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Palabras del Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s<\/a><\/p>\n Palabras del Comit\u00e9 Clandestino Revolucionario Ind\u00edgena<\/a><\/p>\n Palabras de la Junta de Buen Gobierno Hacia La Esperanza<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Escucha: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/25AnivSupMoi.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n 31 de diciembre de 2018.<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras Bases de Apoyo Zapatistas: Por mi voz habla la voz del Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional.<\/p>\n Les hablo como vocero de todos ustedes, es mi trabajo ser su voz y ser su mirada.<\/p>\n Lleg\u00f3 la hora para nosotros los pueblos zapatistas y lo miramos que estamos solos.<\/p>\n Se los digo claro compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros bases de apoyo, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras milicianos y milicianas, as\u00ed lo vemos, estamos solos como hace veinticinco a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n Salimos a despertar al pueblo de M\u00e9xico y al mundo, solos, y hoy veinticinco a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s vemos que estamos solos, pero s\u00ed fuimos a decirles, muchos encuentros lo hicimos, ustedes lo saben, compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eros, ustedes fueron testigos, fuimos a despertar, fuimos a decirles a los pobres de M\u00e9xico, del campo y la ciudad.<\/p>\n Muchos no nos hicieron caso, algunos s\u00ed est\u00e1n organiz\u00e1ndose, esperemos que sigan organiz\u00e1ndose, la mayor\u00eda no nos hicieron caso.<\/p>\n Pero hicimos el trabajo y nos falta, y por eso les estamos dici\u00e9ndoles claro, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras.<\/p>\n Pero no s\u00f3lo esos veinticinco a\u00f1os de lo que sabemos, hace m\u00e1s de quinientos a\u00f1os, por eso nosotros aqu\u00ed estamos inform\u00e1ndoles, dici\u00e9ndoles lo que vimos hace veinticinco a\u00f1os, como que no nos miran, como que no nos escuchan lo que estamos diciendo a los pobres de M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n Hace veinticinco a\u00f1os de nuestro alzamiento hemos mirado esto que les estamos diciendo.<\/p>\n Se los repetimos, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, vemos que estamos solos.<\/p>\n Lo que hemos logrado, fue logrado con nuestro trabajo, con nuestro esfuerzo.<\/p>\n Si hemos logrado algo, es por nuestro trabajo, y si tenemos error, tambi\u00e9n es nuestra falla. Pero es nuestro trabajo,\u00a0 nadie nos lo dijo, \u00a0nadie nos lo ense\u00f1\u00f3, es nuestro trabajo. \u00a0Algunos y algunas nos quer\u00edan ense\u00f1ar, nos quer\u00edan decir qu\u00e9 es lo que tenemos que hacer y qu\u00e9 cosas no tenemos que hacer, cu\u00e1ndo hablar, cu\u00e1ndo no hablar. No les vamos a hacer caso. Solamente el que se organiza sabe, lo ve, lo entiende.\u00a0 En discursos s\u00f3lo se dice; se tiene que hacer lo que se dice, se tiene que hacer lo que se piensa, manuales no tenemos, libros no tenemos.\u00a0 Lo que nosotros queremos construir nadie nos va a ense\u00f1ar, tiene que ser con nuestro sacrificio, tiene que ser con nuestro esfuerzo, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras.<\/p>\n Y estamos demostrando una vez m\u00e1s y lo vamos a tener que cumplir, estamos demostrando que s\u00ed es posible lo que se ve y lo que se siente que es imposible.\u00a0 En el discurso se dice muy f\u00e1cil, hay que hacer posible lo que es imposible, as\u00ed se dice. En la pr\u00e1ctica se tiene que hacer y lo estamos demostrando. Cu\u00e1l es eso que decimos que estamos demostrando, ah\u00ed est\u00e1, lo tenemos a nuestro frente; el pueblo aqu\u00ed es el que manda, tiene su propia pol\u00edtica, tiene su propia ideolog\u00eda, tiene su propia cultura, va creando, va mejorando, va corrigiendo, va imaginando y se va a ir practicando.<\/p>\n Eso es lo que somos, eso. Aqu\u00ed el mal gobierno no manda, manda las mujeres y los hombres, las que est\u00e1n organizadas y los que est\u00e1n organizados. Los que no est\u00e1n organizados, siguen creyendo a esa desesperanza que se dice, no es esperanza.<\/p>\n Nos quieren mentir, nos quieren enga\u00f1ar, empezando por que hay pueblo que cree eso que se dice la virgen morena. \u00a0Es un loco el que dice eso, no sabe pensar, no piensa por el pueblo. Nosotros, compa\u00f1eros, estamos trabajando con nuestra experiencia, con nuestro trabajo, y con nuestro esfuerzo y lo vamos a seguir haciendo. Y lo vamos a seguir construyendo y lo vamos a ganar. Todo lo que hemos construido lo tenemos cargado nosotros, hay algunos hermanos, hermanas solidarias, algunos y algunas que nos han ayudado, pero todo el peso lo hemos cargado, nosotras, nosotros, porque no es f\u00e1cil enfrentar a esos partidos pol\u00edticos, a esos malos gobiernos y hoy al que est\u00e1 actual tramposo, ma\u00f1oso.