{"id":19340,"date":"2016-11-17T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=19340"},"modified":"2017-07-04T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T13:50:58","slug":"ezln-una-historia-para-tratar-de-entender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=19340","title":{"rendered":"[:es]EZLN: Una historia para tratar de entender[:en]EZLN: A Story to Try to Understand[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?attachment_id=18369\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18369\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18369 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0304\" width=\"446\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 de noviembre del 2016.<br \/>\nA la Sexta nacional e internacional:<br \/>\nA quienes simpatizan y apoyan la lucha de los pueblos originarios:<br \/>\nA quienes son anticapitalistas:<\/p>\n<p>Compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eros, <em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em>:<br \/>\nHermanas y hermanos:<\/p>\n<p>Este extenso texto lo hicimos conjuntamente con el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, vocero y actual jefe del EZLN, y consultando unos detalles con algunas de las Comandantas y Comandantes de la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista que asisti\u00f3 a la primera etapa del V congreso del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque en \u00e9sta, como en otras ocasiones, me toca a m\u00ed la redacci\u00f3n, es el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s quien lee, agrega o quita, aprueba o rechaza no s\u00f3lo este texto, sino todos los que aparecen a la luz p\u00fablica como aut\u00e9nticos del EZLN.\u00a0 No pocas veces, a lo largo de estos escritos, usar\u00e9 el primer pronombre del singular.\u00a0 La raz\u00f3n de esto se entender\u00e1 m\u00e1s adelante. \u00a0Aunque la destinataria principal de estas l\u00edneas es la Sexta, hemos decidido ampliar su destino a quienes, sin ser ni estar con nosotras, nosotros, tienen id\u00e9nticas inquietudes y parecido empe\u00f1o.\u00a0 Va pues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TAMPOCO NUESTRAS PESADILLAS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hace algunos a\u00f1os, la creatividad y el ingenio de alg\u00fan colectivo de la Sexta produjo una frase que, al paso del tiempo, fue adjudicada al zapatismo.\u00a0 Bien saben que estamos en contra del <em>copyright<\/em>, pero no solemos adjudicarnos ni palabras ni acciones que no son nuestras.\u00a0 Sin embargo, aunque no de nuestra autor\u00eda, la sentencia s\u00ed refleja en parte nuestro sentir como zapatistas que somos.<\/p>\n<p>Enarbolada por la Sexta contra quienes, con chantajes burdos y amenazas, atacaban (como ahora) al escepticismo frente al \u201cpoder\u201d de las urnas electorales institucionales, la frase va m\u00e1s all\u00e1 y define los l\u00edmites y carencias de una forma de lucha, la electoral:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Nuestros sue\u00f1os no caben en sus urnas<\/em>\u201d, se dec\u00eda y se dice.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros, nosotras, como zapatistas que somos la suscribimos entonces\u2026 y ahora.\u00a0 Tiene la virtud de decir mucho con pocas palabras (un arte ahora olvidado).\u00a0 Pero, desde este lado del pasamonta\u00f1a, desde nuestro ser lo que somos, agregamos: \u201ctampoco nuestras pesadillas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a0 Cierto, pudimos haber puesto \u201cy tampoco nuestr@s muert@s\u201d, pero resulta que, en estos tiempos aciagos, el dolor se ha extendido a\u00fan m\u00e1s all\u00e1.\u00a0 Ya no s\u00f3lo es la muerte natural la responsable de alejarnos de quienes nos hacen falta hoy; como, en nuestro caso, del subteniente insurgente de infanter\u00eda Hern\u00e1n-Omar (parte nuestra desde antes del alzamiento, y arrebatado por el c\u00e1ncer de nuestro lado y del de su compa\u00f1era e hijo -a quienes abrazamos especialmente en este primer cumplea\u00f1os sin \u00e9l-).<\/p>\n<p>Ahora son, y en forma creciente, los asesinatos, las desapariciones, las c\u00e1rceles, los secuestros.<\/p>\n<p>Si usted es pobre es vulnerable, si usted es mujer es todav\u00eda m\u00e1s vulnerable.\u00a0 Como si el sistema no se conformara con agredirla por lo que es, y se diera a la macabra tarea de eliminarla.\u00a0 Es decir, ya no s\u00f3lo es objeto de acoso y violencia sexual.\u00a0 \u00bfQu\u00e9 ha pasado en este sistema que vuelve \u201cnatural\u201d y hasta \u201cl\u00f3gico\u201d (\u201cs\u00ed, ellas se lo buscaron\u201d, dice la sociedad entera) ya no s\u00f3lo la violaci\u00f3n, tambi\u00e9n el secuestro, la desaparici\u00f3n y el asesinato de mujeres?\u00a0 S\u00ed, mujeres.\u00a0 La democratizaci\u00f3n del odio de g\u00e9nero iguala edades, razas, colores, estaturas, pesos, credos, ideolog\u00edas, militancias o no; todas las diferencias, menos las de clase, diluidas en una falta mayor: ser mujer.<\/p>\n<p>Y vaya usted agregando potencias seg\u00fan su diferencia: color, estatura, peso, ind\u00edgena, afrodescendiente, ni\u00f1a, ni\u00f1o, ancian@, joven, gay, lesbiana, <em>transg\u00e9nero<\/em>, su modo suyo de usted, cualquiera que sea.\u00a0 S\u00ed, un sistema empe\u00f1ado ya no s\u00f3lo en segregar y despreciar las diferencias, ahora decidido a eliminarlas por completo.\u00a0 Y no s\u00f3lo exterminarlas, ahora haci\u00e9ndolo con toda la crueldad de que es capaz una modernidad. \u00a0Sigue la muerte matando, pero ahora con mayor sadismo.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces, lo que queremos decir es que no s\u00f3lo nos faltan las muertas y los muertos, tambi\u00e9n l@s desaparecid@s (y con la arroba incluimos no s\u00f3lo al masculino y al femenino, tambi\u00e9n a todo lo que rebasa la falsa dicotom\u00eda de g\u00e9nero), l@s secuestr@das, l@s encarcelad@s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfCu\u00e1ntos de los ausentes de Ayotzinapa caben en cu\u00e1ntas urnas?\u00a0 \u00bfEn qu\u00e9 proyecto partidario se encuentran?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfCu\u00e1l logotipo institucional es el que se cruza pensando en quienes nos faltan?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si ni siquiera hay la certeza de que murieron?\u00a0 \u00bfY si no s\u00f3lo es la ausencia la que duele, sino que tambi\u00e9n se agregan la incertidumbre y la angustia <em>(\u00bfcomi\u00f3?, \u00bftiene fr\u00edo?, \u00bfse enferm\u00f3?, \u00bfha dormido lo suficiente?, \u00bfalguien lo consuela?, \u00bfsabe que a\u00fan le busco, que siempre le buscar\u00e9<\/em>?)?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfEn qu\u00e9 aspiraci\u00f3n a un cargo, un puesto, un gobierno, caben las mujeres agredidas, desaparecidas, asesinadas por todo el espectro ideol\u00f3gico?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfA cu\u00e1ntas boletas electorales equivalen los infantes asesinados, por el Partido Acci\u00f3n Nacional, en la guarder\u00eda ABC?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qui\u00e9n votan los exterminados, por el Partido Revolucionario Institucional y sus r\u00e9plicas mal disimuladas, en toda la extensi\u00f3n de las geograf\u00edas y calendarios del M\u00e9xico de abajo?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfEn cu\u00e1l conteo de votos aparecen los perseguidos, por el Partido de la Revoluci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica, acusados del delito de ser j\u00f3venes?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfEn cu\u00e1l partido pol\u00edtico se representan las diferencias sexuales perseguidas en p\u00fablico y en privado, para las que hay como condena el infierno en vida y en muerte?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfCu\u00e1les son los partidos pol\u00edticos institucionales cuyos logos y consignas manchan los muros que deben saltar miles de migrantes, hombres, mujeres y ni\u00f1os para caer en manos de gobernantes-criminales-empresarios de la trata de personas?<\/p>\n<p>Y se podr\u00e1n encontrar ejemplos en cr\u00f3nicas, blogs, reportajes, notas period\u00edsticas, art\u00edculos de opini\u00f3n, hashtags, etc., pero siempre quedar\u00e1 la certeza de que son m\u00e1s los hechos criminales que no alcanzan siquiera una menci\u00f3n p\u00fablica.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfD\u00f3nde est\u00e1 la casilla electoral para que ah\u00ed se exprese la explotaci\u00f3n, la represi\u00f3n, el despojo y el desprecio a los pueblos originarios?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfEn cu\u00e1l urna se depositan los dolores y las rabias de \u2026<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 1342px;\" width=\"311\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>el Yaqui,<\/p>\n<p>el Kumiai,<\/p>\n<p>el Mayo,<\/p>\n<p>el Cucap\u00e1,<\/p>\n<p>el Tohono O\u00b4odham,<\/p>\n<p>el Raramuri,<\/p>\n<p>el Kikap\u00fa,<\/p>\n<p>el Pame,<\/p>\n<p>el Totonaca,<\/p>\n<p>el Popoluca,<\/p>\n<p>el Nahua,<\/p>\n<p>el Maya Peninsular,<\/p>\n<p>el Biniz\u00e1a,<\/p>\n<p>el Mixteco,<\/p>\n<p>el H\u00f1\u00e4h\u00f1\u00fc,<\/p>\n<p>el Totonaca,<\/p>\n<p>el Mazateco,<\/p>\n<p>el Pur\u00e9pecha,<\/p>\n<p>el Mixe,<\/p>\n<p>el Chinanteco,<\/p>\n<p>el Mazahua,<\/p>\n<p>el Me\u00b4phaa,<\/p>\n<p>el T\u00e9enek,<\/p>\n<p>el Rar\u00e1muri,<\/p>\n<p>el Chontal,<\/p>\n<p>el Amuzgo,<\/p>\n<p>el \u00d3pata,<\/p>\n<p>el Solteco,<\/p>\n<p>el Chatino,<\/p>\n<p>el Papabuco,<\/p>\n<p>el Triqui,<\/p>\n<p>el Cora,<\/p>\n<p>el Cuicateco,<\/td>\n<td>el Mame,<\/p>\n<p>el Huave,<\/p>\n<p>el Tepehuano,<\/p>\n<p>el Matlatzinca,<\/p>\n<p>el Chichimeca,<\/p>\n<p>el Guarij\u00edo,<\/p>\n<p>el Chuj,<\/p>\n<p>el Jacalteco,<\/p>\n<p>el Lacand\u00f3n,<\/p>\n<p>el Comca\u00b4ac,<\/p>\n<p>el Wix\u00e1rika,<\/p>\n<p>el Kanjobal,<\/p>\n<p>el Chontal,<\/p>\n<p>el Chocho,<\/p>\n<p>el Tacuate,<\/p>\n<p>el Ocuilteco,<\/p>\n<p>el Kekch\u00ed,<\/p>\n<p>el Ixcateco,<\/p>\n<p>el Motocintleco,<\/p>\n<p>el Quich\u00e9,<\/p>\n<p>el Kakchiquel,<\/p>\n<p>el Paipai,<\/p>\n<p>el P\u00e1pago,<\/p>\n<p>el Cochim\u00ed,<\/p>\n<p>el Ixil,<\/p>\n<p>el Kiliwa,<\/p>\n<p>el Aguacateco,<\/p>\n<p>el Mame,<\/p>\n<p>el Chol,<\/p>\n<p>el Tzotzil,<\/p>\n<p>el Zoque,<\/p>\n<p>el Tojolabal,<\/p>\n<p>el Tzeltal?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00bfD\u00f3nde cabe todo eso?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY cu\u00e1ndo obtuvieron su registro legal la dictadura del terror y su l\u00f3gica perversa invadiendo todo y reajustando los criterios?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice cualquier mujer u hombre asaltado en la calle, en su casa, en el trabajo, en el transporte, <em>no me dispararon-acuchillaron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice la mujer golpeada y violada, <em>no me secuestraron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice el infante sometido a la prostituci\u00f3n, <em>no me quemaron vivo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice el gay, la lesbiana, el transexual, <strong><em>loa<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>otroa<\/em><\/strong> con los huesos rotos y la piel lacerada, <em>no me asesinaron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice el obrero, la empleada, el trabajador sometido a m\u00e1s horas de trabajo y menor salario, <em>no me despidieron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice el l\u00edder social torturado, <em>no me desaparecieron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice el joven estudiante asesinado y tirado en una calle<em>, mi familia ya no tendr\u00e1 que buscarme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuve suerte<\/em>, dice el pueblo originario despojado, <em>no me exterminaron<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Y m\u00e1s:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 encuesta toma nota de la destrucci\u00f3n de la Tierra?\u00a0 \u00bfPor qui\u00e9n votan las aguas contaminadas, las especies animales acorraladas hasta la extinci\u00f3n, la tierra est\u00e9ril, el aire sucio?\u00a0 \u00bfD\u00f3nde se deposita la boleta de un mundo agonizante?<\/p>\n<p>Entonces tienen raz\u00f3n: \u201cnuestros sue\u00f1os no caben en sus urnas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pero tampoco nuestras pesadillas.<\/p>\n<p>Cada quien puede ser responsable de sus sue\u00f1os.\u00a0 Falta pedirle cuentas a quien es el responsable de nuestras pesadillas.\u00a0 Falta lo que falta\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>UN \u201cS\u00cd\u201d, VARIOS \u201cNO\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S\u00ed, la propuesta inicial y original es nuestra, del <strong><em>ezetaelene<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Nosotras, nosotros, se la hicimos saber a las delegadas y delegados al Quinto Congreso del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 Esto sucedi\u00f3 los d\u00edas 9, 10, 11 y 13 de octubre del a\u00f1o 2016, en la sede del CIDECI-Unitierra, en San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico.\u00a0 En esas fechas hubo delegadas y delegados de colectivos, organizaciones, barrios, tribus, naciones y pueblos originarios de las lenguas <em>amuzgo, binni-za\u00e1, chinanteco, chol, coca, n\u00e1yeri, cuicateco, kumiai, lacand\u00f3n, matlazinca, maya, mayo, mazahua, mazateco, mixe, mixteco, nahua, \u00f1ah\u00f1u, \u00f1ath\u00f4, popoluca, pur\u00e9pecha, rar\u00e1muri, tlapaneco, tojolabal, totonaco, triqui, tzeltal, tzotzil, wix\u00e1rika, yaqui, zoque, y chontal<\/em>.\u00a0 El d\u00eda 13 de octubre del 2016, la plenaria de ese Quinto congreso del CNI decidi\u00f3 hacer suya la propuesta y someterla a una consulta entre quienes lo integran.\u00a0 El d\u00eda 14 de octubre del 2016, en horas de la ma\u00f1ana, el CNI y el EZLN hicieron p\u00fablica esa decisi\u00f3n en el documento llamado \u201c<strong>Que retiemble en sus centros la tierra<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, ni el EZLN como organizaci\u00f3n, ni ninguna, ninguno de sus integrantes, va a participar por un \u201ccargo de elecci\u00f3n popular\u201d en el proceso electoral del 2018.<\/p>\n<p>No, el EZLN no se va a convertir en un partido pol\u00edtico.<\/p>\n<p>No, el EZLN no va a presentar a una mujer ind\u00edgena zapatista como candidata a la presidencia de la Rep\u00fablica en el a\u00f1o del 2018.<\/p>\n<p>No, el EZLN no \u201cha dado un giro\u201d de los grados que sean, ni seguir\u00e1 su lucha por la v\u00eda electoral institucional.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Entonces \u00bfel EZLN no va a postular a una ind\u00edgena zapatista para presidenta de la Rep\u00fablica?\u00a0 \u00bfNo van a participar directamente en las elecciones de 2018?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no?\u00a0 \u00bfPor las armas?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 Se equivocan rotundamente quienes piensen que es por eso: las zapatistas, los zapatistas tomamos las armas para servirnos de ellas, no para ser esclavizados por ellas.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Entonces, \u00bfporque el sistema pol\u00edtico electoral institucional es corrupto, inequitativo, fraudulento e ileg\u00edtimo?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 Aunque fuera di\u00e1fano, equitativo, justo y leg\u00edtimo, las zapatistas, los zapatistas no participar\u00edamos para alcanzar y ejercer el Poder desde un puesto, un cargo o un nombramiento institucional.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Pero, en determinadas circunstancias, por cuestiones estrat\u00e9gicas y\/o t\u00e1cticas, \u00bfno participar\u00edan directamente para ejercer un cargo?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 Aunque \u201clas masas\u201d nos lo demanden; aunque la \u201ccoyuntura hist\u00f3rica\u201d necesite de nuestra \u201cparticipaci\u00f3n\u201d; aunque lo exijan \u201cla Patria\u201d, \u201cla Naci\u00f3n\u201d, \u201cel Pueblo\u201d, \u201cel Proletariado\u201d (ok, eso ya est\u00e1 muy <em>demod\u00e9<\/em>), o cualquiera que sea el concepto concreto o abstracto (tras el cual se esconde, o no, la ambici\u00f3n personal, familiar, de grupo o de clase) que se enarbole como pretexto; aunque la coyuntura, la confluencia de los astros, las profec\u00edas, el \u00edndice burs\u00e1til, el manual de materialismo hist\u00f3rico, el Popol Vuh, las encuestas, el esoterismo, \u201cel an\u00e1lisis concreto de la realidad concreta\u201d, el etc\u00e9tera conveniente.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00bfPor qu\u00e9?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Porque el EZLN no lucha para tomar el Poder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfUstedes creen que antes no nos han ofrecido eso y m\u00e1s?\u00a0 \u00bfQue no nos han ofrecido cargos, prebendas, puestos, embajadas, consulados, viajes al extranjero con \u201ctodo incluido\u201d, adem\u00e1s de los presupuestos que vienen adjuntos?\u00a0 \u00bfCreen que no nos han ofrecido convertirnos en un partido pol\u00edtico institucional, o ingresar a alguno de los ya existentes, o a los que se formar\u00e1n, y \u201cgozar de las prerrogativas de ley\u201d (as\u00ed dicen)?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfAceptamos?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n<p>Y no nos ofendemos, entendemos que la ambici\u00f3n, o la falta de imaginaci\u00f3n, o la cortedad de miras, o la ausencia de conocimientos (y, claro, el no saber leer), lleven a m\u00e1s de uno a urgirse a s\u00ed mismo el entrar a un partido pol\u00edtico institucional, luego salirse y pasar a otro, luego salirse y formar otro, luego lo que siga.\u00a0 Entendemos que, a m\u00e1s de uno, una, todav\u00eda le funcione la coartada de \u201ccambiar el sistema desde adentro\u201d.\u00a0 A nosotras, nosotros, no.<\/p>\n<p>Pero, en el caso de la direcci\u00f3n y tropa zapatista, no s\u00f3lo es frente al Poder institucional nuestra negativa, tambi\u00e9n frente a las formas y procesos auton\u00f3micos que las comunidades crean y profundizan d\u00eda con d\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Por ejemplo: ning\u00fan insurgente o <em>insurgenta<\/em>, sea de la comandancia o sea de tropa; ni ninguna comandanta o comandante del CCRI pueden siquiera ser autoridades en comunidad, ni en municipio aut\u00f3nomo, ni en las diferentes instancias organizativas aut\u00f3nomas.\u00a0 No pueden ser consejas ni consejos aut\u00f3nomos, ni juntas de buen gobierno, ni comisiones, ni ninguna de las responsabilidades que se designan por asamblea, creadas o por crear en la construcci\u00f3n de nuestra autonom\u00eda, es decir, de nuestra libertad.<\/p>\n<p>Nuestro trabajo, nuestra tarea como <strong><em>ezetaelene<\/em><\/strong> es servir a nuestras comunidades, acompa\u00f1arlas, apoyarlas, no mandarlas.\u00a0 Apoyarlas, s\u00ed.\u00a0 A veces lo logramos.\u00a0 Y s\u00ed, cierto, a veces estorbamos, pero entonces son los pueblos zapatistas quienes nos dan un zape (o varios, seg\u00fan) para que corrijamos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Todo esto no necesitar\u00eda ser aclarado y reafirmado si se hubiera hecho una lectura atenta del texto titulado \u201c<em>Que retiemble en sus centros la tierra<\/em>\u201d, hecho p\u00fablico la ma\u00f1ana del 14 de octubre del 2016.<\/p>\n<p>No, no participamos en la redacci\u00f3n del pronunciamiento.\u00a0 El texto lo hizo la comisi\u00f3n provisional nombrada por la asamblea del CNI y nos lo dieron a conocer.\u00a0 No le pusimos ni le quitamos ni una coma, ni un punto.\u00a0 Tal y como lo escribieron las delegadas y delegados del CNI, as\u00ed lo hicimos nuestro.<\/p>\n<p>Pero, como est\u00e1 visto, el analfabetismo funcional no reconoce fronteras ideol\u00f3gicas ni signos partidarios, pues de todo el espectro pol\u00edtico han surgido algunas expresiones, valoraciones y opiniones que se debaten entre el racismo y la estupidez.\u00a0 S\u00ed, hemos visto a parte de la intelectualidad de la izquierda institucional, y alguna marginal, coincidir con el palad\u00edn panista \u201cdel feminismo\u201d, \u201cla honradez\u201d, \u201cla honestidad\u201d, \u201cla inclusi\u00f3n\u201d y \u201cla tolerancia\u201d: Diego Fern\u00e1ndez de Cevallos, quien ahora se dedica, junto a la versi\u00f3n esot\u00e9rica de \u201cLa Ley y el Orden\u201d, Antonio Lozano Gracia, a esconder a \u00bfex? gobernadores en fuga. \u00a0\u00bfAlguien olvida a La Calderona aplaudiendo a rabiar cuando el referido Fern\u00e1ndez de Cevallos, siendo candidato presidencial en 1994, llamaba a las mujeres con el \u201ccari\u00f1oso\u201d nombre de \u201cel <em>viejer\u00edo<\/em>\u201d, y a los campesinos les dec\u00eda \u201c<em>los calzonudos<\/em>\u201d?\u00a0 \u00bfEs La Calderona el s\u00edmbolo del empoderamiento de las mujeres de arriba o una simple prestanombres de un psic\u00f3pata insatisfecho?\u00a0 \u00bfTodav\u00eda enga\u00f1a a alguien el que se presente con su nombre de \u201csoltera\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Como les contaremos m\u00e1s adelante, las delegadas y delegados del CNI al V congreso, advert\u00edan que el profundo racismo que hay en la sociedad mexicana era un obst\u00e1culo para llevar adelante la iniciativa.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros les dijimos que no era s\u00f3lo racismo.\u00a0 Hay tambi\u00e9n, en la clase pol\u00edtica mexicana, un profundo desprecio.\u00a0 Para ella, los pueblos originarios ni siquiera son ya un estorbo, un mueble viejo que hay que arrojar al pasado adorn\u00e1ndolo con citas del Popol Vuh, bordados multicolores y mu\u00f1equitos de ocasi\u00f3n.\u00a0 La pol\u00edtica de arriba ve a trav\u00e9s de los ind\u00edgenas, como si fueran las cuentas de vidrio olvidadas por alg\u00fan conquistador, o los restos anacr\u00f3nicos de un pasado atrapado en c\u00f3dices, libros y conferencias \u201cmagistrales\u201d.\u00a0 Para la pol\u00edtica institucional los pueblos originarios no existen, y cuando \u201creaparecen\u201d (as\u00ed dicen), entonces es una sucia maniobra de una mente perversa y todo poderosa.\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s de 524 a\u00f1os s\u00f3lo conciben al ind\u00edgena como incapaz, tonto, ignorante.\u00a0 Si los originarios hacen algo, es porque alguien los manipula; si piensan lo que sea, es porque alguien los mal orienta.\u00a0 Para los pol\u00edticos de arriba de todo el espectro ideol\u00f3gico, siempre habr\u00e1 \u201cun extra\u00f1o enemigo\u201d detr\u00e1s de los pueblos ind\u00edgenas.<\/p>\n<p>El mundo de la pol\u00edtica institucional no es s\u00f3lo incre\u00edblemente cerrado y compacto, no.\u00a0 Tambi\u00e9n es donde reina la \u201cpopularidad\u201d sobre la racionalidad, la bestialidad sobre la inteligencia, y la desverg\u00fcenza sobre un m\u00ednimo de decencia.<\/p>\n<p>De que los medios de paga trampeen la informaci\u00f3n para convertirla en mercanc\u00eda, vaya y pase.\u00a0 De todas formas, de algo tienen que comer los reporteros y es comprensible que, para ellos, venda m\u00e1s la \u201cnota period\u00edstica\u201d de que el EZLN va a participar en las elecciones con una mujer zapatista; en lugar de decir la verdad, a saber, que el CNI es quien va a decidir si participa o no con una delegada propia, y, dado el caso, contar\u00e1 con el apoyo del zapatismo.<\/p>\n<p>Eso se entiende, la falta de informaci\u00f3n es tambi\u00e9n una mercanc\u00eda.\u00a0 Los reporteros y redactores se ganaron el pan de cada d\u00eda, ok (s\u00ed, de nada colegas, no, no hay por qu\u00e9 darlas, no, en serio, paso).<\/p>\n<p>Pero que personas que se dicen cultas y pensantes, que se supone que saben leer y escribir, y tienen un m\u00ednimo de informaci\u00f3n, dan clases en centros de estudios superiores, son em\u00e9ritos, cobran sin falta sus becas y sueldos, y viajan vendiendo \u201cconocimiento\u201d, no lean lo que el documento \u201cQue retiemble en sus centros la tierra\u201d dice claramente, y digan y escriban toda clase de bober\u00edas pues es, \u00bfc\u00f3mo decirlo suavemente?\u2026 bueno, es de sinverg\u00fcenzas y charlatanes.<\/p>\n<p>Como que los 140 caracteres y la casa de cristal plomado de los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n, se convirtieron ya en un muro que niega la realidad, la expulsa y la declara ilegal.\u00a0 Todo lo que no quepa en un <em>tuit<\/em> no existe, se dicen y conforman.\u00a0 Y los medios de paga lo saben: \u201c<em>nadie va a leer con atenci\u00f3n un documento de 6 cuartillas, as\u00ed que hacemos un resumen de lo que sea y los \u201cl\u00edderes de opini\u00f3n\u201d en las redes sociales lo dar\u00e1n por cierto<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 Se presentan as\u00ed una serie de barbaridades que, ya, precipitan una histeria de borrado que tal vez provocar\u00e1 que se colapse el inmenso reino del p\u00e1jaro azul.<\/p>\n<p>Cu\u00e1nto ser\u00e1 el desprecio que le merecen los pueblos originarios a estas personas, que ni siquiera les conceden existencia.\u00a0 Aunque el texto dice claramente \u201c<strong><em>una mujer ind\u00edgena delegada del CNI\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, la magia de la estupidez borra \u201cdel CNI\u201d y lo suplanta por \u201cdel EZLN\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfDespu\u00e9s?