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<\/a><\/center>\nM\u00c9XICO.<\/strong><\/center>21 de Julio del 2016.<\/p>\n
A quien sea ahora el gobernador en funciones y dem\u00e1s capataces del suroriental estado mexicano de Chiapas:<\/p>\n
Damas (j\u00e1) y Caballeros (doble j\u00e1):<\/p>\n
No reciban nuestros saludos.<\/p>\n
Antes de que se les ocurra inventar (como ya est\u00e1 haciendo la PGR en Nochixtl\u00e1n, Oaxaca) que la cobarde agresi\u00f3n contra el campamento de resistencia popular en San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, Chiapas, fue orquestada por ISIS, les pasamos, gratis, el informe que hemos recabado:<\/p>\n
Las siguientes son palabras de un hermano ind\u00edgena partidista (PRI) de San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico:<\/p>\n
\u201cA las 9 de la ma\u00f1ana (del d\u00eda 20 de julio del 2016) llamaron a los del Verde a su casa del gobernador.\u00a0 Ah\u00ed regresaron y que les dijeron que hagan como hicieron el otro d\u00eda.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>(NOTA: se refiere a cuando un grupo de ind\u00edgenas del Partido Verde Ecologista se pusieron pasamonta\u00f1as y fueron a hacer desmanes en el bloqueo de San Crist\u00f3bal y en Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez, capital de Chiapas. \u00a0Cuando fueron detenidos por la seguridad de la CNTE primero dijeron que eran zapatistas (no lo eran, ni lo son, ni lo ser\u00e1n), luego ya dijeron que son partidistas.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0 Pero que esta vez iban a ir a dialogar, para que los del bloqueo dejaran pasar los camiones de los chamulas que hacen comercio en Tuxtla.\u00a0 El presidente municipal (del Verde Ecologista) puso las patrullas y la ambulancia locales.\u00a0 El de San Crist\u00f3bal otro tanto de polic\u00eda. \u00a0Los gobiernos de Tuxtla un buen tanto m\u00e1s.\u00a0 De por s\u00ed hicieron trato con los polic\u00edas, o sea que ten\u00edan su plan pues.\u00a0 Y entonces llegaron como que quieren dialogar y un grupo se cruz\u00f3 y entonces empezaron a romper todo, a robar y a quemar, o sea que por dos lados los agarraron.\u00a0 Luego, como traen armas, porque de por s\u00ed los Verdes andan armados, pues a disparar como bolos y mariguanos<\/strong>. \u00a0Y los polic\u00edas estaban como cuid\u00e1ndolos, o sea que eran su apoyo.\u00a0 Eso que hicieron los verdes ya no estamos de acuerdo.\u00a0 Porque de por s\u00ed ahora los turistas tienen miedo de venir a la cabecera <\/em>(de San Juan Chamula) y eso perjudica a todos porque baja el comercio mucho.\u00a0 No es el bloqueo, son los pinches verdes que est\u00e1n chingando todo.\u00a0 Ahora vamos a ir a protestar a Tuxtla para que quiten a ese presidente que es tan pendejo.\u00a0 Y si no hacen caso, pues ya lo vamos a ver aqu\u00ed c\u00f3mo le hacemos<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n En lo que se refiere a su torpe maniobra de encapuchar paramilitares para presentarlos como zapatistas (adem\u00e1s de que es un refrito usado antes por el Croquetas Albores), es un fracaso rotundo.\u00a0 Cuestionadas sobre si cre\u00edan que eran zapatistas los que hab\u00edan desalojado el bloqueo y hecho desmanes, esto respondieron dos personas del pueblo, sin filiaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica conocida:<\/p>\n Un comerciante ambulante, edad aproximada 60 a\u00f1os responde:<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u201c\u00a1No! Los que hicieron destrozos ayer son gente pagada del gobierno, de por s\u00ed lo sabemos. No son los que apoyan a los maestros.\u00a0 Porque la lucha de los maestros est\u00e1 bien, si no, vamos a terminar pagando la educaci\u00f3n nosotros. Y \u00bfde d\u00f3nde sacan para pagarle a los maestros? Pues del pueblo. Lo que falta es que por lo menos la mayor\u00eda de los estados se decidan a entrarle, porque ya hay cuatro estados que est\u00e1n ya puestos, pero los dem\u00e1s no sabemos para cu\u00e1ndo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Una ind\u00edgena Chamula, comerciante ambulante, contesta:<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u201c\u00a1Naaaa!!!, no son ellos, \u00a1ellos no se comportan as\u00ed! Ellos (los zapatistas) s\u00ed est\u00e1n apoyando a los maestros y los de ayer se quieren hacer pasar como ellos, pero no son, s\u00f3lo se ponen sus pasamonta\u00f1as, pero no se portan igual.