originarios son especialistas en  tormentas. Y ah\u00ed est\u00e1n, Y aqu\u00ed estamos. Nosotros, nosotras nos llamamos  zapatistas. Y desde hace m\u00e1s de 30 a\u00f1os pagamos el costo de as\u00ed  nombrarnos, en vida y en muerte.<\/p>\n<p>Lo mucho que tenemos, es decir, nuestra supervivencia a pesar de todo  y a pesar de todos los arriba que se han sucedido en calendarios y  geograf\u00edas, no se lo debemos a individualidades. Se lo debemos a nuestra  lucha colectiva y organizada.<\/p>\n<p>Si alguien pregunta a qui\u00e9n le deben los zapatistas, las zapatistas,  su existencia, su resistencia, su rebeld\u00eda, su libertad, dir\u00e1 verdad  quien responda: \u201cA NADIE\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Porque as\u00ed es como el colectivo anula la individualidad que suplanta e impone, simulando que representa y orienta.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso les hemos dicho, familiares de la b\u00fasqueda de la verdad y la  justicia, que cuando de su lado todos se vayan, quedaremos NADIE.<\/p>\n<p>Una parte de ese NADIE, acaso la m\u00e1s peque\u00f1a, somos nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas. Pero hay m\u00e1s, mucho m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>NADIE es quien hace andar la rueda de la historia. Es NADIE quien  trabaja la tierra, quien maneja las m\u00e1quinas, quien construye, quien  trabaja, quien lucha.<\/p>\n<p>NADIE es quien sobrevive a la cat\u00e1strofe.<\/p>\n<p>Pero tal vez estemos equivocados, equivocadas, y el camino que les  ofrecen sea el que vale realmente. Si as\u00ed lo creen y as\u00ed lo deciden, no  esperen de ac\u00e1 un juicio condenatorio, ni repudios, ni desprecios. Igual  tendr\u00e1n nuestro cari\u00f1o, nuestro respeto, nuestra admiraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Familiares de los Ausentes de Ayotzinapa:<\/p>\n<p>Es tanto lo que no podemos hacer, lo que no podemos darles.<\/p>\n<p>Pero en cambio tenemos una memoria forjada en siglos de silencio y  abandono, en la soledad, en el lugar del agredido por colores distintos,  por diferentes banderas, por lenguas diversas. Siempre por el sistema,  el pinche sistema que es sobre nosotros, nosotras. El sistema que es a  costa nuestra.<\/p>\n<p>Y tal vez las memorias tercas no llenan plazas, ni ganan o compran  puestos gubernamentales, ni toman palacios, ni queman veh\u00edculos, ni  rompen vidrios, ni levantan monumentos en los museos ef\u00edmeros de las  redes sociales.<\/p>\n<p>Las memorias porfiadas s\u00f3lo no olvidan, y as\u00ed luchan.<\/p>\n<p>Las plazas y calles se vac\u00edan, los puestos y los gobiernos se  terminan, los palacios se derrumban, los veh\u00edculos y los vidrios son  remplazados, los museos se enmohecen, las redes sociales corren de un  lado a otro demostrando que la frivolidad, como el capitalismo, puede  ser masiva y simult\u00e1nea.<\/p>\n<p>Pero llegan momentos, compas familiares de los ausentes, en que la memoria es lo \u00fanico que se tiene.<\/p>\n<p>En esos momentos, sepan ustedes que nos tienen tambi\u00e9n a nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas del EZLN.<\/p>\n<p>Porque debemos decirles que la tenaz memoria de los zapatistas, las  zapatistas, es muy otra. Porque no s\u00f3lo lleva el apunte de los dolores y  las rabias pasadas, dibujando en el cuaderno los mapas de calendarios y  geograf\u00edas que han sido olvidados arriba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EL MURO Y LA GRIETA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Como zapatistas que somos, nuestra memoria tambi\u00e9n se asoma a lo que viene. Se\u00f1ala fechas y lugares.<\/p>\n<p>Si no hay un punto geogr\u00e1fico para ese ma\u00f1ana, empezamos a juntar  ramitas, piedritas, jirones de ropa y carne, huesos y barro, e iniciamos  la construcci\u00f3n de un islote, o m\u00e1s bien, de una barca plantada en  medio del ma\u00f1ana, ah\u00ed donde ahora s\u00f3lo se vislumbra una tormenta.<\/p>\n<p>Y si no hay una hora, un d\u00eda, una semana, un mes, un a\u00f1o en el  calendario conocido, pues empezamos a reunir fracciones de segundos,  minutos apenas, y los vamos colando por las grietas que abrimos en el  muro de la historia.<\/p>\n<p>Y si no hay grieta, bueno, pues a hacerla ara\u00f1ando, mordiendo,  pateando, golpeando con manos y cabeza, con el cuerpo entero hasta  conseguir hacerle a la historia esa herida que somos.<\/p>\n<p>Y luego pasa que alguien camina cerca y nos ve, ve a la zapatista, el zapatista, duro que dale contra el muro.<\/p>\n<p>Quien as\u00ed pasa frente nuestro, a veces es quien cree que sabe. Se  detiene un momento, mueve la cabeza con desaprobaci\u00f3n, juzga y  sentencia: \u201c<em>as\u00ed nunca van a derribar el muro<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Pero a veces, muy de cuando en cuando, pasa la otra, el otro, lo <strong><em>otroa<\/em><\/strong>. Se detiene, mira, entiende, se mira los pies, se mira las manos, los pu\u00f1os, los hombros, el cuerpo. Y elige. \u201c<em>Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 bueno<\/em>\u201c, podr\u00edamos escuchar si es que su silencio fuera audible, mientras marca una se\u00f1a en el muro inm\u00f3vil. Y a darle.<\/p>\n<p>Regresa quien cree que sabe, puesto que su camino es siempre de ida y  vuelta, como pasando revista a sus s\u00fabditos. Ve ahora a lo otro en la  misma necia tarea. Valora que ya hay suficientes para que le escuchen,  le aplaudan, le aclamen, le voten, le sigan. Mucho habla, poco dice: \u201c<em>as\u00ed nunca van a derribar ese muro, es indestructible, es eterno, es interminable<\/em>\u201d Cuando considera que es oportuno, concluye: \u201c<em>lo  que deber\u00edan hacer es ver c\u00f3mo administrar el muro, cambiar de guardia,  intentar hacerlo un poco justo, amable. Yo les prometo ablandarlo. De  todas formas, siempre estaremos de este lado, Si siguen as\u00ed, s\u00f3lo le  est\u00e1n haciendo el juego a la actual administraci\u00f3n, al gobierno, al  Estado, al como se diga, no importa la diferencia porque el muro es el  muro y siempre, \u00bflo oyen?, siempre estar\u00e1 ah\u00ed<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez se acerque alguien m\u00e1s. Observa en silencio y concluye: \u201c<em>en  lugar de empe\u00f1arse contra el muro, deber\u00edan entender que el cambio est\u00e1  en uno mismo, una misma, s\u00f3lo se necesita pensar positivamente, mire  usted, qu\u00e9 casualidad, aqu\u00ed tengo a la mano esta religi\u00f3n, moda,  filosof\u00eda, coartada que le servir\u00e1. No importa si es vieja o nueva.  Venga, s\u00edgame<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Para esto, quienes est\u00e1n duro y dale contra el muro ya est\u00e1n mejor  organizados, se hacen colectivos, equipos, se relevan, se turnan. Los  hay equipos gordos, flacos, altos y chaparros; all\u00e1 est\u00e1n los sucios,  feos, malos y groseros; los hay cabezones, los hay patones, los hay con  las manos endurecidas por el trabajo, los hay de quienes, sea mujeres,  sea hombres, sea <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>, echan el hombro, el cuerpo, la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Duro y dale con lo que pueden.<\/p>\n<p>Hay quien con un libro, un pincel, una guitarra, una <strong><em>tornamesa<\/em><\/strong>, un verso, un azad\u00f3n, un martillo, una varita m\u00e1gica, un lapicero. Vaya, hasta hay quien golpea al muro con un \u201c<em>pas de chat<\/em>\u201c.  Y bueno, pasa lo que pasa, Porque resulta que el baile se contagia. Y  alguien trae una marimba, un teclado o un bal\u00f3n y entonces los turnos\u2026  bueno, ya se imaginar\u00e1n ustedes.<\/p>\n<p>Claro, el muro ni en cuenta. Sigue imp\u00e1vido, poderoso, inmutable, sordo, ciego.<\/p>\n<p>Y aparecen los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n de paga: toman fotos, videos,  se entrevistan entre ellos mismos, consultan especialistas. La  especialista tal-cual, cuya virtud es ser de otro pa\u00eds, declara, con  mirada trascendente, que la composici\u00f3n molecular de la materia que le  da al muro su corporeidad es tal que ni con una bomba at\u00f3mica y que, por  lo tanto, lo que hace el zapatismo es completamente improductivo y  termina por ser c\u00f3mplice del muro en s\u00ed (ya en off, la especialista le  ha pedido a quien la entrevista que mencione su \u00fanico libro, a ver si  as\u00ed se vende).<\/p>\n<p>Sigue el desfile de especialistas. La conclusi\u00f3n es un\u00e1nime: es un  esfuerzo in\u00fatil, as\u00ed nunca derribar\u00e1n el muro. De pronto, los medios  corren a entrevistar a quien ofrece una administraci\u00f3n \u201cm\u00e1s humana\u201d del  muro. El tumulto de c\u00e1maras y micr\u00f3fonos produce un efecto curioso:  quien no tiene argumentos ni seguidores, parece tener muchos de unos y  otros. Gran y conmovedor discurso. Hay la nota. Se van los medios de  comunicaci\u00f3n de paga, porque nadie estaba poniendo atenci\u00f3n a lo que  dec\u00eda el candidato, el l\u00edder o el sabio, sino a sus tel\u00e9fonos que,  obvio, son al menos m\u00e1s inteligentes que el entrevistado o entrevistada,  y hay un terremoto aqu\u00ed nom\u00e1s, y al funcionario tal le encontraron que  es corrupto, y james bond ha llegado al Z\u00f3calo, y la pelea del siglo ha  atra\u00eddo a millones, tal vez porque pensaron que era entre explotados y  explotadores.<\/p>\n<p>A la zapatista, el zapatista, nadie le pregunta. Si lo hicieran tal  vez no responder\u00eda. O tal vez dir\u00eda el por qu\u00e9 de su absurdo empe\u00f1o: \u201c<em>acaso quiero derribar el muro, basta con hacerle una grieta<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No ha sido en libros escritos, sino en los que a\u00fan no se escriben  pero ya son le\u00eddos por generaciones, que las zapatistas, los zapatistas  han aprendido que si paras de ara\u00f1ar la grieta, \u00e9sta se cierra. El muro  se resana a s\u00ed mismo. Por eso tienen que seguir sin descanso. No s\u00f3lo  para ensanchar la grieta, sobre todo para que no se cierre.<\/p>\n<p>Sabe tambi\u00e9n la zapatista, el zapatista, que el muro muta en su  apariencia. A veces es como un gran espejo que reproduce la imagen de  destrucci\u00f3n y muerte, como si no fuera posible otra cosa. A veces el  muro se pinta de agradable y en su superficie aparece un pl\u00e1cido  paisaje. Otras veces es duro y gris, como para convencer de su  impenetrable solidez. Las m\u00e1s de las veces el muro es una gran  marquesina donde se repite \u201cP-R-O-G-R-E-S-O\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pero el zapatista, la zapatista sabe que es mentira. Sabe que el muro  no siempre estuvo ah\u00ed. Conoce c\u00f3mo se levant\u00f3. Sabe de su  funcionamiento. Conoce de sus enga\u00f1os. Y sabe tambi\u00e9n c\u00f3mo destruirlo.<\/p>\n<p>No le preocupa la supuesta omnipotencia y eternidad del muro. Sabe que son falsas ambas.<\/p>\n<p>Pero ahora lo importante es la grieta, que no se cierre, que se agrande.<\/p>\n<p>Porque el zapatista, la zapatista, tambi\u00e9n sabe qu\u00e9 hay al otro lado del muro.