\u00a0 Bueno, pues una cascada de posicionamientos, comentarios, opiniones, cr\u00edticas, descalificaciones, <em>likes<\/em> y <em>dislikes<\/em>, pulgares arriba y abajo, y no pocos dedos medios levantados.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando alguien, que s\u00ed se tom\u00f3 la molestia de leer el texto original, t\u00edmidamente se\u00f1ala que la posible candidata ser\u00eda del CNI y no del EZLN y que, ergo, el EZLN no es quien participa en las elecciones, le cae el mundo encima: \u201c<em>nah, todo es una burda manipulaci\u00f3n del cara de trapo<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Luego los que reclamaron, casi inmediatamente, que por qu\u00e9 no se \u201cliberaba\u201d (s\u00ed, as\u00ed escribieron) primero Chiapas.\u00a0 Claro, como en Chiapas est\u00e1n los territorios de Yaquis, Kumiai, Rar\u00e1muris, Nahuas, Zapotecos, Mixtecos, Chinantecos, Totonacos, Popolucas, Mayas Peninsulares, Wixaritaris, por mencionar a algunos.\u00a0 A las primeras burlas, trataron de corregir y al menos, se pusieron a consultar en google qui\u00e9nes rayos eran esos otros ind\u00edgenas \u201cmanipulados por el cara de calcet\u00edn\u201d, y se dieron cuenta de que no sobreviven en Chiapas (lo que, dicho sea de paso, implicar\u00eda que las habilidades manipuladoras del finado rebasan ya las fronteras de \u201clas monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de consultar a compas abogados, le pregunt\u00e9 al Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s y no.\u00a0 No habr\u00e1 demandas ante la CONAPRED (Comisi\u00f3n Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminaci\u00f3n) por violar el art\u00edculo primero de la Constituci\u00f3n Pol\u00edtica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y la Ley Federal para Prevenir y Eliminar la Discriminaci\u00f3n, ni ante los tribunales por divulgar informaci\u00f3n \u201cinexacta o falsa\u201d que causa \u201cun agravio, ya sea pol\u00edtico, econ\u00f3mico, en el honor, vida privada y\/o imagen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No, no sabemos si el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena (quien tiene en sus filas a no poc@s especialistas en jurisprudencia) proceder\u00e1 a las demandas respectivas.<\/p>\n<p>Tampoco sabemos si l@s alumn@s, lector@s, seguidor@s y quienes les pagan sueldos y becas proceder\u00e1n judicialmente en su contra por fraude (fraude: enga\u00f1o, dar apariencia de verdad a lo que es mentira), seg\u00fan el art\u00edculo 386 del C\u00f3digo Penal Federal: \u201cComete el delito de fraude el que enga\u00f1ando a uno o aprovech\u00e1ndose del error en que \u00e9ste se halla se hace il\u00edcitamente de alguna cosa o alcanza un lucro indebido\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, ha habido, hay, y habr\u00e1 dudas y cuestionamientos leg\u00edtimos y racionales (la inmensa mayor\u00eda provenientes de compas de la Sexta, pero no s\u00f3lo).\u00a0 A esas dudas y cuestionamientos es que, en lo posible, trataremos de dar respuesta en este texto.\u00a0 Es seguro que nuestras palabras no ser\u00e1n suficientes.\u00a0 Todas las cr\u00edticas, desde todo el espectro pol\u00edtico e ideol\u00f3gico, hechas con un m\u00ednimo de racionalidad, respeto y con informaci\u00f3n ver\u00eddica, las tomaremos en cuenta hasta donde nos toca.<\/p>\n<p>Y aqu\u00ed es necesario dejarles claro algo a tod@s: la propuesta ya no est\u00e1 en manos del zapatismo.\u00a0 Desde el 13 de octubre del 2016, la propuesta dej\u00f3 de ser s\u00f3lo nuestra y se convirti\u00f3 en conjunta en el Quinto Congreso del CNI.<\/p>\n<p>Y m\u00e1s: desde el d\u00eda en que inici\u00f3 la consulta del CNI, la aceptaci\u00f3n, el rechazo y\/o la modificaci\u00f3n de la propuesta, corresponde \u00fanica y exclusivamente a los colectivos, organizaciones, barrios, tribus, naciones y pueblos originarios organizados en el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 Ya no al EZLN.\u00a0 El resultado de esa consulta y las decisiones conducentes, si las hubiere, se conocer\u00e1n en la segunda etapa del Quinto Congreso, los d\u00edas 29, 30 y 31 de diciembre del 2016 y el primero de enero del 2017, en Chiapas, M\u00e9xico.\u00a0 O antes, si as\u00ed lo decide el CNI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Claro, usted se est\u00e1 preguntando por qu\u00e9 hicimos esa propuesta, si seguimos pensando como hemos dicho desde el inicio de nuestra lucha y ahora lo ratificamos.\u00a0 Bueno, ahora les platicamos.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s me dijo que me tocaba explicarle a la Sexta, le pregunt\u00e9 c\u00f3mo deb\u00eda hacerlo.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Muy sencillo<\/em>\u201d, me respondi\u00f3, \u201c<em>cu\u00e9ntales lo que pas\u00f3<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 As\u00ed que eso har\u00e9\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>UNA PEQUE\u00d1A Y CORTA GENEALOG\u00cdA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No hemos podido precisar la fecha.\u00a0 Ambos coincidimos en que es entre los a\u00f1os 2013-2014.\u00a0 Aunque el finado Supmarcos no estaba difunto todav\u00eda, su muerte ya hab\u00eda sido decidida, el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s ya ten\u00eda la jefatura del EZLN y los primeros avistamientos de la Hidra empezaban a hacerse m\u00e1s claros.<\/p>\n<p>No s\u00e9 all\u00e1, pero ac\u00e1 las ideas no surgen en un momento particular, ni tienen un autor o autora precisa.\u00a0 Nacen y luego se van moldeando, a veces alcanzan a convertirse en una propuesta, luego en una iniciativa.\u00a0 Otras, las m\u00e1s, se quedan en ideas solamente.\u00a0 Para pasar el l\u00edmite entre idea y propuesta se necesitan meses, a\u00f1os, a veces d\u00e9cadas.\u00a0 Y, si eso ocurre, basta que la idea se concrete en la palabra de alguien para que empiece su accidentado caminar.<\/p>\n<p>Tampoco surgi\u00f3 de una reuni\u00f3n exprofeso.\u00a0 Si me apuran, dir\u00e9 que comenz\u00f3 una madrugada de caf\u00e9 y tabaco.\u00a0 Analiz\u00e1bamos lo que los distintos puestos de vig\u00eda detectaban, y los cambios profundos que, aunque iniciados tiempo antes, ya se manifestaban en los pueblos y parajes zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>Yo digo que la idea empieza a andar por el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s.\u00a0 Estoy casi seguro de que a m\u00ed no se me hubiera ocurrido algo tan descabellado y absurdo.<\/p>\n<p>Como quiera que haya sido, fue hasta que el SubMoy la habl\u00f3 que nos pusimos a pensarla en serio, con el famoso m\u00e9todo zapatista de ir <em>vuelteando<\/em> y <em>vueltando,<\/em> hasta llegar a donde queremos, es decir, hasta \u201cel d\u00eda despu\u00e9s\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Empezamos por el principio, es decir, por las dificultades y los obst\u00e1culos.\u00a0 Si unas y otros son suficientemente grandes como para que sean dignas de un desaf\u00edo, entonces se pasa a la siguiente fase: lo que tiene en contra.\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s, y s\u00f3lo despu\u00e9s, se analizan los pros, lo que tiene de bueno.\u00a0 Es decir, no se decide hasta no saber si vale la pena.\u00a0 O sea que primero va el qu\u00e9, luego todo lo que va en contra y a favor del c\u00f3mo, luego d\u00f3nde y cu\u00e1ndo (el calendario y la geograf\u00eda), y, ya al final del principio, qui\u00e9n.<\/p>\n<p>Todo esto no es de una persona, sino que se va abriendo a colectivos cada vez mayores.\u00a0 Ah\u00ed se va \u201ccompletando\u201d a partir de las preguntas, primero de los comit\u00e9s \u201cm\u00e1s viejos\u201d (nos referimos a quienes tienen m\u00e1s antig\u00fcedad y conocen de primera mano nuestra historia), luego con los que se han ido incorporando al trabajo de direcci\u00f3n organizativa, luego quienes est\u00e1n ya como \u201csuplentes\u201d (es decir, los que van relevando a las jefas y jefes), por \u00faltimo, a quienes est\u00e1n en formaci\u00f3n, l@s \u201ccandidat@s\u201d (o sea los que se est\u00e1n preparando para hacer el trabajo).\u00a0 Aqu\u00ed ya estoy hablando de cientos de cabezas, de pensamientos, del ir y venir de la palabra, del o\u00eddo; hablo ya de un coraz\u00f3n colectivo que se va ensanchando, haci\u00e9ndose m\u00e1s y m\u00e1s grande.<\/p>\n<p>El siguiente paso tiene que ver con la respuesta a la pregunta \u201c<em>\u00bfQui\u00e9n lo va a hacer?<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 Si corresponde a las autoridades aut\u00f3nomas, entonces la consulta pasa a ellas; si a las comunidades, entonces se hace una consulta general: a todas y todos.\u00a0 Si no le toca a ninguna de esas instancias, entonces se tiene que preguntar a quien lo va a hacer, a veces en forma indirecta, a veces directamente.\u00a0 Si ese \u201cqui\u00e9n\u201d responde afirmativamente, entonces se consulta con tod@s para definir si s\u00ed se apoya y c\u00f3mo.<\/p>\n<p>En eso anduvimos 2 o 3 a\u00f1os al menos.\u00a0 Es decir, la idea iba y ven\u00eda, pero sin pasar m\u00e1s all\u00e1.\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s, me dijeron que hiciera un sondeo con gente cercana.\u00a0 Lo hice.<\/p>\n<p>Tiempo despu\u00e9s, amaneciendo este a\u00f1o del 2016, el subcomandante insurgente Mois\u00e9s me llam\u00f3 y me dijo: \u201c<em>Hay un trabajo, hay que hablarlo<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El tono me provoc\u00f3 inquietud: la \u00faltima vez que lo escuch\u00e9, termin\u00e9 muerto y renacido en una sola jornada, har\u00e1 ya poco m\u00e1s de dos a\u00f1os.\u00a0 No obstante, acud\u00ed a la reuni\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Debi\u00f3 ser el primero de enero de este a\u00f1o del 2016, en el 22 aniversario del alzamiento.\u00a0 No hab\u00eda nadie m\u00e1s en la champa de la Comandancia General del EZLN que, desde hace ya m\u00e1s de 3 a\u00f1os, ocupa el SubMoy.\u00a0 El caf\u00e9 estaba fr\u00edo, pero hab\u00eda tabaco suficiente.\u00a0 \u00c9l me explic\u00f3 a grandes rasgos, como suele hacer: como si estuviera pensando en voz alta.\u00a0 Expuso los contras, los pros, y esper\u00f3.\u00a0 Entend\u00ed que era mi turno.\u00a0 La idea, como ya expliqu\u00e9, ten\u00eda tiempo madur\u00e1ndose, as\u00ed que me limit\u00e9 a acotar los contras y a\u00f1adir interrogantes a los pros.\u00a0 El \u201cqui\u00e9n\u201d nos rebasaba, y todo lo que no tiene que ver directamente con nosotros, nosotras, es un enigma.\u00a0 Cuando el SubMoy respondi\u00f3 a mi pregunta de \u201c\u00bfqui\u00e9n?\u201d, con un lac\u00f3nico \u201c<em>el cumplea\u00f1ero<\/em>\u201d (es decir, el CNI, que cumplir\u00eda 20 a\u00f1os), lo inseguro se redujo: llev\u00e1bamos 2 d\u00e9cadas de conocernos y el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena era la iniciativa m\u00e1s s\u00f3lida desde que salimos a la luz p\u00fablica: el CNI se hab\u00eda mantenido, con sus altibajos, leal a su esencia, y, aunque lejano su dolor de los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n, representaba al sector m\u00e1s golpeado por la Hidra.\u00a0 Sin embargo, todo eso no hac\u00eda sino acrecentar las dudas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>En realidad<\/em>\u201d, le dije, \u201c<em>no es posible saber qu\u00e9 va a pasar.\u00a0 Eso va a desatar varios nudos y, cierto, lo que de ah\u00ed resulte es, en el mejor de los casos, una inc\u00f3gnita.\u00a0 No sabemos si va a aceptar el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena, ni mucho menos si la Sexta va a entender.\u00a0 Y, bueno, los otros de all\u00e1 arriba no piensan, reaccionan con el h\u00edgado, y van a romper cosas que tal vez sea imposible rearmar.\u00a0 Es muy arriesgado.\u00a0 Ahora mismo, mirando y analizando lo que hay afuera, te digo que es m\u00e1s probable que salga mal a que salga bien<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El SubMoy dej\u00f3 de lado la taza de caf\u00e9 y encendi\u00f3 un cigarrillo.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Por eso, ah\u00ed es donde entras t\u00fa.\u00a0 Sabes bien que nuestro modo es prepararnos primero para que salga mal, recuerda c\u00f3mo fue el alzamiento y todo lo que le ha seguido.\u00a0 Entonces si sale mal, necesitamos\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me precipit\u00e9 y lo interrump\u00ed: \u201c<em>\u00bfun plan alterno?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Se ri\u00f3 de buena gana y dijo: \u201c<em>No, necesitamos a qui\u00e9n echarle la culpa de que sali\u00f3 mal<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A grandes rasgos, el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s fue recordando pedazos de la pel\u00edcula \u201cLa Ley de Herodes\u201d y, cuando pensaba yo que se detendr\u00eda en el discurso final del diputado Vargas (la historia de un mediocre que se hace criminal y luego gobernante, \u00bfles suena?), se refiri\u00f3 a la parte de \u201c<em>Hay una noticia buena y una mala<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(Nota ociosa: \u201cLa Ley de Herodes\u201d es un filme de Luis Estrada, con Mart\u00edn Torres como ayudante de direcci\u00f3n, historia y guion de Jaime Sampietro, Fernando Le\u00f3n, Vicente Le\u00f1ero y el mismo Luis Estrada, fotograf\u00eda de Norman Christianson, m\u00fasica de Santiago Ojeda, maquillaje de Alfredo Mora y Felipe Salazar.\u00a0 Junto con \u201cEl Infierno\u201d -tambi\u00e9n de Luis Estrada, con el gran Joaqu\u00edn Cos\u00edo en el reparto, con el papel del \u201c<em>Cochiloco<\/em>\u201d-, son las \u00fanicas pel\u00edculas que han logrado desplazar a las de Jean Claude Van Damme del \u201ctop\u201d cin\u00e9filo en las comunidades y los campamentos zapatistas).<\/p>\n<p>Luego a\u00f1adi\u00f3: \u201c<em>necesitamos planear primero qu\u00e9 vamos a hacer con la noticia mala<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No se necesitaba mucho para adivinar que la noticia mala era el fracaso de la iniciativa.\u00a0 Y no me refiero a que no tuviera \u00e9xito en s\u00ed, sino a que fuera rechazada por el CNI, quien, de aceptarla, se convertir\u00eda en el protagonista indiscutible de algo que habr\u00eda de asombrar a M\u00e9xico y al mundo.<\/p>\n<p>El Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s fue avanzando en los detalles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mira, lo primero que le va a preocupar al CNI es que los acusen de que traicionan su palabra, de que se van a meter a la mierda, que se van a desviar del camino, que est\u00e1n claudicando.\u00a0 O sea que ya se dejaron convencer por el sistema y que quieren la paga, o sea el Poder, mandar, ser como los otros.\u00a0 Que se rindieron, que se vendieron.\u00a0 Esas cr\u00edticas, pues de por s\u00ed las van a tener, pero estoy seguro de que tienen la cabeza y el pensamiento para responder cabal.\u00a0 Pero el problema es que qui\u00e9n los va a escuchar.\u00a0 Los van a atacar muy fuerte y no les dar\u00e1n la oportunidad siquiera de defenderse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pero ah\u00ed les podemos echar la mano.\u00a0 Si nosotros, o sea t\u00fa, se pone para recibir las cr\u00edticas y los ataques, entonces el CNI podr\u00e1 ver no s\u00f3lo qui\u00e9nes saltan, tambi\u00e9n podr\u00e1 ver puntos a favor y en contra que no se podr\u00edan ver hasta que se hace p\u00fablico.\u00a0 Todo eso les va a ayudar a decidir si s\u00ed o si no<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sigui\u00f3 hablando.\u00a0 Casi que hizo un retrato hablado de lo que ha pasado en las 4 \u00faltimas semanas.\u00a0 Dijo qui\u00e9n iba a decir qu\u00e9, qui\u00e9n se iba a poner en contra y por qu\u00e9, cu\u00e1l iba a ser el pensamiento del Mand\u00f3n, qui\u00e9nes se iban a confundir, qui\u00e9nes se iban a esperanzar, qui\u00e9nes iban a extender sus alas de buitres, y qui\u00e9nes iban a apoyar con todo porque iban a entender cabal lo que se pon\u00eda en juego.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de unas horas de preguntas y respuestas, le dije: \u201c<em>Pero para eso no es necesario que est\u00e9 presente.\u00a0 Bastar\u00e1n algunos comunicados, tal vez alguna entrevista.\u00a0 Los medios son as\u00ed, pensar\u00e1n que nada ha cambiado, que se puede hacer lo mismo.\u00a0 Los de arriba, bueno, son tan predecibles que hasta dan flojera.\u00a0 Saldr\u00e1n con lo del protagonismo, la manipulaci\u00f3n, el divisionismo.\u00a0 Eso s\u00ed, se concentrar\u00e1n en una persona, en eso tienes raz\u00f3n.\u00a0 Pero, te repito, para eso no es necesario que asista.\u00a0 Es m\u00e1s, son tan cuadrados que sin siquiera decir nada, ir\u00e1n en contra de m\u00ed<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>No<\/em>\u201d, dijo el SubMoy, \u201c<em>tienes que presentar la propuesta t\u00fa.\u00a0 No s\u00f3lo porque si te ven ah\u00ed pensar\u00e1n que es tu ma\u00f1a y la contra va a caer redondita, tambi\u00e9n y sobre todo porque los compas del CNI tienen que entender que no es algo que s\u00f3lo tenga que ver con los pueblos ind\u00edgenas.\u00a0 Es m\u00e1s grande, muy grande<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces, despu\u00e9s de encender otro cigarrillo, agreg\u00f3:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Tan grande, o m\u00e1s, que el primero de enero de 1994<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No era nada despreciable la aseveraci\u00f3n, sobre todo viniendo de quien ven\u00eda.\u00a0 El Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s no s\u00f3lo es veterano de guerra, lleg\u00f3 al EZLN desde mucho antes del inicio de la guerra.\u00a0 El primero de enero de 1994 le toc\u00f3 asumir el mando de un regimiento y tomar la plaza de la cabecera municipal de Las Margaritas, al mismo tiempo que cargaba el cuerpo ya sin vida del Subcomandante Insurgente Pedro.\u00a0 A\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, se encarg\u00f3 de las comunidades zapatistas.\u00a0 El 26 de octubre del 2010 fue ascendido al grado de Subcomandante Insurgente, el m\u00e1s alto en la jerarqu\u00eda militar del EZLN.\u00a0 En el a\u00f1o de 2012, \u201cel d\u00eda del fin del mundo\u201d, fue \u00e9l quien organiz\u00f3 y coordin\u00f3 la movilizaci\u00f3n silenciosa de m\u00e1s de 40 mil hombres, mujeres, ni\u00f1os y ancianos zapatistas que, en esa fecha, sorprendieron al mundo.\u00a0 El 14 de febrero del 2013, asumi\u00f3 la vocer\u00eda y jefatura del zapatismo.\u00a0 Desde entonces, toda nuestra palabra p\u00fablica, y cualquier iniciativa nacional o internacional, debe pasar por su aprobaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Y tuvo y tiene raz\u00f3n: el empe\u00f1o es tan, pero tan terrible y maravilloso, que podr\u00eda ser m\u00e1s grande que aquel primero de enero del a\u00f1o 1994 que nos marc\u00f3 indeleblemente.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Aunque el CNI rechace la propuesta, con s\u00f3lo ponerse a pensar, a discutir, a dialogar, ya no ser\u00e1 igual, porque se pasar\u00e1 del \u201cesto nos hacen\u201d a \u201cvamos a hacer algo\u201d, y eso ya lleva a otro pensamiento<\/em>\u201d, sigui\u00f3 diciendo el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Y no estar\u00e1n solos ni solas<\/em>\u201d, dijo casi al final, \u201c<em>adem\u00e1s de nosotras y nosotros, tendr\u00e1n de su lado las artes y las ciencias<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Antes de retirarme, le pregunt\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 El Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s se levant\u00f3 para acompa\u00f1arme a la salida y me respondi\u00f3:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Porque son los \u00fanicos que pueden hacer lo que nosotros no podemos<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Luego pas\u00f3 lo que pas\u00f3.\u00a0 El magisterio democr\u00e1tico refrend\u00f3 su rebeld\u00eda, los pueblos originarios siguieron padeciendo golpes, despojos y desprecios, la Hidra sigui\u00f3 devorando mundos, y el <em>CompArte<\/em> estall\u00f3 en colores, sonidos, formas y movimientos que no fueron sino el preludio de lo que vendr\u00eda despu\u00e9s: un temblor terrible y maravilloso.<\/p>\n<p>Todav\u00eda la v\u00edspera le pregunt\u00e9 al Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s si hab\u00eda alg\u00fan cambio.\u00a0 \u201c<em>De por s\u00ed como dijimos, prep\u00e1rate para salir<\/em>\u201d, me respondi\u00f3 sin a\u00f1adir m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Llegamos el d\u00eda 9 de octubre al CIDECI, cuando la tarde ya colgaba sus ropas manchadas en \u00e1rboles y casas.\u00a0 M\u00e1s tarde, cuando la noche ya era ama y se\u00f1ora del calendario y de la geograf\u00eda, las delegaciones del CNI llegaron espaciadas.\u00a0 No era corto el camino que deb\u00edan recorrer para llegar.<\/p>\n<p>Hab\u00edamos seguido con atenci\u00f3n todos y cada uno de los procesos en el seno del CNI, su palabra p\u00fablica y privada.\u00a0 El CNI es el \u00fanico espacio donde los originarios pueden hacerse escuchar.\u00a0 Sab\u00edamos ya que, a la cuenta de asesinados, desaparecidos, encarcelados, golpeados, se sumar\u00edan ahora los cad\u00e1veres de territorios enteros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Cuando un territorio de un pueblo, naci\u00f3n, tribu o barrio originario es despojado o destruido<\/em>\u201d, dec\u00eda el Tata Grande, Juan Ch\u00e1vez Alonso, un ind\u00edgena pur\u00e9pecha que fue maestro y gu\u00eda del CNI y del EZLN, \u201c<em>entonces mueren con \u00e9l los originarios que tiene en \u00e9l ra\u00edz y casa.\u00a0 Y cuando muere un pueblo originario, un mundo se apaga<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sab\u00edamos ya entonces que en las mesas de trabajo y las relator\u00edas de ese congreso habr\u00eda menos mundos.\u00a0 No eran pocos los que llegar\u00edan a despedirse, aunque no lo supieran todav\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hay que empezar ya<\/em>\u201d, me dijo el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, \u201c<em>hay que compartir la carga<\/em>\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NACE UNA PROPUESTA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El d\u00eda 9 de octubre del 2016, ya noche, pedimos unas primeras reuniones con quienes iban llegando.\u00a0 Nos reunimos en un apartado de las instalaciones del CIDECI-Unitierra.\u00a0 La delegaci\u00f3n zapatista se sent\u00f3 frente a las delegadas y delegados del CNI que estaban llegando.\u00a0\u00a0 Permitan que les hable un poco de la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista: eran 34, 17 mujeres y 17 varones; de ell@s, s\u00f3lo 7 eran de \u201cl@s viej@s\u201d; el resto, 27, eran comandantas y comandantes que eran ni\u00f1as y j\u00f3venes cuando nos alzamos el primero de enero de 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Saludamos con un apret\u00f3n de manos.\u00a0 Tod@s se sentaron, menos el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s y yo.\u00a0 \u00c9l me hizo una se\u00f1al.<\/p>\n<p>Empec\u00e9 a hablar, tratando de recordar todo lo que hab\u00edamos hablado antes, explicando lo que, palabras m\u00e1s, palabras menos, habr\u00eda de repetir al d\u00eda siguiente, 10 de octubre, en la plenaria cerrada, y luego en la plenaria abierta del 13 de octubre:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Pensamos que tenemos que tomar una decisi\u00f3n como CNI y EZLN.\u00a0 Tenemos que decidir si este Quinto Congreso es como otras reuniones, donde decimos nuestros dolores, platicamos de nuestras resistencias, nos quejamos, maldecimos al sistema, declaramos que no nos vamos a rendir, y nos vamos cada quien a su tierra a seguir llevando la cuenta de agresiones, despojos, injusticias, muertes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Nuestro dolor cada vez llega a menos personas.\u00a0 Nuestras muertes no encuentran eco como antes.\u00a0 Y no es que la gente de afuera se haya hecho c\u00ednica o ap\u00e1tica.\u00a0 Es que la guerra que padecemos desde hace tiempo como pueblos originarios, ya les lleg\u00f3, ya est\u00e1 en sus calles, en sus casas, en sus escuelas, en sus lugares de trabajo.\u00a0 Nuestros dolores son ya uno m\u00e1s entre muchos otros.\u00a0 Y, aunque el dolor se extiende y se hace m\u00e1s hondo, estamos m\u00e1s solos que nunca antes.\u00a0 Cada vez vamos a ser menos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Pronto el CNI no podr\u00e1 reunirse porque no se pueda salir de sus territorios, sea por la paga, sea por el mal gobierno, sea por las empresas, sea por la delincuencia, sea porque la muerte natural o la muerte mala lo impidan.\u00a0 En un tiempo m\u00e1s estaremos hablando s\u00f3lo entre nosotros mismos, sabiendo ya lo que vamos a decir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Ustedes, delegadas y delegados al CNI, est\u00e1n aqu\u00ed porque los mandataron, porque sus pueblos, naciones, tribus y barrios buscan apoyo, palabra y o\u00eddo que les alivie y conforte.\u00a0 Vienen a hablar y a escuchar.\u00a0 Ustedes se deben a sus pueblos, a nadie m\u00e1s.\u00a0 Todo est\u00e1 muy mal y, ustedes y nosotros los sabemos, se va a poner peor.\u00a0 Tienen que hacer algo.