[:es]<\/p>\n
MAYO: ENTRE EL AUTORITARISMO Y LA RESISTENCIA.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00bfEl calendario?\u00a0 Mayo del 2016.<\/p>\n \u00bfLa geograf\u00eda?<\/p>\n Bueno, pudiera ser cualquier parte de ese pa\u00eds rasgu\u00f1ado hasta sangrar por las desapariciones forzadas, la impunidad hecha instituci\u00f3n, la intolerancia como forma de gobierno, la corrupci\u00f3n como modus vivendi de una clase pol\u00edtica hedionda y mediocre.<\/p>\n Pero tambi\u00e9n pudiera ser cualquier parte de ese pa\u00eds sanado por el empecinamiento de los familiares que no olvidan a sus ausentes, la b\u00fasqueda tenaz de la verdad y la justicia, la rebelde resistencia frente a los golpes, balas, barrotes, el af\u00e1n de construir un camino propio sin amos, sin patrones, sin salvadores, sin gu\u00edas, sin caudillos; la defensa, la resistencia, la rebeld\u00eda; la grieta haci\u00e9ndose m\u00e1s ancha y profunda a fuerza de dolor y rabia.<\/p>\n \u201cM\u00e9xico\u201d, le llaman com\u00fanmente a ese pa\u00eds, este pa\u00eds, que refleja a su modo una crisis que sacude al mundo entero.<\/p>\n Parece ser que, en alg\u00fan momento de la breve e intensa historia del siglo XX, este pa\u00eds era una referencia tur\u00edstica internacional.\u00a0 Se hablaba de sus paisajes, de su gastronom\u00eda, de la hospitalidad de su gente, de lo perfecta que era la dictadura perfecta.<\/p>\n Pero antes y durante esa imagen de folleto de agencia de viajes, pas\u00f3 lo que pas\u00f3.\u00a0 No, no lo voy a atiborrar de informaci\u00f3n sobre lo sucedido en el pasado inmediato, digamos unos 30 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n El asunto es que, en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, \u201cM\u00e9xico\u201d es ahora referente mundial en corrupci\u00f3n gubernamental; crueldad del narcotr\u00e1fico; no infiltraci\u00f3n sino contubernio entre el crimen organizado y las instituciones; desapariciones forzadas; ej\u00e9rcito fuera de los cuarteles y en las calles y caminos; asesinatos y encarcelamientos de opositores, de periodistas y de gente que ni en cuenta; el \u201cwarning<\/em><\/strong>\u201d en los pasajes tur\u00edsticos; el cinismo como idiosincrasia en medios de comunicaci\u00f3n y redes sociales; la vida, la libertad y los bienes personales jugados en la ruleta mortal de la vida cotidiana (\u201csi no te toc\u00f3 hoy, tal vez ma\u00f1ana\u201d).\u00a0 Si usted es mujer, de cualquier edad, multiplique los riesgos.\u00a0 Lo femenino, junto a lo diferente, s\u00f3lo gana en eso: es m\u00e1s probable que sufra violencia, desaparici\u00f3n, muerte.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pero todo esto ya lo sabe usted.\u00a0 Basta haber vivido aqu\u00ed, en estos suelos y bajo estos cielos, un poco, no mucho, digamos entre los primeros meses de vida y los menos de 5 a\u00f1os, que era la edad de las ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os asesinados en la Guardar\u00eda ABC, en Hermosillo, Sonora, M\u00e9xico, el 5 de junio del a\u00f1o 2009, hace ya casi 7 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n \u00bfQu\u00e9 delito ten\u00edan estos infantes?\u00a0 \u00bfFueron v\u00edctimas de la mala suerte, de un oscuro designio divino, de la casualidad? \u00bfO fueron y son v\u00edctimas de una clase pol\u00edtica que se permite todo a s\u00ed misma (como el hecho de que una de las implicadas -y no investigadas-, sea precandidata para la presidencia de M\u00e9xico por el Partido Acci\u00f3n Nacional)?<\/p>\n As\u00ed que el lugar pudiera ser Sonora, donde, sin embargo, el crimen y la desverg\u00fcenza no logran derrotar a las familias de los infantes de la guarder\u00eda \u201cABC\u201d.<\/p>\n O podr\u00eda ser el Estado de M\u00e9xico, donde el pueblo \u00d1atho<\/em><\/strong> de San Francisco Xochicuautla pretende ser destruido y sepultado por una de las carreteras del gran capital.\u00a0 \u00bfSu delito?\u00a0 Defender los bosques.\u00a0 Pero, sobre los escombros de sus casas, los pobladores se mantienen en resistencia.<\/p>\n O pudiera ser Oaxaca, en la comunidad Binizza<\/em><\/strong> de \u00c1lvaro Obreg\u00f3n, en Juchit\u00e1n, donde la poblaci\u00f3n fue atacada a balazos por paramilitares del Partido Acci\u00f3n Nacional y del Partido de la Revoluci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica.\u00a0 \u00bfCu\u00e1l es su falta?\u00a0 Oponerse a la privatizaci\u00f3n del viento que, con los llamados \u201cparques e\u00f3licos\u201d, impone el gran capital en el Istmo.