<\/p>\n<p>Si le preguntaran, responder\u00eda \u201c<em>nada<\/em>\u201c, pero sonreir\u00eda como si dijera \u201c<em>todo<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>En uno de los relevos, los Tercios Compas, que no son medios, ni  libres, ni aut\u00f3nomos, ni alternativos, ni como se llamen, pero son  compas, interrogan con severidad a quien golpea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Si dices que no hay nada del otro lado, \u00bfpara qu\u00e9 quieres hacerle una grieta al muro?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Para mirar<\/em>\u201c, responde la zapatista, el zapatista, sin dejar de ara\u00f1ar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>\u00bfY para qu\u00e9 quieres mirar?<\/em>\u201c, insisten los Tercios Compas  que para entonces, como todos los medios se han ido, son los \u00fanicos que  permanecen. Y para ratificarlo, llevan en la camisola la leyenda \u201cCuando  los medios se van, quedan los tercios\u201d. Y, claro, est\u00e1n un poco  inc\u00f3modos porque son los \u00fanicos que est\u00e1n preguntando en lugar de darle  al muro con la c\u00e1mara o con la grabadora o  al-fin-supe-para-qu\u00e9-carajos-sirve-este-pinche-<strong><em>tripie<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Los Tercios preguntan de nuevo, faltaba m\u00e1s. Aunque sea que llega en  la cabeza, porque la grabadora ya fue, de la c\u00e1mara mejor ni hablar, y  el <strong><em>tripie<\/em><\/strong> ah\u00ed nom\u00e1s se hizo ciempi\u00e9s. As\u00ed que repite: \u201c<em>\u00bfY para qu\u00e9 quieres mirar?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Para imaginar todo lo que se podr\u00e1 hacer ma\u00f1ana<\/em>\u201c, responde el zapatista, la zapatista.<\/p>\n<p>Y cuando la zapatista, el zapatista dijo \u201c<em>ma\u00f1ana<\/em>\u201d bien pudo  estarse refiriendo a un calendario perdido en un futuro por venir.  Podr\u00edan ser milenios, siglos, decenios, lustros, a\u00f1os, meses, semanas,  d\u00edas\u2026 \u00bfo ya ma\u00f1ana?, \u00bfma\u00f1ana? \u00bfma\u00f1ana ma\u00f1ana? \u00bfTe cae? \u00a1No chingues si  ni siquiera me he peinado!<\/p>\n<p>Pero no todos, todas, pasaron de largo.<\/p>\n<p>No todas, todos, pasaron y juzgaron absolviendo o condenando.<\/p>\n<p>Hubo, hay pocos, muy pocos, tantos apenas que ni una mano agotan.<\/p>\n<p>Estuvieron ah\u00ed, callados, mirando.<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed siguen.<\/p>\n<p>Apenas de vez en cuando profieren un \u201c<strong><em>mmh<\/em><\/strong>\u201d que es muy semejante al que expresan los m\u00e1s antiguos de los pobladores en nuestras comunidades.<\/p>\n<p>Contra lo que se pueda pensar, el \u201c<strong><em>mmh<\/em><\/strong>\u201d no  significa desinter\u00e9s o desapego. Tampoco desaprobaci\u00f3n o acuerdo. Es m\u00e1s  bien como un \u201caqu\u00ed estoy, te escucho, te miro, contin\u00faa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ya de edad son esos hombres y mujeres, \u201cde juicio\u201d dicen los compas  cuando se refieren a la gente mayor, se\u00f1alando que los calendarios  deshojados en la lucha dan raz\u00f3n, saber y discreci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Entre esos pocos, hab\u00eda uno, hay uno. En veces ese uno se suma a los  partidos de f\u00fatbol que el comando anti muro organiza para seguir  golpeando, aunque entonces sea un bal\u00f3n, y despu\u00e9s le toque al teclado  de la marimba.<\/p>\n<p>Como de costumbre en esos partidos, nadie pregunta nombres. Uno o una o <strong><em>unoa<\/em><\/strong> no se llama juan, o juana o krishna, no. Es la posici\u00f3n que tienes la que te nombra. \u201c<em>\u00a1Oyes porter\u00eda! \u00a1P\u00e1sala volante! \u00a1Duro defensa! \u00a1Dale atacante! \u00a1Ac\u00e1 delantero!<\/em>\u201c, se escucha en la algarab\u00eda del potrero, con las vacas indignadas porque el ir y venir de los equipos les arruina la comida.<\/p>\n<p>En una orilla, una ni\u00f1a inquieta hace por calzarse unas botas de hule que, se nota, le quedan grandes<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Y vos, \u00bfc\u00f3mo te llamas?<\/em>\u201c, le pregunta el hombre a la ni\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yo defensa zapatista<\/em>\u201c, dice la ni\u00f1a y pone su mejor cara de \u201csi no quieres morir, ret\u00edrate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El hombre sonr\u00ede. No r\u00ede abiertamente. S\u00f3lo sonr\u00ede.<\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a, es claro, est\u00e1 reclutando elementos para retar al que pierda.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00ed, porque ac\u00e1, cuando el equipo gana, se va a darle al muro. Y el equipo que pierde sigue jugando, \u201chasta que aprenda\u201d, dicen.<\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a tiene ya parte del equipo y le presume al hombre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>\u00c9ste es delantero<\/em>\u201c, dice se\u00f1alando a un chuchito de color indefinido por las costras de lodo y que mueve la cola entusiasmado. \u201c<em>Si corre, acaso para, se va y se va, hasta all\u00e1<\/em>\u201c, y la ni\u00f1a se\u00f1ala al horizonte que el muro oculta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Falta que no se le olvide el bal\u00f3n<\/em>\u201c, dice casi como pidiendo disculpas, \u201c<em>porque luego agarra camino para otro lado; la pelota para all\u00e1 y el perrito delantero para el otro all\u00e1<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Este es portero o conserje tambi\u00e9n le dicen, creo<\/em>\u201c, dice ahora presentando a un viejo caballo viejo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yo mi trabajo<\/em>\u201c, explica la ni\u00f1a, \u201c<em>es que no pase el  bal\u00f3n, porque m\u00edrelo usted, es choco, le falta un su ojo, el derecho,  por eso ya s\u00f3lo mira abajo y a la izquierda y si el tiro viene por la  derecha, pues nom\u00e1s ni en cuenta<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Y bueno, ahorita no est\u00e1 todo el equipo. Falta el gato\u2026 bueno,  m\u00e1s bien es perro. Muy otro el \u00e9se-como-se-llama, como que perro pero  ma\u00falla, como que gato pero ladra. Lo busqu\u00e9 en el libro de herbolaria  c\u00f3mo se llama un animalito as\u00ed. No encontr\u00e9. Dijo el Pedrito que dej\u00f3  dicho el Sup que se llama gato-perro.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pero no muy hay que creerle al Pedrito porque\u2026<\/em>\u201d la ni\u00f1a voltea a uno y otro lado viendo que nadie est\u00e9 cerca para escucharla, y le dice al hombre en secreto \u201c<em>ese Pedrito le va al Am\u00e9rica<\/em>\u201c, luego, ya m\u00e1s en confianza: \u201c<em>Su  pap\u00e1 le va a las chivas y se embravece. Si pelean, su mam\u00e1 los zapea a  los dos y ya se est\u00e1n quietos, pero el Pedrito mucho alega, que la  libertad seg\u00fan las zapatillas y no s\u00e9 cu\u00e1nto<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ser\u00e1 zapatistas<\/em>\u201c, corrige el hombre. La ni\u00f1a ni en cuenta, el Pedrito se las debe y ha de pagar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Bueno, t\u00fa como te llames, el gato-perro \u00e9se, t\u00fa piensas en tu cabeza \u00bfser\u00e1 que sabe jugar?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sabe<\/em>\u201c, se responde ella misma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Como el enemigo no lo ve si es perro o es gato, r\u00e1pido se va por  un lado y otro y \u00a1z\u00e1s! ah\u00ed est\u00e1 el gol. El otro d\u00eda casi ganamos, pero  la pelota se fue <strong>pal<\/strong> monte y en eso lleg\u00f3 la hora del  pozol y se suspendi\u00f3 el partido. Bueno, te digo t\u00fa, el \u00e9se gato-perro  como-se-llame, sabe. Muy otro el gato-perro \u00e9se, tiene su ojo amarillo,  as\u00ed<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>El hombre ha quedado helado. La ni\u00f1a ha descrito un color con sus  manitas. El hombre ha rodado mundos y penas, pero no hab\u00eda encontrado a  alguien que describiera un color con un adem\u00e1n. Pero la ni\u00f1a no est\u00e1  para impartir cursos de fenomenolog\u00eda del color, y sigue hablando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Pero no est\u00e1 ahorita, el gato-perro<\/em>\u201c, dice con pena, \u201c<em>creo que se fue de cura porque dicen <strong>quesque<\/strong> se fue a un seminario contra el pinche capitalismo cabez\u00f3n. \u00bfT\u00fa lo  sabes c\u00f3mo es su modo del pinche capitalismo cabez\u00f3n? Bueno, mira, te lo  voy a dar la pl\u00e1tica pol\u00edtica. Resulta que la pinche sistema no te  muerde s\u00f3lo de un lado sino que <strong>onde<\/strong> quiera te est\u00e1  chingando. Todo lo muerde la pinche sistema, todo se lo zampa y si ya se  engord\u00f3 mucho, pues lo gomita, y de vuelta con su tragadera. O sea que  para que me entiendas el maldito capitalismo no tiene <strong>llenadero<\/strong>.  Por eso yo le dije al gato-perro \u00e9se que para qu\u00e9 se va de cura a un  seminario. Pero acaso obedece. \u00bfUsted cree que va a ser cura un  gato-perro? No, \u00bfverdad?, ni por muchos goles, ni por mucho ojo  amarillo. \u00bfT\u00fa lo vas a dejar que te d\u00e9 un casorio un gato-perro, manque  tenga su ojo amarillo, \u00bfverdad que no? Por eso yo, cuando nos <strong>c\u00e1semos<\/strong> con mi marido nada de cura, s\u00f3lo con el municipio aut\u00f3nomo y eso por el baile, que si no, ni eso. Nom\u00e1s <strong>permisados<\/strong> para que no anden mal hablando. Solita yo y mi \u00e9se-como-se diga, y si  no muy sirve el marido pues a volar cuervos que te sacar\u00e1n los ojos. As\u00ed  dice mi abuela, que ya est\u00e1 grande ya, pero bien que combati\u00f3 el  primero de enero de 1994. \u00bfNo lo sabes qu\u00e9 pas\u00f3 el primero de enero de  1994? Ah, pues luego te lo canto una canci\u00f3n que lo dice todo clarito.  Ahorita no, porque de repente ya nos toca jugar y hay que estar listas.  Pero para que no est\u00e9s con pendiente te digo que ese d\u00eda le dijimos a  los pinches malditos malos gobiernos que ya estuvo bueno, que hasta aqu\u00ed  nom\u00e1s, que ya basta de sus <strong>chingaderas<\/strong>. Y dice mi  abuela que fue por las mujeres, que viera que por los pinches maridos,  pues nada, que ah\u00ed estar\u00edamos dando l\u00e1stima, como los partidistas de por  s\u00ed. Bueno, no lo tengo visto todav\u00eda qui\u00e9n para mi marido, porque luego  son muy tarugos los hombres, vieras. Y ahora estoy todav\u00eda ni\u00f1a. Pero  ya luego lo s\u00e9 que mucho me van a mirar los pinches hombres, pero yo,  seria, nada de que s\u00ed, nada de que no, nada de que no s\u00e9, o sea que me  voy como quien dice a dar mi lugar y si el pinche marido se quiere pasar  de rosca bueno, pues por eso estoy de defensa zapatista, ah\u00ed nom\u00e1s le  doy su zape y anda vete, que me respete como mujer zapatista que soy.  