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Les cont\u00e9 entonces una an\u00e9cdota sucedida al finado Supmarcos cuando la otra campa\u00f1a, hace 10 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>Cont\u00f3 \u00e9l que, en una naci\u00f3n originaria en el noroeste de M\u00e9xico, se reuni\u00f3 con un jefe ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 Como en otras veces, el finado fue criticado porque el dicho jefe hab\u00eda recibido antes a gobiernos institucionales.\u00a0 El finado dijo que a \u00e9l no lo hab\u00edan mandado a juzgar y a condenar o absolver, sino que deb\u00eda escuchar porque un d\u00eda se iba a necesitar.\u00a0 El jefe ind\u00edgena lo recibi\u00f3 por aparte y en privado.<\/p>\n<p>Le dijo el jefe al finado: \u201c<em>S\u00e9 bien que no quer\u00edan que te reunieras conmigo, que te presionaron para que no estuvieras aqu\u00ed.\u00a0 A m\u00ed tambi\u00e9n me presionaron para que no te recibiera.\u00a0 No s\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 est\u00e1s aqu\u00ed.\u00a0 Me imagino que quienes te mandaron as\u00ed te dijeron, que nos vieras y escucharas.\u00a0 No lo s\u00e9.\u00a0 Pero te voy a decir por qu\u00e9 te recib\u00ed.\u00a0 Yo he recibido a los gobiernos.\u00a0 Han venido de todos los colores y de todos los tama\u00f1os.\u00a0 Llegan, se toman su foto, dicen unas palabras, se van, no vuelven.\u00a0 Yo los he recibido porque mis anteriores me dijeron que mi deber era ver que mi gente, mi pueblo, no muriera, que sobreviviera.\u00a0 Por eso los recib\u00ed a \u00e9sos, por eso te recibo a ti.\u00a0 No creo que me traigas ni consejos ni ense\u00f1anzas, aunque es bueno que no busques foto y escuches en lugar de hablar.\u00a0 A \u00e9sos los recib\u00ed porque pienso que as\u00ed mi pueblo sobrevive un tiempo m\u00e1s y no muere.\u00a0 Por eso te recibo a ti, porque creo que algo se ver\u00e1 de lo que somos y esa mirada, aunque s\u00f3lo por poco tiempo, ayudar\u00e1 a mi pueblo a sobrevivir<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 El finado anot\u00f3 todo en su cuaderno, por eso ten\u00eda cabal las palabras del jefe ind\u00edgena.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de esas palabras, el jefe qued\u00f3 callado.\u00a0 El finado pidi\u00f3 entonces permiso para hablarle.\u00a0 El jefe le concedi\u00f3 la palabra.\u00a0 El finado dijo, palabras m\u00e1s, palabras menos (no las anot\u00f3 en el cuaderno porque no pod\u00eda hablar y apuntar al mismo tiempo): \u201c<em>Gracias por recibirme.\u00a0 S\u00f3lo tengo una pregunta: \u00bfno le preocupa haberse equivocado, es decir, que el recibir a los gobiernos o a m\u00ed, no le haya ayudado a su pueblo a no morir y sea juzgado como un mal jefe?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El jefe ind\u00edgena esper\u00f3 a ver si era toda la pregunta, luego respondi\u00f3: \u201c<em>A m\u00ed s\u00f3lo me puede juzgar mi propio pueblo.\u00a0 Si mi pueblo me condena por eso que hice y hago, quiere decir que no me equivoqu\u00e9.\u00a0 Porque para que me juzgue y condene, mi pueblo tiene que haber sobrevivido.\u00a0 As\u00ed que habr\u00e9 cumplido mi deber y dar\u00e9 buenas cuentas a los muertos, aunque los vivos me condenen<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Aqu\u00ed termina la an\u00e9cdota del difunto.\u00a0 Segu\u00ed hablando:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Por eso ustedes tienen que tener claro a qui\u00e9n le deben.\u00a0 Al EZLN no le deben nada.\u00a0 Tampoco a la Sexta.\u00a0 A nadie que no sean sus propios pueblos, a quienes representan, le deben nada.\u00a0 Tienen que hacer algo, porque pronto para muchos no habr\u00e1 nada y ser\u00e1 demasiado tarde.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que ten\u00edan que hacer algo, que su deber era para con sus barrios, tribus, naciones y pueblos originarios, para con sus colectivos y organizaciones.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que hicieran algo, lo que fuera; que, si lo ve\u00edan necesario, se entraran en Morena (est\u00e1 en las grabaciones y lo pueden certificar las delegadas y delegados asistentes; fue la \u00fanica vez que, por nuestra parte, se mencion\u00f3 a quienes despu\u00e9s, y antes que nadie, deslegitimaron y condenaron la propuesta, haciendo gala de estupidez, racismo, intolerancia, desprecio y franca esquizofrenia.\u00a0 S\u00ed, la primera opci\u00f3n que el zapatismo le present\u00f3 al CNI fue apoyar al Partido Movimiento de Regeneraci\u00f3n Nacional).\u00a0 O que entraran a cualquier otro partido pol\u00edtico.\u00a0 O que hicieran su propio partido pol\u00edtico.<\/p>\n<p>Que en todo eso no los \u00edbamos a seguir, pero \u00edbamos a comprender por qu\u00e9 lo hac\u00edan y no tendr\u00edan, de parte nuestra, ni juicios ni condenas.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que si les estorbaba la Sexta, que la dejaran.<\/p>\n<p>Que si les estorbaba el EZLN que cortaran la relaci\u00f3n con nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>No necesito decirles que, a cada una de esas opciones, las delegadas y delegados hac\u00edan gestos como de estarse espantando moscas impertinentes.\u00a0 Todas y todos se manten\u00edan callados.\u00a0 Segu\u00ed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hagan algo, eso u otra cosa.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aqu\u00ed voltee a ver al Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s.\u00a0 \u00c9l hizo un gesto de que continuara:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Nosotros les venimos a proponer otra cosa: estamos golpeados, con muertes, desapariciones, secuestros, encarcelamientos, despojos, injusticias, territorios enteros destruidos y otros en v\u00edas de extinci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Estamos acorralados, sin esperanzas, sin fuerzas, sin apoyos, d\u00e9biles, agonizantes.\u00a0 Para los pol\u00edticos y los medios, aunque sean de izquierda o progresistas, no existimos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 As\u00ed que nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas, pensamos que es el momento de pasar a la ofensiva.\u00a0 Lleg\u00f3 la hora del contra ataque.\u00a0 Y hay que empezar golpeando uno de los corazones del sistema: la pol\u00edtica de arriba.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Por eso les proponemos que el CNI forme una Junta de Gobierno Ind\u00edgena (as\u00ed se llamaba en nuestra propuesta original; ya en asamblea, y a propuesta de una delegaci\u00f3n ind\u00edgena magonista de Oaxaca, pas\u00f3 a llamarse \u201cConcejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno\u201d), un colectivo, formado por delegados del CNI, que aspire a gobernar el pa\u00eds.\u00a0 Y que se presente a las elecciones presidenciales del 2018 con una mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI como candidata independiente.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, ante esa propuesta las delegadas y delegados no hicieron como si se espantaran un insecto molesto, sino que francamente se enojaron.\u00a0 A algunos les molest\u00f3 mucho (bueno, m\u00e1s bien se encabronaron).\u00a0 Otros m\u00e1s dijeron que como chiste era muy malo, que no les daba risa sino dolor de est\u00f3mago.\u00a0 Pero la mayor\u00eda guard\u00f3 silencio.<\/p>\n<p>Debo decirles que, en el modo de los originarios, el silencio no significa acuerdo, convencimiento o falta de argumentos.\u00a0 Significa que escuchan y, ojo, piensan y analizan antes de hablar (s\u00ed, a m\u00e1s de un@ le har\u00eda mucho bien seguir ese m\u00e9todo).<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 nos escucharon?\u00a0 Porque nos consideramos hermanos y hermanas.\u00a0 El respeto que nos tenemos mutuamente hizo que nos escucharan hasta el final.<\/p>\n<p>Y entendieron que no era una ocurrencia, sino una idea que podr\u00eda llegar a ser una propuesta.\u00a0 Y como tal empezaron a pensarla.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s de un alargado silencio, alguien inici\u00f3 diciendo algo como: \u201c<em>estoy pensando que as\u00ed podr\u00edamos reconstruir el CNI, que la iniciativa le dar\u00eda otra vez visibilidad a los ind\u00edgenas.\u00a0 Porque, hay que decirlo claro compas, no existimos para la clase pol\u00edtica.\u00a0 Ya ni como objeto de limosna nos mencionan.\u00a0 Y creo que con esta propuesta no s\u00f3lo podr\u00edamos encontrarnos con otros ind\u00edgenas, tambi\u00e9n nos encontrar\u00edamos con mucha gente de abajo que est\u00e1 jodida.\u00a0 Hay mucho descontento en todo el pa\u00eds, y no hay alternativa para los ind\u00edgenas, y tampoco para los que no son ind\u00edgenas.\u00a0 Claro, la propuesta tiene varias cosas en contra que tenemos que analizar con seriedad<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Alguien m\u00e1s tom\u00f3 la palabra y mencion\u00f3 dos contras: el racismo que hay en la sociedad mexicana; y que los iban a criticar y atacar por buscar el Poder.\u00a0 Ambos puntos en contra se repitieron en las valoraciones posteriores.\u00a0 No, ni en esa reuni\u00f3n, ni en las subsiguientes, nadie mencion\u00f3 como punto en contra que se acusara de querer \u201cdividir a la izquierda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed fue como la idea empez\u00f3 a dejar de ser s\u00f3lo nuestra.\u00a0 As\u00ed es como el CNI empez\u00f3 a pensarla y a hacerla suya.\u00a0 La palabra fue ensanch\u00e1ndose a m\u00e1s y m\u00e1s.\u00a0 Pronto, todas las delegaciones estaban pensando, opinando, valorando.\u00a0 La absurda idea empezaba a convertirse en una propuesta colectiva.<\/p>\n<p>En la asamblea plenaria cerrada del d\u00eda 10 de octubre y en las mesas de trabajo del d\u00eda 11, la palabra iba y ven\u00eda.\u00a0 Sin dejar de cumplir con el mandato que llevaban las delegaciones, el tema central dej\u00f3 de ser la denuncia.\u00a0 La posibilidad de pasar a la ofensiva se convirti\u00f3 en lo m\u00e1s importante.\u00a0 En las mesas de trabajo (fueron 4), a las que pod\u00edan asistir como observadores, algun@s compas de la Sexta, cuando se tocaba el tema, se mov\u00edan nerviosos en sus asientos, se miraban un@s a otr@s (no pod\u00edan hablar, s\u00f3lo escuchar), volteaban a ver a la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista (nos hab\u00edamos repartido para cubrir las 4 mesas y tener as\u00ed cabal el apunte de todas las denuncias y experiencias de las delegaciones del CNI).\u00a0 M\u00e1s de un@ se sali\u00f3 con molestia manifiesta.<\/p>\n<p>Un movimiento febril recorr\u00eda reuniones grandes y peque\u00f1as.\u00a0 Quienes pod\u00edan, llamaron por tel\u00e9fono a sus pueblos cont\u00e1ndoles lo que se discut\u00eda, pidiendo opiniones, pareceres.\u00a0 Los pros y los contras eran analizados y discutidos.\u00a0 Se hac\u00edan listas de unos y otros.\u00a0 Se pesaban.\u00a0 Se buscaba la respuesta a una pregunta: \u201c<em>\u00bfValdr\u00eda la pena?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>La idea hab\u00eda ya dejado de ser del EZLN.\u00a0 Era ya del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 En el coraz\u00f3n colectivo de los pueblos originarios crec\u00eda el eco de las palabras iniciales del Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, a nombre de todas y todos los zapatistas:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ahora es la hora del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 Que a su paso retiemble en su centro la tierra.\u00a0 Que en su sue\u00f1o se derroten el cinismo y la apat\u00eda.\u00a0 Que en su palabra se levante la de quien no tiene voz.\u00a0 Que en su mirada se ilumine la oscuridad.\u00a0 Que en su o\u00eddo encuentre casa el dolor de quien se piensa solo.\u00a0 Que en su coraz\u00f3n encuentre consuelo y esperanza la desesperaci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Que con su desaf\u00edo se asombre de nuevo el mundo<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pero faltaba lo que faltaba.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s de valorar los pros y los contras, para el CNI ten\u00eda que quedar claro cu\u00e1l era el papel del zapatismo en esa iniciativa.<\/p>\n<p>Con la antelaci\u00f3n debida, el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s y el Comit\u00e9 Clandestino Revolucionario Ind\u00edgena, hab\u00edan organizado una peque\u00f1a fiesta para homenajear al cumplea\u00f1ero, el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena, que ese d\u00eda 12 de octubre del 2016 llegaba a los 20 a\u00f1os de ser casa, o\u00eddo, palabra y eco de los pueblos originarios de M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfEl lugar?\u00a0 El caracol de Oventik, en las monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano.<\/p>\n<p>Se recibi\u00f3 a las delegaciones del CNI conforme a los protocolos zapatistas para invitados especiales.\u00a0 Claro, hubo un esfuerzo extra por honrar a esas visitas.\u00a0 No todos los d\u00edas se pod\u00eda recibir a nuestros familiares m\u00e1s cercanos, a quienes tienen en com\u00fan con los pueblos zapatistas la sangre, el dolor, la rabia, la resistencia y la rebeld\u00eda.\u00a0 Es decir, la historia.<\/p>\n<p>Al principio no entend\u00ed por qu\u00e9 el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s hab\u00eda dispuesto el acomodo de las delegaciones de esa forma: en el templete principal acomod\u00f3 a las delegaciones del CNI, y enfrente puso una peque\u00f1a tarima donde se coloc\u00f3 la direcci\u00f3n zapatista, encabezada por \u00e9l mismo.<\/p>\n<p>Yo pude ver todo porque me mov\u00eda de un lado a otro, tratando de convencer a las compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros del CNI que pod\u00edan subirse a las bancas para ver mejor.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Es que traigo lodo en los zapatos y voy a manchar la banca<\/em>\u201d, argument\u00f3 una delegada.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Compa\u00f1era<\/em>\u201d, le dije, \u201c<em>aqu\u00ed lo que sobra es lodo, as\u00ed que no tengas pena<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El CNI nombr\u00f3 a una mujer ind\u00edgena delegada para tomar la palabra en la ceremonia.\u00a0 Habl\u00f3 el Comandante David para dar la bienvenida.\u00a0 Luego habl\u00f3 la compa\u00f1era del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 Ella habl\u00f3 como se habla entre familiares: con el coraz\u00f3n en la mano.\u00a0 No voy a repetir sus palabras, ni las que luego el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s dijo a nombre de todas y todos nosotras.\u00a0 Ya se iba a retirar la compa\u00f1era del CNI cuando el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s le pidi\u00f3 que se quedara.<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed qued\u00f3 la compa\u00f1era durante todo el acto, rodeada de la jefatura ind\u00edgena zapatista, de frente a las delegaciones del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces entend\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Yo miraba desde un costado, pero con la perspectiva visual de las delegaciones del CNI, quienes pudieron ver c\u00f3mo una mujer, ind\u00edgena como ellas y ellos, del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena como ellos y ellas, era acompa\u00f1ada por la m\u00e1xima autoridad del EZLN, cubri\u00e9ndola, protegi\u00e9ndola, acompa\u00f1\u00e1ndola, apoy\u00e1ndola, marcando lo que nos hac\u00eda diferentes, pero compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros.<\/p>\n<p>Fue as\u00ed como, con ese s\u00edmbolo, el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s respondi\u00f3 a la pregunta que rondaba a las delegaciones del CNI desde el primer d\u00eda: \u201c<em>\u00bfQu\u00e9 lugar iba a tener el EZLN en la iniciativa si se aprobaba?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hubo despu\u00e9s bailables, obras de teatro, canciones y poes\u00edas.<\/p>\n<p>Al final del acto, una compa\u00f1\u00eda miliciana zapatista present\u00f3 un comunicado completo sin decir una palabra.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfDespu\u00e9s?\u00a0 La comida: res y guajolote, a elegir, caf\u00e9 y pozol.\u00a0 Luego se retiraron.<\/p>\n<p>Al otro d\u00eda, el 13 de octubre, fue la asamblea general resolutiva\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00bfPOR QU\u00c9?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El 13 de octubre inici\u00f3 con buenos augurios: una de las mesas de trabajo no hab\u00eda terminado y la apertura de la asamblea plenaria se fue retrasando.\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s se inici\u00f3 con la presentaci\u00f3n de las relator\u00edas.\u00a0 S\u00ed, una de las mesas no hab\u00eda terminado de transcribir.\u00a0 Sigui\u00f3 el retraso, como debe ser en cualquier decisi\u00f3n importante.\u00a0 Oh, lo s\u00e9.\u00a0 De balde lo decimos, si nosotros somos la actualizaci\u00f3n constante del software \u201cla rebeli\u00f3n de los colgados\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Por indicaciones del Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, en las tres asambleas plenarias (la cerrada, la de inauguraci\u00f3n y la de cierre) la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista se sent\u00f3 hasta atr\u00e1s, al fondo del auditorio del CIDECI-Unitierra.\u00a0 As\u00ed quedaba claro de qu\u00e9 iba el asunto: era la hora del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando al fin se lleg\u00f3 al tema de \u201cPropuestas para el fortalecimiento del CNI\u201d, el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s pidi\u00f3 la palabra para la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista.\u00a0 Le fue concedida y el SubMoy pas\u00f3 al frente.\u00a0 Inici\u00f3 sus palabras m\u00e1s o menos as\u00ed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Me contaron una pel\u00edcula, creo que se llama \u201cLa Ley de Herodes\u201d<\/em> (risas generales, menos mi mueca particular porque ya sab\u00eda lo que segu\u00eda).\u00a0 <em>Entonces en esa pel\u00edcula que me contaron hay una parte donde el Vargas dice: traigo una noticia buena y una mala<\/em> (m\u00e1s risas generales, m\u00e1s muecas particulares).\u00a0 <em>Entonces tenemos que ver c\u00f3mo vamos a hacer con la noticia mala.\u00a0 O sea, a qui\u00e9n le vamos a echar la culpa de que sali\u00f3 mal.\u00a0 Entonces le voy a pedir al SupGaleano que pase a explicar la propuesta<\/em>\u201d (m\u00e1s risas generales, ya ninguna mueca particular).<\/p>\n<p>Pas\u00e9 al frente.\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s de aclarar de que hac\u00eda con mucho gusto mi trabajo de \u201c<em>punching bag<\/em>\u201d, o de \u201cplan alternativo\u201d, y que para m\u00ed era un poderoso afrodis\u00edaco el recibir cr\u00edticas e insultos (bueno, lo dije en forma m\u00e1s prosaica, pero \u00e9se era el tenor), dije lo que ten\u00eda encomendado decir.\u00a0 Lo har\u00e9 de forma sint\u00e9tica, puesto que ya son varias cuartillas y, si usted ya ha llegado hasta \u00e9sta, merece un poco de consideraci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Adem\u00e1s, ahora sabr\u00e1 usted el por qu\u00e9 el <strong><em>ezetaelene<\/em><\/strong> hizo esa propuesta y por qu\u00e9 al CNI.<\/p>\n<p>Primero insistimos en que nuestra propuesta original era la de una mujer ind\u00edgena, delegada del CNI, de sangre ind\u00edgena, que hablara su lengua y conociera su cultura.\u00a0 Y abrimos con esto porque lo referente a \u201cuna mujer\u201d se hab\u00eda ido diluyendo en los conversatorios y mesas de trabajo.\u00a0 Primero pasaron a decir \u201cla candidata o candidato\u201d, luego \u201cel candidato o candidata\u201d, luego s\u00f3lo \u201cel candidato\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Luego les recordamos que no se pod\u00eda tomar una decisi\u00f3n ah\u00ed, en ese Quinto Congreso, porque era un compromiso desde su nacimiento, que el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena consultaba con quienes lo forman las propuestas que se presentaban en las reuniones.\u00a0 Los siete principios obligaban al CNI a consultarse a s\u00ed mismo, seg\u00fan el modo de cada quien.<\/p>\n<p>Despu\u00e9s les dijimos lo que creemos respecto a la iniciativa:<\/p>\n<p>Que el Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno deber\u00eda estar formado por delegados y delegadas de todos los colectivos, organizaciones, barrios, tribus, naciones y pueblos originarios organizados en el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.<\/p>\n<p>Que no van a ganar porque el sistema electoral en M\u00e9xico est\u00e1 hecho para beneficiar a los partidos pol\u00edticos, no para la ciudadan\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Que, si ganan, no se los van a reconocer, porque el fraude no es una anomal\u00eda del sistema electoral mexicano, es su columna vertebral, su esencia.<\/p>\n<p>Que, si ganan y se los reconocen, no van a poder hacer nada trascendental, porque all\u00e1 arriba no hay nada que hacer.\u00a0 Las cuestiones fundamentales de la maltrecha naci\u00f3n mexicana no se deciden ni en el poder ejecutivo, ni en las c\u00e1maras legislativas, ni en el poder judicial.\u00a0 El Mand\u00f3n no tiene cargo visible y despacha en las catacumbas del Poder financiero internacional.<\/p>\n<p>Y que, no a pesar de todo lo anterior, sino precisamente por todo lo anterior, pod\u00edan y deb\u00edan hacerlo.<\/p>\n<p>Porque su acci\u00f3n iba a significar no s\u00f3lo un testimonio de inconformidad, sino un desaf\u00edo que seguramente encontrar\u00eda eco en los muchos <em>abajos<\/em> que hay en M\u00e9xico y en el mundo; que podr\u00eda generarse un proceso de reorganizaci\u00f3n combativa no s\u00f3lo de los pueblos originarios, tambi\u00e9n de obreros, campesinos, empleados, colonos, maestros, estudiantes, en fin, de toda esa gente cuyo silencio e inmovilidad no es sin\u00f3nimo de apat\u00eda, sino de ausencia de convocatoria.<\/p>\n<p>En respuesta a lo que se hab\u00eda dicho de que era imposible, que hab\u00eda mucho en contra, que no se iba a ganar, les respondimos que, si nos hubi\u00e9ramos encontrado el 31 de diciembre del 1993 y les hubi\u00e9ramos dicho que, en unas horas, nos \u00edbamos a alzar en armas, declarar la guerra al mal gobierno y atacar los cuarteles de la polic\u00eda y el ej\u00e9rcito, tambi\u00e9n nos hubieran dicho que era imposible, que hab\u00eda mucho en contra, que no se iba a ganar.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que no importaba si ganaban o no la presidencia de la Rep\u00fablica, que lo que iba a importar era el desaf\u00edo, la irreverencia, la insumisi\u00f3n, el quiebre total de la imagen del ind\u00edgena objeto de la limosna y la l\u00e1stima (imagen tan arraigada en la derecha y, qui\u00e9n lo dijera, tambi\u00e9n en la izquierda institucional del \u201ccambio verdadero\u201d y sus intelectuales org\u00e1nicos adictos al opio de las redes sociales), que su atrevimiento cimbrar\u00eda al sistema pol\u00edtico entero y que tendr\u00eda ecos de esperanza no en uno, sino en muchos de los <em>M\u00e9xicos<\/em> de abajo\u2026 y del mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que la iniciativa estaba a tiempo para que, con toda libertad y responsabilidad, decidieran hasta d\u00f3nde la llevaban, qu\u00e9 tan lejos llegaban.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que podr\u00edan decidir en todo momento qu\u00e9, porque era su paso, y que el destino que se marcaban romper\u00eda todos los esquemas, sobre todo los de quienes se creen y piensan vanguardia del cambio y la revoluci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que, si estaban dispuestos a desafiar a una sociedad racista, deber\u00edan ir m\u00e1s all\u00e1 y desafiar tambi\u00e9n a un sistema patriarcal y machista (no es lo mismo, se lo pueden aclarar quienes militan en la lucha feminista).<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que las comandantas zapatistas dec\u00edan que ellas pod\u00edan ver de apoyar a las compa\u00f1eras que quedaran en el Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno, y a la compa\u00f1era que quedara como vocera y candidata, cuidando a sus hijos en comunidad.\u00a0 Que los cuidar\u00edamos bien, como si fueran propios.\u00a0 Ir\u00edan a la escuela aut\u00f3noma para que no se retrasen en sus estudios, ver\u00edamos de que doctoras y doctores solidarios estuvieran pendientes de su salud.\u00a0 Y que, si ten\u00edan animalitos, pues tambi\u00e9n los \u00edbamos a cuidar.\u00a0 Que las compa\u00f1eras del CNI fueran sin pena a ese trabajo si as\u00ed lo mandaba el acuerdo del CNI.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que no se preocuparan si no saben hablar bien espa\u00f1ol.\u00a0 Que el Pe\u00f1a Nieto tampoco sabe y ah\u00ed est\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que pod\u00edamos reorientar nuestra econom\u00eda de resistencia y hacer un llamado a personas, colectivos y organizaciones de M\u00e9xico y el mundo, para conseguir la paga para moverse a donde fuera necesario.\u00a0 As\u00ed podr\u00edan tener la libertad de renunciar a la paga econ\u00f3mica institucional que el sistema da a las candidaturas independientes.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que no s\u00f3lo pens\u00e1bamos que pod\u00edan gobernar nuestro pa\u00eds que se llama M\u00e9xico, tambi\u00e9n pod\u00edan gobernar el mundo entero.