<\/p>\n No es f\u00e1cil enfrentar los veinticinco a\u00f1os aqu\u00ed a miles de soldados protectores del capitalismo, y aqu\u00ed est\u00e1n, aqu\u00ed donde estamos, pasamos en sus narices estos d\u00edas. No es f\u00e1cil enfrentar a los paramilitares, no es f\u00e1cil enfrentar a los chiquitos l\u00edderes que los tienen comprado todos los partidos pol\u00edticos hoy, especialmente el que est\u00e1 en el poder y el partido que est\u00e1 en el poder. Pero no le tenemos miedo. \u00bfO s\u00ed le tenemos miedo, compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros?<\/p>\n [se oye al un\u00edsono \u201cNo\u201d] No les escuch\u00e9 [se escucha m\u00e1s fuerte \u201cNo\u201d]<\/p>\n La gente de afuera va y viene, nosotros aqu\u00ed estamos, aqu\u00ed seguimos. Cada vez que vienen, vienen como a turistear<\/em>, pero la miseria, la desigualdad, la injusticia no se trata de turistearlo,<\/em> el pueblo pobre de M\u00e9xico est\u00e1 muriendo y va a seguir muriendo. \u00a0L\u00e1stima que le hacen caso a aquel que est\u00e1 ah\u00ed enga\u00f1ando al pueblo de M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n Y no lo mentimos compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros, hace cinco a\u00f1os les estuvimos dici\u00e9ndole al pueblo de M\u00e9xico y al mundo, que va a venir una cosa peor. En sus lenguas de como hablan ellos y ellas, los de afuera, le dicen colapso, hidra, monstruo, muro, se los dijimos intentando de usar sus palabras como hablan, aun as\u00ed no nos hicieron caso. Creen entonces que les estamos mintiendo porque le est\u00e1n haciendo caso a aquel que ni su nombre no lo quiero decir, mejor le digo tramposo, ma\u00f1oso, aquel que est\u00e1 en el poder.<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, \u00e9se que est\u00e1 en el poder lo va a destruir al pueblo de M\u00e9xico pero principalmente a los pueblos originarios, viene por nosotros, y especialmente a nosotros al Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9? Porque aqu\u00ed estamos dici\u00e9ndole claro no le tenemos miedo \u00bfo s\u00ed, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras?<\/p>\n [suena fuerte \u201cNo\u201d]<\/p>\n Vamos a enfrentar, no vamos a permitir que pase aqu\u00ed \u00e9se su proyecto de destrucci\u00f3n, no le tenemos miedo a su guardia nacional que lo cambi\u00f3 de nombre para no decir ej\u00e9rcito, que son los mismos, lo sabemos.<\/p>\n Vamos a defender lo que hemos construido y que lo estamos demostr\u00e1ndole al pueblo de M\u00e9xico y del mundo que somos nosotros los que estamos construyendo, mujeres y hombres, no vamos a permitir a que vengan a destruirnos \u00bfO s\u00ed?<\/p>\n [suena fuerte \u201cNo\u201d]<\/p>\n Aquel que est\u00e1 en el poder, es ma\u00f1oso, \u00bfy cu\u00e1l es la ma\u00f1a que hace? Que hace de que est\u00e1 con el pueblo de M\u00e9xico y enga\u00f1ando a los pueblos originarios y demostrando que se hinca en la tierra pidi\u00e9ndole permiso como creyendo de que todos los pueblos originarios lo creen y aqu\u00ed nosotros le decimos, no lo creemos eso, al contrario.<\/p>\n \u00bfC\u00f3mo es eso que al contrario? Eso de que disimula que agarra nuestros modos, nuestras costumbres, que pide permiso a nuestra madre tierra; nos est\u00e1 diciendo, dame permiso madre tierra para destruir a los pueblos originarios, eso es lo que dice eso, le hace falta entender a esos otros hermanos pueblos originarios. Eso es lo que est\u00e1 haciendo ese se\u00f1or,\u00a0 nosotros no lo creemos. S\u00f3lo porque la madre tierra no habla, si no se lo dijera \u00a1Chinga tu madre! Porque la tierra no habla, si fuera, \u00a1No, vete a la chingada!<\/p>\n Nosotros sabemos lo que es la madre tierra, tenemos quinientos veintitantos a\u00f1os de estar conviviendo con ella, sabemos nosotros, no aquellos que no saben ni han sentido c\u00f3mo es el sudor, que se creen que lo saben, como esos babosos, babosas de los diputados y senadores, no saben ni lo que es pobreza, no saben lo que es sudor, nosotros s\u00ed. Por lo tanto no saben hacer ley para el pueblo de los pueblos originarios, nosotros s\u00ed, porque sabemos c\u00f3mo es el sufrimiento y sabemos c\u00f3mo queremos la ley que queremos, no a ellos y a ellas.