Claro, no va a entender luego, as\u00ed que varios zapes hasta que lo  entienda la lucha de como mujeres que somos<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El hombre ha seguido atento toda la perorata de la ni\u00f1a. No as\u00ed el  perrito de las costras de lodo, que a saber d\u00f3nde anda. Ni el caballo  tuerto que mastica con parsimonia un pl\u00e1stico herencia del alumnado de  la escuelita. Con todo, el hombre no se ha re\u00eddo, apenas si ha alcanzado  a parpadear al mismo ritmo de su sorpresa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ya vamos a ser m\u00e1s<\/em>\u201c, anima la ni\u00f1a, \u201c<em>de repente dilata, pero s\u00ed vamos a ser m\u00e1s<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>El hombre tarda en comprender que ahora la ni\u00f1a se refiere a su equipo. \u00bfO no?<\/p>\n<p>Pero la ni\u00f1a ahora estudia al hombre con mirada de cazatalentos, despu\u00e9s de varios \u201c<strong><em>mmh<\/em><\/strong>\u201c, le suelta \u201c<em>Y vos, \u00bfc\u00f3mo te llamas?<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>\u00bfYo?<\/em>\u201d dijo el hombre sabiendo que la ni\u00f1a no ped\u00eda el \u00e1rbol geneal\u00f3gico, ni el escudo her\u00e1ldico, sino una posici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de recorrer mentalmente sus opciones, el hombre responde: \u201c<em>yo me llamo recoge balones<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a se queda callada, valorando la utilidad de esa posici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de pensarlo un rato, le dice al hombre, no para consolarlo, sino para que se d\u00e9 cuenta de lo importante:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Recoge balones, no cualquiera, eh. Ah\u00ed tiene usted, si el bal\u00f3n se va para all\u00e1 nom\u00e1s, <strong>onde<\/strong> el acahual, olv\u00eddate, no hay quien quiera ir, porque est\u00e1 muy fiero ah\u00ed, mucha espina, mucha <strong>mostazilla<\/strong>,  ara\u00f1as, de repente hasta culebra. O de repente la pelota se va al  arroyo y no f\u00e1cil se pepena, porque el agua lo lleva, as\u00ed que hay que  correr para alcanzarlo, al bal\u00f3n. As\u00ed que recoge balones cuenta, vale  pues. Sin recoge balones nom\u00e1s no hay partido. Y si no hay partido, pues  no hay fiesta, y si no hay fiesta pues no hay baile, y si no hay baile  pues de balde me peino y de balde me pongo los <strong>prensapelos<\/strong> de colores, mira<\/em>\u201c, dice la ni\u00f1a y de su <strong><em>morraleta<\/em><\/strong> saca un mont\u00f3n de prendedores de muchos colores, tantos que ni los hay todav\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Recoge balones no cualquiera<\/em>\u201c, le repite la ni\u00f1a al hombre  mientras lo abraza, no para consolarlo, sino para que entienda que todo  lo que vale la pena se hace en equipo, en colectivo, cada qui\u00e9n su  tarea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yo ser\u00eda, pero no. Mucho miedo me dan las ara\u00f1as y las culebras.  El otro d\u00eda hasta so\u00f1\u00e9 muy fiero por su culpa de una pinche culebra que  top\u00e9 en el potrero. As\u00ed nom\u00e1s<\/em>\u201c, y extiende sus brazos tanto como puede.<\/p>\n<p>El hombre sigue sonriendo.<\/p>\n<p>El partido acaba, la ni\u00f1a no ha completado el equipo para retar y se ha quedado dormida en el suelo.<\/p>\n<p>El hombre se levanta y le pone su chaqueta porque la tarde ya pardea y el fresco alivia la tierra. Tal vez hasta llueva.<\/p>\n<p>Un miliciano est\u00e1 ahora regresando con las identificaciones que pidi\u00f3 la Junta de Buen Gobierno. El hombre espera su turno.<\/p>\n<p>Por fin dicen su nombre y se acerca a recoger su pasaporte que tiene  al frente un grabado que reza \u201cRep\u00fablica Oriental del Uruguay\u201d. En su  interior hay una foto de un var\u00f3n con cara de \u201c<em>\u00bfQu\u00e9 diablos estoy haciendo aqu\u00ed?<\/em>\u201d y a su lado se lee \u201cHughes Galeano, Eduardo Germ\u00e1n Mar\u00eda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Oiga<\/em>\u201c, le pregunta el miliciano, \u201c<em>\u00bfusted se puso Galeano de nombre de lucha por el compa sargento Galeano?<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>S\u00ed, creo que s\u00ed<\/em>\u201c, responde el hombre mientras sostiene el pasaporte dudando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ah<\/em>\u201c, dice el miliciano, \u201c<em>de por s\u00ed eso pens\u00e9<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Oiga y su tierra, \u00bfd\u00f3nde mero queda?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El hombre mira al miliciano zapatista, mira el muro, mira a la gente  dale y duro a la grieta, mira a los ni\u00f1os jugando y bailando, mira a la  ni\u00f1a tratando de hablar con el perrito, con el caballo choco y con un  animalito que bien podr\u00eda ser un gato, o un perro, y dice resignado: \u201c<em>tambi\u00e9n aqu\u00ed<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ah<\/em>\u201d dice el miliciano, \u201c<em>\u00bfy usted a qu\u00e9 se dedica?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>\u00bfYo?<\/em>\u201c, trata de responder el hombre mientras recoge su mochila.<\/p>\n<p>Y de pronto, como si apenas acabara de entender todo, responde sonriendo \u201c<em>Yo soy recoge balones<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>El hombre ya est\u00e1 lejos y no alcanza a escuchar al miliciano zapatista que murmura con admiraci\u00f3n: \u201c<em>Ah, recoge balones, no cualquiera<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Ya en la formaci\u00f3n, el miliciano le dice a otro: \u201c<em>O\u00ed Galeano, que hoy conoc\u00ed a un ciudadano que se puso tu nombre<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>El sargento Galeano sonr\u00ede, como de por s\u00ed, y replica \u201c<em>no hombre, \u00bfc\u00f3mo crees?<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>De por s\u00ed<\/em>\u201c, dice el miliciano, \u201c<em>de d\u00f3nde si no va a sacar ese nombre el se\u00f1or \u00e9se<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ah<\/em>\u201c, dice el sargento de milicias y maestro de la escuelita Galeano, \u201c<em>\u00bfy qu\u00e9 es lo que hace \u00e9l?<\/em>\u201c, pregunta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Es recoge balones<\/em>\u201c, dice el miliciano y se va corriendo para alcanzar pozol.<\/p>\n<p>El sargento de milicias Galeano, recoge su cuaderno de apuntes y lo guarda en su <strong><em>morraleta<\/em><\/strong> mientras dice entre dientes: \u201c<em>Recoge  balones, como si fuera tan f\u00e1cil. Si no cualquiera es recoge balones.  Para ser recoge balones se necesita mucho coraz\u00f3n, como de ser de  zapatista, y para ser de zapatista no cualquiera, aunque eso s\u00ed, luego  hay alguien que no sabe que es de zapatista\u2026 hasta que sabe<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tal vez no me crean ustedes, pero esto que les cuento pas\u00f3 hace  apenas unos d\u00edas, unas semanas, unos meses, unos a\u00f1os, unos siglos,  cuando el sol de abril abofeteaba la tierra no para ofenderla, sino para  que despertara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hermanas y hermanos familiares de los Ausentes de Ayotzinapa:<\/p>\n<p>Su lucha es ya una grieta en el muro del sistema. No dejen que se  cierre Ayotzinapa. Por esa grieta respiran no s\u00f3lo sus hijos, tambi\u00e9n  las miles de desaparecidas y desaparecidos que faltan en el mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Para que esa grieta no se cierre, para que esa grieta se ahonde y se  ensanche, tendr\u00e1n ustedes en nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas, una lucha  com\u00fan: la que transforme el dolor en rabia, la rabia en rebeld\u00eda, y la  rebeld\u00eda en ma\u00f1ana.<\/p>\n<p>SupGaleano.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9xico, mayo 3 del 2015.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p>Since I am not used to speaking in public, much less in front of so  many fine \u2013 (ha\u2014excuse me, it must be hiccups from stage fright), I say,  fine people, I thank you for your patience with my babble and repeated  stumblings in the difficult and complicated art of the word, of  expression.<\/p>\n<p>I took the name Galeano from a Zapatista <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em>, an  indigenous teacher and organizer who was attacked, kidnapped, tortured,  and murdered by paramilitaries protected by a supposedly social  organization: the CIOAC-Hist\u00f3rica. The nightmare that ended the life of  the <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> teacher Galeano began before dawn on May 2, 2014. From that moment on, we Zapatistas began the reconstruction of his life.<\/p>\n<p>During those days, the collective direction of the EZLN decided to  put to death the person who called himself SupMarcos, who was at the  time the spokesperson for the Zapatista men, women, children, and  elderly. Since then, the <em>cargo <\/em>[assigned duty or  responsibility] of Zapatista Army for National Liberation spokesperson  corresponds to Subcomandate Insurgente Moises. Through his voice we  speak; through his eyes we see; in his steps we walk; we are him.<\/p>\n<p>Months after that May 2, the long night of Mexico \u201cbelow\u201d became  longer and added a new name to its already long experience of terror:  \u201cAyotzinapa.\u201d As has happened time and again in the world, the geography  from below was marked and named by a tragedy that had been planned and  executed\u2014that is, by a crime.<\/p>\n<p>We have already said, through the voice of Subcomandante Insurgente  Moises, what Ayotzinapa means to us Zapatistas. With his permission, and  with the permission of the Zapatista <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> who are my bosses, I pick up where he left off.<\/p>\n<p>Ayotzinapa is pain and rage, yes, but it is more than that. It is  also, and above all, the stubborn determination of the families and <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> of the missing.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these family members who have kept memory alive gave us the  honor of sharing their time with us, and they are here with us in  Zapatista territory.<\/p>\n<p>We heard the words of Do\u00f1a Hilda and Don Mario, mother and father of  C\u00e9sar Manuel Gonz\u00e1lez Hern\u00e1ndez, and we heard from and have here with us  Do\u00f1a Bertha and Don Tom\u00e1s, mother and father of Julio C\u00e9sar Ram\u00edrez  Nava. With them we make the demand for [the return of] the 46 missing.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Do\u00f1a Bertha and Don Tom\u00e1s to make sure these words reach the  other family members of the missing of Ayotzinapa. Because it is their  struggle that we have kept present in order to launch this <em>semillero<\/em> [seminar or seedbed].<\/p>\n<p>I think that more than one<a name=\"_ednref2\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> person from the Sixth and the EZLN will agree with me that we would  have preferred it if they hadn\u2019t had to come here in this way. That is,  that they had come here but not as pain and rage, and rather as a <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> embrace. That nothing had happened that September 26; that the  calendar, in a friendly gesture, would have skipped that day and that  the geography would have taken a wrong turn and not landed on Iguala,  Guerrero, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>But no, after that night of terror, the geography extended and  deepened itself, reaching the most isolated corners of the planet. And  if the calendar continues to surrender to that date, it is because of  your [the families] determination, the greatness of your simplicity, the  unconditionality of your dedication.