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que aprovecharan para hablar y escuchar a otros pueblos originarios, y a otros y otras que no son ind\u00edgenas, pero que igual est\u00e1n sufriendo sin esperanza ni alternativa.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que hab\u00eda cosas que nosotras, nosotros como zapatistas pod\u00edamos hacer y el CNI no.\u00a0 Y que el CNI pod\u00eda hacer cosas que nosotros, nosotras como zapatistas no pod\u00edamos hacer.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que ellas, ellos, el colectivo que se nombra Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena, pod\u00eda hacer lo que nadie m\u00e1s (incluyendo al zapatismo) pod\u00eda hacer: unir.\u00a0 Porque un movimiento leg\u00edtimo, como el de los pueblos originarios, puede y debe ser un punto de uni\u00f3n entre los diferentes pero iguales en empe\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Pero no \u201cunir\u201d bajo una sigla, una jerarqu\u00eda, una lista de siglas reales o suplantadas.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Unir como punto de confluencia, ser el asidero donde las diferencias y rivalidades encuentran punto com\u00fan, donde coinciden.\u00a0 La tierra, pues.\u00a0 Y para ello qui\u00e9n mejor que quienes son el color que son de la tierra.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que, en torno a ese Concejo y a esa mujer ind\u00edgena, pod\u00eda generarse un gran movimiento que cimbrara el sistema pol\u00edtico entero.<\/p>\n<p>Un movimiento donde confluyeran todos los <em>abajos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Un movimiento que har\u00eda retemblar en sus centros la tierra.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00ed, ya en plural, porque son muchos los mundos que en la tierra yacen y aguardan una buena sacudida para nacerse.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que tal vez, entonces, no importar\u00e1 si se juntan o no las firmas, si sale o no la paga para moverse, si se obtiene o no el registro de la candidata, si se presentan o no las otras candidaturas a debatir, si se participa o no en las elecciones, si se gana o no, si se reconoce o no el triunfo, si se puede o no algo hacer all\u00e1 arriba.<\/p>\n<p>Y no iba a importar porque ser\u00edan otros los problemas, otras las preguntas, otras las respuestas.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que no les \u00edbamos a heredar nuestras fobias y filias, que respetar\u00edamos sus decisiones, sus pasos, sus caminos.<\/p>\n<p>Les dijimos que, como zapatistas, ser\u00edamos una fuerza m\u00e1s entre las que seguramente habr\u00edan de sentirse convocadas por su desaf\u00edo.<\/p>\n<p>Y les dijimos lo m\u00e1s importante que hab\u00edamos ido a decirles: que est\u00e1bamos dispuestos a apoyar con toda nuestra fuerza.<\/p>\n<p>Que \u00edbamos a apoyar con todo lo que tenemos, que, aunque poco, es lo que somos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Siguieron las participaciones, todas ya en el sentido de hacer propia del CNI la propuesta.\u00a0 Alguno que otro pidiendo que ya se decidiera ah\u00ed mismo.\u00a0 La inmensa mayor\u00eda se\u00f1alando que hab\u00eda que consultar.<\/p>\n<p>La comisi\u00f3n relatora nos pas\u00f3 una copia del proyecto de resolutivo.<\/p>\n<p>Instintivamente tom\u00e9 un lapicero para agregar comas, y puntos.<\/p>\n<p>El Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s me detuvo y murmur\u00f3:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>No, ya esa palabra es de ellas y ellos.\u00a0 Es grande esa palabra, m\u00e1s grande que nosotros, nosotras, zapatistas.\u00a0 Como dec\u00eda el finado: somos los m\u00e1s peque\u00f1os, nos toca hacernos a un lado y esperar<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LA CONSULTA INTERNA ZAPATISTA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Podr\u00edamos darles los resultados y ya.\u00a0 Pero creemos que tal vez les ayude a entender, y entendernos, si les platicamos c\u00f3mo fue el proceso.<\/p>\n<p>Desde el d\u00eda 15 de octubre del 2016, la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista al Quinto Congreso del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena, junto con la CG-CCRI del EZLN, se dieron a la tarea de organizar la consulta interna para conocer la opini\u00f3n y decisi\u00f3n de las bases de apoyo zapatistas sobre la propuesta central.<\/p>\n<p>La consulta interna la hicimos en todas y cada una de las comunidades, colectivos, regiones y zonas zapatistas.\u00a0 Tambi\u00e9n incluimos en la consulta a las compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eros, hermanos y hermanas de la ciudad, que participan en diversos equipos de apoyo de la Comisi\u00f3n Sexta del EZLN.\u00a0 No se incluy\u00f3 en la consulta a las tropas insurgentes zapatistas porque no es nuestro trabajo tomar ese tipo de decisiones.<\/p>\n<p>La consulta la hicimos seg\u00fan nuestro modo, siguiendo una gu\u00eda que realiz\u00f3 el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, la ma\u00f1ana del d\u00eda 14 de octubre del 2016, antes de que se hiciera p\u00fablico el texto \u201cQue retiemble en sus centros la tierra\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>1.- Informaci\u00f3n. \u2013\u00a0 O sea que, en cada comunidad, colectivo, regi\u00f3n y zona, primero se inform\u00f3 lo que se dijo en esos d\u00edas del mes de octubre del 2016.\u00a0 Se inform\u00f3 de los dolores de nuestros hermanos pueblos del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena, de todas las maldades que les hacen por los capitalistas, que explotan, reprimen, desprecian y roban a los pueblos originarios, de c\u00f3mo est\u00e1n matando pueblos enteros.\u00a0 Pero no s\u00f3lo, tambi\u00e9n informamos de c\u00f3mo se organizan y resisten contra esa pol\u00edtica de muerte y destrucci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Para este informe usamos la relator\u00eda que hizo la comisi\u00f3n provisional del CNI, el documento que se hizo que se llama \u201cQue retiemble en sus centros la tierra\u201d, y el resumen y los apuntes que tom\u00f3 la delegaci\u00f3n zapatista a esa primera etapa del Quinto Congreso del CNI.<\/p>\n<p>Este punto es muy importante, porque es aqu\u00ed donde convertimos a nuestras hermanas y hermanos, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras, en o\u00eddo y coraz\u00f3n para los dolores y resistencia de otros que son como nosotros en otras partes.\u00a0 Es muy importante y urgente este punto porque si no nos escuchamos entre nosotros, pues menos nos van a escuchar otras personas.<\/p>\n<p>2.- La propuesta. \u2013 Se dijo y se explic\u00f3 cu\u00e1l es la propuesta: que el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena nombre un Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno (que es como una Junta de Buen Gobierno, pero nacional o sea en todo M\u00e9xico), formado por representantes mujeres y hombres de cada uno de los colectivos, organizaciones, barrios, tribus, naciones y pueblos que est\u00e1n organizados en el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.\u00a0 O sea que este Concejo est\u00e1 formado por ind\u00edgenas, y ellas y ellos son los que van a gobernar el pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p>Ese Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno es colectivo, o sea que no una persona manda, sino que entre todas y todos hacen sus acuerdos para gobernar.\u00a0 Ese Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno no hace lo que se le ocurre, sino que toma en cuenta lo que dicen los pueblos de todo M\u00e9xico, ind\u00edgenas y no ind\u00edgenas.<\/p>\n<p>O sea que ese Concejo tiene los 7 principios del Mandar Obedeciendo: servir y no servirse; representar y no suplantar; construir y no destruir; obedecer y no mandar; proponer y no imponer; convencer y no vencer; bajar y no subir.<\/p>\n<p>Ese Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno tiene como voz a una mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI (no del EZLN), o sea que tiene sangre ind\u00edgena, que habla su lengua originaria y conoce su cultura.\u00a0 O sea que tiene como vocera a una mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI.<\/p>\n<p>Esa mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI es la que se presenta como candidata a la presidencia de M\u00e9xico en 2018.\u00a0 Como no se puede que se ponen todos los nombres de quienes son del Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno, porque puede haber confusi\u00f3n, entonces el nombre que se pone es el de la vocera del Concejo.\u00a0 No es que esa mujer ind\u00edgena est\u00e1 en un partido pol\u00edtico, sino que es candidata independiente.\u00a0 As\u00ed se dice cuando alguien est\u00e1 en una elecci\u00f3n, pero no pertenece a un partido pol\u00edtico.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces, ese Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno, junto con la mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI, se ponen a recorrer todo lo que se pueda de M\u00e9xico y el mundo para explicar c\u00f3mo est\u00e1 la situaci\u00f3n en que estamos por culpa del sistema capitalista, que explota, reprime, roba y desprecia a la gente de abajo, a los pobres del campo y de la ciudad, y que adem\u00e1s ya est\u00e1 destruyendo la naturaleza o sea que est\u00e1 matando al mundo en que vivimos.<\/p>\n<p>Ese Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno va a tratar de hablar y escuchar a todos los ind\u00edgenas de M\u00e9xico mero en sus pueblos, regiones, zonas, estados, para convencerlos de que se organicen, de que no se dejen, de que resistan y de que se gobiernen ellos mismos, as\u00ed como de por s\u00ed hacemos como zapatistas que somos, que nadie nos dice c\u00f3mo o qu\u00e9 tenemos que hacer, sino que mismos pueblos deciden y mandan.<\/p>\n<p>Ese Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno tambi\u00e9n va a tratar de hablar y escuchar a quienes no son ind\u00edgenas, pero que tambi\u00e9n son explotados, reprimidos, robados y despreciados en M\u00e9xico y el mundo.\u00a0 Igual les va a llevar un mensaje de organizaci\u00f3n y lucha, de resistencia y rebeld\u00eda, seg\u00fan su modo de cada quien, seg\u00fan su calendario y su geograf\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Para que esa mujer ind\u00edgena, delegada del CNI, sea reconocida como candidata por las leyes mexicanas tiene que juntar casi un mill\u00f3n de firmas de personas con credencial de elector.\u00a0 Si las junta y est\u00e1n cabal las firmas, entonces s\u00ed la reconocen como que es candidata independiente para presidenta de M\u00e9xico, y se pone su nombre para que, en el a\u00f1o 2018, la gente vota o no, seg\u00fan su pensamiento de cada quien.\u00a0 Entonces se trata de que el Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno y la vocera ind\u00edgena, recorren M\u00e9xico y donde haya personas mexicanas para conseguir las firmas para registrar.\u00a0 Luego otra vuelta de recorrido para que la apoyen y votan por la ind\u00edgena del CNI.<\/p>\n<p>Como zapatistas pensamos que, cuando hacen ese recorrido el Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno y su vocera, van a conocer muchos dolores y rabias que hay en M\u00e9xico y el mundo.\u00a0 Dolores y rabias de personas ind\u00edgenas, pero tambi\u00e9n de personas que no son ind\u00edgenas, pero que tambi\u00e9n sufren, pero resisten.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces eso es lo que se quiere.\u00a0 No se busca que una mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI sea presidenta, sino que lo que se quiere es llevar un mensaje de lucha y organizaci\u00f3n a los pobres del campo y de la ciudad de M\u00e9xico y del mundo.\u00a0 No es que tomamos en cuenta de que, si se juntan las firmas o se gana la elecci\u00f3n, es que sale bien.\u00a0 Sino que sale bien si se puede hablar y escuchar a quienes nadie habla ni escucha. Ah\u00ed vamos a ver si sale bien o no, si es que mucha gente va a agarrar fuerza y esperanza para organizarse, resistir y rebelarse.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfHasta d\u00f3nde se llega?\u00a0 Es hasta donde lo decida el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>\u2013 Luego se dijeron y se explicaron los puntos en contra de esa propuesta. Por ejemplo:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>.- nos van a criticar como zapatistas que somos, porque dijimos que no luchamos por el Poder y ya queremos tener el Poder.<\/p>\n<p>.- nos van a criticar que traicionamos nuestra palabra que no queremos cargo.<\/p>\n<p>.- nos van a criticar que hablamos mal de los partidos pol\u00edticos pero que vamos a hacer igual que eso que criticamos.<\/p>\n<p>.- nos van a acusar que estamos apoyando al partido PRI porque vamos a dividir los votos para la izquierda y as\u00ed gana la derecha.<\/p>\n<p>.- nos van a criticar de que las mujeres ind\u00edgenas no tienen educaci\u00f3n y no saben hablar la castilla.<\/p>\n<p>.- nos van a despreciar que los ind\u00edgenas no tenemos buen pensamiento para gobernar.<\/p>\n<p>.- nos van a burlar mucho y a mal hablar de nosotras y nosotros como ind\u00edgenas que somos.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 (Ojo racistas y machistas: antes de que iniciaran sus ataques, los ind\u00edgenas zapatistas ya sab\u00edamos lo que iban a decir ustedes.\u00a0 Y eso que nosotras, nosotros, somos los tontos e ignorantes, y ustedes son los muy inteligentes y sabios).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>En las asambleas participaron las compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros diciendo de otras cosas que pueden ser puntos en contra.<\/p>\n<p>Por ejemplo, dijeron de la seguridad, que los gobiernos pueden hacer un ataque contra el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena y la candidata para que no gana; que los malos gobiernos pueden atacarnos a las comunidades zapatistas para que no apoyamos al CNI; que se hace trampa para que no avanza su lucha del CNI porque de por s\u00ed los malos gobiernos son ma\u00f1osos y traicioneros; que se van a llegar los zopilotes pol\u00edticos para ver qu\u00e9 sacan de ganancia individual de su lucha de los pueblos ind\u00edgenas; que hay quien va a querer llevar la lucha de los pueblos ind\u00edgenas por otro camino; y otras cosas.<\/p>\n<p>4.- Luego se dijeron los puntos a favor de esa propuesta.\u00a0 Por ejemplo:<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para que la sociedad mexicana vuelva a ver y escuchar a los pueblos indios de M\u00e9xico, que ahora ya ni los mencionan.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para que se puede escuchar y hablar con ind\u00edgenas de todo M\u00e9xico que no est\u00e1n organizados y los est\u00e1n destruyendo por los malditos capitalistas.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para que los ind\u00edgenas vuelvan a tener orgullo y honor de ser ind\u00edgenas, de su color, su lengua, su cultura, su arte, su historia.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para que las mujeres ind\u00edgenas se levanten con su propia voz y se organicen, as\u00ed como se han levantado y organizado las mujeres zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para explicar a la gente de abajo de toda la destrucci\u00f3n y mal que est\u00e1n haciendo los malditos capitalistas.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve al Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena para que se conoce c\u00f3mo es su modo del CNI y m\u00e1s pueblos, naciones, tribus y barrios ind\u00edgenas se entran en el CNI y se conocen entre s\u00ed como ind\u00edgenas y ven sus dolores y sus fuerzas.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve como zapatistas que somos porque as\u00ed podemos apoyar a nuestros hermanos y hermanas ind\u00edgenas de otras partes, para que siguen su lucha y pueden vivir con libertad y dignidad.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para los pueblos zapatistas porque as\u00ed m\u00e1s gente conoce c\u00f3mo es nuestra historia de lucha y c\u00f3mo nos hemos organizado, y se animan.<\/p>\n<p>.- sirve para los pueblos zapatistas porque as\u00ed aprendemos a organizarnos ya no s\u00f3lo para ayudarnos entre nosotros, sino que tambi\u00e9n organizarnos para apoyar a otros que luchan, como hicimos con los maestros democr\u00e1ticos.<\/p>\n<p>5.- Luego se pas\u00f3 a pensar si esa propuesta le sirve al Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena o no le sirve.<\/p>\n<p>6.- Despu\u00e9s se pas\u00f3 a pensar si esta idea nos sirve como zapatistas que somos o no nos sirve.<\/p>\n<p>7.- Luego se pas\u00f3 a discutir si s\u00ed apoyamos o no apoyamos esa propuesta y, si sale que s\u00ed, c\u00f3mo no podemos apoyar como zapatistas que somos; y luego c\u00f3mo s\u00ed podemos apoyar como zapatistas que somos.<\/p>\n<p>Por ejemplo, no podemos apoyar con las firmas porque de por s\u00ed los zapatistas no usan credencial de elector; tampoco podemos ser candidatas o candidatos porque como zapatistas no luchamos por el Poder; no podemos votar porque no usamos ese modo de votar de poner un papel en una caja, sino que tomamos nuestros acuerdos en asambleas donde todos participan y dicen su palabra.<\/p>\n<p>Pero s\u00ed podemos apoyar de otras formas, por ejemplo: podemos apoyar explicando esa buena idea y convenciendo a los que s\u00ed usan la credencial, que la usan para apoyar a la mujer ind\u00edgena del CNI; podemos hablar con la gente de la ciudad que nos apoya como zapatistas para que tambi\u00e9n apoyen al Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno; podemos organizarnos como colectivos y gobiernos aut\u00f3nomos para conseguir algo de paga para apoyar al CNI y que pueda viajar a todos lados que necesita; podemos hablar y convencer a gente de la ciudad para que tambi\u00e9n se organiza para conseguir paga para el CNI; podemos explicar en M\u00e9xico y el mundo c\u00f3mo es que hacemos para gobernarnos nosotros mismos y as\u00ed vea la gente de buen pensamiento que como ind\u00edgenas s\u00ed sabemos gobernar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Y, bueno, tambi\u00e9n se les inform\u00f3 a todos los pueblos otro de los acuerdos del Quinto Congreso: que es que si, en la consulta zapatista interna (y en la de cualquier colectivo, organizaci\u00f3n, barrio, tribu, naci\u00f3n y pueblo originario del CNI) sale como resultado que no se apoya la propuesta, que es mala idea y no se est\u00e1 de acuerdo, entonces el Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena respeta esa decisi\u00f3n, aunque la mayor\u00eda diga que s\u00ed apoya.\u00a0 Es decir, se sigue tomando en cuenta como parte del CNI.\u00a0 O sea que no es fuerza que, quien no est\u00e1 de acuerdo, tiene que hacer lo que decida la mayor\u00eda.\u00a0 O sea que se respeta la autonom\u00eda, los modos de cada quien.<\/p>\n<p>Igual como se hace en las comunidades ind\u00edgenas zapatistas, no es que vamos a ver mal o a sacar de zapatista a quien piense diferente, sino que vamos a respetar y tomar en cuenta.\u00a0 Como es en nuestras asambleas comunitarias, que no porque alguien est\u00e1 pensando en contra de lo que dice la mayor\u00eda, lo sacamos, sino que sigue.<\/p>\n<p>Como se puede ver, la consulta interna se enfoc\u00f3 a si se apoyaba o no lo que resultara de la consulta del CNI.\u00a0 Estos son los resultados:<\/p>\n<p>Se consultaron varias decenas de miles de hombres y mujeres zapatistas.\u00a0 De ellas y ellos, la inmensa mayor\u00eda se manifest\u00f3 por apoyar la decisi\u00f3n a la que llegue el CNI en la medida de nuestras posibilidades.\u00a0 Se manifestaron en contra 52 compas (26 compa\u00f1eras y 26 compa\u00f1eros).\u00a0 Se manifestaron como \u201cno s\u00e9\u201d, o \u201cindecisos\u201d, 65 compas (36 compa\u00f1eras y 29 compa\u00f1eros).\u00a0 Las razones que dieron quienes se manifestaron en contra son diversas: desde el compa que dijo \u201cyo voy a votar en contra para ver si es cierto que me respetan y no me sacan de zapatista\u201d; hasta quienes argumentaron que no iban a estar en su pueblo y no quer\u00edan comprometerse porque no iban a poder cumplir el trabajo que saliera.\u00a0 Quienes se manifestaron indecisos dijeron, entre otras cosas, que de balde se decide si todav\u00eda no se sabe qu\u00e9 va a decir el CNI, que qu\u00e9 tal que dicen que s\u00ed apoyan y el CNI dice que no hace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00bfQU\u00c9 ESPERAR?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Compas:<\/p>\n<p>Ya, \u00e9sta es la \u00faltima parte.\u00a0 Gracias a quienes llegaron hasta estas l\u00edneas\u2026 \u00bfeh?\u2026 s\u00ed, claro, quedan pendientes\u2026 s\u00ed\u2026 dudas, claro\u2026 preguntas, por supuesto\u2026, \u00bfqu\u00e9?\u2026 \u00bfcu\u00e1l va a ser el resultado de la consulta del CNI?\u2026 \u00bfQuieren un spoiler?\u2026\u00a0 ok, ok, ok, dejen pregunto\u2026\u00a0 Ya\u2026 que les diga la verdad, as\u00ed que va:<\/p>\n<p>Les somos sinceros: no tenemos ni la m\u00e1s remota idea.<\/p>\n<p>Y es en serio.<\/p>\n<p>Ya hemos visto antes c\u00f3mo una propuesta se va modelando con el trabajo de la palabra en el modo de los originarios.\u00a0 Como si una idea no fuera m\u00e1s que una masa deforme de barro y fueran manos colectivas las que le van dando forma, tama\u00f1o, color, destino.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que, al igual que ustedes, estamos esperando.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque, cierto, nosotros, nosotras zapatistas, no esperamos lo mismo que ustedes.<\/p>\n<p>Ustedes, creemos, est\u00e1n esperando cu\u00e1l es el resultado y todo lo de ah\u00ed se va a derivar.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotras, nosotros zapatistas estamos esperando lo que va a ocurrir luego, el d\u00eda despu\u00e9s.\u00a0 Y prepar\u00e1ndonos ya para ese calendario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Desde las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00a0 Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">M\u00e9xico, noviembre del 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Del cuaderno de Apuntes del Gato-Perro.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No crean que no me he preparado para el caso en que, en la consulta del CNI, sale que se rechaza la propuesta.\u00a0 No, no me preocupa.\u00a0 He tomado mis providencias.\u00a0 Por ejemplo: ya tengo un certificado m\u00e9dico de que estoy en lista de espera para una operaci\u00f3n de cambio de sexo, as\u00ed como un tr\u00e1mite de adopci\u00f3n con una familia ind\u00edgena zapatista. \u00a0As\u00ed podr\u00e1n decir que todo era una jugada para ser yo el candidato\u2026 ok, ok, ok, la candidata a la presidencia de la Rep\u00fablica.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, mi perversidad es sublime \u00bfno?<\/p>\n<p>Claro, con esa salida se me arruinar\u00e1 la correspondencia femenina.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, esperen, ya no hay correspondencia, ni femenina ni no femenina.\u00a0 Ah, si tuviera redes sociales me har\u00eda varias cuentas alternas (no se hagan, de por s\u00ed as\u00ed hacen) y me auto daba <em>rt<\/em>, <em>follow<\/em> y <em>like<\/em>, y tambi\u00e9n me auto <em>troleaba<\/em>, para que se viera que todo es f-i-d-e-d-i-g-n-o.\u00a0 \u00bfCu\u00e1ntas cuentas alternas se pueden sacar como l\u00edmite?\u00a0 No se hagan, seguro que ya lo investigaron.<\/p>\n<p>En fin, ya se me ocurrir\u00e1 algo.<\/p>\n<p>Ahora que, si sale que se aprueba, pues habr\u00e1 que chambearle para conseguir paga.\u00a0 Entonces me pondr\u00e9 en contacto con <em>loas compa\u00f1eroas<\/em> de la Brigada Callejera, que me aparten una esquina en La Meche.\u00a0 Ni modo, la calle es de quien la talonea.\u00a0 Estoy seguro que mi pancita causar\u00e1 furor\u2026 \u00bfeh?\u2026 ok, ok, ok, mi panza\u2026 \u00bfqu\u00e9?\u2026 bueno pues, mi <em>panzota<\/em>\u2026 \u00bfno les digo?, si de que son maloras, son.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>El SupGaleano reventando varias fajas.<\/p>\n<p>(no, gracias, de veras, no, no necesito que alguien me venga a fajar\u2026 <em>voooi<\/em>, oigan, de plano ense\u00f1an el cobre, oigan, puro albur sesentero, oigan, por eso no <em>loas<\/em> quieren los bien portados, oigan\u2026 \u00bfeh?\u2026 \u00bfun reality show para conseguir paga?\u2026 \u00bfcon Trump, Macri, Temer, Putin y Rajoy intercambiando <em>nudes<\/em>?\u2026 <em>mta magre<\/em>\u2026 ya no vean esa televisi\u00f3n\u2026 mejor series de TV en producci\u00f3n alternativa\u2026s\u00ed, en los puestos de eje central ya est\u00e1 la nueva temporada de Games of Thrones\u2026 s\u00ed, resulta que el Tyrion y el Snow son parientes con la Dayanaris\u2026 como se diga, pues\u2026 s\u00ed, un drag\u00f3n para cada quien, un mensaje de equidad\u2026 s\u00ed, en el nuevo escudo se unen el le\u00f3n, el lobo y el drag\u00f3n\u2026 bueno, s\u00ed, una versi\u00f3n de la Hidra\u2026 s\u00ed, como si unieras al gran capital financiero, con el industrial y el comercial\u2026 s\u00ed, el sistema se recompone y todos los de arriba contentos, y los de abajo pues a la chinga\u2026 s\u00ed, pero est\u00e1n viendo un final alternativo\u2026 s\u00ed, cuando toda la banda est\u00e1 agarrando la jarra para celebrar no s\u00e9 qu\u00e9, llega una mujer ind\u00edgena, se caga en el trono de hierro y con un soplete lo derrite \u2026 bueno, est\u00e1n viendo si le quitan el soplete y le dan una caja de cerillos, para que tarde, el suspenso pues\u2026 s\u00ed, chance y otra temporada, depende de cu\u00e1ntos cerillos le lleve\u2026 s\u00ed, ah\u00ed acaba\u2026 pues por el <em>Brexit<\/em> \u00e9se, los costos se fueron a las nubes.