<\/p>\n Para que veas compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras, esos ma\u00f1osos que est\u00e1n ah\u00ed, los tres poderes que hay aqu\u00ed en M\u00e9xico, el poder judicial, el poder ejecutivo, el poder legislativo. F\u00edjense qu\u00e9 es lo que nos hacen, sobre todo aquel, aquellos, el partido aquel que es mayoritario en el congreso de la uni\u00f3n que nos lleva ah\u00ed a ser diputadas, diputados, como ind\u00edgenas y luego nos vamos a sentar a su lado de Ricardo Monreal, por ejemplo, como aquellos tiempos antes que han pasado, se sent\u00f3 un tojolabalero ah\u00ed, a un lado de Diego Fern\u00e1ndez de Ceballos que es un finquero de muchas fincas y ah\u00ed estaba sentado a su lado, ah\u00ed, un ind\u00edgena tojolabalero y si ese ind\u00edgena tojolabalero dice ah\u00ed, participa ah\u00ed en el congreso de la uni\u00f3n y dice queremos que se repartan las tierras que tienen ocupadas los finqueros y est\u00e1 a un lado ah\u00ed Diego Fern\u00e1ndez de Ceballos, eso es lo que nos quieren ense\u00f1ar ah\u00ed eso, y con esa paga que se gana y que est\u00e1n sentados en los pies de un restaurante, en un motel, que va ganando, y que va a seguir dejando a su pueblo, as\u00ed est\u00e1n todos los diputados, senadores, ministros, regidores y otros. Eso es lo que quieren, eso, para que nosotros mismo, tzeltales, tzotziles, choles, tojolabales y todas las lenguas que se hablan aqu\u00ed en M\u00e9xico, nosotros mismos vayamos a mentir y enga\u00f1ar a nuestros pueblos, \u00e9se es lo que nos est\u00e1n ense\u00f1ando, esos, \u00e9se es su trabajo, eso, porque as\u00ed le han dicho a su patr\u00f3n, porque ellos no son gobierno para nosotros, es capataz.<\/p>\n Ahora estamos viendo que viene por nosotros, los pueblos originarios. Esa consulta que hacen, tenemos que decirlo claro, c\u00f3mo manipulan al pueblo, esa consulta le est\u00e1 pidi\u00e9ndole permiso, a trav\u00e9s de voto, para que nos vengan a atacar a nosotros los pueblos originarios. \u00c9sa es la consulta eso, pero al pueblo le hace falta que se despierte y hoy no vamos a poder m\u00e1s atender los veinticinco a\u00f1os, ya nos cansamos.\u00a0 Est\u00e1n dice y dice, como decimos aqu\u00ed, entra en su lado derecho en su o\u00eddo y le sale por su izquierda, o sea, no queda en su pensamiento.<\/p>\n Eso es lo que hace el nuevo gobierno que est\u00e1 ahora, est\u00e1 consultando a que nos vengan a enfrentarnos, nosotros los pueblos originarios y en especial a nosotros, al Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional con ese su porquer\u00eda Tren Maya y todav\u00eda ponen su nombre de nuestros anteriores.\u00a0 No lo aceptamos. Que le ponga su nombre, no tiene nada que ver, si quiere as\u00ed como no nos pregunt\u00f3, que le ponga su nombre de su mam\u00e1.<\/p>\n A lo largo de estos veinticinco a\u00f1os, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, bases de apoyo, mujeres y hombres, milicianas y milicianos, hemos visto y en el mundo tambi\u00e9n los que dicen que luchan, que hay unos que dicen que son progresistas, hay otros que se dicen que son de izquierda, hay otros que dicen que son revolucionarios, y no tienen la m\u00ednima idea la palabra que es revolucionario, porque es que revoluciona, da vuelta. Como decimos ac\u00e1, tenemos que preparar a nuestros j\u00f3venes, a nuestras j\u00f3venas, porque ya nos est\u00e1 dando la vuelta nosotros, un d\u00eda nos vamos a regresar y por eso tenemos que dejar preparados a los j\u00f3venes y a las j\u00f3venas. No tienen la idea lo que dicen, no saben, y la l\u00e1stima dicen que tienen estudio, que tienen sus carreras y que tienen sus diplomas, pero no saben lo que significa la palabra revoluci\u00f3n. Ah pero, bien que saben, hay algunos y algunas, nos dicen que nosotros somos electoristas.<\/p>\n No tienen la m\u00ednima idea de c\u00f3mo hacer revoluci\u00f3n en la idea, en el pensamiento. Piensan que nosotros estamos mintiendo, como ellos y ellas mienten. Lo que nosotros decimos, como dijimos pues al pueblo de M\u00e9xico, vamos a dialogar pero con ustedes, y hemos cumplido, y si un d\u00eda vamos a decir que vamos a defendernos por muy m\u00ednimo que sea que nos vengan a provocar, vamos a defendernos. No vamos a permitir que alguien venga a cobijarse aqu\u00ed en este territorio en rebeld\u00eda y en resistencia y que quieren aprovechar para venir a ocultarse ah\u00ed, a venir a hacer sus pendejadas. No lo vamos a permitir.<\/p>\n A nosotros, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, no lo hemos enga\u00f1ado al pueblo de M\u00e9xico, pero tambi\u00e9n tenemos que decirles que al pueblo todav\u00eda se dejan, no sabemos por qu\u00e9, nosotros nos causa tristeza, y nos causa rabia. Para qu\u00e9 sirve entonces estudiar, saber historias si es que no vamos a ver nuestra realidad de c\u00f3mo estamos viviendo, para qu\u00e9 sirve el estudio.<\/p>\n Nosotros lo construimos sin estudio, pero aqu\u00ed lo tenemos en los hechos, lo estamos demostrando, se lo demostramos y lo vamos a seguir demostrando, no sabemos all\u00e1 ellos, ellas.