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know your children. But we know you. And we have no other  intention but to make sure you are certain how much we admire and  respect you, even during the loneliest and most painful moments you  encounter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true, we cannot fill the streets and plazas of big cities. Any  mobilization, small as it may be, represents for our communities a  significant economic loss. And this is an economy already in difficult  conditions, as it is for millions of others, and barely sustained by  over two decades of rebellion and resistance. I say our communities,  because the support we offer is not the sum of the work of individuals,  but of collective, reflective, and organized action. It is part of our  struggle.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t shine in the social networks, or make your words reach  farther than into our own hearts. We also can\u2019t support you  economically, although we well know that these months of struggle have  taken a toll on your health and living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the case that we, in rebellion and resistance, are more  often than not seen with resentment and suspicion. Movements and  mobilizations that rise up in different corners prefer that we not state  our sympathy explicitly. Sensitive to what \u201cthey might say\u201d in the  media, they don\u2019t want their cause associated in any way with \u201cthe  masked ones in Chiapas.\u201d We understand; we don\u2019t challenge this. Our  respect for the rebellions swarming the world over includes respect for  their assessments, their steps, their decisions. We respect them, yes,  but we don\u2019t ignore them. We have our eye on each and every one of the  mobilizations that confront the System. We try to understand them, that  is, to get to know them. We know very well that respect grows from  knowledge, and that fear and hate, those two faces of contempt, are  often born out of ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Although our struggle is small, we have learned something over the  years, decades, centuries. And this is what we want to tell you:<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe those who say that sensitivity, sympathy, and support  are measured by crowded streets, overflowing plazas, big stages, or in  the number of cameras, microphones, leading journalists, and social  media trends you attract.<\/p>\n<p>The great majority of the world, not just in our country, is like  you, brothers and sisters, family members of the Ayotzinapa missing.  People who have to fight day and night for a little piece of life.  People who have to struggle in order to wrench from reality something  with which to sustain themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone from below, man, woman, <strong><em>otroa<\/em><\/strong>, who  lives this painful history sympathizes with your struggle for truth and  justice. They share your demand because in your words they see their own  history, because they recognize themselves in your pain, because they  identify with your rage.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of them have not marched in the streets, they have not  gone out to protest, they have not posted on social networks, they have  not broken windows, they have not set cars on fire, they have not  chanted slogans, they haven\u2019t appeared on stage, they haven\u2019t told you  that you are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t done it simply because they haven\u2019t been able to do it.<\/p>\n<p>But they have listened to and respected your movement. Do not be discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Do not think that because those who were once by your side and have  now gone, after getting paid whatever they could get for it or because  they discovered they wouldn\u2019t get paid at all, your cause is any less  painful, any less noble, any less just.<\/p>\n<p>The path you have taken up to now has been intense, to be sure. But you know that there still remains much more to walk.<\/p>\n<p>You know something? One of the deceptions from above is how they  convince those from below that if you can\u2019t get something quickly and  easily, then you can never get it. They convince us that long and  difficult struggles do nothing but wear you out and in the end you  achieve nothing. They trick the calendar from below by superimposing  over it the calendar from above: elections, appearances, meetings, dates  with history, commemorations that only hide pain and rage.<\/p>\n<p>The System does not fear social explosions, as massive and  illuminating as they may be. If a government were to fall, there\u2019s  always another one waiting in the cupboard as a replacement and another  imposition. What terrifies the system is the perseverance of rebellion  and resistance from below.<\/p>\n<p>Because below, the calendar is different. It has another way of doing  things. It has another story. It has another pain and another rage.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as the days pass, the below that we are, so dispersed and  multiple, is no longer simply attuned to your pain and rage. We are also  paying attention to your persistence, how you continue on, how you  don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n<p>Believe us. Your struggle does not depend on the number of  protestors, the number of news articles, the number of posts about you  on social media, the number of speaking tours you are invited to make.<\/p>\n<p>Your struggle, our struggle, the struggle of those below in general,  depends on resistance; on not giving up, not selling out, not giving in.<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course, that\u2019s according to us Zapatistas. There will be  people who will tell you differently. They\u2019ll tell you that the most  important thing is to be with them. For example, that it\u2019s more  important to vote for such-and-such political party because that\u2019s how  you\u2019ll find the missing. That if you don\u2019t vote for such-and-such party  you will not only lose out on THE opportunity to recover the missing,  but you will also be accomplices to the continuation of terror in our  country.<\/p>\n<p>You know how there are political parties that take advantage of the  people? You know how they offer handouts, school supplies, phone cards,  movie passes, buckets, hats, sandwiches, and Tetra Pak bottled water?  Well, there are also those who take advantage of the people\u2019s emotional  needs. Hope, friends and enemies, is the necessity most successfully  commercialized there above. Hope that everything will change, that  finally there will be well-being, democracy, justice, freedom. Hope is  what the enlightened from above snatch from the down-and-out below and  then sell back to them. Hope that a resolution to their demands comes in  one of the colors found in one of the products in the system\u2019s  cupboards.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe these people know something that we Zapatistas don\u2019t. They\u2019re  wise, and after all, they charge for their expertise. Knowledge is their  profession, it\u2019s how they make their living\u2026 or how they cheat  everyone. You see that they know more and, referring to us, they say  that we are \u201clost out there, in the mountains, who knows where,\u201d and  they say that we call for abstention and that we are sectarian (maybe  because, unlike them, we do respect our dead).<\/p>\n<p>Ah! It\u2019s so easy to say and repeat sound bites and lies! It\u2019s so  inexpensive to defame and slander, and then later preach unity and give  lessons on the real enemy, the infallibility of the shepherd, the  incapacity of the herd.<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, we Zapatistas did not march, or chant slogans, or  raise banners or even our fists. Until one day, we did march. The date:  October 12, 1992, when those above celebrated 500 years of \u201cthe meeting  of the two worlds.\u201d The place: San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, Chiapas,  Mexico. Instead of banners we carried bows and arrows, and a deafening  silence was our slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Without a lot of noise, the statue of the conquistador fell. If they  put it up again it didn\u2019t matter. Because they will never again be able  to put back up the fear of what it represented.<\/p>\n<p>Some months later, we returned to the cities. We again didn\u2019t use  slogans or banners, and we didn\u2019t take bows and arrows. That dawn  smelled like fire and gunpowder. And that time, it was our heads that  were raised.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, some people came from the city. They told us about the  great marches, the slogans, the banners, the raised fists. Of course,  they always added that if we Indian men and women (they\u2019re always so  careful to preserve gender equity) had survived, it was thanks to them,  those from the city who had prevented a genocide those first days of  1994. We Zapatistas didn\u2019t ask them if there hadn\u2019t been genocide before  1994, or if it hadn\u2019t already been prevented, or if these folks from  the city were there to discuss something that actually took place or to  read us their invoice. We Zapatistas understood that there were other  ways of struggling.<\/p>\n<p>After that we had our marches, our slogans, our banners, and we  raised our fists. From then on our marches have been only a pale  reflection of that march that lit the dawn of the year 1994. Our slogans  have the disorganized rhyme of songs from guerilla encampments in the  mountains. Our banners are tirelessly elaborate, trying to find  equivalents to what we in our languages describe in just one word, and  what in other languages requires three volumes of<em> Capital<\/em>. Our  raised fists signal less of a challenge than a greeting. As if they were  oriented more for the future than for the present.<\/p>\n<p>But something hasn\u2019t changed: our heads are still raised.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, our self-proclaimed creditors from the city demanded  that we participate in the elections. We didn\u2019t understand because we  never demanded that they rise up in arms, or that they resist, not even  that they rebel against the bad government, or that they honor their  dead in struggle. We didn\u2019t demand that they cover their faces, that  they deny their names, that they abandon their families, profession,  friendships, nothing. But these modern conquistadors, dressed up in  progressive leftist garb, threatened us: If we did not follow them, they  would abandon us and we would be to blame if the reactionary right were  to take over the government. We owed them, they said, and they were  leaving us the bill, printed on an election ballot.