\u00a0 Y ahora con el Trump, pues peor\u2026 \u00bfQu\u00e9? \u00bfque no haga spoilers?\u00a0 Oh, pues, para qu\u00e9 me invitan si ya saben c\u00f3mo soy).<\/p>\n<p>Doy fe.<\/p>\n<p>Miau-guau.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fuente: <a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/17\/una-historia-para-tratar-de-entender\/\">Enlace Zapatista<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?attachment_id=18369\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18369\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18369 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0304\" width=\"446\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MG_0304.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\"><b>A STORY TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND<\/b><\/p>\n<p>November 17, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>To the national and international Sixth:<br \/>\nTo those who sympathize with and support the struggle of originary peoples:<br \/>\nTo those who are anticapitalists:<\/p>\n<p><i>Compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eros,<\/i> <i>compa\u00f1eroas<\/i>:<br \/>\nBrothers and sisters:<\/p>\n<p>We wrote this extensive text together, Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, spokesperson and current head of the EZLN, and I, consulting on certain details with some of the <i>Comandantas<\/i> and <i>Comandantes<\/i> of the Zapatista delegation that attended the first phase of the Fifth Congress of the National Indigenous Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Although now, as on other occasions, the task of actually writing it down falls to me, it is Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s who reads, adds or subtracts, approves or rejects not just this text, but all those published as authentic writings by the EZLN. Not infrequently through these writings, I will use the first person singular pronoun. The reason for this will be understood later on. Although the primary audience of the following lines is the Sixth, we have decided to extend it to those who, without being with us or one of us, have identical concerns and similar work. Here goes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<b>NEITHER OUR NIGHTMARES<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, the creativity and ingenuity of some collective of the Sixth produced a phrase which, with the passage of time, was attributed to Zapatismo. As you know, we are against copyright, but we don\u2019t usually claim words or actions that are not ours. However, although not of our authorship, the statement does in part reflect our feelings as Zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPut forward by the Sixth, which was attacked with crude blackmail and threats (as is the case once again) for their skepticism toward the \u201cpower\u201d of the institutional electoral ballot boxes, the phrase reaches further and defines what is lacking and limited in one form of struggle, the electoral one:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Our dreams don\u2019t fit in your ballot boxes<\/i>,\u201d it was and is said.<\/p>\n<p>As Zapatistas, we subscribed to this statement then\u2026and now. It has the virtue of saying a lot in few words (now a forgotten art). But, from this side of the ski mask, from who we are, we add: \u201c<i>and neither do our nightmares<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we could have said \u201cand neither do our dead,\u201d but it turns out that, in these fateful times, pain has extended even further. It is no longer just natural death that is responsible for separating us from those we miss today. In our case, for example, this includes Insurgent Infantry Sublieutenant Hern\u00e1n Omar (one of our own since before the uprising, snatched from our side and that of his <i>compa\u00f1era<\/i> and son by cancer; we send them a special embrace on this first birthday without him). Now this separation is increasingly caused by murder, disappearances, prisons, and kidnappings.<\/p>\n<p>If you are poor, you\u2019re vulnerable; if you are a woman, you\u2019re even more vulnerable. It is as if the system wasn\u2019t satisfied with attacking you for what you are, and gave itself the macabre task of eliminating you altogether. That is, you aren\u2019t just the object of sexual assault and violence. What has happened in this system that makes \u201cnatural\u201d and even \u201clogical\u201d (\u201cyes, they were asking for it,\u201d society says) not only rape, but also kidnapping, disappearance, and murder of women? Yes, women. The democratization of gender-based hatred equalizes ages, races, colors, heights, weights, creeds, ideologies, and activism or its absence. All differences, except that of class, are diluted in one major flaw: being a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, go ahead and add more possibilities according to your difference: color, stature, weight, indigenous, afro-descendent, little girl, little boy, elder, young person, gay, lesbian, transgender, your particular way of being, whatever it might be. Yes, this is a system now devoted not just to segregating and disregarding differences, but determined to eliminate them completely. And not just to exterminate them, but to do so with all of the cruelty that modernity is capable of. Death keeps killing, but now more sadistically.<\/p>\n<p>So, what we want to say is that we\u2019re not just missing the dead, but also the disappeared [<i>l@s desaparecid@s<\/i>]<i> <\/i>(and with the @ symbol we include not just the masculine and feminine, but also all those who transcend the false gender dichotomy), the kidnapped [<i>l@s secuestr@das<\/i>], the imprisoned [<i>l@s encarcelad@s<\/i>].<\/p>\n<p>How many of the missing from Ayotzinapa fit in how many ballot boxes? In which political party project can they be found? Which institutional logo incorporates those who we\u2019re missing?<\/p>\n<p>And what if we\u2019re not even sure that they died? What if it\u2019s not just their absence which hurts, but also the added uncertainty and anguish? (<i>Has he eaten? Is he cold? Is he sick? Has he slept enough? Is anyone comforting him? Does he know I\u2019m still looking for him, that I\u2019ll always be looking for him<\/i>?)?<\/p>\n<p>The women who have been assaulted, disappeared, murdered across the entire ideological spectrum\u2014in the aspiration for what office, position, or government do they fit?<\/p>\n<p>How many ballots are equal to the children murdered by the PAN [National Action Party] in the ABC Daycare?<\/p>\n<p>Those across the vast expanse of the geographies and calendars of Mexico below who have been exterminated by the PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party] and its poorly-concealed replicas\u2014whom should they vote for?<\/p>\n<p>In which vote count do those persecuted by the PRD [Party of the Democratic Revolution], accused of the crime of being young people, fit?<\/p>\n<p>Which political party represents the sexual differences, persecuted in public and in private, who are sentenced to a hell on earth and in death as well?<\/p>\n<p>Which logos and slogans of the institutional political parties stain the walls that thousands of migrants\u2014men, women and children\u2014must crawl over only in order to fall into the hands of politicians\/criminals\/business people responsible for human trafficking?<\/p>\n<p>One could find examples in chronicles, blogs, news reports, press releases, opinion pieces, hashtags, etc., but the certainty always remains that there are many more criminal deeds that get no public mention at all.<\/p>\n<p>Where are the polling place where we denounce the exploitation, repression, displacement and contempt for originary peoples?<\/p>\n<p>In which ballot box should we deposit the pain and rage of the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yaqui, Mame,<\/p>\n<p>Kumiai, Huave,<\/p>\n<p>Mayo, Tepehuano,<\/p>\n<p>Cucap\u00e1, Matlatzinca,<\/p>\n<p>Tohono O\u00b4odham Chichimeca,<\/p>\n<p>Raramuri, Guarij\u00edo,<\/p>\n<p>Kikap\u00fa, Chuj,<\/p>\n<p>Pame, Jacalteco,<\/p>\n<p>Totonaca, Lacand\u00f3n,<\/p>\n<p>Popoluca, Comca\u00b4ac,<\/p>\n<p>Nahua, Wix\u00e1rika,<\/p>\n<p>Maya Peninsular, Kanjobal<\/p>\n<p>Biniz\u00e1a, Chontal<\/p>\n<p>Mixteco, Chocho,<\/p>\n<p>H\u00f1\u00e4h\u00f1\u00fc, Tacuate,<\/p>\n<p>Totonaca, Ocuilteco,<\/p>\n<p>Mazateco, Kekch\u00ed,<\/p>\n<p>Pur\u00e9pecha, Ixcateco,<\/p>\n<p>Mixe, Motocintleco,<\/p>\n<p>Chinanteco, Quich\u00e9,<\/p>\n<p>Mazahua, Kakchiquel,<\/p>\n<p>Me\u00b4phaa, Paipai,<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9enek, P\u00e1pago,<\/p>\n<p>Rar\u00e1muri, Cochim\u00ed,<\/p>\n<p>Chontal, Ixil,<\/p>\n<p>Amuzgo, Kiliwa,<\/p>\n<p>\u00d3pata, Aguacateco,<\/p>\n<p>Solteco, Mame,<\/p>\n<p>Chatino, Chol,<\/p>\n<p>Papabuco, Tzotzil,<\/p>\n<p>Triqui, Zoque,<\/p>\n<p>Cora, Tojolabal<\/p>\n<p>Cuicateco, Tzeltal?<\/p>\n<p>Where does all that fit?<\/p>\n<p>When did the dictatorship of terror and its perverse logic obtain legal status to invade everything and readjust the criteria?<\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says any man or woman assaulted in the street, at home, at work, on public transportation, <i>they didn\u2019t shoot\/stab me. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the woman who has been beaten and raped, <i>they didn\u2019t kidnap me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the child subjected to prostitution, <i>they didn\u2019t burn me alive<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the gay, lesbian, trans, other<b> [<\/b><i><b>loa otroa<\/b><\/i><b>] <\/b>whose bones were broken and skin lacerated, <i>they didn\u2019t kill me<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the laborer, the employee, the worker subjected to more work hours and a lower salary, <i>they didn\u2019t fire me<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the tortured social leader, <i>they didn\u2019t disappear me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the young student murdered and thrown in the street, <i>my family won\u2019t have to look for me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was lucky<\/i>, says the displaced indigenous community, <i>they didn\u2019t exterminate me<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And more:<\/p>\n<p>What poll takes into account the destruction of the Earth? Who do the contaminated waters, the animal species cornered into extinction, the infertile earth, the dirty air, vote for? Where should we deposit the ballot of a dying world?<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s true: \u201cour dreams don\u2019t fit in your ballot boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But neither do our nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone can be responsible for their own dreams. What remains is to hold accountable those who are responsible for our nightmares. What remains is yet to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>ONE \u201cYES,\u201d VARIOUS \u201cNOs\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the initial and original proposal is ours, from the <i><b>eezeeelen<\/b><\/i>. We introduced it to the delegates of the Fifth Congress of the National Indigenous Congress [CNI]. This happened October 9, 10, 11 and 13 of the year 2016, at CIDECI-Unitierra in San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. On these dates there were delegates from the originary peoples, collectives, organizations, <i>barrios<\/i>, tribes, and nations from the <i>Amuzgo, Binni-za\u00e1, Chinanteco, Chol, Coca, N\u00e1yeri, Cuicateco, Kumiai, Lacand\u00f3n, Matlazinca, Maya, Mayo, Mazahua, Mazateco, Mixe, Mixteco, Nahua, \u00d1ah\u00f1u, \u00d1ath\u00f4, Popoluca, Pur\u00e9pecha, Rar\u00e1muri, Tlapaneco, Tojolabal, Totonaco, Triqui, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Wix\u00e1rika, Yaqui, Zoque, <\/i>and<i> Chontal<\/i> languages. On October 13, 2016, the plenary of this Fifth Congress of the CNI decided to adopt the proposal and submit it to a consultation among its members. On October 14, 2016, in the morning hours, the CNI and EZLN made this decision public in the document called, \u201c<b>Let the Earth Tremble at its Core<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No, neither the EZLN as an organization nor any of its members will run for a \u201cpopularly elected office\u201d in the 2018 elections.<\/p>\n<p>No, the EZLN will not become a political party.<\/p>\n<p>No, the EZLN will not present an indigenous Zapatista woman as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic in the year 2018.<\/p>\n<p>No, the EZLN has not \u201caltered its course\u201d to any degree, nor has it reoriented its struggle to the institutional electoral path.<\/p>\n<p><i>So, the EZLN won\u2019t be running an indigenous Zapatista woman for president of the Republic? They won\u2019t participate directly in the elections of 2018?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p><i>Why not? Because of their weapons?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No. Those who think that are categorically incorrect: we Zapatistas took up arms to make use of them, not to be enslaved to them.<\/p>\n<p><i>So then, is it because the institutional electoral political system is corrupt, unfair, fraudulent and illegitimate?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No. Even if it were transparent, equitable, just and legitimate, we Zapatistas would not participate in order to gain and exercise Power through holding political office, position, or institutional appointment.<\/p>\n<p><i>But, in certain circumstances, for strategic and\/or tactical reasons, would you participate directly in order to be able to execute a particular job post?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No. Not even if \u201cthe masses\u201d demand it of us; not even if this \u201chistorical juncture\u201d needs our \u201cparticipation\u201d; not for \u201cthe Homeland,\u201d \u201cthe Nation,\u201d \u201cthe People,\u201d \u201cthe Proletariat\u201d (ok, that one is already really outdated), or whatever other abstract or concrete concept is hoisted up as a pretense (disguising, or not, some personal, family, group or class ambition); and despite the moment, the convergence of the stars, the prophecies, the stock market, the manual of historical materialism, the Popol Vuh, the polls, the esoteric, \u201cthe concrete analysis of concrete reality,\u201d and the convenient etcetera.<\/p>\n<p><i>Then why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Because the EZLN does not struggle in order to take Power.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You think they didn\u2019t offer us this and more before? That they haven\u2019t offered us [political] office, perks, positions, embassies, consulates, \u201call-inclusive\u201d foreign travel, in addition to the budgets that go with them? You think they didn\u2019t offer to convert us into an institutional political party, or incorporate us into one of the already existing ones or the ones that will form in order to \u201cenjoy the privileges of the law\u201d (as they say)?<\/p>\n<p>Did we accept? No.<\/p>\n<p>We weren\u2019t offended; we understand that ambition, or lack of imagination, or short-sightedness, or the lack of knowledge (as well as, of course, not knowing how to read) have led some to the imperative to join an institutional political party, then leave it and move on to another, then leave it and form another, and then onto whatever follows. We understand that the excuse of \u201cchanging the system from within\u201d still works for some. For us, it does not.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the case of the Zapatista leadership and troops, our negation isn\u2019t only in the face of institutional Power, but also in the face of the autonomous forms and processes that the communities create and intensify day after day.<\/p>\n<p>For example, no <i>insurgente<\/i> or <i>insurgenta<\/i>, whether from the commanding ranks or the troops, and no <i>commandanta<\/i> or <i>comandante <\/i>from the CCRI [Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee] can be authorities at the community level, or in the autonomous municipality, or in the different bodies of autonomous organization. They cannot be autonomous advisors, or <i>Juntas de Buen Gobierno <\/i>[Good Government Councils], or hold commission duties, or any of the responsibilities designated by assembly, created or yet to be created in the construction of our autonomy\u2014that is, our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Our work, our task as the <i><b>eezeeelen<\/b><\/i> is to serve our communities, accompany them, support them, not rule them. Support them, yes\u2014sometimes we achieve that. And yes, true, sometimes we get in the way, but then it\u2019s the Zapatista communities who give us a smack (or several, depending), so that we correct ourselves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>All this would not need to be clarified and reaffirmed if there had been a close reading of the text titled \u201c<i>Let the Earth Tremble at its Core,<\/i>\u201d made public the morning of October 14, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>No, we did not participate in the writing of that declaration. The text was written by the provisional commission named by the CNI assembly and then passed on to us. We didn\u2019t add or take out even a single comma or period. We made it our own exactly as the delegates of the CNI wrote it.<\/p>\n<p>But, as we have seen, functional illiteracy does not respect ideological borders nor political party symbols: expressions, evaluations, and opinions which vacillate between racism and stupidity have emerged from across the political spectrum. Yes, we\u2019ve seen part of the institutional (and marginal) left intelligentsia coincide with that <i>panista<\/i> [PAN party supporter] defender of \u201cfeminism,\u201d \u201chonor,\u201d \u201chonesty,\u201d \u201cinclusion,\u201d \u201ctolerance\u201d: Diego Fern\u00e1ndez de Cevallos, who now dedicates himself, along with Antonio Lozano Gracia (the esoteric version of \u201cLaw and Order\u201d) to hiding ex?governors on the run.<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote1sym\" name=\"sdendnote1anc\"><sup>i<\/sup><\/a> Has anyone forgotten <i>La Calderona<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote2sym\" name=\"sdendnote2anc\"><sup>ii<\/sup><\/a><\/i> applauding furiously when the aforementioned Fern\u00e1ndez de Cevallos, as 1994 presidential candidate, referred to women with the \u201caffectionate\u201d term of \u201c<i>viejer\u00edo<\/i>\u201d and to <i>campesinos<\/i> as \u201c<i>calzonudos<\/i>\u201d?<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote3sym\" name=\"sdendnote3anc\"><sup>iii<\/sup><\/a> Is <i>La Calderona<\/i> the symbol of the empowerment for women up above, or simply a front for a dissatisfied psychopath? Is anyone fooled by the fact that she still uses her \u201cmaiden\u201d name?<\/p>\n<p>As we will tell you later on, the CNI delegates to the Fifth Congress warned that the deep-seated racism in Mexican society was an obstacle to moving the initiative forward.<\/p>\n<p>We told them it wasn\u2019t just racism, but that in the Mexican political class, there is also a deep disrespect. For that class, originary peoples aren\u2019t even a hindrance anymore, just an old piece of furniture that should be tossed to the past adorned with quotes from the Popol Vuh, multicolored embroideries and second-hand dolls. Politics above sees through indigenous people, as if they were the forgotten glass beads of some conquistador, or the anachronistic remains of a past trapped in \u201cmagisterial\u201d codices, books, and conferences. For institutional politics, originary peoples do not exist, and when they \u201creappear\u201d (as they say above), then it\u2019s the dirty maneuvering of some perverse and all-powerful mind. After 524 years, they only conceive of indigenous people as incompetent, stupid, and ignorant. If the originary peoples do something, it\u2019s because they\u2019re being manipulated; if they think something, it\u2019s because someone is misleading them. For the politicians above, across the political spectrum, there will always be a \u201cforeign enemy\u201d behind indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n<p>The world of institutional politics is not only incredibly closed-off and compact\u2014no. It is also where \u201cpopularity\u201d reigns over rationality, beastliness over intelligence, and shamelessness over a minimum of decency.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the paid media tamper with information in order to convert it into a commodity is common knowledge. In any case, reporters have to eat somehow, and it\u2019s understandable that for them, the \u201cnews report\u201d that the EZLN will run a Zapatista woman in the elections will sell more than telling the truth\u2014that it\u2019s the CNI who will decide whether or not to participate with one of their own delegates, and in that case, she can count on the support of Zapatismo.<\/p>\n<p>We understand that the lack of information is also a commodity. Reporters and editors earned their daily bread, okay (yes, you\u2019re welcome colleagues, no, no need to thank us, no really, I\u2019ll pass).<\/p>\n<p>But for those who claim to be educated and thinking people who supposedly know how to read and write and who have access to a minimum of information, teach in centers of higher education, have emeritus status, collect their grants and salaries without fail, and travel around selling \u201cknowledge\u201d\u2014for them not to read what the document \u201cLet the earth tremble at its core\u201d clearly states, and then go say and write all kinds of foolishness, well that\u2026how do I put this gently?\u2026that makes them shameless charlatans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if the 140 characters and the sealed glass house of the media have become a wall that negates reality, that expels it and declares it illegal. Whatever doesn\u2019t fit in a tweet doesn\u2019t exist, they confer and agree among themselves. And the paid media know it: \u201c<i>no one will read a 6-page document closely, so we\u2019ll write a summary of whatever and the \u2018opinion leaders\u2019 on social media will accept it as truth.<\/i>\u201d Thus follows a whole string of nonsense which hastens a hysterical purging which may provoke the collapse of the immense kingdom of the blue bird.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the contempt these people hold for the originary peoples whose existence they do not even recognize. Despite the fact that the text clearly states \u201c<i><b>an indigenous woman delegate of the CNI,\u201d <\/b><\/i>the magic of stupidity erases \u201cof the CNI\u201d and replaces it with \u201cof the EZLN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then? Well, next comes a cascade of positioning, commentaries, opinions, critiques, condemnations, likes and dislikes, thumbs up and down, and more than a few raised middle fingers.<\/p>\n<p>When someone who did take the trouble to read the original text timidly indicates that the possible candidate would be from the CNI and not the EZLN and that, ergo, it\u2019s not the EZLN who will participate in the elections, everybody comes down on them: \u201c<i>nah, it\u2019s all a crude manipulation by the sockhead.<\/i>\u201d<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote4sym\" name=\"sdendnote4anc\"><sup>iv<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there were those who demanded, almost immediately, that we first \u201cliberate\u201d Chiapas (yes, that\u2019s what they wrote). Of course, since in Chiapas one can find the territories of the <i>Yaqui, Kumiai, Rar\u00e1muri, Nahua, Zapoteco, Mixteco, Chinanteco, Totonaco, Popoluca, Peninsular Maya, Wixaritari<\/i>, just to name a few. When they were mocked they tried to correct their error and at least consulted google as to who the hell were these other indigenous people \u201cmanipulated by the sockhead,\u201d realizing then that these people don\u2019t live in Chiapas (which, by the way, would imply that the manipulative abilities of the deceased one exceed the boundaries of the \u201cmountains of the Mexican southeast\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>After consulting with <i>compa<\/i> lawyers, I asked Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, and [the answer was] no. On our behalf there would be no lawsuits taken to the CONAPRED (National Commission to Prevent Discrimination) for violation of the first article of the Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the Federal Law to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination, nor against the tribunals for disclosing \u201cinexact or false\u201d information which causes \u201ca grievance, whether political, economic, of honor, private life and\/or image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, we do not know whether the National Indigenous Congress (which has in its ranks more than a few specialists in jurisprudence) will conduct any suits in that respect.