<\/p>\n La cosa que le estamos diciendo \u00e9se, el que est\u00e1 en el poder, f\u00edjese c\u00f3mo est\u00e1 de loco, dice, yo voy a gobernar para pobres y para ricos, solamente a un loco al que est\u00e1 mal en su cabeza eso lo puede decir, porque entonces no trabaja su mente, es descerebrado, solamente aquel lo dice eso porque nosotros sencillamente, un terrateniente, el porquer\u00eda de Absal\u00f3n Castellanos Dom\u00ednguez, que por fin ya est\u00e1 en el infierno ahorita, no vamos a convencer que nos dejen de explotar, porque ese loco dice que gobierna para rico y para pobre, no sabe lo que dice, ni lo entiende lo que dice. Y estamos seguros que no lo entiende porque es dictado por su patr\u00f3n, as\u00ed lo tienes que decirlo a huevos, est\u00e1 obedeciendo, se lo estamos diciendo, para que lo sigan creyendo los ciudadanos y a las ciudadanas.<\/p>\n Simplemente es muy sencillo, no se puede apoyar al que est\u00e1 explotado y al que es explotador, se tiene que escoger una de dos, est\u00e1s con el explotador o est\u00e1s con el explotado, pero de dos no se puede. As\u00ed lo vemos nosotros, y as\u00ed lo entendemos nosotros y as\u00ed lo estamos haciendo nosotros.<\/p>\n Todo eso lo que est\u00e1 haciendo, que l\u00e1stima de que entonces dice de que es la cuarta, no tiene nada de cuarta, porque aquellos de esa cuarta de donde viene en la tercera s\u00ed lo hicieron en los hechos, lo enfrentaron, no como \u00e9l, que dice que lo va a perdonar por ejemplo a todos los criminales, perd\u00f3n, dice. Como quien dice pues as\u00ed tambi\u00e9n aqu\u00ed en lo m\u00e1s chiquitito, aqu\u00ed en donde estamos, quiere decir que no va a hacerle nada a ese mal gobierno al que est\u00e1 ahorita, a los asesinos del compa\u00f1ero Galeano. Ese es lo que nos est\u00e1 diciendo tambi\u00e9n eso. Quiere decir que as\u00ed tambi\u00e9n a los dem\u00e1s asesinados, entonces es en vano el que est\u00e1 ah\u00ed en el poder.<\/p>\n Muchas cosas, si vamos a ir diciendo lo que dice, no es nada verdad. \u00bfY as\u00ed que entonces le tenemos miedo a ese mal gobierno, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras?<\/p>\n [Suena un \u201cNo\u201d fuerte]<\/p>\n Claro que no, porque nos da coraje de todas esas mentiras de lo que le est\u00e1 diciendo al pueblo de M\u00e9xico y l\u00e1stima a los que saben hablar bien la castilla que no le entienden lo que les est\u00e1 diciendo. A nosotros nos cuesta pero no es de castilla, se tiene que ver c\u00f3mo est\u00e1 la miseria, la desigualdad, la justicia, y de todo, no se necesita aprender castilla para eso, se ve y se siente.<\/p>\n Todo es una burla lo que nos est\u00e1 haciendo, especialmente a los pueblos originarios, es una humillaci\u00f3n lo que nos est\u00e1 haciendo, pero tambi\u00e9n para aquellos y aquellas que hablan bien el espa\u00f1ol y que no le estudien ese apestoso pol\u00edtico que hace ese mal gobierno.<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras, no nos vamos a dejar \u00bfO s\u00ed?<\/p>\n [Se escucha un fuerte \u201cNo\u201d]<\/p>\n Ser\u00e1 porque entonces estoy hablando fuerte para que se escuche all\u00e1 atr\u00e1s.\u00a0 Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras no nos vamos a dejar \u00bfo s\u00ed?<\/p>\n [se escucha al un\u00edsono NO]<\/p>\n No hay nadie que va a luchar por nosotros a los pueblos explotados del campo y la ciudad, nadie. Nadie va a venir, ni un hombre, ni una mujer; ni un grupo, sino que se necesita que haya mujeres y hombres que van organiz\u00e1ndose y organiz\u00e1ndose y organiz\u00e1ndose, el pueblo es la que se tiene que organizarse para liberarse \u00bfo creen que va a venir el Papa?<\/p>\n [se escucha al un\u00edsono NO]<\/p>\n \u00bfO que va a venir Trump?<\/p>\n [se escucha al un\u00edsono NO]<\/p>\n Mucho menos vamos a creer a \u00e9se que dice que es la cuarta, \u00bfo s\u00ed lo creemos?<\/p>\n [se escucha al un\u00edsono NO].<\/p>\n Es lo mismo compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, y no les estoy mintiendo, cuando todav\u00eda estaba haciendo su campa\u00f1a dijo una palabra: en el partido en donde estoy -el que est\u00e1 en el poder ahorita-, no voy a permitir que entre palero, palera. As\u00ed lo dijo; es decir, que no va a meter a todos los que los meti\u00f3 ahorita, son los mismos. Son panistas, son pri\u00edstas, son verde, son PT. Ah\u00ed est\u00e1 la gran mentira pero hay muchos, hay treinta millones que no entienden la castilla, por eso creen lo que est\u00e1 diciendo todas esas mentiras. Y luego dice que entonces va a combatir la corrupci\u00f3n, dice, \u00a1As\u00ed lo dice! y su secretaria de gobernaci\u00f3n, \u00e9se es el primer lugar. Porque trabajaba\u2026 sabe de d\u00f3nde vino, no es necesario que se le digo para que lo sepa. Sabemos de d\u00f3nde vino su secretaria de gobernaci\u00f3n y ella misma dice: \u201cah\u00ed en eso no me meto a pelear\u201d y el que dice que va a combatir la corrupci\u00f3n, no dice nada.