<\/p>\n<p>We Zapatistas did not understand. We rose up in order to govern ourselves, not so that they could govern us. They became angry.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime afterward, those from the city continue marching, chanting  slogans, raising their fists and banners, and now they also have <strong><em>tweets, hashtags, likes, trending topics, followers<\/em><\/strong>.  Their political parties are made up of the same people who only  yesterday were part of that reactionary right. They sit at the same  table and converse with the murderers, and the families of the murdered.  They laugh and toast together when they get paid, and they grieve and  cry together when they lose an election.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we Zapatistas also march sometimes, we chant impossible  slogans, or we remain quiet, raising banners and fists instead, but  always raising our gaze. We say that we don\u2019t protest in order to defy  the tyrant but to salute those who confront him in other geographies and  calendars. To defy him, we construct. To defy him, we create. To defy  him, we imagine. To defy him, we grow and multiply. To defy him, we  live. To defy him, we die. Instead of <strong><em>tweets<\/em><\/strong>, we make schools and clinics; instead of <strong><em>trending topics<\/em><\/strong>, we have fiestas to celebrate the life that defeats death.<\/p>\n<p>In the land of the creditors from the city, the master continues to rule with another face, another name, another color.<\/p>\n<p>In the land of the Zapatistas, the people rule and the government obeys.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that is why we Zapatistas didn\u2019t understand that we had to be  the followers, and the leaders from the city had to be the ones to be  followed.<\/p>\n<p>And we still don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>But it could be true, that the truth and justice that you and we and  everyone are seeking can be found thanks to the generosity of a leader  surrounded by people as intelligent as he is, a savior, a master, a  chief, a boss, a shepherd, a governor, and all this with the minimal  effort of a ballot and a ballot box, with a <strong><em>tweet<\/em><\/strong>,  by attending a march, a rally, signing a petition\u2026 or by remaining  silent in the face of the farce that feigns patriotic interest while  what it really longs for is Power.<\/p>\n<p>Yes or No? Maybe that\u2019s what other thoughts will answer for us in this seminar\/seedbed.<\/p>\n<p>What we Zapatistas have learned is that the answer is No. That the  only thing offered from above is exploitation, theft, repression,  disdain. That is to say, all we can expect from above is pain.<\/p>\n<p>And from above, they are demanding, calling on you to follow them.  That say that you owe it to them that your pain is now known all over  the world. That you owe them for all the occupied plazas, the streets  filled with colorful protest and creativity. That you owe them for the  hard work of the civilian police that pointed out, followed, and  demonized all those \u201csmelly-nasty-anarchist-infiltrators.\u201d That you owe  them for all the well-behaved protests, the colorful photographs, the  favorable reporting, and the interviews.<\/p>\n<p>We Zapatistas have only this to say:<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be afraid to be abandoned by those who have never really been  by your side. They are the ones who do not deserve you. They are the  ones who are attracted to your pain as they would be to a spectacle,  either because it pleases them or disgusts them, but which they will  never be a real part of.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be afraid of being abandoned by those who don\u2019t want to  accompany and support you, but instead to administrate you, tame you,  subordinate you, use you, and finally, discard you.<\/p>\n<p>Be afraid yes, but only of forgetting your cause, of allowing your struggle to fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>But while you keep with it, while you resist, you will have the respect and admiration of many people in Mexico and the world.<\/p>\n<p>People like those who are here with us today.<\/p>\n<p>Like Adolfo Gilly.<\/p>\n<p>What I am about to say wasn\u2019t going to be said. The reason? Because  initially, Adolfo Gilly, like Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez Casanova, had said that  maybe he also wouldn\u2019t be able to attend, both of them because of health  problems. But Adolfo is here, and we ask of him to let Don Pablo know  about this next part.<\/p>\n<p>The late SubMarcos used to tell the story that somebody once asked  him why the EZLN paid so much attention to Don Luis Villoro, Don Pablo  Gonz\u00e1lez Casanova, and Don Adolfo Gilly. The challenger based his  argument on the differences that these three persons had with Zapatismo,  and said that intellectuals who were 100% Zapatistas weren\u2019t treated  with the same deference. I imagine that the Sup lit his pipe and then  explained. \u201cFirst,\u201d he said, \u201ctheir differences are not with Zapatismo  but with the assessments, analyses, or positions that Zapatismo assumes  on various issues. Second,\u201d he continued, \u201cI have personally seen these  three persons face to face with the <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eros <\/em>who  are my bosses. Quite prestigious intellectuals have come here as have  some not so prestigious ones. They have come to speak their word. Few,  very few, have spoken with the <em>comandantas<\/em> and <em>comandantes<\/em>. And only with these three persons have I seen my bosses, the <em>comandantes and comandantas, <\/em>speak  and listen as equals, with trust and mutual camaraderie. How did they  do it? Well, you\u2019d have to ask them. What I do know is that it\u2019s  difficult to gain the ear and the word of these <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eros,<\/em> my bosses, with respect and love\u2014very difficult. And the third thing,\u201d  the Sup added, \u201cis that you are mistaken to think that we Zapatistas are  looking for mirrors, praise, and applause. We appreciate and value  differences in thought, sure, if they are critical and articulate  thoughts and not that sloppy nonsense that abounds in today\u2019s  enlightened progressivism. We Zapatistas do not value thinking on the  basis of how much it coincides with ours or not, but upon whether it  makes us think or not, on whether it provokes our thought or not, and  above all, whether it provides a true account of reality. These three  persons have held, it is true, different positions and even contrary  ones to ours across diverse situations.<\/p>\n<p>Never, ever have they been against us. And in spite the moving trends, they have been by our side.<\/p>\n<p>When their arguments have not coincided with ours, and not just a few  times, directly contradicted ours, they haven\u2019t convinced us, it\u2019s  true. But they have helped us understand that there are various  positions and different thoughts, and that it is reality that gets to  judge, not any self-established court within academia or from within  militant struggle. Provoking thought, discussion, debate is something  that we Zapatistas value very much.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we admire anarchist thought. It\u2019s clear that we are not  anarchists, but their approaches are the kind that provoke and nourish;  the kind that make you think. And believe me that orthodox critical  thought, for lack of a better phrase, has a lot to learn in this respect  from anarchist thought, and not only in that regard. To give you an  example, the current critique of the State is something that anarchist  thought has been developing for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut returning to the three accursed, when anyone of you,\u201d the Sup  replied to the one demanding a Zapatista rectification, \u201ccan sit in  front of any of my <em>compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1eros<\/em> without  them fearing your mockery, your judgment, your condemnation; when you  succeed in having them speak to you as equals and with respect; that  they see you as a <em>compa\u00f1ero<\/em> and <em>compa\u00f1era<\/em> and not as  an unfamiliar judge; when they develop affection for you, as we say  around here; or when your thought, whether it agrees with ours or not,  helps us discover how the Hydra operates, helps us ask new questions,  invites us on new paths, makes us think; or when it can help explain or  provoke an analysis of a concrete aspect of reality, then and only then  you will see that we hold the same bit of deference for you that we hold  for them. In the meantime,\u201d Supmarcos added with that acidic humor that  so characterized him, \u201cabandon that hetero-patriarchal, worldly,  reptilian, illuminati envy of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m recounting this anecdote that SupMarcos once said to me because a  few months ago, when a delegation from the families fighting for truth  and justice for Ayotzinapa came to visit us, one of the fathers told us  about a meeting they had with the bad government. I can\u2019t remember now  if it was the first one. Don Mario told us that the officials arrived  with their paperwork and bureaucracy, as if they thought they\u2019d be  tending to a change in license plates and not a case of forced  disappearance. The family members were afraid and enraged, and they  wanted to speak, but the head bureaucrat claimed that only those already  on the list could speak, and he intimated them. Don Mario said that  they had been accompanied by a man already of age\u2014\u201ca wise one,\u201d as the  Zapatistas might say. That man, to everyone\u2019s surprise, slammed his hand  down on the table and raised his voice, demanding that family members  who wanted to speak be given the floor. The way Don Mario put it, give  or take a word or two, was: \u201cThat man had no fear, and this took our  fear away too, and we spoke. And ever since then, we haven\u2019t stopped.\u201d  That man who, fired up by rage, planted himself in front of that  government official could have been a woman or a man or <em>otroa<\/em>.  And I\u2019m sure that anyone one of you would have done the same thing or  something similar in those circumstances. But it happened that the one  who did it was named Adolfo Gilly.<\/p>\n<p>Family member <em>compas<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what we mean when we tell you that there are people who are  with you, who don\u2019t see you as a commodity to buy, sell, exchange, or  steal.<\/p>\n<p>And like him, there are others who do not bang on the table because  they don\u2019t have it in front of them. If that wasn\u2019t the case, you\u2019d see  what would happen.