<\/p>\n<p>We also do not know if the students, readers, followers and those who pay their salaries and grants will proceed judicially against them for fraud (fraud: deception, giving the appearance of truth to that which is false), according to Article 386 of the Federal Penal Code: \u201cA person who deceives someone or takes advantage of a mistaken belief in order to illegally obtain something or achieve undeserved profit, is committing fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>However, there have been, are, and will be legitimate and rational doubts and questions (the great majority but not all from <i>compas<\/i> of the Sixth). In this text we will try to answer these doubts and questions to the extent we can. Our words will almost surely not be sufficient. But we will take into account all of the critiques, from across the political and ideological spectrum, made with a minimum of rationality, respect, and accurate information that correspond to us.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is necessary to make one thing clear to everyone: the proposal is no longer in the hands of Zapatismo. As of October 13, 2016, the proposal ceased to be only ours and became a joint one shared by the Fifth Congress of the CNI.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, as of the day that the CNI consultation began, the acceptance, rejection, and\/or modification of the proposal corresponds strictly and exclusively to the originary peoples, collectives, organization, <i>barrios<\/i>, tribes, and nations organized in the National Indigenous Congress. Not to the EZLN. The result of this consultation and the corresponding decisions, if there are any, will be made known during the second phase of the Fifth Congress, December 29, 30, and 31 of 2016 and January 1 of 2017, in Chiapas, Mexico, or before if the CNI so decides.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Of course, you might be asking why we made this proposal, if we continue to think the way we have said we do since the beginning of our struggle, and that we have once again ratified today. Well, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to tell you now.<\/p>\n<p>When Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s told me that it was my job to explain this to the Sixth, I asked him how I should do it. \u201c<i>It\u2019s simple<\/i>,\u201d he answered, \u201c<i>just tell them what happened<\/i>.\u201d So that\u2019s what I\u2019ll do\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>A SMALL, SHORT GENEALOGY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t been able to determine the exact date. The two of us agree that it was in the years 2013-2014. Although the deceased SupMarcos wasn\u2019t dead yet, his death had already been decided and Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s was already the head of the EZLN and the first sightings of the Hydra began to emerge more clearly.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how it is out there, but here ideas don\u2019t arise in any particular moment, nor do they have a precise author. They are born and later they gain shape, sometimes managing to achieve the form of a proposal, later an initiative. Others, the majority, remain as just ideas. It takes months, years, sometimes decades to cross over from idea to proposal. And if this occurs, it is enough for the idea to become concretized in words in order to begin its stumbling path.<\/p>\n<p>The idea also did not come from a formal meeting. If you pressured me, I\u2019d say it began in the wee hours of the morning amid coffee and tobacco. We were analyzing what the various sentinel posts detected, and the profound changes that, although in existence for a while already, were now becoming manifest in the Zapatista communities.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say that Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s initiated the idea. I\u2019m almost sure something so hare-brained and absurd would not have come from me.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever the case, it wasn\u2019t until SubMoy said it out loud that we began to think about it seriously, through the famous Zapatista method of turning the idea over and over until we get to where we want to be, that is, the \u201cday after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin at the beginning, that is, with the difficulties and obstacles. If these are big enough to qualify as a challenge, then the idea goes to the second phase: what it has going against it. After that, and only after that, we analyze what it has going for it, the pros. That is, we don\u2019t decide whether to take it forward until we know if it\u2019s worthwhile. So first is the question of what, then the cons and the pros of the how, then the where and the when (the calendar and the geography), and at the end of the beginning, the who.<\/p>\n<p>All of this doesn\u2019t come from one person, but rather moves into larger and larger collectives. That is how, through questions, it gets rounded out, first by consulting the \u201celders\u201d who are <i>comit\u00e9s<\/i> [CCRI] (we refer here to those of greatest seniority who know our history first hand), then consulting those who have been incorporated into the work of the organizational leadership, then those who are \u201c<i>suplentes<\/i>\u201d (that is, those who will replace the top ranks), then finally, those who are still training, the \u201c<i>candidat@s<\/i>\u201d (that is, those who are preparing to start doing this work). I\u2019m talking here about hundreds of heads, of thoughts, of comings and goings of the word, of listening ears; I\u2019m talking about a collective heart that begins to grow, becoming bigger and bigger.<\/p>\n<p>The next step has to do with the answer to the question, \u201c<i>Who will do it<\/i>?\u201d If this corresponds to the autonomous authorities, then the consultation goes on to them; if it corresponds to the communities, then there is a general consultation, which includes everyone. If it doesn\u2019t correspond to either of these entities, then we have to ask who it does involve, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. If that \u201cwho\u201d answers in the affirmative, then we have to consult with everyone to determine if we support this initiative or not.<\/p>\n<p>We were in this process for at least 2-3 years. That is, the idea came and went, never going further. A while later, I was told to feel it out with people close to us. I did so.<\/p>\n<p>Another while later, at the dawn of this year of 2016, Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s called me and said: \u201cThere\u2019s work at hand, we have to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His tone unsettled me: the last time I heard that tone I ended up dead and reborn in a single day, just a little over two years ago. Nevertheless, I went to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>It must have been the first of January of this year, 2016, the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> anniversary of the uprising. There wasn\u2019t anyone else in the hut of the General Command of the EZLN, which SubMoy has occupied as of over three years ago. The coffee was cold but there was sufficient tobacco. He explained to me in broad strokes, as he tends to do, as if he was thinking out loud. He explained the cons, the pros, and then he waited. I understood that it was my turn. The idea, as I already explained, had already been maturing for a while, so I limited myself to refining the cons and adding question marks to the pros. The \u201cwho\u201d was beyond us, and everything that doesn\u2019t have to do directly with us is an enigma. When SubMoy responded to my question of \u201cwho\u201d with a laconic \u201c<i>the one with the birthday<\/i>\u201d (that is, the CNI, which turned 20), the uncertainty lessened: we had known each other for two decades and the National Indigenous Congress was the most solid initiative that had arisen since we emerged into public. The CNI had remained, with ups and downs, faithful to its roots, and although its pain was far from media coverage, it represented the sector most battered by the Hydra. Even so, this only heightened our doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>The truth is,\u201d <\/i>I told him, <i>\u201cWe can\u2019t really know what will happen. This idea is going to unravel various knots and what will result is totally unknown. We don\u2019t know if the National Indigenous Congress will accept, much less if the Sixth will understand. And well, since those above don\u2019t think but rather react from the gut, they\u2019re going to break things that it may be impossible to put back together. It is very risky. Right now, watching and analyzing what is going on out there, I think it\u2019s more likely that it turns out badly then that it turns out well.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>SubMoy set his coffee cup aside and lit a cigarette. <i>\u201cIndeed, that is where you come in. You know well that our style is to prepare for things to turn out badly\u2014remember the uprising and everything that followed. So, if things go badly, then we will need\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I got ahead of myself and interrupted him: <i>\u201cAn alternate plan?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He laughed heartily and said, <i>\u201cNo, we need someone to blame for it turning out badly.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In broad strokes, Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s recalled bits of the film \u201c<i>La Ley de Herodes<\/i>,\u201d and when I thought that he was going linger on the final speech of Representative Vargas (the history of a mediocre man who becomes a criminal and later a governing official, sound familiar?) he referred instead to the part about \u201c<i>There\u2019s good news and there\u2019s bad news<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Superfluous note: \u201cLa Ley de Herodes\u201d is a film by Luis Estrada, with Mart\u00edn Torres as directing assistant; story and screen play by Jaime Sampietro, Fernando Le\u00f3n, Vicente Le\u00f1ero, and Luis Estrada himself; photography by Norman Christianson; music by Santiago Ojeda; makeup by Alfredo Mora and Felipe Salazar. Along with \u201cEl Infierno,\u201d also by Luis Estrada, with the great Joaqu\u00edn Cos\u00edo in the cast in the role of \u201cCochiloco,\u201d these are the only films that have managed to displace those of Jean Claude Van Damme from the top of the movie fan list in the Zapatista communities and encampments).<\/p>\n<p>Later he added: <i>\u201cWe have to plan first how to deal with the bad news.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take much to guess that the bad news was the failure of the initiative. And I\u2019m not referring to its lack of success per se, but rather that it could be rejected by the CNI, who, if they accepted it, would become the indisputable protagonist of something that would astonish Mexico and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s continued with the details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Look, the first thing that will worry the CNI is that they will be accused of betraying their word, that they will be stepping into shit, that they will be straying from their path, that they will be giving in. That they will be accused of letting themselves be convinced by the system and wanting money, that is, Power, to rule, to be like everybody else. They will be accused of surrendering, selling out. They will most certainly hear these critiques, but I am sure that they have the clear-headedness and thinking to respond adequately. But the problems is who will listen to them. They will be attacked harshly and won\u2019t be given the opportunity to defend themselves.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>But that is where we can help out. If we, that is, you, put yourself forward to receive the critiques and attacks, then the CNI will be able to see not only those who emerge to say something, but also the points in favor or against that they couldn\u2019t make out until the proposal became public. All of this is going to help them decide yes or no.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He continued on. He created something like a spoken portrait of exactly what has happened over the last 4 weeks. He said who would say what, who would be against and why, what the Ruler would think, who would be confused, who would be hopeful, who would extend their vulture\u2019s wings, and who would support the whole process because they knew exactly what was at stake.<\/p>\n<p>After several hours of questions and answers, I said, \u201c<i>But for this I don\u2019t need to be present. A few communiques, maybe an interview would be sufficient. That\u2019s how the media is, they will think that nothing has changed, that they can do the same as always. Those above, well, they are so predictable it\u2019s boring. They\u2019ll come out with their accusations of protagonism, manipulation, division. You\u2019re right about one thing, they\u2019ll definitely concentrate on one person. But, I repeat, none of that requires that I be in attendance. What\u2019s more, they\u2019re so predictable that even if I don\u2019t say anything at all they\u2019ll come out against me.\u201d <\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>No,\u201d <\/i>said SubMoy, <i>\u201cyou have to present the proposal. Not only because when they see you there they\u2019re going to say it\u2019s all your sleight of hand and the cons we expected will play out just as we expected, but also because the compas of the CNI will understand that it isn\u2019t something that only has to do with the indigenous peoples. It\u2019s bigger, much bigger.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He lit another cigarette and continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>As big, or bigger, than January 1, 1994.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That was no small claim, given who it was coming from. Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s is not only a war veteran, but came to the EZLN long before the beginning of the war. On January 1, 1994, he was responsible for commanding the regiment that took the plaza of the municipal seat of Las Margaritas, while carrying the already lifeless body of Subcomandante Insurgente Pedro. Years later, he would become responsible for the Zapatista communities. On October 26, 2010, he was promoted to the rank of Subcomandante Insurgente, the highest rank in the EZLN\u2019s military hierarchy. In 2012, \u201cthe day of the end of the world,\u201d he was the one who organized and coordinated the silent mobilization of more than 40,000 men, women, children, and elder Zapatistas who, on that date, surprised the world. On February 14, 2013, he became Zapatista spokesperson and chief. Since then, all of our public words and any national or international initiative we make must have his approval.<\/p>\n<p>He was and is right: the task is so, so terrible and marvelous that it could be bigger than that January 1, 1994 that marked us so indelibly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Even if the CNI rejects the proposal, just the act of thinking about it, discussing it, the dialogue itself will mean that they are no longer the same, because they will move from the \u201cthis is being done to us,\u201d to \u201cwe are going to do something,\u201d and this will take them to a new manner of thinking,\u201d Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s continued.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>And they won\u2019t be alone,\u201d <\/i>he said almost at the end, <i>\u201cin addition to us, they will have at their side the arts and the sciences.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Before leaving, I asked him why the National Indigenous Congress. Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s got up to accompany me to the door and answered:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Because they are the only ones who can do what we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Later on what happened, happened. The democratic teachers\u2019 organizations reaffirmed their rebellion; the originary peoples continued to suffer attacks, displacements, disrespect; the Hydra continued devouring worlds; and the <i>CompArte<\/i> exploded in colors, sounds, shapes, and movements that were merely the prelude to what was to come: a terrible and marvelous earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Still on the eve of the events, I asked Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s if there were any changes. \u201c<i>What we said before, prepare yourself to head out,\u201d <\/i>he answered me without adding anything else.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at CIDECI on October 9, when the afternoon was already hanging its stained clothes on the trees and houses. Later, when the night became master of calendar and geography, the CNI delegations began arriving. The road they had to travel to arrive was not a short one.<\/p>\n<p>We had followed closely each and every process of the CNI, their public and private words. The CNI is the only space where the originary peoples can be heard. We knew that soon, to the number of murdered, disappeared, imprisoned, and beaten, would be added the cadavers of entire territories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>When the territory of an originary people, nation, tribe, or barrio is displaced or destroyed,\u201d<\/i> our Tata Grande Juan Ch\u00e1vez Alonso used to say, indigenous Pur\u00e9pecha who was master and guide of the CNI and the EZLN, <i>\u201cthe originary peoples who have their roots and home in it die with it. And when an originary people dies, a world is extinguished.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We knew already at that point that in the work sessions and minutes of this Congress there would be fewer worlds. More than a few had arrived to say goodbye, although they did not know it yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>We have to start, now<\/i>,\u201d Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s told me, \u201c<i>we have to share the load<\/i>\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A PROPOSAL IS BORN<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On October 9, 2016, it was already nighttime when we asked to have some initial meetings with those who were arriving. We met in one corner of the CIDECI-Unitierra facilities. The Zapatista delegation sat across from the arriving CNI delegates. Let me tell you a little about the Zapatista delegation: there were 34 people, 17 women and 17 men. Of those, only 7 were \u201cthe elders\u201d; the other 27 were <i>comandantas<\/i> and <i>comandantes<\/i> who had been children or youth when we rose up on the f January 1, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>We greeted one another with a handshake. Everyone sat down except for Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s and me. He gave me a signal. I started to speak, trying to remember everything that we had previously discussed, explaining what, more or less, would have to be repeated the next day, October 10, in the closed plenary, and then again in the open plenary on October 13:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201c<i>We think that we must make a decision as the CNI and the EZLN. We have to decide if this Fifth Congress is like other meetings where we speak of our suffering, discuss our resistances, complain, curse the system, declare that we won\u2019t give up, and then each of us goes back to our land to continue to keep track of the aggressions, displacements, injustices, and deaths. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><i>Our pain reaches less and less people. Our dead don\u2019t find the same echo that they once did. And this isn\u2019t because people from the outside have become cynical or apathetic. It\u2019s that the war that we have been enduring for a long time as originary peoples has now reached them too, it is in their streets, in their houses, in their schools, in their workplaces. Our suffering is now one among many others. Yet despite the fact that this pain now extends further and deeper, we are more alone than ever. There will increasingly be fewer of us. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><i>Soon the CNI will not even be able to meet because they will not be able to leave their territories, either because of a lack of money, because of the bad government, because of the corporations, because of crime, or because of death that comes naturally or is imposed. A little further down the road we will only be talking amongst ourselves, knowing in advance what we are going to say.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><i>You, delegates to the CNI, are here because you were sent here, because your peoples, nations, tribes, and barrios seek help, they seek words and listening ears to relieve and comfort them. You come to speak and listen. Your responsibility is to your people, not to anyone else. Everything is very bad and, you and we both know, it\u2019s going to get worse. We have to do something.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I told them an anecdote about something that happened to the deceased SupMarcos during the Other Campaign 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He explained that, in an originary nation in the Northwest of Mexico, he met with an indigenous leader. As in other situations, the deceased was criticized because that leader had previously received representatives of the institutional government. The deceased said that he had not been sent to judge, condemn, or absolve this man, but to listen because one day he would be needed. The indigenous leader met with him, separately and in private.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The leader said to the deceased: \u201c<i>I know very well that they didn\u2019t want you to meet with me, that they have put pressure on you to not be here. They have also pressured me not to meet with you. I don\u2019t know why you are here. I imagine that those who sent you here told you to come and see and listen. I don\u2019t know. But I will tell you why I am meeting with you. I have met with the different government representatives. All of the different colors and sizes have shown up here. They come, they get their picture taken, they say a few words, they go, and they don\u2019t come back. I have received them here because those that came before me told me that my duty was to make sure that my people, my community, does not die, to make sure that we survive. That is why I met with them, and that is why I am meeting with you. I don\u2019t believe that you bring me advice or lessons, although it is good that you are not trying to get a picture and you listen instead of talking. I met with them because I think that doing so will allow my people to survive for a while longer, and not to die. That is why I am meeting with you, because I believe that you will see something of what we are, and that gaze, even if just for a little while, will help my people survive.\u201d <\/i>The deceased wrote all of this down in his notebook, that is why he had the exact words of the indigenous leader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">After saying these words, the leader was quiet. The deceased then asked for permission to speak. The leader granted him the right to speak. The deceased said, more or less (he didn\u2019t write it in his notebook because he couldn\u2019t speak and write at the same time): <i>\u201cThank you for meeting with me. I only have one question: are you not worried that you have been wrong, that by meeting with the government or with me you have not helped to stop your people from dying and that you will be judged as a bad leader?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The indigenous leader waited to see if that was the entire question, and then responded: <i>\u201cThe only ones who can judge me are my own people. If my people condemn me for what I have done and what I do, that would mean that I wasn\u2019t wrong. Because in order for them to judge and condemn me, my people will have to have survived. And that would mean that I have carried out my duty, and I can show the dead that I have done so, even if the living condemn me.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">That is the end of the deceased\u2019s anecdote.