<\/p>\n O tal vez podr\u00eda ser Veracruz, que es ya un territorio para la cacer\u00eda de mujeres, j\u00f3venes, periodistas, sean o no opositores.\u00a0 O Yucat\u00e1n, donde en contra de los pobladores de Chablekal se implementa el llamado \u201cEscudo\u201d con el que los gobernantes protegen el despojo.\u00a0 O Guerrero, donde todo M\u00e9xico se renombra \u201cAyotzinapa\u201d.\u00a0 O Morelos, convertido en un gigantesco cementerio clandestino.\u00a0 O la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico donde las manifestaciones opositoras est\u00e1n prohibidas porque ah\u00ed mandan los veh\u00edculos automotores, incluso sobre la Constituci\u00f3n.\u00a0 O Puebla, baluarte de la privatizaci\u00f3n del agua y carreteras.\u00a0 O Tamaulipas, donde, como en todo el pa\u00eds, el PRI es el brazo institucional del crimen organizado.\u00a0 O cualquier lugar de la rep\u00fablica llamada \u201cEstados Unidos Mexicanos\u201d, con sus olas de despidos, desalojos, robos, desapariciones, destrucci\u00f3n, muerte\u2026 guerra.<\/p>\n Pero resulta que es Chiapas.\u00a0 Y de Chiapas, miramos a\u2026<\/p>\n Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez, ciudad capital.\u00a0 Mayo del 2016.\u00a0 Temperatura media: 37 grados a la sombra.\u00a0 Altitud: 522 metros sobre el nivel del mar.\u00a0 Fecha: el mayo del magisterio en resistencia y rebeld\u00eda.\u00a0 Pero antes, permita usted algunas precisiones:<\/p>\n 1.- La mal llamada \u201creforma educativa\u201d no es educativa, es laboral.\u00a0 Si fuera educativa se habr\u00eda tomado el parecer del magisterio y de las familias.\u00a0 Cuando el gobierno se niega a dialogar sobre la reforma con el magisterio y las familias, est\u00e1 reconociendo que no se trata de mejorar la educaci\u00f3n, sino de \u201cajustar la n\u00f3mina\u201d (que es como el capital llama a los despidos).<\/p>\n 2.- No se est\u00e1 aplicando la ley, se est\u00e1 violando la ley.\u00a0 Se dice defender a la constituci\u00f3n (la reforma educativa), violando la constituci\u00f3n (las leyes que garantizan derechos elementales como el de reuni\u00f3n, petici\u00f3n y libre circulaci\u00f3n).<\/p>\n 3.-\u00a0\u00a0 Lo que hacen los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n de paga es in\u00fatil.\u00a0 Declaraciones van y vienen: \u201ctodo normal\u201d, \u201cla mayor\u00eda de las escuelas est\u00e1n trabajando\u201d. \u201cel noventa y tanto por ciento de los maestros est\u00e1n laborando\u201d.\u00a0 Pero la realidad no conoce esas declaraciones, porque el magisterio est\u00e1 en las calles.\u00a0 En los pueblos las familias ya dijeron claro que no van a aceptar a los sustitutos, que no los van a dejar entrar o que los van a correr.<\/p>\n 4.- L@s maestr@s no est\u00e1n defendiendo privilegios, est\u00e1n luchando en la \u00faltima trinchera de cualquier ser humano: las condiciones m\u00ednimas de vida de ell@s y de sus familias. \u00a0\u00bfLe sorprende a usted que alguien est\u00e9 dispuesto a defender lo poco que le queda? \u00a0\u00bfUn salario infame, unas aulas que parecen haber sido bombardeadas (y lo han sido, pero por bombas econ\u00f3micas), no uno sino varios turnos laborales, grupos excesivamente numerosos?\u00a0 En resumen: poca paga, malas condiciones de trabajo y mucha chinga.\u00a0 \u00bfLe suena?\u00a0 Y, aun as\u00ed, l@s maestr@ se presentan en su escuela y ense\u00f1an a ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as los caminos de las ciencias y las artes.<\/p>\n 5.-\u00a0 El objetivo de la supuesta reforma educativa es destruir a esa maestra, ese maestro que se prepar\u00f3 por a\u00f1os y pr\u00e1cticamente toda su vida la ha dedicado a ese oficio.\u00a0 Cierto, con la perseverancia que en los medios se abona con billetes, se ha construido la imagen de l\u00edderes corruptos.\u00a0 Pero esa imagen es el cebo para morder el anzuelo.\u00a0 No, el objetivo no son los l\u00edderes, sino todos los maestros, incluidos los del servil Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Ahora, si quiere usted un modelo de l\u00edderes corruptos, ah\u00ed tiene a la direcci\u00f3n en pleno del SNTE.<\/p>\n 6.- S\u00ed, el objetivo de la reforma educativa es privatizar la educaci\u00f3n.\u00a0 De hecho, esa privatizaci\u00f3n ya est\u00e1 en marcha.\u00a0 Dejar sin atenci\u00f3n ni presupuesto a las escuelas no acab\u00f3 con la educaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica en M\u00e9xico por una raz\u00f3n humana: el magisterio.