<\/p>\n<p>As Zapatistas, we have also learned that nothing that we deserve and need is achieved easily or quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Because up above, hope is a commodity, yes. But below, it is a  struggle for a certain truth: We will get what we need and deserve  because we are organizing and we are struggling for it.<\/p>\n<p>Happiness is not our destiny. Our destiny is to struggle, always  struggle, at all hours, at every moment, in every place. It doesn\u2019t  matter if the winds are not favorable. It doesn\u2019t matter if the wind and  everything else is against us. It doesn\u2019t matter if a storm comes.<\/p>\n<p>Because, believe it or not, the originary peoples are specialists in  storms. And they\u2019re still there and we\u2019re still here. We call ourselves  Zapatistas. And for over 30 years we have paid the price of that name,  in life and in death.<\/p>\n<p>All that we have, that is to say, our survival in spite of everything  and in spite of everyone above who has come and gone in the calendars  and geographies, we do not owe to individuals. We owe it to our  collective and organized struggle.<\/p>\n<p>If somebody asks to whom the Zapatistas owe their existence, their  resistance, their rebellion, their freedom, whoever responds \u201cTO NOBODY\u201d  will be speaking the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Because this is how the collective cancels out that individuality that supplants and imposes, pretending to represent and lead.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we have said to you, families in search for truth and  justice, that when everyone leaves your side, we who are NOBODY will  remain.<\/p>\n<p>One part of that NOBODY, in fact the smallest of them all, are we Zapatistas. But there are more, many more.<\/p>\n<p>NOBODY is who makes the wheels of history turn. It is NOBODY who  works the land, who operates the machinery, who constructs, who works,  who struggles.<\/p>\n<p>NOBODY is who survives catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe we\u2019re mistaken, and the path that has been offered to you  is the one that really matters. If that\u2019s what you believe and if that\u2019s  what you decide, don\u2019t expect any judgment from here condemning you,  rejecting you, or belittling you. You will continue to have our  affection, our respect, our admiration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Families of the Absent from Ayotzinapa:<\/p>\n<p>There is so much that we cannot do, that we cannot give you.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, what we have is a memory forged in centuries of silence and  abandonment, in solitude, in a place assaulted by distinct colors,  different flags, various languages. Always by the system, the fucking  system that is above us. The system that exists at our cost.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe stubborn memories don\u2019t fill plazas, or win or buy  government posts, or take palaces, or burn vehicles, or break windows,  or raise monuments in social media\u2019s ephemeral museums.<\/p>\n<p>All stubborn memories do is not forget, and that is how they struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The plazas and streets empty out, government posts and  administrations end, palaces are demolished, cars and windows are  replaced, museums get moldy, and social media runs from one place to the  other, demonstrating that frivolity, like capitalism, can be massive  and simultaneous.<\/p>\n<p>But moments arrive, <em>compas<\/em> family members of the absent, when memory is the only thing left.<\/p>\n<p>In those moments, know that you all also have us, Zapatistas of the EZLN.<\/p>\n<p>Because we should tell you that the persistent memory of the  Zapatistas is quite other. It carries with it a record of pain and rage  of days past, sketching in its notebook maps of the calendars and  geographies that have been forgotten above, but not only this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE WALL AND THE CRACK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Zapatistas, our memory also looks for what is to come. It signals times and places.<\/p>\n<p>If there exists no geographic location for that tomorrow, we start  gathering twigs, stones, strips of clothing and meat, bones and clay,  and we begin constructing and islet, or better yet, a rowboat planted in  the middle of tomorrow, the place where one can still just barely see  the storm looming ahead.<\/p>\n<p>And if there is no hour, day, week, month, or year on the calendar  that we recognize, well we begin to gather the fractions of seconds,  barely minutes, and filter them through the cracks that we open in the  wall of history.<\/p>\n<p>And if there\u2019s no crack, well, we\u2019ll make it by scratching, biting,  kicking, hitting with our hands and head, with our entire body until we  manage to create in history the wound that we are.<\/p>\n<p>And then it turns out that someone walks by and sees us, sees the Zapatistas, hitting ourselves hard against that wall.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that passerby is someone who thinks that they know  everything. They pause and shake their head in disapproval, judging and  declaring that, \u201c<em>You will never bring down the wall that way<\/em>.\u201d But sometimes, every so often, someone else will walk by, an other.<a name=\"_ednref3\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_edn3\">[iii]<\/a> They pause, look, understand, stare down at their feet, at their hands,  their fists, their shoulders, their body. And they decide. \u201c<em>This is a good place right here<\/em>.\u201d We\u2019d be able to hear if their silence were audible, as they make a mark on the immobile wall. And then they hit it.<\/p>\n<p>That someone, who thinks that they know everything, comes back, since  their journey is one of always coming and going, as if checking in on  their subjects. They now see that another one has joined in the same  stubborn task. They\u2019re happy to see that there are now enough to  constitute an audience, to listen, applaud, cheer, vote, to serve as  followers. They speak a lot and say very little: \u201c<em>You will never bring down the wall that way. It is indestructible, eternal, endless<\/em>.\u201d When they decide to finally conclude they say, \u201c<em>What  you should do is see how you can administer the wall, change the guard,  try to make it more just, friendlier. I promise you that I can soften  it up. In any case, we will always be on this side of it. If you  continue this way, you\u2019ll only be playing into the hands of the current  administration, the government, the State, the  whatever-you-wanna-call-it. The difference doesn\u2019t matter because the  wall will always be the wall. You hear? It will always be there<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps someone else walks by. They observe in silence and conclude, \u201c<em>Instead  of confronting the wall, you should understand that change comes from  within. All you need to do is think positively. Look, what a  coincidence, I happen to have on me this religion, trend, philosophy,  alibi that can help you. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s old or new. Come,  follow me.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For cases like this, those who are out there giving that wall hell  are already better organized\u2014they become collectives, teams, they hand  off the baton, take shifts. There are fat teams, skinny teams, tall and  short teams; there you\u2019ll find dirty ones, ugly ones, mean and  ill-mannered ones; some who are stubborn and clumsy footed; some with  hands calloused from work. You will find there the ones\u2014women, men, or  others\u2014who hit with their shoulders, their bodies, their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Giving \u2018em hell however they can.<\/p>\n<p>There are ones with a book, a paintbrush, a guitar, a <strong><em>turntable<\/em><\/strong>, a verse, a hoe, a hammer, a magic wand, a pen. Man, there are even ones who can hit that wall with a <em>pas de chat <\/em>[a  ballet step]. And well, things might start to happen then because it  turns out that dancing is contagious. And someone has a marimba, a  keyboard and a ball, and then the shifts\u2026 well, you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the wall doesn\u2019t even notice. It continues undaunted, powerful, unchanging, deaf, blind.<\/p>\n<p>And the paid media begins to appear: they take pictures, videos, they  interview each other, consult specialists. The such-and-such  specialist, whose virtue is that they\u2019re from another country, declares  with a transcendent gaze that the wall\u2019s molecular composition is such  that not even with an atomic bomb\u2026 and therefore, what Zapatismo is  doing is totally unproductive and only ends up only serving as an  accomplice of the wall itself (once the microphone is off, the  specialist asks the interviewer to give a mention to their only book,  maybe that will finally make it sell).<\/p>\n<p>The parade of specialists goes on. The conclusion is unanimous: it\u2019s a  useless effort; they will never take the wall down that way. Suddenly,  the media run over to interview the one who promises to \u201cmore humanely\u201d  administer the wall. The tumult of cameras and microphones produce a  curious effect: the one without arguments or followers will appear to  have many of each. A great and moving speech. They will run an article  about it. The paid media leave because nobody was paying attention to  what was being said by the candidate, or the leader, or the wise one  because they were paying attention to their phones which are, obviously,  smarter at least than the interviewee, and there was just an earthquake  near here, and some official was just found to be corrupt, and James  Bond has arrived at the Zocalo, and the fight of the century has  attracted millions, maybe it\u2019s because they thought it was supposed to  be between the exploited and the exploiters.<\/p>\n<p>No one asks the Zapatistas anything. If they did, perhaps they  wouldn\u2019t respond. Or maybe they\u2019d say about their absurd effort: \u201c<em>You think we\u2019re trying to take down the whole wall? It\u2019s enough to make a crack<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t appear in any written books, but rather in the ones that  haven\u2019t yet been written and yet have been read for generations, that  the Zapatistas have learned that if you stop scratching at the crack it  closes. The wall heals itself. That\u2019s why you have to keep at it without  rest. Not only to expand the gap, but above all, so that it doesn\u2019t  close.<\/p>\n<p>The Zapatista also knows that the wall\u2019s appearance can be deceiving.  Sometimes it\u2019s like a great mirror that reproduces the image of  destruction and death, as if no other way were possible. Sometimes the  wall dresses itself up nicely, and on its surface a pleasant landscape  appears. Other times it is hard and grey, as if trying to convince  everyone of its solid impenetrability. Most of the time the wall is a  big marquee where \u201cP-R-O-G-R-E-S-S\u201d repeats over and over.