<\/p>\n Es pura mentira, no va a hacer nada para el pueblo. \u00a0Piensan de que entonces que nos van a chingar con ese su proyecto de PRO\u00c1RBOL, porque es lo mismo, es el nombre que le queda, es lo mismo que lo est\u00e1 copiando lo que hizo los otros que pasaron, que nosotros los tumbamos con nuestra resistencia y rebeld\u00eda.<\/p>\n Tumbamos primero a aquel que se dec\u00eda el hombre poderoso, hace veinticinco a\u00f1os, que se llama Carlos Salinas de Gortari, que se dec\u00eda que es el hombre m\u00e1s poderoso y no le tuvimos miedo. Y no nos hab\u00eda conocido al pueblo de M\u00e9xico, hoy nos han conocido a lo largo de veinticinco a\u00f1os. Dici\u00e9ndoles y dici\u00e9ndoles y dici\u00e9ndoles.\u00a0 Hoy ya estamos cansados, hemos gastado mucho por querer que lo entiendan. Algunos, algunas solo lo ha entendido, la mayor\u00eda no.<\/p>\n Pero es lo que hemos hecho compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras, no les estamos pidiendo a los hermanos, a las hermanas de all\u00e1 afuera a que agarren un arma. A lo largo de veinticinco a\u00f1os no lo hemos ganado con balazos, con bombazos, es con resistencia y rebeld\u00eda. Con eso lo hemos ganado, por eso han podido venir a ver, pero s\u00f3lo venir a ver; no a llevar para otros hermanos y hermanas que no ha podido venir porque no tienen la paga igual que nosotros.<\/p>\n No le tenemos miedo al capitalismo, al finquero, al nuevo finquero \u00bfO s\u00ed le tenemos miedo?<\/p>\n [Se escucha al un\u00edsono NO].<\/p>\n As\u00ed que, digan lo que digan, as\u00ed que piensan lo que piensan, nosotros nos vamos a defender. Pase lo que pase, cueste lo que cueste y venga lo que venga. Vamos a defendernos, vamos a pelear si es necesario. \u00bfO no compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras?<\/p>\n [se escucha al un\u00edsono S\u00cd].<\/p>\n As\u00ed que t\u00e9nganlo claro compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras; aqu\u00ed no hay salvador, ni hay salvadora. Los \u00fanicos que son salvadores y salvadoras son los hombres y las mujeres que luchan y se organizan, pero frente a su pueblo.<\/p>\n El cambio que queremos es de que entonces, un d\u00eda, el pueblo, el mundo, mujeres y hombres deciden c\u00f3mo quieren vivir su vida, no que hay un grupo que decide la vida de millones de seres humanos, NO.<\/p>\n Decimos nada m\u00e1s en dos palabras: el pueblo manda, el gobierno obedece. \u00c9sa es la que tenemos que luchar para eso.<\/p>\n Creen que seguimos ignorantes, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras. Aqu\u00ed estamos dispuestos a defendernos.<\/p>\n Por todo eso y esto que ya les dije, estamos dispuestos a lo que sea, estamos dispuestos a lo que venga.<\/p>\n Por eso decimos:<\/p>\n \u00a1Aqu\u00ed estamos!<\/p>\n \u00a1Somos el Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional y aqu\u00ed seguiremos!<\/p>\n \u00a1VIVA LA AUTONOM\u00cdA ZAPATISTA! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Escucha: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/25AnivCCRI.mp3[\/podcast] Compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras bases de apoyo, compa\u00f1eros milicianos y milicianas, compa\u00f1eros insurgentes y compa\u00f1eras insurgentas, compa\u00f1eros mandos oficiales del Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional.<\/p>\n Hermanos y hermanas, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras.<\/p>\n Hoy 1 de enero del 2019, queremos dirigir nuestra palabra por nuestro 25 aniversario de nuestro levantamiento armado del 1 de enero de 1994.<\/p>\n A pesar de todos los ataques ideol\u00f3gicos, pol\u00edticos, econ\u00f3micos y amenazas militares y paramilitares, queremos decirles de nuevo que aqu\u00ed estamos desarrollando la autonom\u00eda por la vida de nuestros pueblos.<\/p>\n Aqu\u00ed en los pueblos zapatistas, gobernados por las juntas de buen gobierno y los municipios aut\u00f3nomos rebeldes zapatistas, donde no caben las humillaciones, manipulaciones, enga\u00f1os, ni mentiras, ni consultas disfrazadas.<\/p>\n Por eso no permitiremos ning\u00fan proyecto que destruya la vida de la humanidad y la muerte de nuestra madre tierra, porque detr\u00e1s de todo esto est\u00e1n los intereses de los grandes capitalistas nacionales y trasnacionales.<\/p>\n Por m\u00e1s que intenten humillarnos con todas las fuerzas represivas, como es la guardia nacional, no descansaremos en defender nuestra madre tierra, porque en ella nacimos, porque en ella vivimos y en ella moriremos.