\u00a0 As\u00ed que ahora hay que destruir a es@s maestr@s.\u00a0 Se trata de provocar una cat\u00e1strofe en el sistema educativo de modo que las familias tiendan, doblando turnos, a las escuelas privadas; o se conformen con que sus hijas e hijos se formen consumiendo televisi\u00f3n, radio y medios digitales; o en la calle; o ni eso.\u00a0 La profesi\u00f3n del magisterio no se improvisa ni es cuesti\u00f3n de intuici\u00f3n.\u00a0 Se estudia, exige preparaci\u00f3n.\u00a0 No cualquiera tiene la capacidad y los conocimientos para educar.\u00a0 Porque en la escuela se educa, no s\u00f3lo se ense\u00f1a.\u00a0 No cualquiera puede enfrentar con \u00e9xito a un grupo de infantes en edad escolar o prescolar.\u00a0 Por eso son necesarias las escuelas Normales.<\/p>\n 7.- \u00bfLe han dicho que lo que ocurre es que l@s maestr@s son holgazanes y que no quieren prepararse?\u00a0 Mienten, cualquier maestra o maestro aspira a ser mejor, estar mejor preparado.\u00a0 Haga usted lo que no ha hecho el gobierno, hable con un maestro o maestra.\u00a0 Mejor a\u00fan, esc\u00fachelo.\u00a0 Ver\u00e1 c\u00f3mo, cuando \u00e9l o ella hablan de su situaci\u00f3n, parece que describen la de usted.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 Nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, tratamos de entender.\u00a0 Y para entender hay que escuchar.\u00a0 Siempre que podemos, recurrimos a la informaci\u00f3n directa.\u00a0 Para este caso, enviamos a un grupo de \u201cLos Tercios Compas\u201d (medios zapatistas de comunicaci\u00f3n no de paga, no aut\u00f3nomos, no libres, no alternativos, pero compas) y escuchamos a bases de apoyo zapatistas que son parte del magisterio.\u00a0 Lo siguiente es tomado de uno de los informes de esas escuchas:<\/p>\n \u201cCompa\u00f1ero Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, te saludo y espero que te encuentres bien de salud y haciendo los trabajos para la lucha.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 Despu\u00e9s de mi corto saludo, paso a informar: Bueno, pues la vimos la marcha de los maestros.\u00a0 Pero no s\u00f3lo maestros, tambi\u00e9n hay muchas maestras.\u00a0 Los malditos polic\u00edas los atacaron y tambi\u00e9n lo atacaron a la gente que andaba por ah\u00ed.\u00a0 Hasta ni\u00f1os pasaron a golpear.\u00a0 Luego lo vimos una pinta, que sea como un letrero pintado en la pared, que dec\u00eda: \u201cPolic\u00edas: contra el pueblo muy chingones, pero contra el narco maricones\u201d.\u00a0 Lo miramos la marcha que est\u00e1n contentos los maestros.\u00a0 Como que no importa que los golpearon y persiguieron y les aventaron ese humo que no deja respirar.\u00a0 Ah\u00ed van los maestros y las maestras, y tambi\u00e9n van unas mamaces<\/strong> y papaces de los ni\u00f1os que van a la escuela y que sus familias lo apoyan a los maestros.\u00a0 Se ve claro que no los llevaron a la fuerza, sino que llegaron por su gusto.\u00a0 Est\u00e1n animados.\u00a0 Y la gente en las casas le grita de apoyo a los maestros y las maestras.\u00a0 Y en la calle les dan agua, frutas.\u00a0 Se mira que los quieren a esos maestros que luchan.\u00a0 Y entonces los maestros lo gritan la consigna de \u201ceste apoyo s\u00ed se ve\u201d y, bueno, pues yo pens\u00e9 que luego hay apoyo que no se ve, pero no hay consigna.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 Luego los fuimos a ver a los malditos polic\u00edas que iban detr\u00e1s de los maestros para perseguirlos.\u00a0 Lo miramos que el polic\u00eda est\u00e1 como muy derrotado.\u00a0 S\u00f3lo unos pocos polic\u00edas est\u00e1n de entusiastas y golpean sus escudos de pl\u00e1stico con sus garrotes, seg\u00fan para meter miedo, pero no dan miedo.\u00a0 La mayor\u00eda de los polic\u00edas apenas puede caminar, creo que porque est\u00e1 haciendo mucho calor.\u00a0 Mucho sol ah\u00ed en Tuxtla.\u00a0 Y los maestros y maestras pues se ve que est\u00e1n hallados a la chinga porque van contentos.\u00a0 Hacen sus cantos y lo gritan sus consignas.\u00a0 Lo cantaron esa de \u201cVenceremos\u201d y ya mero me pongo a cantar tambi\u00e9n, pero me acord\u00e9 que voy de \u201cTercio compa\u201d y pues no.\u00a0 Los polic\u00edas cada tanto que se detienen, r\u00e1pido buscan donde hay sombra.\u00a0 El mando los rega\u00f1a porque no se quieren formar.\u00a0 Lo escuchamos un polic\u00eda que le est\u00e1 contando a otro que persigui\u00f3 a una ni\u00f1a y a un maestro, y que corr\u00eda m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido el maestro que la ni\u00f1a.