<\/p>\n<p>But the Zapatista knows it\u2019s a lie, that the wall was not always  there. They know how it was erected, what its function is. They know its  deception. And they also know how to destroy it.<\/p>\n<p>They are not fazed by the wall\u2019s supposed omnipotence and eternity.  They know that both are false. But right now, the important thing is the  crack, that it not close, that it expand.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Zapatista also knows what exists on the other side of the wall.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to ask them, they would respond, \u201c<em>nothing,<\/em>\u201d but smiling as if to say, \u201c<em>everything<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During one of the handoffs, the <em>Tercios Compas<\/em>, who are neither media nor free nor autonomous nor alternative nor whatever-you-call-it, but who are <em>compas<\/em>, harshly interrogated those who were doing the hitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>If you say that there\u2019s nothing on the other side, then why do you want to make a crack on the wall?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>To look<\/em>,\u201d the Zapatista responds without taking a break from scratching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>And why do you want to look?<\/em>\u201d insist the <em>Tercios Compas<\/em> who from then on are the only ones left, since all the other media have  gone. And as a way to ratify this, they have the inscription on their  jerseys, \u201cWhen the media leave, the <em>Tercios<\/em> remain.\u201d And sure,  they\u2019re a little bit uncomfortable because they\u2019re the only ones who are  asking instead of joining in and hitting the wall with their camera or  recorder or with their  I-finally-know-what-the-hell-this-is-good-for-fucking-<strong><em>tripod<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Tercios<\/em> repeat the question because, well, it couldn\u2019t  be otherwise. Even though it will have to be memorized because the  recorder is done, the camera is better not described, and the <strong><em>tripod<\/em><\/strong> metamorphosed into a centipede right then and there. So, again, \u201c<em>And why do you want to look?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>In order to imagine everything that could be done tomorrow<\/em>,\u201d the Zapatista responds.<\/p>\n<p>And when the Zapatista said \u201c<em>tomorrow<\/em>\u201d they could have well  been referring to a lost calendar or to a future that is to come. It  could be millennia, centuries, decades, half a decade, years, months,  weeks, days\u2026 or already tomorrow? Tomorrow? Tomorrow-tomorrow? Are you  sure? Don\u2019t fuck with me, I haven\u2019t even combed my hair!<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone walked past.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone walked by and judged, absolved, or condemned.<\/p>\n<p>There were, there are a few, so few that they don\u2019t even take up all the fingers on your hand.<\/p>\n<p>They were there, silent, watching.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re still there.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, once in a while, they utter an \u201c<strong><em>hmm<\/em><\/strong>\u201d that is very similar to the utterances made by the most elderly in our communities.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary to what is commonly understood, the \u201c<strong><em>hmm<\/em><\/strong>\u201d  does not mean disinterest or detachment. It also does not mean  disapproval or agreement. It\u2019s better understood as an, \u201cI\u2019m here, I  hear you, I see you, keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those men and women are already of age, \u201c<em>de juicio<\/em>\u201d [wise] the <em>compas<\/em> say when referring to the elderly, signaling that the pageless  calendars in the struggle provide reason, wisdom, and discretion.<\/p>\n<p>Among those few there was one, there is one. Sometimes that one joins  the soccer league that the anti-wall commando organizes in order to  continue hitting, even if sometimes what he hits is a soccer ball and  later what he plays is the <em>marimba<\/em> keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>As is the custom in those leagues, nobody asks anybody\u2019s name. Nobody  is named Juan or Juana or Krishna, no. Your name is the position that  you\u2019re playing. \u201c<em>Hey listen, goalie! Pass it, midfielder! Hit \u2018em, defense! Shoot it, striker! Over here, forward!<\/em>\u201d  you hear in the ruckus on the pasture with the cows infuriated because  the back and forth of all those teams destroys their dinner.<\/p>\n<p>In a corner, a restless little girl starts to put on some rubber boots that, you can tell, are too big for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>And you? What\u2019s your name?<\/em>\u201d that one, a man, asks the little girl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I\u2019m Zapatista defense<\/em>,\u201d the little girl says and puts on her best \u201c<em>get out of my way if you don\u2019t want to die<\/em>\u201d face.<\/p>\n<p>The man smiles. He doesn\u2019t laugh out loud. Just smiles.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl, it is clear, is recruiting players to challenge the losing team.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, because over here, the team that wins gets to go hit on the  wall. And the team that loses keeps on playing, \u201cuntil they finally  learn,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl already has a good part of her team, which she shows off to the man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This is the forward<\/em>,\u201d she points to a little mutt whose  color is uncertain for the crusty mud covering its coat. It wags its  tail with enthusiasm. \u201c<em>It runs, barely even stops, and just keeps going and going all the way over there,<\/em>\u201d the little girl points to the horizon blocked by the wall. \u201c<em>All it needs to do is just remember the ball<\/em>,\u201d she says seemingly apologetic, \u201c<em>because it\u2019s always taking off in one direction; but the ball\u2019s over here and the puppy forward is over there.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This is the goalie, who they also call the concierge, I think<\/em>,\u201d she now says, introducing him to an old horse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>My job<\/em>,\u201d the little girl explains, \u201c<em>is to not allow him  to pass the ball because, well look at him, he\u2019s half blind, you see,  he\u2019s missing an eye, the right one, so he can only see below and to the  left and if the ball comes from the right then forget about it.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>And well, right now the entire team isn\u2019t here. We\u2019re missing  the cat\u2026 well, he\u2019s more like a dog. He\u2019s very different, this  whatever-you-call-it, like a dog but he meows, or like a cat that barks.  I looked in the book on herbalism to find what a little animal like  that is called. I didn\u2019t find him. Pedrito told me that the Sup used to  say that he was called a cat-dog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>But you can\u2019t always believe Pedrito because\u2026<\/em>\u201d the little girl, glancing over her shoulders to make sure nobody else is close enough to hear, reveals a secret to the man, \u201c<em>Pedrito\u2019s team is America.<\/em>\u201d And then she whispers, \u201c<em>His  dad roots for Chivas and so he gets pissed. If they fight, his mom  knocks them both on the head and they calm down, but Pedrito argues a  lot about freedom according to the zapatillas <\/em>[house slippers]<em> and who knows that else.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Don\u2019t you mean, Zapatistas?<\/em>\u201d the man corrects her. The little girl doesn\u2019t notice. Pedrito owes her and he has it coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Well, this whatever-you-call-it, this cat-dog\u2014don\u2019t you wonder if he knows how to play?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Oh, he knows,<\/em>\u201d she answers her own question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>It\u2019s because the enemy can\u2019t really tell if he\u2019s a dog or a cat,  so he can go from one side to the other real fast and then POW!\u2014there\u2019s  the goal. The other day we almost won, but the ball went into the  bushes and then it was time to drink our <\/em>pozol<em> and the game was suspended. But anyway, I tell you, that cat-dog whatever-you-call-it, one of his eyes is yellow like this.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man has been left stunned. The little girl has just described a  color using her little hands. The man had seen many worlds and many  hardships, but he had never met anyone who could describe a color with a  mere gesture. But the little girl didn\u2019t come to give lessons on the  phenomenology of color, and so she continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>But that cat-dog isn\u2019t here right now<\/em>,\u201d she says with worry. \u201c<em>I  think that he\u2019s gone off to become a priest because they say that he  went to a seminary against that stubborn-ass capitalism. You know how  that stubborn-ass capitalism works? Well look, lemme give you a  political lecture. It turns out that the fucking system doesn\u2019t take a  bite out of you from just one place, no. It messes with you all over the  place. It bites everything, the fucking system. It scarfs everything  down and if it sees that it has gotten all big and fat, then it vomits  it up so it has room again to keep going some more. I mean, just so you  understand me, that damned capitalism is never satisfied. That\u2019s why I  told that cat-dog why would he go become a priest over at that seminary.  But he rarely follows orders. You think that a cat-dog is really going  to become a priest? No, right? Not even with all the goals he\u2019s made,  not even for the yellow in his eye. You\u2019d let a cat-dog with a yellow  eye perform a wedding ceremony? You wouldn\u2019t, right? That\u2019s why for me,  when I marry my husband, I don\u2019t want no priest. Only the autonomous  municipality. And then only if there\u2019s dancing, if not, then not even  that. Just with permission, so nobody can go around talking bad about  us. Just me and my what-do-you-call-him, and if he turns out to be no  good, well, let the buzzards take out his eyes. That\u2019s what my grandma  says, she\u2019s already really old but she fought in combat on the first of  January of 1994. What\u2014you don\u2019t know what happened on the first of  January of 1994? Well, later I\u2019ll sing a song for you that will explain  everything. Not right now because we have to play in a bit and we have  to be ready. But just so you\u2019re not kept in suspense, I\u2019ll tell you that  what happened that day was that we told those damned bad governments  that we\u2019d had enough, that we\u2019d had it up to here, that we weren\u2019t going  to take any more of their shit. And my grandma says that it was all  thanks to the women because if it would have been left to their  husbands, well, forget about it, we\u2019d be here feeling sorry for  ourselves, just like the <\/em><em>political party followers. Well, I\u2019m  not really sure who I want to get married to just yet because husbands  you know because men can be such knuckleheads you see. And right now I\u2019m  still a little girl. But I know that soon these damned guys are going  to be checking me out but I\u2019m not going to be all like \u201cyes\u201d, \u201cno,\u201d \u201cI  don\u2019t know.