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I continued speaking:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201c<i>That is why you have to be very clear about who you are accountable to. You don\u2019t owe anything to the EZLN. Nor to the Sixth. Nor to anyone but your own people, who you represent. You have to do something, because soon, for many people there will be nothing left and it will be too late.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We told them that they had to do something, that their duty was to their originary peoples, <i>barrios<\/i>, tribes, and nations, to their collectives and organizations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We told them to do something, anything; to join, if they thought it necessary, Morena<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote5sym\" name=\"sdendnote5anc\"><sup>v<\/sup><\/a> (this is in the recordings and the attending delegates can confirm it. That was the only time that, for our part, we mentioned the person who would later, before anyone else, delegitimize and condemn the proposal, demonstrating stupidity, racism, intolerance, disrespect, and frank schizophrenia.<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote6sym\" name=\"sdendnote6anc\"><sup>vi<\/sup><\/a> Yes, the first option that Zapatismo presented to the CNI was to support the political party Movimiento de Regeneraci\u00f3n Nacional) [Morena]. Or to join any other political party. Or to make their own political party.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We said that we would not follow them in this, but we would understand why they did it and that they would not hear judgement or condemnation from us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We said that if the Sixth got in their way, to leave it behind.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">That if the EZLN held them back, to cut off relations with us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We don\u2019t need to tell you that, in response to each of these options, the delegates gestured as if they were swatting away impertinent flies. They all remained quiet. I continued:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201c<i>Do something, be it this or something else.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here I looked back at Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s. He gestured that I should continue:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201c<i>We came to propose something else to you: we are battered, with deaths, disappearances, kidnappings, incarcerations, displacements, injustices, entire territories destroyed and others on their way to extinction. We are cornered, without hope, without strength, without support, weak and agonizing. For the politicians and the media, even those on the left or progressives, we don\u2019t exist.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><i>That is why we Zapatistas think that it is time to go on the offensive. The time has come to counterattack. And we have to begin by striking one of the hearts of the system: politics from above. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><i>That is why we propose that the CNI form an Indigenous Governing Junta (that is what we called it in our original proposal; in assembly, as proposed by a Magonist indigenous delegation from Oaxaca, it became \u201cIndigenous Governing Council\u201d), a collective made up of delegates from the CNI which aspires to govern the country. It should compete in the 2018 presidential elections running an indigenous woman from the CNI as an independent candidate.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">No, in response to this proposal the delegates didn\u2019t act as if they were swatting away an annoying insect. Rather, they got openly angry. Some were really annoyed (well, more precisely, they were pissed). Others said that it was a very bad joke, that it didn\u2019t make them laugh and instead gave them a stomachache. But the majority waited in silence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I should tell you that, for originary peoples, silence does not mean agreement, persuasion, or a lack of argument. It means listening, and\u2014take note\u2014thinking and analyzing before speaking (yes, it would do others well to follow this method).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Why did they listen to us? Because they consider us brothers and sisters. The mutual respect that we have for one another made them hear us out until the end.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And they understood that it wasn\u2019t a passing thought, but an idea that could become a proposal. So they started to think about it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">After a long silence, someone began to speak, saying something like: \u201c<i>I\u2019m thinking that this could be how we reconstruct the CNI, that this initiative could give visibility to the indigenous people once again. Because compas, we have to be honest, we don\u2019t exist for the political class. They no longer even talk about us anymore as an object of charity. I think that with this proposal we could encounter not only other indigenous people, but we also many people from below who are screwed. There is much discontent all over the country, and there is no alternative for indigenous people, nor for those who are not indigenous. Of course, the proposal has many things going against it that we must analyze seriously<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Someone else took up the word and mentioned two things working against the proposal: the racism that exists in Mexican society; and that they would be criticized and attacked for seeking Power. Both points against were repeated in later assessments as well. But no, not in this meeting nor in the ones to follow, did anyone mention as a point against the proposal that they would be accused of wanting to \u201cdivide the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">That is how the idea stopped being only our idea. That is how the CNI began to think about it and make it their own. The word spread far and wide. Soon, all of the delegations were thinking, offering opinions, and evaluating the proposal. The absurd idea began to be transformed into a collective proposal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Words came and went during the closed plenary assembly on October 10 during the work sessions on October 11. Without failing to comply with the mandate the delegations had, the central theme of the meeting ceased to be denunciation. The possibility of going on the offensive became the most important thing. During the work sessions (there were 4) in which observers could attend, whenever the topic came up, some of the <i>compas<\/i> of the Sixth would move nervously in their seats, looking at one another (they weren\u2019t allowed to speak, only to listen), turning to look at the Zapatista delegation (we had divided ourselves across the four work sessions in order to be able to have a complete account of all of the denunciations and experiences of the CNI delegations). More than one of them left, their irritation apparent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A feverish movement ran through the meetings, large and small. Whoever was able to do so called their communities, explaining to them what was being discussed and asking for their opinions and feedback. The pros and cons were analyzed and discussed. They made lists of each. They weighed them. They sought an answer to the question, \u201cWill it be worth it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The idea had already ceased to be the EZLN\u2019s. It now belonged to the National Indigenous Congress. In the collective heart of the originary peoples, the echo grew of the initial words spoken by Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, in the name of all of the Zapatista men and women:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u201c<i>Now is the time of the National Indigenous Congress. With its step, let the earth tremble at its core. With its dreams, let cynicism and apathy be vanquished. In its words, let those without voice be lifted up. With its gaze, let darkness be illuminated. In its ear, let the pain of those who think they are alone find a home. In its heart, let desperation find comfort and hope. In its challenge, let the world be seen anew<\/i>.\u201d But what was missing was yet to come.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Beyond evaluating the pros and cons, it had to be clear for the CNI what the role of Zapatismo was in this initiative.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Far in advance, Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s and the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee had organized a small party to celebrate the birthday of the National Indigenous Congress which commemorated, on October 12, 2016, 20 years of being home, ear, word, and echo of the originary peoples of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The place? The <i>caracol<\/i> of Oventik, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The delegations of the CNI were received according to the Zapatista protocols for special invitees. Of course, there was an extra effort made to honor these visitors. It isn\u2019t every day that we receive our closest relatives, those who share with the Zapatista peoples blood, pain, rage, resistance, and rebellion\u2014that is, history.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">At first I didn\u2019t understand why Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s had arranged the positions of the delegations the way he did: the CNI delegations were seated on the main stage, and in front them he put a small wooden platform for the Zapatista leadership, which he led himself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I could see everything because I was moving from side to side, trying to convince the <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> and <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i> of the CNI to stand up on the benches to see better. \u201cBut I have mud on my shoes and I\u2019m going to get the bench dirty,\u201d argued a delegate. \u201c<i>Compa\u00f1era<\/i>\u201d I said, \u201c<i>here if there is one thing that we have plenty of, its mud. Don\u2019t worry about it.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The CNI named an indigenous woman to speak in the ceremony. Comandante David gave the welcome. Then the <i>compa\u00f1era<\/i> from the National Indigenous Congress spoke. She spoke as one does among family: with her heart in her hand. I won\u2019t repeat her words, nor the ones that Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s shared on our behalf. The <i>compa\u00f1era<\/i> from the CNI was about to leave the stage when Subcomandante Insurgente Moises asked her to stay.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The <i>compa\u00f1era<\/i> stayed there for the entire proceedings, surrounded by the indigenous Zapatista leadership, facing the delegations of the National Indigenous Congress.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And then I understood.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I was looking from off to one side, but with the visual perspective of the CNI delegations who could see how an indigenous woman just like them, from the National Indigenous Congress just like them, was accompanied by the highest authority of the EZLN who were sheltering her, protecting her, accompanying her, and supporting her, taking note of what made us different, but <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> and <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i> all the same.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">That was how, with this symbolism, Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s responded to the question that had circulated through the CNI delegations from the very first day: \u201cWhat role would the EZLN have in this initiative if it is approved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Afterwards there were dances, theatrical performances, songs, and poems.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">At the end of the proceedings, a troop of Zapatista <i>milicianas<\/i> performed a whole communiqu\u00e9 without saying a single word.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And afterwards? The food: beef and turkey, with the choice of coffee or <i>pozol<\/i>. Everyone left soon after.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">On the following day, October 13, was the general resolution assembly\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b>WHY?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>October 13th started off auspiciously: one of the work sessions hadn\u2019t finished yet and the plenary assembly was delayed. When it did begin, it started with a reading of the minutes from each work session. And yes, one of the sessions hadn\u2019t finished transcribing yet. There was further delay, as there should be for any important decision. Oh, I know. It\u2019s pointless to say it; we ourselves are the constant and ongoing update of the software \u201c<i>la rebeli\u00f3n de los colgados.<\/i>\u201d<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote7sym\" name=\"sdendnote7anc\"><sup>vii<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s\u2019 orders, the Zapatista delegation sat in the back of the auditorium at CIDECI-Unitierra during the three plenary assemblies (the closed assembly, the inauguration, and the final plenary). That was to make clear what this was about: it was the hour of the National Indigenous Congress.<\/p>\n<p>When we finally got to the topic of \u201cProposals to strengthen the CNI,\u201d Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s asked for the floor on behalf of the Zapatista delegation. It was granted him and he went to the front of the auditorium. He began more or less like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>I\u2019ve heard about a movie, I think it\u2019s called \u201cLa Ley de Herodes\u201d <\/i>(general laughter, and a grimace from me because I knew what was coming)<i>. So in this movie they told me about there\u2019s a part where Vargas says, \u2018I\u2019ve got good news and bad news <\/i>(more general laughter, more personal grimaces)<i>. So we have to see what we\u2019re going to do about the bad news. In other words, we have to see who we\u2019re going to blame if this turns out badly. That said, I\u2019m going to ask SupGaleano to come explain the proposal <\/i>(more general laughter, now no grimaces from me).<\/p>\n<p>I went to the front of the auditorium. After clarifying that I was happy to do my duty as \u201cpunching bag,\u201d or \u201calternative plan,\u201d and that being the target of critique and insults was a powerful aphrodisiac for me (well, I used more mundane terms, but that was the idea), I said what I was charged with saying. I will repeat it here in summary form, as this text is already several pages long and if you\u2019ve gotten this far, you deserve special consideration. What\u2019s more, now you will know why the <i><b>eezeeelen<\/b><\/i> made this proposal and why we made it to the CNI.<\/p>\n<p>First we insisted that the original proposal was for an indigenous woman, a CNI delegate, who spoke her indigenous language and knew her culture. We started there because the designation that it be \u201ca woman\u201d had been diluted in conversation and throughout the work sessions. First people began to say \u201cthe <i>candidata<\/i> or <i>candidato,<\/i>\u201d later \u201cthe <i>candidato<\/i> or <i>candidata,\u201d<\/i>and then just \u201cthe <i>candidato<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then we reminded everyone that they could not make a decision there, in that Fifth Congress, because the National Indigenous Congress, as of their formation as such, had made a commitment to consult their peoples on proposals made in their meetings. The seven principles obligate the CNI to consult its own bases, each group according to its own ways.<\/p>\n<p>Then we said what we believed with respect to the initiative:<\/p>\n<p>That the Indigenous Governing Council should be composed of delegates (men and women) from all of the originary peoples, collectives, organizations, <i>barrios<\/i>, tribes, and nations that make up the National Indigenous Congress.<\/p>\n<p>That they wouldn\u2019t win, because the electoral system in Mexico is made to benefit the political parties, not the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>That if they did win, the victory wouldn\u2019t be recognized because fraud is not an anomaly in the Mexican electoral system, but rather its backbone and essence.<\/p>\n<p>That if they won and were recognized, they wouldn\u2019t be able to do much at all, because up there above there is nothing that can be done. The fundamental issues of the battered Mexican nation will not be solved by the executive power, nor the legislative powers, nor the judicial power. The Ruler has no visible post and operates in the catacombs of international financial Power.<\/p>\n<p>And not in spite of all of the above, but precisely because of it, they could and should carry out the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>This is because their action would imply not just a statement of their disagreement, but a challenge that would find echo in the many <i>belows<\/i> of Mexico and the world. It could generate a process of combative reorganization not just for the originary peoples, but also for workers, <i>campesinos<\/i>, employees, poor city dwellers, teachers, students, in effect, all of the people whose silence and immobility is not a synonym of apathy, but rather because they haven\u2019t been convoked.<\/p>\n<p>In response to what had been said about the initiative being impossible, that it had too much going against it, that they wouldn\u2019t win, we answered that if we had gotten together on December 31, 1993, and told them that in just a few hours we were going to rise up in arms, declare war on the bad government, and attack the barracks of the police and the army, they would also have said that such a thing was impossible, that there was a lot going against us, that we weren\u2019t going to win.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that it didn\u2019t matter if they won the presidency of the Republic or not, that what mattered was the challenge, the irreverence, the revolt, the total rupture with the image of the indigenous as object of pity and charity (an image deeply rooted in the right and, who would have thought, also in the institutional left of \u201ctrue change\u201d<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote8sym\" name=\"sdendnote8anc\"><sup>viii<\/sup><\/a> and its organic intellectuals, addicted to the opium of the social networks). What mattered was that their audacity would shake the entire political system and that they would hear echoes of hope not from one but from many of the <i>Mexicos below<\/i>\u2026 and the <i>belows<\/i> of the world.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that the initiative allowed time for them to decide, with total freedom and responsibility, where and how far they wanted to take it.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that they could decide in any given moment what they would do, because it was their pace and path, and that the destiny they charted would rupture every existing schema, above all those represented by those who believe themselves to be the vanguard of change and revolution.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that if they were willing to challenge a racist society, they should go further and challenge a patriarchal and <i>machista<\/i> one as well (which isn\u2019t the same thing, as those in the feminist struggle can tell you).<\/p>\n<p>We told them that the Zapatista <i>comandantas<\/i> had said that they would be responsible for setting up support for the <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> who became part of the Indigenous Governing Council and the <i>compa\u00f1era<\/i> who became spokesperson and candidate, caring for their children in Zapatista communities. They said they would take good care of the children, as if they were their own. That the children would go to the autonomous schools so they didn\u2019t get behind in their studies, and the solidarity doctors would watch over their health. That if they had pets, they\u2019d take care of those too. They said the <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> of the CNI could do their work without worry if that was the mandate of the agreement the CNI came to.<\/p>\n<p>We told them not to worry if they didn\u2019t know how to speak Spanish very well. Pe\u00f1a Nieto doesn\u2019t either and there he is.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that we would reorient the savings we keep for our resistance and make a call to individuals, collectives, and organizations in Mexico and the world to raise money for them to go wherever they needed to go. That way they would have the freedom to refuse the institutional economic resources that the system gives to independent candidates.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that we thought they could not only govern our country of Mexico, but the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>We told them to take this opportunity to speak and listen to other originary peoples, and to others who aren\u2019t indigenous but are suffering without hope or alternatives all the same.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that there are things that we as Zapatistas can do that the CNI can\u2019t. And that there are things the CNI can do that we as Zapatistas can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that they, the collective that is the National Indigenous Congress, could do what nobody else (including Zapatismo) could do: unite. Because a legitimate movement like that of the originary peoples can and should be a point of unity among many different people with a common resolve.<\/p>\n<p>But this wouldn\u2019t be to \u201cunite\u201d under one particular acronym, or hierarchy, a whole list of real or fake acronyms. No. We mean unite as a point of convergence, to be the footing where differences and rivalries find a common point, a place to meet. The ground, that is, the earth. And who better for that task than those who are the color of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that this Council and this indigenous woman could generate a movement that could shake the entire political system.<\/p>\n<p>A movement where all of the <i>belows<\/i> would converge.<\/p>\n<p>A movement that would make the earth tremble at its cores.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, cores as plural, because there are many worlds that lie within the earth and await a good shaking to be born.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that perhaps, then, it wouldn\u2019t matter if they got the signatures together, if the money to be able to travel was raised or not, if they managed to meet the requirements for candidate registry, if the other candidates showed up for debate, if they participated or not in the elections, if they won or not, if their victory was recognized or not, if they could do something there above or not.<\/p>\n<p>We said none of that would matter because the problems would then be different ones, the questions different ones, the answers different ones.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that we would not pass on to them our phobias and philias, that we would respect their decisions, their steps, their paths.<\/p>\n<p>We told them that as Zapatistas we would be one more force among the many who would surely feel convoked by this challenge.<\/p>\n<p>And we told them that the most important thing that we had come to tell them was this: that we were ready to support them with all of our strength. We told them that we would support them with everything that we have, which, although small, is what we are.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The interventions in the conversation continued, now all of them oriented toward making the proposal theirs, as the CNI. Here and there someone requested that they decide on the spot. The great majority insisted that they had to consult.<\/p>\n<p>The commission transcribing the minutes gave us a copy of the final resolution.<\/p>\n<p>I instinctively grabbed a pen in order to start adding commas and periods.<\/p>\n<p>Subcomandante Insurgente Moises stopped me and murmured, <i>\u201cNo, this is their word. And their word is big, much bigger than we are as Zapatistas. Like the deceased one used to say: we are the smallest, and it is our turn to step to the side and wait\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>THE ZAPATISTA INTERNAL CONSULTATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We could just give you the results and leave it at that. But we think if we tell you about the process you might understand it, and us, better.