<\/p>\n En estas tierras de hombres y mujeres rebeldes, deben saber que no nos rendimos, no nos vendemos y no claudicamos, ni mucho menos traicionaremos\u00a0 la sangre, la vida y la muerte de nuestros compa\u00f1eros ca\u00eddos en nuestra lucha.<\/p>\n Aunque consulten a mil millones, no nos vamos a rendir. O aunque le pidan permiso a su chingada madre, no nos van a doblegar.<\/p>\n Desde 1492 a este 2018, han pasado 525 a\u00f1os de resistencia y rebeld\u00eda contra las grandes humillaciones extranjeras y mexicanas; nunca nos pudieron exterminar. Nosotros, los de la sangre morena, color de la madre tierra, reiteramos que aqu\u00ed estamos y aqu\u00ed seguiremos.<\/p>\n Podr\u00e1n pasar mil millones de a\u00f1os, las zapatistas y los zapatistas aqu\u00ed estaremos.<\/p>\n Comit\u00e9 Clandestino Revolucionario Ind\u00edgena, Comandancia General del Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional, EZLN.<\/p>\n Desde el Caracol de La Realidad, Madre de los Caracoles Mar de Nuestros Sue\u00f1os.<\/p>\n M\u00e9xico, enero del 2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Escucha: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/25AnivJBG.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n 1\u00ba de enero de 2019.<\/p>\n Buenos d\u00edas compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros todas y todos.<\/p>\n A nombre de mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros de la Junta de Buen Gobierno de esta zona selva fronteriza, centro de nuestro caracol, Madre de los caracoles mar de nuestros sue\u00f1os, sede de la Junta de Buen Gobierno.<\/p>\n A todas y todos compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros<\/p>\n Bases de apoyo del ej\u00e9rcito zapatista de liberaci\u00f3n nacional, a los responsables locales, a los consejos municipales.<\/p>\n Sean todos bienvenidos a celebrar con nosotros el 25 aniversario de nuestro levantamiento armado, del 1\u00ba de enero de 1994, que nos declaramos como Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional.<\/p>\n Hoy cumple ya 25 a\u00f1os que estamos en pie de lucha, somos los m\u00e1s olvidados, marginados, explotados por el sistema capitalista neoliberal.<\/p>\n En esos a\u00f1os atr\u00e1s, no nos ve\u00edan si existimos los pueblos ind\u00edgenas, pero en 1994, dijimos \u00a1Ya Basta! declar\u00e1ndonos en guerra contra el mal gobierno. Tomando cinco cabeceras municipales. Las margaritas, San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Ocosingo, Altamirano y Oxchuc.<\/p>\n Porque hace m\u00e1s de 500 a\u00f1os nuestros abuelos y abuelas no eran tomados en cuenta por el sistema capitalista, porque para ellos no valemos. Solo eran esclavos de los patrones, trabajaban mucho y no les pagaban y les maltrataban como animales, sin importar la vida de la humanidad, todos esos maltratos nuestros abuelos lo sufrieron.<\/p>\n Ya estaban cansados, de tantos maltratos e injusticia y por eso decidieron organizarse, para luchar contra la explotaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Por eso nuestras compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros hace 25 a\u00f1os se enfrentaron con el ej\u00e9rcito mexicano, fueron compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros valientes que ofrendaron sus vidas sin esperar nada a cambio.<\/p>\n Ellos y ellas ofrendaron su vida para que en el futuro las nuevas generaciones puedan vivir mejor. Ellos fueron los hombres y mujeres valientes, siempre les recordaremos porque ellos fueron nuestros maestros.<\/p>\n Hoy como Junta de Buen Gobierno decimos que hemos conquistado nuestra libertad, la libertad de gobernar con nuestros pueblos sin pedir permiso a nadie hemos decido formar nuestros gobiernos y nuestros propios reglamentos como pueblos.<\/p>\n Formando los promotores de salud, promotores de educaci\u00f3n, trabajos colectivos, los municipios aut\u00f3nomos y la Junta de Buen Gobierno. Aunque no ha sido f\u00e1cil para nosotros porque no tenemos libros ni manuales para dirigirnos, nos estamos gobernando nosotros mismos.<\/p>\n Enfrentando los diferentes ataques del mal gobierno, porque nos quiere acabar y ha creado diferentes proyectos y programas para que nos confundan y no nos demos cuenta, y as\u00ed acabar a nuestra organizaci\u00f3n, pero nosotros estamos organizados, no nos podr\u00e1n acabar.<\/p>\n Porque cada vez m\u00e1s estamos trabajando con nuestra autonom\u00eda para enfrentar al sistema capitalista neoliberal.