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2013 \u00bfy qui\u00e9n era la gente de ayer? <\/em> -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Estamos seguros que ustedes lo ignoran (es eso, o que las tonter\u00edas que hacen es por lo mismo, o sea por tontos), pero resulta que el as\u00ed llamado \u201cconflicto magisterial\u201d surge por la est\u00fapida prepotencia del gris aspirante a polic\u00eda que todav\u00eda despacha en la Secretar\u00eda de Educaci\u00f3n P\u00fablica (SEP, por sus siglas en espa\u00f1ol, oh, de nada, no hay por qu\u00e9 darlas).\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s de movilizaciones y de la respuesta gubernamental a esas movilizaciones con amenazas, despidos, golpes, c\u00e1rcel y muertes, el magisterio en resistencia logr\u00f3 que el gobierno federal se sentara a dialogar.\u00a0 Es, pues, un asunto federal.\u00a0 Corresponde al gobierno federal y al magisterio en resistencia dialogar y llegar o no a acuerdos.<\/p>\n Ustedes simpatizan con la cerraz\u00f3n del gris polic\u00eda. \u00a0Nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas simpatizamos con las demandas del magisterio y lo respetamos.\u00a0 Y no s\u00f3lo a la CNTE, tambi\u00e9n y sobre todo al movimiento popular que se ha levantado en torno a sus demandas.\u00a0 Como zapatistas que somos, hemos hecho p\u00fablica nuestra simpat\u00eda apoy\u00e1ndolos, adem\u00e1s de con la palabra, con el poco alimento que pudimos juntar de nuestras mesas.<\/p>\n \u00bfUstedes creen que a ese movimiento, ya popular, lo van a derrotar con desalojos, as\u00ed sea disfrazados de \u201cindignaci\u00f3n ciudadana\u201d?\u00a0 Pues ya lo vieron que no.\u00a0 Al igual que los hermanos pueblos originarios hicieron en Oaxaca, si los desalojan, se vuelven a poner.\u00a0 As\u00ed una y otra vez.\u00a0 Porque resulta que ac\u00e1 abajo, no hay cansancio.\u00a0 Sus patrones de ustedes calcularon que el movimiento del magisterio en resistencia se iba a desinflar por las vacaciones.\u00a0 Ya vieron que se equivocaron (mmh, ya son m\u00e1s de 3 fallas en la evaluaci\u00f3n, si les aplicaran la \u201creforma educativa\u201d ya estar\u00edan despedidos, y buscando empleo en Iberdrola<\/em><\/strong> al lado del psic\u00f3pata).<\/p>\n El movimiento no hace sino crecer y concertar simpat\u00edas, mientras ustedes s\u00f3lo convocan antipat\u00edas y repudio.<\/p>\n Como lo se\u00f1alamos desde hace casi dos meses, el movimiento ya acuerpa distintos sectores sociales y, claro, sus demandas espec\u00edficas.\u00a0 Por ejemplo, no est\u00e1n ustedes para saberlo, pero ya piden la destituci\u00f3n de Cancino (supuesto presidente municipal de San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, ciudad que est\u00e1, tal vez ustedes lo ignoren, en el estado de Chiapas, M\u00e9xico) y el encarcelamiento de Narciso, jefe paramilitar de la ALMETRACH.\u00a0 Eso y otras cosas que demandan, que se pueden resumir en una sola: buen gobierno.\u00a0 \u00bfQu\u00e9 tarda en que se den cuenta de que ustedes, tod@s, estorban, que no son sino par\u00e1sitos que enferman a la sociedad entera arriba y abajo?<\/p>\n Pero entonces pasa que ustedes se sienten muy seguros y mandan a sus perros a robarles sus pocas pertenencias a esas personas que se est\u00e1n manifestando PAC\u00cdFICAMENTE.\u00a0 Bueno, pues entonces nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas, volveremos a juntar alimentos y los enseres que les quitaron, y se los volveremos a mandar. As\u00ed una y otra vez.