\u00a0 Y se r\u00ede el maldito como si fuera un chiste de perseguir a una ni\u00f1a.\u00a0 Y cuando les dan orden de avanzar, los polic\u00edas van con sus escudos arrastrando.\u00a0 Unos llevan como unos botes de metal.\u00a0 Otros llevan unos palos.\u00a0 Cuando pasan, la gente en la calle les dice cosas a los polic\u00edas, que se vayan les dicen, que ya no molestan a los maestros.\u00a0 Unos, y otros de plano les mientan la madre a los polic\u00edas.\u00a0 Los polic\u00edas los miran con coraje en su ojo, pero no paran.\u00a0 Y son familias las que gritan.\u00a0 En algunas casas y edificios hay letreros, as\u00ed como carteles hechos a mano donde dice que se apoya a los maestros.\u00a0 En las estaciones de radio lo escuchamos que la gente llama para comentar, pero no como otras veces que se quejan de los maestros porque bloquean.\u00a0 Ahora se quejan de los federales, que est\u00e1n molestando nom\u00e1s, que parece que estamos en guerra, que ni cuando los zapatistas se ve\u00eda tanto polic\u00eda en las calles de Tuxtla.\u00a0 Nadie agradece al gobierno, lo dicen claro que la culpa es de los malos gobiernos.\u00a0 Y entonces los del radio le cortan la palabra porque se ve que no les gusta lo que dice la gente.\u00a0 Y luego los peri\u00f3dicos pues de plano no tienen verg\u00fcenza, ponen de otras cosas que ni al caso.\u00a0 Que est\u00e1n preocupados los periodistas porque en Chenalh\u00f3 los partidistas secuestraron a otros partidistas.\u00a0 Pero como que los maestros lo hacen la pol\u00edtica, explican su lucha y la gente los oye y los entiende.\u00a0 Lo escuchamos lo que dice la gente.\u00a0 A los gobiernos no los oyen y no los entienden.\u00a0 Al Velasco le dicen \u201cel ni\u00f1o\u201d y se quejan del \u201cni\u00f1o\u201d, que s\u00f3lo sali\u00f3 bueno para tomarse fotos y para pasear.\u00a0 Y luego que dicen los rumores que ya no est\u00e1 de por s\u00ed, que ya se est\u00e1n peleando los pol\u00edticos para ver qui\u00e9n se queda de gobernador.\u00a0 Y dicen \u201cel que quede, es un ratero y sinverg\u00fcenza\u201d.\u00a0 Al gobierno no lo respetan.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 A los maestros los respetan y los quieren, les dan su agua y su fruta, los aplauden.\u00a0 Hasta los carros, cuando pasan a un lado de la marcha, lo tocan su claxon y sacan la mano de apoyo.\u00a0 Al polic\u00eda puras mentadas.\u00a0 Lo escuchamos a un maestro explicar su lucha: \u201cAhora se trata de la comida de nuestros hijos\u201d.\u00a0 En un lugar, cerca de aqu\u00ed de Tuxtla, que se llama Chiapa de Corzo la gente se organiz\u00f3 y fue a corretear a los federales de ah\u00ed.\u00a0 No eran maestros, eran familias.\u00a0 Los golpearon y les aventaron gas, pero no se rindieron y sacaron a los federales.\u00a0 Ya que lo miramos todo esto que decimos, nos regresamos para informar.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 Lo que vemos es que qui\u00e9n sabe qu\u00e9 vaya a pasar, pero los malos gobiernos ya perdieron<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Es toda mi palabra<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 Ahora, preguntas para el examen de evaluaci\u00f3n del gobierno federal:<\/p>\n Si un gobierno no est\u00e1 dispuesto a dialogar y negociar con sus opositores, \u00bfqu\u00e9 camino les dejan?\u00a0 Si s\u00f3lo se usa el argumento de la fuerza, \u00bfqu\u00e9 esperan como contra argumento?<\/p>\n Desde las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano.<\/p>\n Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.<\/p>\n M\u00e9xico, mayo del 2016.<\/p>\n Del cuaderno de apuntes del gato-perro:<\/strong><\/p>\n La Hora del Polic\u00eda 2<\/strong>. \u00a0El vendedor de desodorante para metrosexuales, esa versi\u00f3n posmoderna de Gordolfo Gelatino<\/em><\/strong>, Aurelio Nu\u00f1o Mayer, debe dejar de hacer campa\u00f1a para la presidencia y reconocer ya que la reforma que dice defender ni es reforma ni es educativa.\u00a0 Es s\u00f3lo un descarado ajuste de personal.\u00a0 Un patr\u00f3n mal vestido con las ropas institucionales usa a un capataz perfumado para cerrar empleos.<\/p>\n Y para ser un capataz idiota que suspira por ser un buen polic\u00eda, siga las siguientes instrucciones: Escriba 100 veces: \u201cla educaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica en M\u00e9xico es una empresa y como tal hay que manejarla<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 Ah, y no estudie historia.