<\/p>\n Pero como pueblos en resistencia y en rebeld\u00eda hemos entendido que no queda otro camino: el organizarnos, desde cualquier rinc\u00f3n del mundo, cada organizaci\u00f3n tenemos nuestros diferentes modos y costumbres, de organizarnos, pero s\u00ed, todas y todos en contra de un mismo enemigo que es el sistema capitalista neoliberal.<\/p>\n Con este sistema, cada vez m\u00e1s la crisis mundial es m\u00e1s dif\u00edcil, ellos lo crearon para destruir a la humanidad no les importa que acaben con el universo, porque para ellos todo es mercanc\u00eda, s\u00f3lo les interesa la ganancia. Para hacerse cada vez m\u00e1s ricos.<\/p>\n Este sistema a los pa\u00edses los quiere convertir en fincas y los gobiernos ser\u00e1n los capataces, y para nosotros los malos gobiernos ya no son gobiernos del pueblo, porque est\u00e1n al servicio de su patr\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Por eso nosotros como EZLN ya no les creemos porque son los mismos rateros y asesinos vendepatria, les decimos que aqu\u00ed estaremos con nuestra autonom\u00eda, resistencia y rebeld\u00eda en nuestro territorio zapatista.<\/p>\n Desde la Realidad, Chiapas.<\/p>\n Junta de Buen Gobierno Hacia la Esperanza. Words of the EZLN\u2019s CCRI-CG to the Zapatista Peoples on the 25th Anniversary of the Beginning of the War Against Oblivion <\/strong><\/p>\n Words by Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s<\/a><\/p>\n Words by the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee<\/a><\/p>\n Words by the Good Government Council “Towards Hope”<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Listen in Spanish: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/25AnivSupMoi.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n December 31, 2018<\/p>\n To our compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras who are Zapatista bases of support: I speak in the name of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.<\/p>\n I speak in your name, as it is my job to be your voice and your gaze.<\/p>\n Our hour as Zapatista peoples has come, and we see that we are alone.<\/p>\n I want to tell you clearly that this is what we see, compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros who are support bases, milicianos,<\/em> and milicianas<\/em>: we are alone, just as we were 25 years ago.<\/p>\n Alone we rose up to awake the people of Mexico and of the world, and today, 25 years later, we see that we are still alone. But we did try to tell them, compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros, you were witness to the many gatherings we held as we tried to wake others, to speak to the poor of Mexico in the city and in the countryside.<\/p>\n Many people did not listen. Some did and are organizing themselves\u2014we hope they continue to organize themselves\u2014but the majority did not listen.<\/p>\n Yet we have done our work and we know the work we still have to do, and thus we can see the current situation with clarity, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras. With our experience not just from the last 25 years but from over 500 years, we can tell you that we see today is what we saw 25 years ago: it\u2019s as if they don\u2019t see us, as if they don\u2019t hear what we are trying to tell the poor of Mexico. Today, twenty-five years after our uprising, this is still what we see and we repeat it to you now, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras: we are alone.<\/p>\n What we have achieved we achieved through our own work, our own effort. If we have achieved anything it has been with our own labor, and if we have erred in anything, that has also been our responsibility. But it is our work either way\u2014nobody taught us how to do it, it is our work alone. Some people, men and women, tried to show us what we should do, they wanted to tell us what to do and what not to do, when to speak and when not to. We don\u2019t pay any attention to them. Only those who organize can know, see, and understand. Talk is just talk; you have to actually carry out in practice what you say and what you think, and we don\u2019t have manuals or books that show us how to struggle. No one can teach us how to build what we want to build; it can be done only through our own sacrifice and our own effort, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras.<\/p>\n Now we are demonstrating once again, and we will honor our word on this, that what one thinks and feels is impossible is indeed possible. It\u2019s easy to say, \u201cwe have to make the impossible possible,\u201d people say it all the time. But you have to actually do it in practice and this is what we are trying to show people. What is it that we are showing them? What we have before us: a people who govern themselves, with their own politics, their own ideology, their own culture. They create, improve, correct, imagine, and put it all into practice. This is what we are. Here the bad government does not rule; organized women and men rule. Those who are not organized will continue to rely on despair, because what they believe in is not actually hope.