<\/p>\n En lugar de hacer declaraciones rid\u00edculas (como la del deslinde del cobarde ataque al plant\u00f3n POPULAR en San Crist\u00f3bal), podr\u00edan contribuir en algo a la distensi\u00f3n necesaria para que ese di\u00e1logo y negociaci\u00f3n siga el rumbo que determinen sus partes (que, les recordamos, es entre el Gobierno Federal y la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci\u00f3n), har\u00edan bien en amarrar a sus perros (de nombres Marco Antonio, Domingo y Narciso).\u00a0 S\u00f3lo s\u00edlbenles agitando un fajo de billetes y ver\u00e1n c\u00f3mo obedecen.<\/p>\n Y un consejo no pedido: no jueguen con lumbre en San Juan Chamula, el descontento y la divisi\u00f3n que, dentro de ese pueblo, est\u00e1n fomentando ustedes con sus tonter\u00edas, puede provocar un conflicto interno cuyo terror y destrucci\u00f3n no se podr\u00e1n tapar ni con bots<\/em> en redes sociales, ni con inserciones pagadas, ni con el poco dinero que Manuel Joffrey<\/em> Velasco Baratheon-Lannister<\/em> haya dejado en la tesorer\u00eda estatal.<\/p>\n Entonces tranquilos.\u00a0 Paciencia y respeto.\u00a0 Esperemos que el gobierno federal dialogue y negocie con seriedad y compromiso.\u00a0 No s\u00f3lo porque las demandas magisteriales son justas, tambi\u00e9n porque tal vez \u00e9sta es de las \u00faltimas veces en que habr\u00e1 con qui\u00e9n dialogar y negociar.\u00a0 Es tal la descomposici\u00f3n que han alentado ustedes que, pronto, no sabr\u00e1n ni a qui\u00e9n calumniar.\u00a0 Adem\u00e1s, claro, que no habr\u00e1 nadie en el otro lado de la mesa.<\/p>\n \u00bfEntendido?<\/p>\n Entonces, ustedes a lo suyo, es decir, al Photoshop, las p\u00e1ginas de sociales, las fiestas de relumbr\u00f3n, los anuncios monumentales, las revistas del coraz\u00f3n, la frivolidad de quien carece de inteligencia.<\/p>\n \u00bfGobernar?\u00a0 \u00a1Vamos, eso ya no se los creen ni los medios de paga!<\/p>\n Mejor h\u00e1ganse a un lado y aprendan, porque \u00e9ste es Chiapas, y el chiapaneco es mucho pueblo para gobierno tan miserable.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n A quien corresponda:<\/p>\n Como zapatistas que somos es nuestra convicci\u00f3n, y obramos en consecuencia, que se deben respetar las decisiones, estrat\u00e9gicas y t\u00e1cticas, del movimiento. Y esto va para todo el espectro pol\u00edtico.\u00a0 No es leg\u00edtimo querer montarse en un movimiento para tratar de llevarlo a un lado fuera de su l\u00f3gica interna.\u00a0 Ni para frenarlo, ni para acelerarlo.\u00a0 O si no, digan claro que lo que quieren es usar ese movimiento para sus fines y prop\u00f3sitos particulares.\u00a0 Si lo dicen, tal vez el movimiento s\u00ed los sigue, tal vez no.\u00a0 Pero es m\u00e1s sano hablarle claro al movimiento sobre lo que se busca ah\u00ed.\u00a0 \u00bfC\u00f3mo quieren dirigir si no respetan a la gente?<\/p>\n Nosotras, nosotros, como zapatistas que somos, no vamos a decirle a nuestras maestras y maestros actuales (l@s de la CNTE y los pueblos, barrios y colonias que apoyan) qu\u00e9 hacer o qu\u00e9 no.\u00a0 Esto les debe quedar bien claro a todas esas nobles personas que luchan: CUALQUIER MOVIMIENTO QUE HAGA EL ZAPATISMO EN LO QUE SE REFIERE AL MOVIMIENTO POPULAR EN CURSO (o los que surgir\u00e1n despu\u00e9s) LO HAR\u00c1 SABER P\u00daBLICAMENTE CON ANTELACI\u00d3N y siempre respetando sus tiempos y modos.\u00a0 Tanto la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educaci\u00f3n, como los movimientos de pueblos originarios, colonias y barrios que apoyan al magisterio, deben entender que, cualquiera que sea su decisi\u00f3n, sea sobre el rumbo, el destino, los pasos y la compa\u00f1\u00eda que decidan, recibir\u00e1 nuestro respeto y saludo.<\/p>\n Lo de \u201cdisfrazarse\u201d de zapatistas y gritar consignas que involucren a otr@s, est\u00e1 bien para que se diviertan un rato y tener una medallita en su curriculum<\/em>, pero no deja de ser falso y deshonesto.\u00a0 Nosotr@s no nos alzamos para repartir comida chatarra robada, sino por democracia, libertad y justicia para tod@s.\u00a0 Si creen que es m\u00e1s revolucionario y que ayuda m\u00e1s al movimiento, romper vidrios y robar comida que ni alimenta, pues que el movimiento valore y decida.\u00a0 Pero aclaren que no son zapatistas.