\u00a0 Olvide que la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci\u00f3n naci\u00f3 en 1979, en Chiapas, M\u00e9xico.\u00a0 Y que naci\u00f3 como respuesta a la brutalidad gubernamental.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0Las batallas que libran l@s maestr@s y las familias no son el final de mayo.\u00a0 Son apenas el inicio de muchos meses y luchas que se dar\u00e1n, y no s\u00f3lo del magisterio.\u00a0 En las geograf\u00edas y los calendarios de abajo la historia no transcurre, se hace.<\/p>\n Doy fe.<\/p>\n Guau-Miau.[:en]<\/p>\n The calendar? May 2016 Well, it could be any part of this country, scratched open and bleeding with forced disappearances, impunity made institution, intolerance as a form of government, corruption as the modus vivendi of a fetid and mediocre political class.<\/p>\n But it could also be any part of this country healed by the persistence of the families who do not forget their missing, their tenacious search for truth and justice, their rebellious resistance in the face of blows, bullets, and clubs, and their eagerness to construct a path without masters, bosses, saviors, guides, or caudillos; through defense, resistance, rebellion; through the strength of pain and rage making the crack deeper and wider.<\/p>\n \u201cMexico\u201d as this country is commonly called, reflects in its own way the crisis that is shaking the entire world.<\/p>\n It seems that at some moment in the brief and intense history of the 20th century, this country was an international referent for tourism. One heard about its landscapes, its gastronomy, the hospitality of its people, the perfection of the perfect dictatorship.<\/p>\n But both before and during this travel agency pamphlet image, what happened happened. No, I won\u2019t ply you with information on what has happened in the immediate past, say the last 30 years.<\/p>\n The thing is that over the past few years, \u201cMexico\u201d has become a world referent for governmental corruption; for the cruelty of narco-trafficking; the full complicity and cohabitation, not merely infiltration, of organized crime and the official institutions; the forced disappearances; the army out of the barracks and into the streets and onto the highways; the murders and imprisonments of opposition figures, journalists, and others; the \u201cwarning\u201d signs on the paths of tourists; the cynicism as idiosyncrasy in the media and social networks; and life, freedom, and personal possessions gambled in the deadly roulette of daily life (\u201cif they didn\u2019t come for you today, maybe tomorrow\u201d). If you are a woman, of whatever age, multiply the risks. The feminine, along with any difference, is ahead only in this respect: more likely to suffer violence, disappearance, death.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But you already know all of this. It is enough to have lived here, in these lands and under these skies, a little, not much, let\u2019s say from just a few months old to less than five years old, which was the age of the little girls and boys murdered in the ABC Daycare in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, June 5, 2009, almost seven years ago.<\/p>\n What crime did those children commit? Were they victims of bad luck, of a dark divine design, of chance? Or were they victims of a political class that allows itself anything (such as the fact that one of those implicated\u2014and not investigated\u2014in this crime is a pre-candidate for the Mexican presidency for the National Action Party)?<\/p>\n So the place could be Sonora, where nevertheless, neither the crime nor the shamelessness of those responsible were able to defeat the families of the toddlers of the ABC Daycare.<\/p>\n Or the place could be Mexico State, where the \u00d1atho community of San Francisco Xochicuautla is at risk of being destroyed and buried by one of big capital\u2019s highways. Their crime? Defending the forests. But, on the ruins of their homes, the community members maintain their resistance.<\/p>\n Or the place could be Oaxaca, in the Binizza community of \u00c1lvaro Obreg\u00f3n, in Juchit\u00e1n, where the population was shot at by paramilitaries of the National Action Party and the Party of the Democratic Revolution. What is their offense? Opposing the privatization of the wind, imposed by big capital in the Isthmus as \u201cwind farms.