\u201d That is, I\u2019m going to take my pick and if that damned  husband tries to push me around well then, he\u2019ll see why I\u2019m a Zapatista  defense when I kick him to the curb. He\u2019s going to need to respect me  for the Zapatista woman that I am. Of course, he won\u2019t get it right away  so it\u2019s going to take a few smackdowns before he can understand the  struggle we women have.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man has listened to every word of the little girl\u2019s long-winded  speech. Not so much the little dog with the crusty mud, who knows where  he ended up, or the one-eyed horse slowly chewing a piece of plastic  left by the Little School student body. The man never laughed in any  moment of it\u2014he has barely managed to blink to the same rhythm of his  surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>There\u2019s going to be more of us soon,<\/em>\u201d the little girl says with encouragement. \u201c<em>It might take awhile, but there will be more of us.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It takes a while for the man to understand that the little girl is referring to her soccer team. Or not?<\/p>\n<p>But now the little girl is studying the man with the eyes of a talent scout. After a few \u201c<strong><em>hmms<\/em><\/strong>\u201d she finally asks, \u201c<em>And you, what\u2019s your name?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Me?<\/em>\u201d He answered knowing that the little girl wasn\u2019t asking for his family tree or his family crest, but for a position.<\/p>\n<p>After running the options through his head, he responds, \u201c<em>My name is ball boy.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The little girl keeps quiet while she assesses the usefulness of that position.<\/p>\n<p>After thinking it through for a while, she tells the man, not seeking  to console him, but to have him know how important he will be:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hey, not just anybody could be a ball boy. The way it goes is,  if the ball goes even just over there, over to the tall grass, well  forget it, nobody will want to go because it\u2019s too wild out there. Lots  of thorns, vines, spiders, and even snakes. Or maybe the ball goes over  to the stream and it\u2019s not easy to grab it because the water carries it  away, so you have to run in order to catch the ball. So yeah, retrieving  balls is important. Without a ball boy there is no game. If there\u2019s no  game, well then there\u2019s no party, and if there\u2019s no party then there\u2019s  no dancing and if there\u2019s no dancing then what\u2019s the point of combing my  hair and putting in my colorful barrettes for nothing. Look,<\/em>\u201d the  little girl says, digging in her bag. She takes out a handful of hair  clips of various colors, so many colors that some don\u2019t even exist yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Not just anybody would be a ball boy,<\/em>\u201d the little girl  repeats to the man and gives him a hug, not to console him but to have  him know that everything that is worth doing has to be done in a team,  in a collective, each with their task.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I would do it, but no. I\u2019m too scared of spiders and snakes. The  other day I even dreamt something fierce because of a damned snake that  I ran into in the pasture. Just like that<\/em>,\u201d and she extends her arms out as much as she can.<\/p>\n<p>The man keeps smiling.<\/p>\n<p>The game is over. The little girl hasn\u2019t completed making the team  that will challenge the loser, and has fallen asleep on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The man gets up and puts on his jacket because the afternoon is  getting dim and the breeze soothes the earth. It might even rain.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>miliciano<\/em><a name=\"_ednref4\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_edn4\"><em><strong>[iv]<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is now returning with the identification documents that the Good Government Council had requested. The man awaits his turn.<\/p>\n<p>They finally call his name and he walks up to retrieve his passport,  which has \u201cEastern Republic of Uruguay\u201d emblazoned on it. Inside there\u2019s  a photograph of a male with a face that says, \u201c<em>What the hell am I doing here?<\/em>\u201d and next to it, it reads: \u201cHughes Galeano, Eduardo Germ\u00e1n Mar\u00eda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hey<\/em>,\u201d the <em>miliciano<\/em> asks him. \u201c<em>Did you take Galeano as your <\/em>nom de guerre<em> in honor of the <\/em>compa<em> sergeant Galeano?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yes, I think I might have,<\/em>\u201d the man responds, holding onto his passport, unsure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ah,<\/em>\u201d the miliciano says, \u201c<em>I thought so.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hey, and your land, where exactly is it?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man looks at the Zapatista <em>miliciano<\/em>, he looks over at  the wall, he looks at the people giving it hell right at the crack, he  looks at the children playing and dancing, he looks at the little girl  trying to talk to the puppy, to the half-blind horse, and with a little  animal that may well be a cat or a dog, and he says, resigned, \u201c<em>also here<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ah,<\/em>\u201d the miliciano says, \u201c<em>And what do you do?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Me?<\/em>\u201d he tries to respond while picking up his backpack.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, as if he finally understood it all, he responds with a smile, \u201c<em>I am the ball boy<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the man is by now too far to hear the Zapatista <em>miliciano<\/em> murmuring in admiration: \u201c<em>Ah, ball boy. Not just anybody.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now in formation, the <em>miliciano<\/em> turns to say, \u201c<em>Hey Galeano, today I met a man from the city who named himself after you.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Galeano grins and retorts, \u201c<em>Yeah right, man.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>For real,<\/em>\u201d the miliciano says, \u201c<em>Where else is he going to get a name like that?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ah,<\/em>\u201d Galeano, militia sergeant and Little School teacher says, \u201c<em>And what does he do?<\/em>\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>He\u2019s a ball boy<\/em>,\u201d the <em>miliciano<\/em> replies, running over to serve himself some <em>pozol<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Galeano, the militia sergeant, picks up his notebook and puts it in his bag, muttering through his teeth, \u201c<em>Ball  boy, as if it were easy to do. Not just anybody can be a ball boy. In  order to be a ball boy you would have to have a lot of heart, like being  a Zapatista, and not just anybody can be a Zapatista, although it is  true, sometimes there\u2019s someone who doesn\u2019t know that they\u2019re a  Zapatista\u2026 until they know.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you all won\u2019t believe me, but this story I just told you  actually happened just a few days ago, a few months, a few years, a few  centuries, when the April sun slapped the earth, not to offend it, but  to wake it up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sisters and brothers, family members of the Ayotzinapa missing:<\/p>\n<p>Your struggle is a crack in the wall of the system. Don\u2019t allow  Ayotzinapa to close up. Your children breathe through that crack, but so  do the thousands of others who have disappeared across the world.<\/p>\n<p>So that the crack does not close up, so that the crack can deepen and  expand, you will have in us Zapatistas a common struggle: one that  transforms pain into rage, rage into rebellion, and rebellion into  tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>SupGaleano.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico, May 3, 2015.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"_edn1\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> This could also be translated as: \u201cI was born in the small hours of the  morning on May 25, 2014, collectively and to my own sorrow, as well as  that of many others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_edn2\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> The text uses \u201c<em>uno, una, unoa<\/em>\u201d to give a range of possible gendered pronouns including male, female, transgender and others.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_edn3\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> The text uses \u201c<em>otroas<\/em>\u201d meaning \u201cother,\u201d to give a range of possible gendered pronouns including male, female, transgender and others.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_edn4\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2015\/05\/10\/the-crack-in-the-wall-first-note-on-zapatista-method\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29#_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a> Member of the EZLN\u2019s civilian militia or reserves.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Muro y la Grieta. Primer Apunte sobre el M\u00e9todo Zapatista. Escucha aqu\u00ed: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/pensamiento\/3may_sup-galeano.mp3[\/podcast] Mayo 3 del 2015. Buenas tardes, d\u00edas, noches tengan quienes escuchan y quienes leen, sin importar sus calendarios y geograf\u00edas. Mi nombre es Galeano, Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano. Nac\u00ed la madrugada del 25 de mayo del 2014, en colectivo y a pesar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,957,6,118,955],"tags":[644,56,926,897,494,849],"class_list":["post-12929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-autonomia","category-chiapas","category-ezln","category-ezln-temas","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-encuentros","tag-ezln","tag-pensamiento-critico","tag-seminario","tag-subcomandante-galeano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}