\u00a0 A nosotr@s no nos molesta ni enfada que nos digan que no entendemos el momento coyuntural, o que no tenemos visi\u00f3n de las ventajas electorales, o que somos peque\u00f1o burgueses.\u00a0 S\u00f3lo nos interesa que esa maestra, ese maestro, esa se\u00f1ora, ese se\u00f1or, ese joven o j\u00f3vena<\/em>, sientan que ac\u00e1, en las monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano, hay quienes les quieren, les respetan y les admiran.\u00a0 Aunque en las grandes estrategias electorales o revolucionarias no entren en juego esos sentimientos.<\/p>\n Porque el magisterio en resistencia y, como se hace cada vez m\u00e1s frecuente, el movimiento popular que se acuerpa en torno a \u00e9l, enfrenta condiciones adversas muy dif\u00edciles.\u00a0 No es justo que, en medio de todo esto, tenga que sortear ya no s\u00f3lo barrotes, toletes, escudos, balas y, ahora, paramilitares; tambi\u00e9n \u201cconsejos\u201d, \u201corientaciones\u201d, y \u00f3rdenes \u201ccon-todo-respeto\u201d indic\u00e1ndoles lo que deben o no hacer, avanzar o retroceder, es decir, pensar y decidir.<\/p>\n Nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, no les mandaremos comida chatarra a quienes luchan, sino tostadas de ma\u00edz no transg\u00e9nico, no robadas, sino hechas con el trabajo de miles de hombres y mujeres que saben que ser zapatista no es ocultar el rostro, sino mostrar el coraz\u00f3n.\u00a0 Porque las tostadas zapatistas, recalentadas, alivian el hambre y alientan la esperanza.\u00a0 Y eso no se consigue en las tiendas de conveniencia ni en supermercados.<\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.<\/p>\n M\u00e9xico, 21 de julio del 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fuente: Enlace Zapatista<\/a>[:en]<\/p>\n ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION<\/strong> July 21, 2016<\/p>\n To the current governor and the other overseers of the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas:<\/p>\n Ladies (ha) and Gentlemen (double ha):<\/p>\n We do not send greetings.<\/p>\n Before it occurs to you to try (as the PGR[i]<\/a> is already attempting in Nochixtl\u00e1n) to blame the cowardly aggression against the people\u2019s resistance encampment in San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, Chiapas on ISIS, we would like to provide you, at no charge, the information we have collected on the subject.<\/p>\n The following is the testimony of an indigenous partidista[ii]<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (PRI) brother from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, Mexico:<\/p>\n \u201cAt 9am (on July 20, 2016) the <\/em>Verde party followers were called to the governor\u2019s palace. They went and were told to do again what they had done the other day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n (NOTE: he is referring to the incident in which a group of indigenous people affiliated with the Partido Verde Ecologista<\/em> (Green Ecology Party) put on ski masks and went to create chaos at the [teachers\u2019] blockade between San Crist\u00f3bal and Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez, the capital of Chiapas. When they were detained by the CNTE\u2019s [teachers\u2019 union] security, they first said they were Zapatistas (they weren\u2019t, aren\u2019t, and never will be), and later admitted they were partidistas<\/em>.<\/p>\n But this time they were supposed to dialogue so that the people at the blockade would let the trucks from Chamula that do business in Tuxtla go through. The municipal president (who belongs to the <\/em>Verde Ecologista Party) sent police patrols and local ambulances. The municipal president of San Crist\u00f3bal sent some more police. The governing officials in Tuxtla sent a bunch more. See, they [the people from Chamula] had made a deal with the police\u2014they already had a plan. So they went in there like they were going to dialogue but one group went into the blockade\u2019s encampment and started destroying things, stealing or burning everything