\u201d<\/p>\n Or it could be Veracruz, already a territorial hunting ground targeting women, young people, and journalists, whether or not they are oppositional. Or the Yucat\u00e1n, where the government has implemented the so-called \u201cEscudo\u201d [shield] against the population of Chablekal as a way to protect its own acts of displacement. Or Guerrero, where all of Mexico is renamed \u201cAyotzinapa.\u201d Or Morelos, converted into a gigantic clandestine cemetery. Or Mexico City where opposition protests are prohibited because there the automobiles rule, including over the Constitution. Or Puebla, bastion of water and highway privatization. Or Tamaulipas, where, like everywhere in the country, the PRI is the institutional arm of organized crime. Or anywhere in this republic called \u201cUnited Mexican States\u201d with its waves of firings, displacements, theft, disappearances, destruction, death\u2026war.<\/p>\n But it turns out that it is Chiapas. And in Chiapas, we see\u2026<\/p>\n Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez, the capital city. May, 2016. Average temperature: 37 degrees [Celsius] in the shade. Altitude: 522 meters above sea level. Date: May of the teachers in resistance and rebellion. But before we go further, allow me a few corrections:<\/p>\n 1. The poorly named \u201ceducation reform\u201d is not about education but rather about labor. If it were about education it would have taken into consideration the perspective of teachers and families. When the government refuses to dialogue about the reform with teachers and families, it is acknowledging that this is not about improving education, but about \u201cpayroll adjustment\u201d (which is how capital refers to firings).<\/p>\n 2. The law isn\u2019t being applied, it is being violated. Those who say they are defending the constitution (through the educational reform) are violating the constitution (the laws that guarantee basic rights such as gathering, petition, and free movement).<\/p>\n 3. What the paid mass media are doing is useless. They declare back and forth: \u201ceverything running normally,\u201d \u201cthe majority of schools are still functioning,\u201d \u201cover 90 percent of teachers are working.\u201d But there is no referent in reality for these declarations, because the teachers are in the streets. In the villages the families already said clearly that they will not accept substitute teachers, that they won\u2019t let them in or will run them off.<\/p>\n 4. The teachers aren\u2019t defending their privileges, they are fighting in the last trench any human being has: for the minimal life conditions for them and their families. Are you surprised that someone is willing to defend the little they have left? A despicable salary, a few classrooms that look like they have been bombed (and they have been, but by economic bombs), not one but multiple work shifts, excessively large classes? In sum: little pay, bad working conditions, and a shitload of work. Sound familiar? And yet, the teachers show up at their schools and teach the little boys and girls the ways of the arts and sciences.<\/p>\n 5. The objective of the supposed education reform is to destroy those teachers who prepared for years and dedicated practically their whole lives to this profession. Of course, due to the perseverance of the media, which gets bonuses for their trouble, the teachers\u2019 movement has been given the image of corrupt leaders. But this image is just a decoy, an attempt to get people to take the bait. The objective [of the reform] is not the leaders, but all of the teachers, including the servile National Education Workers Union [SNTE]. Now, if you want a model of corrupt leaders, you have the leadership of the SNTE.<\/p>\n 6. Yes, the objective of the education reform is to privatize education. In fact, this privatization is already in process. The attempt to abandon and defund the schools didn\u2019t finish off public education in Mexico for one reason: the teachers. So now the teachers must be destroyed. They [the government] are trying to provoke a catastrophe in the education system such that families turn to private schools, working double shifts to pay for tuition, or resort to raising their daughters and sons on television, radio, and digital media, or in the street, or not even that. The teaching profession is not improvisational, nor is it a question of intuition. It requires study, preparation. Not just anyone has the capacity and the knowledge to educate. Because in school students are educated, not just taught. Not just anyone can successfully take on a group of school-age or preschool-age children. That is why the Escuelas Normales [Teachers\u2019 Colleges] are necessary.