<\/p>\n<p>As of October 15, 2016, the Zapatista delegation to the Fifth Congress of the National Indigenous Congress, along with the CG-CCRI [Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee\u2014General Command] of the EZLN began the work of organizing an internal consultation to determine the opinion and decision of the Zapatista bases of support with regard to the principal proposal.<\/p>\n<p>We carried out the internal consultation in each and every Zapatista community, collective, region, and zone. We also consulted the <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i>, <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i>, brothers, and sisters from the city who participate in the various support teams for the EZLN\u2019s Sixth Commission. We did not include the Zapatista insurgent troops in the consultation because it is not our job to make those kinds of decisions.<\/p>\n<p>We carried out the consultation according to our ways of doing things and following a guide that Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s developed the morning of October 14, 2016, before the text \u201cLet the Earth Tremble at its Core\u201d was made public.<\/p>\n<p>1. Information: In each community, collective, region and zone, the first thing we did was provide information on what was said during those days of October, 2016. That information included the suffering of our brother and sister communities of the National Indigenous Congress, and all of the terrible things the capitalists do to originary peoples\u2014exploitation, repression, disrespect, theft, and the killing off of entire peoples. But that wasn\u2019t all; this information also included how those peoples organize and resist that politics of death and destruction. For that task we used the information provided by the provisional commission of the CNI in the text entitled \u201cLet the Earth Tremble at its Core,\u201d as well as the summaries made and notes taken by the Zapatista delegation during this first phase of the CNI\u2019s National Indigenous Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This point is very important because it is with this information that we converted our sisters and brothers, <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i> and <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i>, into an ear and a heart for the suffering and resistance of others like us in other places. This point is very important and urgent because who will listen to us if we don\u2019t listen to each other.<\/p>\n<p>2. The proposal: We stated and explained the proposal: that the National Indigenous Congress name an Indigenous Governing Council (which is like a Good Government Council, but at a national level, that is, in all of Mexico), made up of men and women who are representatives of each of the collectives, organizations, <i>barrios<\/i>, tribes, nations, and peoples who are organized in the National Indigenous Congress. That is, this Council would be made up of indigenous peoples who would govern the country.<\/p>\n<p>This Indigenous Governing Council would be collective, that is, not with one person ruling, but rather together making agreements in order to govern. This Indigenous Governing Council wouldn\u2019t just do whatever it wanted, but rather would listen to the peoples throughout Mexico, indigenous and non-indigenous.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this Council would function on the seven principles of Rule by Obeying: to serve others, not serve oneself; to represent, not supplant; to construct, not destroy; to obey, not command; to propose, not impose; to convince, not defeat; to work from below, not seek to rise.<\/p>\n<p>This Indigenous Governing Council would have as its spokesperson an indigenous woman from the CNI (not the EZLN), that is, a woman of indigenous blood, who speaks her originary language and knows her culture. So the spokesperson would be an indigenous woman from the CNI.<\/p>\n<p>This indigenous woman from the CNI is the person who would be the candidate to the Mexican presidency in 2018. This is because it is not possible to list all of the names that compose the Indigenous Governing Council because of the confusion that would create, so the name listed would be that of the Council spokesperson. This indigenous woman would not be part of a political party, but rather an independent candidate. That\u2019s what you call someone who is in an election but does not belong to a political party.<\/p>\n<p>So this Indigenous Governing Council, alongside the Indigenous woman from the CNI, would travel through as much of Mexico and the world as possible in order to explain the situation that we are living because of the capitalist system which exploits, represses, steals, and disrespects the people from below, the poor of the countryside and the city, and that in addition is destroying nature and killing off the world in which we live.<\/p>\n<p>This Indigenous Governing Council would try to speak and listen to all of the Indigenous people of Mexico in their own communities, regions, zones, and states in order to convince them to organize, not to give in, to resist and to govern themselves as we Zapatistas do, and to not let anyone tell us what we have to do or how to do it but that it be the people themselves who decide and rule.<\/p>\n<p>This Indigenous Governing Council would also try to speak and listen to those who are not indigenous but who are also exploited, repressed, robbed, and disrespected in Mexico and the world. It would take them a message of organization and struggle, resistance and rebellion, to be carried out according to their own ways, calendars, and geographies.<\/p>\n<p>For this indigenous woman, CNI delegate, to be recognized as a candidate by Mexican law, they would have to get almost a million signatures of people who are registered to vote. If they managed to reach that many signatures, then she would be recognized as independent candidate for the Mexican presidency and her name would appear on the ballot in 2018 when people decide if they will vote or not and for whom. So the proposal is that the Indigenous Governing Council and the indigenous spokesperson travel throughout Mexico and wherever there are Mexican people in order to acquire the necessary signatures to be able to register a candidate. Later they would again travel around to generate support and get people to vote for the CNI indigenous candidate.<\/p>\n<p>As Zapatistas we think that when the Indigenous Governing Council and their spokeswoman make this journey, they will see much of the pain and rage that exist in Mexico and the world. This is the pain and rage of indigenous people but also of people who are not indigenous but suffer and resist all the same.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s what it\u2019s about. The goal isn\u2019t that an indigenous woman of the CNI become president, but rather that a message of struggle and organization be taken to the poor of the countryside and the cities of Mexico and the world. It\u2019s not that if we get enough signatures or win the election then everything will have turned out well. Rather, things will have gone well if those who nobody speaks to or listens to are actually addressed and heard. That is how we will know if things go well or not\u2014if many people gather their strength and hope in order to organize themselves, resist, and rebel.<\/p>\n<p>How far can this go? As far as the National Indigenous Congress decides.<\/p>\n<p>3. Later we stated and explained the points the proposal has against it. For example:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will criticize us saying that as Zapatistas we have said that we don\u2019t struggle for Power but now we are trying to get Power.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will criticize us saying that we have betrayed our word that we do not want to hold office.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will criticize us saying that we speak badly of the political parties and now we\u2019re going to do exactly what we have been criticizing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will accuse us of supporting the PRI because we would divide the votes for the left and thus allow the right to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will criticize us saying that indigenous women aren\u2019t educated and don\u2019t know how to speak Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will disrespect us saying that we indigenous people don\u2019t have the thinking skills to govern.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014they will mock us and speak badly of us as indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Note to racists and sexists: before you began your attacks, we indigenous Zapatistas already knew what you were going to say. And you think that we are dumb and ignorant and you are intelligent and wise.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> and <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i> participated in the assemblies, commenting on other things that could be points going against the proposal.<br \/>\nFor example, they mentioned security, that the government could launch an attack on the National Indigenous Congress and the candidate so that they wouldn\u2019t win; that the bad governments could attack the Zapatista communities so that we wouldn\u2019t support the CNI; that the government might try to pull some dirty tricks so that the struggle of the CNI couldn\u2019t move forward, because the bad governments are indeed tricksters and traitors; that the political vultures might come around to see what kind of individual profit they could make off the struggle of the indigenous peoples; that there would be people who want to detour the struggle of the indigenous peoples to another path, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>4. Then they provided the points in favor of the proposal. For example:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could serve to let Mexican society once again see and hear the Indian peoples of Mexico, which now they don\u2019t even mention.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could serve to help hear and speak to indigenous peoples throughout Mexico who are not organized and are being destroyed by the damned capitalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could serve to help the indigenous recreate a sense of pride and honor in being indigenous, in their color, their language, their culture, their art, their history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could serve to help indigenous women lift their voices and organize, just as the Zapatista women have risen up and organized.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could serve to explain to people below the magnitude of the destruction and evil that the damned capitalists are carrying out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could help others learn about the National Indigenous Congress and their ways of organizing and urge other indigenous peoples, nations, tribes, and <i>barrios<\/i> to join the CNI and get to know each other as indigenous people and see each other\u2019s pains and strengths.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could help us Zapatistas find a way to support our indigenous brothers and sisters in other places so that they can continue their struggle and live with freedom and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could help us as Zapatista peoples by letting more people come to know our history of struggle and how we have organized, and thus be encouraged to so, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014it could serve the Zapatista peoples in helping us learn to organize not only to help each other internally, but to be organized to support others who struggle, like we did for the democratic teachers\u2019 organizations.<\/p>\n<p>5. Then we went on to think about whether the proposal would serve the purposes of the National Indigenous Congress or not.<\/p>\n<p>6. Then we went on to think about whether this idea would serve the Zapatistas or not.<\/p>\n<p>7. Then we went on to discuss whether or not we support this proposal, and if so, how we as Zapatistas would not be able to offer support, and then how we as Zapatistas could offer support.<\/p>\n<p>For example, we couldn\u2019t offer support in the form of signatures because we Zapatistas aren\u2019t registered to vote. We also couldn\u2019t be candidates because as Zapatistas we do not fight for Power. We could not vote because we don\u2019t vote by putting a piece of paper in a box, but rather by making agreements in our assemblies where everyone participates and offers their word.<\/p>\n<p>But we could support in other ways, for example: we could help explain this good idea and convince those who do register to vote to use their registration to support the indigenous woman from the CNI. We could speak with people from the city who support us as Zapatistas to support the Indigenous Governing Council also. We could organize ourselves as collectives and autonomous governments to raise money to support the CNI\u2019s travels wherever they need to go. We could speak and convince people in the cities to also organize themselves to raise money for the CNI. We could explain in Mexico and the world how we govern ourselves so that people of good thinking can see that we as indigenous do know how to govern.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We also informed all of the communities about another agreement made at the Fifth Congress: that if in the Zapatista internal consultation (or that of any of the originary peoples, collectives, organizations, <i>barrios<\/i>, tribes, and nations) the decision is not to support the proposal, that it is a bad idea and they are not in agreement, then the National Indigenous Congress will respect that decision, even if the majority has said that they do support it. That is, that group will continue to be part of the CNI; it isn\u2019t the case that if a group disagrees then they are obligated to do what the majority decides. The autonomy and ways of each group will be respected.<\/p>\n<p>We do the same thing in the Zapatista indigenous communities. We don\u2019t look badly upon or expel from being Zapatista those who think differently; rather we respect them and take them into account. That is how it is in our assemblies\u2014just because someone\u2019s thinking goes against what the majority says doesn\u2019t mean we kick them out, they continue on as one of us.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the internal consultation was focused on whether we would support or not the result of the CNI consultation. These are the results:<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Zapatista men and women were consulted. They immense majority advocated for supporting the decision made by the CNI to the extent of our abilities. Those against supporting the decision numbered 52 <i>compas<\/i> (26 <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> and 26 <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i>). Those who said \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d or \u201cundecided\u201d numbered 65 <i>compas<\/i> (36 <i>compa\u00f1eras<\/i> and 29 <i>compa\u00f1eros<\/i>). The reasons given by those who were against were varied: from one <i>compa<\/i> who said \u201cI\u2019m going to vote against to see if it\u2019s true that they\u2019re going to respect my opinion and not expel me from being Zapatista,\u201d to those who argued that they weren\u2019t going to be in their community and didn\u2019t want to make a commitment they couldn\u2019t keep with regard to the work implied. Those who said they were undecided said, among other things, that if we didn\u2019t even know what the CNI was going to say yet, then what if we supported the proposal and they decided not to do it.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Compas<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>This is the last part. Thank you to those who got this far\u2026wha?\u2026yes of course, stay tuned\u2026 yes\u2026 doubts, of course\u2026questions, of course\u2026what? What will be the result of the CNI consultation? You want a spoiler?\u2026okay, okay, okay, let me ask\u2026okay\u2026I am told to tell you the truth, so here goes:<\/p>\n<p>To be sincere, we don\u2019t have the slightest idea.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen before how a proposal gets shaped by the work of the word, according to the ways of the originary peoples. It is as if an idea was just a shapeless lump of clay and it is collective hands that go about giving it shape, size, color, destiny.<\/p>\n<p>So, just like you, we\u2019re waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Although, it\u2019s true, we Zapatistas aren\u2019t waiting for the same thing that you all are.<\/p>\n<p>You all, we think, are waiting to see what the result of the consultation is and everything that will derive from that.<\/p>\n<p>We Zapatistas are waiting for what will happen later, the day after. And we are already preparing ourselves for that calendar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mexico<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">November 2016<\/p>\n<p><b>From the Notebook of the Cat-Dog<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t think I haven\u2019t prepared myself for the possibility that the result of the CNI consultation is to reject the proposal. And no, I\u2019m not worried. I have taken the appropriate measures. For example: I have a medical certificate that says I am on the waiting list for a sex change operation, and I have an application in process for my adoption into a Zapatista indigenous family. So you can say it was all a trick so that I would be the <i>candidato<\/i>\u2026okay, okay, okay, the <i>candidata<\/i> for the presidency of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, my perversity is sublime, is it not?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that path would wreck my correspondence with the females. Oh wait, there isn\u2019t any correspondence anymore, not female nor otherwise. Ah, if I was on the social networks I\u2019d create a few alternate accounts (oh please, you know you do that) and I\u2019d give myself <i>likes<\/i>, <i>follows<\/i> and <i>retweets<\/i>; I\u2019d even troll myself to make it clear that everything was t-o-t-a-l-l-y-l-e-g-i-t. Is there a limit to how many alternative accounts one can create? Oh please, you know you\u2019ve already looked this up.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, something will come to me.<\/p>\n<p>Now then, if the proposal is approved, well I\u2019ll have to get to work to raise money. So I\u2019m going to get in contact with <i>loas compa\u00f1eroas<\/i> from <i>Brigada Callejera<\/i> so that they hold a corner for me in La Meche. After all, the street belongs to those who work it. I\u2019m sure my little belly will be all the rage\u2026 wha?\u2026okay, okay, okay, my belly\u2026huh? Oh fine, my big belly\u2026 didn\u2019t I tell you? You guys are so mean.<\/p>\n<p>SupGaleano, busting out of various girdles (<i>fajas<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>(no, thank you, no for real, I don\u2019t need anyone to come stuff me into a girdle (<i>fajar<\/i>)<a class=\"sdendnoteanc\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote9sym\" name=\"sdendnote9anc\"><sup>ix<\/sup><\/a> \u2026.ooooooh listen to that, now we\u2019re showing our true colors, that was a total 60-something pun\u2026ooh but hey listen, that\u2019s why the well behaved goody two-shoes don\u2019t like you, eh\u2026huh? A reality show to raise some cash? With Trump, Macri, Temer, Putin, and Rajoy exchanging nude photos? Sonofa\u2026you shouldn\u2019t watch TV anymore\u2026 better to watch TV series acquired through alternative production\u2026yes, the vendors on Eje Central [avenue in Mexico City] already have the new season of Game of Thrones\u2026yup, turns out that Tyrion and Snow are relatives of Daenerys\u2026however you say it\u2026 yes, a dragon for everybody, a message of equity\u2026yes, united on the new shield are the lion, the wolf, and the dragon \u2026well yes, some version of the Hydra\u2026 yes, as if you united big financial capital with industrial and commercial capital\u2026yes, the system recomposes itself and everybody above is happy and everybody below is fucked\u2026yes, but you are watching an alternative ending\u2026 yes, while everybody is grabbing their glass to celebrate who knows what, an indigenous woman shows up, shits on the iron throne and melts it with a blowtorch \u2026 well okay, they\u2019re considering taking out the blowtorch out and giving her a box of matches, so it takes a little longer, for suspense you know\u2026 yup, maybe even another season, depends on how many matches she\u2019s got\u2026yup, that\u2019s where it ends\u2026 well because of the Brexit thing, costs were going through the roof. And now with Trump, well, even worse\u2026What? I should quit with the spoilers? Well jeez, why do you invite me then, you know how I am).<\/p>\n<p>I testify.<\/p>\n<p>Meow-woof<\/p>\n<div id=\"sdendnote1\">\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote1anc\" name=\"sdendnote1sym\">i<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> Refers to Veracruz governor Javier Duarte currently on the run from the law after a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of links to organized crime and money laundering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote2\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote2anc\" name=\"sdendnote2sym\">ii<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> A reference to Margarita Zavala, the wife of ex-president Felipe Calder\u00f3n (2006-2012) and likely PAN candidate for the presidency in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote3\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote3anc\" name=\"sdendnote3sym\">iii<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <i>Viejer\u00edo<\/i> is a derogatory term that could be translated as something like \u201ca gaggle of broads.\u201d <i>Calzonudos<\/i> is a pejorative term used against Indigenous peoples whose traditional style of pants were mocked by the Spanish and their descendants for supposedly resembling underwear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote4\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote4anc\" name=\"sdendnote4sym\">iv<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> \u201c<i>Cara de trapo\u201d or \u201csockhead\u201d<\/i> is a derogatory term used by critics to deride members of the EZLN (and their use of masks) and in this instance refers specifically to Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote5\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote5anc\" name=\"sdendnote5sym\">v<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> Movimiento de Regeneraci\u00f3n Nacional (MORENA), is the party founded by Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador (AMLO) and acolytes after leaving the PRD in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote6\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote6anc\" name=\"sdendnote6sym\">vi<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> This refers to comments made by L\u00f3pez Obrador in response to the CNI communique \u201cLet the Earth Tremble at its Core.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote7\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote7anc\" name=\"sdendnote7sym\">vii<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> <i>Rebellion of the Hanged<\/i>, the fifth in B. Traven\u2019s six-volume series of novels set in the lead up to and dawn of the Mexican Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote8\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote8anc\" name=\"sdendnote8sym\">viii<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> MORENA\u2019s campaign slogan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote9\">\n<p><a class=\"sdendnotesym\" href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2016\/11\/26\/a-story-to-try-to-understand\/#sdendnote9anc\" name=\"sdendnote9sym\">ix<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup> Technically <i>fajar<\/i> means swaddle or wrap up, but as slang means to grope or feel up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] 17 de noviembre del 2016. A la Sexta nacional e internacional: A quienes simpatizan y apoyan la lucha de los pueblos originarios: A quienes son anticapitalistas: Compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eroas: Hermanas y hermanos: Este extenso texto lo hicimos conjuntamente con el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, vocero y actual jefe del EZLN, y consultando unos detalles con [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1024,1095,118,955],"tags":[63,644,926,545,148],"class_list":["post-19340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autonomia","category-cni-temas","category-concejo-indigena-de-gobierno","category-ezln","category-ezln-temas","tag-cni","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-ezln","tag-pueblos-indigenas","tag-resistencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}