they found. Then they started shooting\u2014the <\/em>Verdes are indeed armed\u2014but shooting like a bunch of drunks and druggies. The police were acting like their security detail, their backup. We don\u2019t agree with what the <\/em>Verdes did. Now the tourists are scared to come to the municipal center (of San Juan Chamula) and this screws everybody over because it really hurts our businesses. It\u2019s not the blockade but rather the fucking <\/em>Verdes that are fucking us over. Now we\u2019re going to go protest in Tuxtla and demand they remove that asshole of a president. And if they won\u2019t listen to us, well then we\u2019ll see what we have to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n With regard to that clumsy attempt to dress paramilitaries in ski masks and say they were Zapatistas, it was a total failure (in addition to being a tired old trick that has been tried before by Croquetas<\/em> Albores).[iii]<\/a> Questioned on whether they thought it had been Zapatistas who destroyed the blockade and committed these outrageous acts, here are the comments of two townspeople, without any known political affiliation:<\/p>\n \u201cNo! The people who destroyed all that stuff yesterday are people paid by the government, we all know that. They aren\u2019t the ones that support the teachers. The teachers\u2019 struggle is valid; the other option would be that we\u2019d have to pay for education ourselves. And where do they get money to pay the teachers anyway? From the people. What we need is for the majority of other states to join the struggle, there are four that are already in but we don\u2019t know how long the others will take.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n A Chamula indigenous person, a street vendor:<\/p>\n \u201cNaaahhh, those weren\u2019t Zapatistas. Zapatistas don\u2019t act like that. Plus the Zapatistas support the teachers and those people yesterday were trying to pass themselves off as Zapatistas by putting on ski masks, but they aren\u2019t; they don\u2019t act like Zapatistas at all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo who were those people yesterday?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThose are other people, they get paid for that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you think of the teachers\u2019 struggle?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThat we should all support them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n _*_<\/p>\n We are sure that you don\u2019t know this (either that or the stupidities that you commit are because you are in fact stupid), but the so-called \u201cteachers\u2019 conflict\u201d arose because of the stupid arrogance of that mediocre police wannabe who still works out of the Department of Public Education (SEP by its Spanish acronym. Oh you\u2019re welcome, no thanks needed). After the teachers\u2019 mobilizations and the government\u2019s response in the form of threats, firings, beatings, imprisonment, and death, the teachers in resistance managed to get the federal government to sit down to dialogue. This is in fact a federal issue. It is up to the federal government and the teachers in resistance to dialogue and come to an agreement or not.<\/p>\n You sympathize with the hardheadedness of that mediocre policeman. We Zapatistas sympathize with the teachers\u2019 demands and we respect them. This applies not only to the CNTE, but to the entire people\u2019s movement that has arisen around their demands. As Zapatistas, we have made our sympathy public by supporting them in word and deed, with the small amount of food that we could put together from our own tables.<\/p>\n Do you think this movement, now taken up by so many people, is going to be defeated by evicting a few encampments, even when you disguise it as \u201ccitizen rage?