<\/p>\n 7. Have you been told that what\u2019s going on is that the teachers are lazy and don\u2019t want to study? That\u2019s a lie, any teacher wants to be better, better prepared and better trained. Do yourself what the government hasn\u2019t done: talk to a teacher. Even better, listen to them. You will see that when they talk about their situation, it will seem like they are describing yours.<\/p>\n _*_<\/p>\n We Zapatistas try to understand. And in order to understand one has to listen. Whenever we can, we rely on direct information. In this case, we sent a group of \u201cLos Tercios Compas\u201d (Zapatista media that isn\u2019t paid, or autonomous, or free, or alternative, but they are compas) and we listened to the Zapatista bases of support that are part of the teaching profession. We took the following from one of these listeners:<\/p>\n \u201cCompa\u00f1ero Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, I greet you and hope that you are in good health and doing the work of the struggle.<\/em><\/p>\n Having given this brief greeting, I offer my report: Well, we saw the teachers\u2019 march. It wasn\u2019t just male teachers, there were also many female teachers. The damned police attacked them and also attacked the people nearby. They even beat children. Later we saw a sign, well a sign painted on a wall, that said: \u201cThe police: such badasses against the people, such pussies against the narco.\u201d We saw that the teachers were happy in the march. As if they didn\u2019t care that they were being beaten and pursued and sprayed with that gas that doesn\u2019t let you breath. The teachers [male and female] just kept going, along with some of the mothers and fathers of the children that go to the schools and whose families support the teachers. It was clear that no one had forced them to go, but rather that they had come because they wanted to. They were excited. And the people in the houses along the street were shouting their support to the teachers. And in the streets people gave them water and fruit. You can tell that the people love those teachers who are in struggle. So then the teachers would shout the chant, \u201cwe see your support\u201d and well, I thought there\u2019s probably support that isn\u2019t seen also, but there\u2019s no chant for that.<\/em><\/p>\n Later we went to see the damned police who were following the teachers in order to harass them. We saw the police looking very defeated. There were just a few who were enthusiastic and who were beating their batons on their plastic shields, supposedly to frighten people, but it\u2019s not frightening. The majority of the police could barely walk, I think because of the heat. The sun is strong in Tuxtla. And the teachers, well you can tell they\u2019re used to it because they were happy. They sang songs and yelled chants. They sang that one called \u201cWe shall overcome\u201d and I even started to sing too, but then I remembered that I was there in the role of \u201cTercio compa\u201d and so better not. Every time the police paused for a moment they would all run for the shade. Their commander would scold them because they didn\u2019t stay in formation. We heard one police officer telling another about how he pursued a little girl and a teacher, and that the teacher ran faster than the child. And that damned officer laughed like it was a joke to pursue a little girl. And when they got the order to advance, the police went dragging their shields behind them. Some were wearing metal boots. Others carried clubs. As they went by, the people in the street would say things to them, telling them to leave and not to bother the teachers anymore. Some people straight up cussed them out. The police looked at them with anger in their eyes but they didn\u2019t stop. And these are families that are yelling. In some houses and buildings there were signs, like homemade posters expressing support for the teachers. On the radio stations people called in to comment, but not like other times when they complained that the teachers were blocking roads. Now they were complaining about the federal police, that they are just creating trouble, that it looks like we\u2019re at war, that not even during the Zapatista uprising were there so many police in the streets of Tuxtla. No one was