\u201d You\u2019ve already seen that doesn\u2019t work. Just like what happened with our brothers, the originary peoples in Oaxaca\u2014if you destroy their camps they\u2019ll build them back up. Time and time again. The thing is that here below there is no fatigue. Your bosses calculated that the teachers\u2019 resistance movement would deflate over summer vacation. Now you\u2019ve seen that you were wrong (hmmm, that\u2019s more than three failures in one evaluation. If we applied the \u201ceducation reform\u201d in this case you would already have been fired and would be looking for work in the Iberdrola<\/em><\/strong> alongside the psychopath.)[iv]<\/a><\/p>\n The movement has been able to generate and concretize the sympathies of the people, while you all only generate dislike and repudiation.<\/p>\n As we were already saying as of two months ago, the movement already encompasses various social sectors and, of course, their specific demands. For example, you\u2019re not around to hear it but people are demanding Cancino be removed from office (the supposed municipal president of San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, a city in Chiapas, Mexico, in case you didn\u2019t know) and Narciso be put in jail (the paramilitary boss of the ALMETRACH.)[v]<\/a> This and the other things they are demanding can be summarized in one word: good government. How long will it take you to realize that you are just in the way, parasites that infect the entire society, above and below?<\/p>\n The thing is that you all are so sure of yourselves that you send your attack dogs to steal the few belongings of these people who are PEACEFULLY protesting. Well, we Zapatistas will again begin to collect the food and basic necessities you stole from them and supply them once again. And we will do so over and over again.<\/p>\n Instead of making ridiculous declarations (like denying having a role in that cowardly attack on the people\u2019s encampment in San Crist\u00f3bal), you could contribute to the easing of tensions necessary for this dialogue and negotiation to take place as determined by both parties (which are, we might remind you, the Federal Government and the National Coordination of Education Workers). It would be a good idea to tie up your attack dogs (Marco Antonio, Domingo, and Narciso). Just whistle and shake a wad of bills at them and you\u2019ll see how they come running.<\/p>\n And some unsolicited advice: don\u2019t play with fire in Chamula. The unrest and division you are inciting in that town with your stupidities could provoke an internal conflict of such terror and destruction that you wouldn\u2019t be able to quash it with social network bots<\/em> or paid \u201cnews\u201d articles or the little money that Manuel Joffrey<\/em> Velasco Baratheon-Lannister<\/em> has left in the state treasury.<\/p>\n So be calm. Be patient and show some respect. We hope the federal government will dialogue and negotiate with seriousness and commitment, not only because the teachers\u2019 demands are just, but because this might be one of the last times there is someone with whom to dialogue and negotiate. The process of decomposition you have encouraged is so advanced that soon you won\u2019t even know who to slander. Plus there won\u2019t be anyone on the other side of the table. Understood?<\/p>\n So, do your thing. That is, go back to Photoshop, to the celebrity news, the flashy parties, the spectacle, the gossip magazines, to the frivolity of those who lack intelligence. Govern? Oh come now, not even the paid media believe you do that.<\/p>\n It\u2019s better that you step aside and learn, because this is Chiapas, and the Chiapas population is a lot to take for such a lame government.<\/p>\n _*_<\/p>\n To whom it may concern:<\/p>\n As Zapatistas it is our conviction\u2014and we act in accordance\u2014that the movement\u2019s decisions, strategies, and tactics should be respected. This applies to the entire political spectrum. It is not acting in good faith to hitch oneself onto a movement and try to steer it in a direction outside of its internal logic. And that goes for attempts to slow it down or speed it up. If you can\u2019t accept that, then at least say clearly that you want to use this movement for your own ends. If you say so directly, perhaps the movement will follow you, perhaps not. But it is healthier to tell the movement what you are seeking. How do you expect to lead if you don\u2019t respect the people?