thanking the government; they were all saying clearly that this is all the fault of the government. And the radio stations would cut the people off, you can tell they didn\u2019t like what the people were saying. And the newspapers have no shame, they publish stuff that doesn\u2019t have anything to do with anything. The journalists are worried because in Chenalh\u00f3 some partidistas [political party-affiliated people] kidnapped some other partidistas. But the teachers do politics, they explain their struggle and the people hear them and understand them. We heard what the people say. They don\u2019t listen to or understand the governments. They call Velasco \u201cthe kid\u201d and complain about how \u201cthe kid\u201d is only good for getting his picture taken and going out for a stroll. And the rumors say that he\u2019s not even in charge anymore, that there is fighting to see who will take the governorship. They say that \u201cwhoever gets it is a shameless thief.\u201d They don\u2019t respect the government.<\/em><\/p>\n They respect and love the teachers, they give them water and fruit, they applaud them. Even the cars, when they drive by the march, honk and wave. But the police only get insults. We heard one teacher explain their struggle: \u201cThis is now about putting food on the table for our children.\u201d In one place close to Tuxtla, called Chiapa de Corzo, the people organized themselves and ran the federal police out of there. They weren\u2019t teachers, they were families. The police hit them and threw gas at them, but the people didn\u2019t give up and they ran off the federal police. Once we had seen all of this, we came back to give our report.<\/em><\/p>\n What we think is that who knows what will happen, but the governments already lost.<\/em><\/p>\n That\u2019s all I have to say.<\/em><\/p>\n _*_<\/p>\n Now, questions for the exam on the federal government:<\/p>\n If a government isn\u2019t willing to dialogue and negotiate with the opposition, what path does it leave the opposition? If the government only employs argument via the use of force, what does it expect as a counter argument?<\/p>\n From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast<\/p>\n Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano<\/p>\n Mexico, May 2016<\/p>\n The Hour of the Police 2. <\/strong>That vendor of deodorant for metrosexuals, the postmodern version of Gordolfo Gelatino<\/strong><\/em>, Aurelio Nu\u00f1o Mayer, should stop his campaign for the presidency and recognize that the reform he purports to defend is neither a reform nor is it about education. It\u2019s merely a shameless personnel switch. A boss badly dressed in institutional clothing uses a perfumed foreman to get rid of jobs.<\/p>\n To be an idiot foreman that longs to be a good policeman, follow these instructions: write 100 times, \u201cpublic education in Mexico is a business and that\u2019s how it must be managed<\/em>.\u201d Ah, and don\u2019t study history. Forget the fact that the National Coordination of Education Workers was born in 1979, in Chiapas, Mexico. And it was born as a response to government brutality.<\/p>\n _*_<\/p>\n The battles that the teachers and the families wage do not end with May. They are just the beginning of many months and struggles that will come, and not only for the teachers. In the geographies and calendars below, history doesn\u2019t happen, it is made.<\/p>\n I testify. [:es] MAYO: ENTRE EL AUTORITARISMO Y LA RESISTENCIA. \u00a0 \u00bfEl calendario?\u00a0 Mayo del 2016. \u00bfLa geograf\u00eda? Bueno, pudiera ser cualquier parte de ese pa\u00eds rasgu\u00f1ado hasta sangrar por las desapariciones forzadas, la impunidad hecha instituci\u00f3n, la intolerancia como forma de gobierno, la corrupci\u00f3n como modus vivendi de una clase pol\u00edtica hedionda y mediocre. Pero tambi\u00e9n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,118,955],"tags":[644,57,1007,665],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiapas","category-ezln","category-ezln-temas","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-educacion","tag-magisterio","tag-reformas-legales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","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=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}May: Between Authoritarianism and Resistance<\/h4>\n
\nThe geography?<\/p>\nFrom the notebook of the cat-dog:<\/h4>\n
\nWoof-Meow.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"