<\/p>\n We Zapatistas are not going to tell our current teachers (those from the CNTE and also from the towns, barrios<\/em>, and neighborhoods that support them) what to do and what not to do. This should be crystal clear to all noble people in struggle: ANY ACTION TAKEN BY THE ZAPATISTAS IN RELATION TO THE CURRENT POPULAR MOVEMENT (or those that later emerge) WILL BE PUBLICLY MADE KNOWN AHEAD OF TIME, always respecting the movement\u2019s times and ways. The National Coordination of Education Workers as well as the originary peoples\u2019 movements, neighborhoods, and barrios<\/em> that support the teachers should understand that whatever decisions they make\u2014whether about their path, their destiny, their steps, or their company\u2014they will have our respect and our salute.<\/p>\n This thing of dressing up like Zapatistas and yelling slogans that involve others is fine as a bit of entertainment and a line on your resum\u00e9, but it is nevertheless false and dishonest. We did not rise up to hand out stolen junk food, but rather for democracy, freedom, and justice for all. If you think breaking windows and stealing food that isn\u2019t even nourishing is more revolutionary and of more help to the movement, well, let the movement decide. But clarify that you are not Zapatistas. We don\u2019t care when people tell us we don\u2019t understand the \u201cconjuncture,\u201d or that we don\u2019t have a vision of how to use electoral advantage, or that we are petit-bourgeoisie. We only care that that teacher [maestro, maestro<\/em>] that se\u00f1ora<\/em>, that se\u00f1or<\/em>, that young person [joven, j\u00f3vena<\/em>] feel that here, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, there are those who love them, respect them, and admire them. This is what we care about, even though such sentiments do not come into play in grand electoral strategies.<\/p>\n The teachers in resistance and, now more and more often, the people\u2019s movement that gathers around them face very difficult adverse conditions. It isn\u2019t fair that, in the midst of all of that, they have to deal not only with clubs, batons, shields, bullets, and paramilitaries, but also with \u201cadvice,\u201d \u201corientation,\u201d and \u201cwith-all-due-respect\u201d-type orders telling them what to do or what not to do, or whether to advance or retreat\u2014that is, what to think and what to decide.<\/p>\n We Zapatistas don\u2019t send junk food to those who struggle, but rather non-GMO corn tostadas<\/em> which are not stolen but rather homemade through the work of thousands of men and women who know that to be Zapatista does not mean to hide one\u2019s face but rather to show one\u2019s heart. Because reheated Zapatistas tostadas<\/em> relieve hunger and inspire hope. And you can\u2019t buy that in convenience stores or supermarkets.<\/p>\n From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.<\/p>\n Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano<\/p>\n Mexico, July 21, 2016<\/p>\n [i]<\/a> Procuradur\u00eda General de la Rep\u00fablica<\/em>, Mexico\u2019s Attorney General<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a> Refers to someone affiliated with one of the registered political parties.<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> \u201cCroquetas<\/em>,\u201d or doggy biscuit, was the nickname assigned by the EZLN to Roberto Albores Guill\u00e9n, governor of Chiapas from 1998-2000.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Son otros, les pagan.<\/em>
\n\u2013 \u00bfy c\u00f3mo ve lo de los maestros?<\/em>
\n\u2013 Pues es que s\u00ed se necesita apoyarlos\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMEXICO<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nA street vendor, approximately 60 years old:<\/p>\n
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