<\/p>\n [From above] they try to lie to us, to deceive us, first of all with that stuff about the virgen morena<\/em>[i]<\/a>,<\/em> and there are people who believe that stuff. Only a crazy person says such a thing, someone who doesn\u2019t know how to think, who certainly doesn\u2019t think in terms of the people. We, on the other hand, work from our own experience, our own labor, our own efforts, and we will continue to do so; we will continue to build what we are building here and we will achieve what we are trying to create. Everything we have we have built ourselves. There are some brothers and sisters in solidarity who have helped us, but the great bulk of what we have we created ourselves.<\/p>\n It is not easy to stand up to the political parties, the bad governments, and the current trickster in chief. It is not easy to confront, for 25 years now, the thousands of soldiers, protectors of capitalism, who surround us. They are here even now, we\u2019ve seen them all around here the last few days. It isn\u2019t easy to confront the paramilitaries, or all of the small-time \u201cleaders\u201d who are bought off by politicians and political parties, especially the person and the political party in power today.[ii]<\/a> But we aren\u2019t afraid of them. Or are we compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros?<\/p>\n [In unison:] \u201cNo!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t hear you..<\/p>\n [In unison, more loudly:] \u201cNO!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Other people, from outside [our communities], come and go, but we are always here and here we will stay. Those from the outside come each time as tourists, but as tourists of poverty, of inequality. But injustice isn\u2019t something to be toured. The poor of Mexico are dying and they will continue to so. It\u2019s a shame they listen to that guy in power who is deceiving the people of Mexico.<\/p>\n We aren\u2019t lying, compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros, five years ago already we were telling the people of Mexico and the world that worse things were coming. We tried to tell them this in their own languages, in their own words\u2014the collapse, the hydra, the monster, the wall\u2014we tried to use their words so they would understand, but even so they did not listen. They think that we are lying because they are listening to that trickster in power\u2014I don\u2019t even want to say his name\u2014it\u2019s better just to refer to him as a lying trickster.<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras, that person in power is going to destroy the people of Mexico, but first he will destroy the originary peoples\u2014he is coming for us and especially for those of us who make up the Zapatista Army for National Liberation. Why? Because we are here telling him that we are not afraid of him. Or are we, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras?<\/p>\n [Loudly in unison:] \u201cNo!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n We will stand up to what comes because we will not allow his project of destruction to be implemented here. We are not afraid of his \u201cNational Guard\u201d, which is just the army under another name\u2014he renamed it so as not to have to admit it\u2019s the same army as always.<\/p>\n We will defend what we have built here, what we are able to show to the people of Mexico and the world as something we, women and men, built ourselves. We are not going to let anyone come destroy it, or are we?<\/p>\n [Loudly in unison:] \u201cNo!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That trickster in power now, what is his game? That he pretends to be with the people of Mexico, trying to deceive the originary peoples by kneeling upon the earth to ask permission for his projects. He thinks all the originary peoples are going to believe that charade. Here we say no, on the contrary, we don\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n What do I mean by on the contrary? He is pretending to take up our customs and ways\u2014asking permission of the mother earth to act\u2014but he is asking permission of the mother earth to destroy the originary peoples! That is what his charade is about, and some of our brothers and sisters of the originary peoples have been fooled. We don\u2019t buy it. If the mother earth spoke she\u2019d say \u201cfuck off<\/em>.\u201d Mother earth doesn\u2019t speak, but if she did, she\u2019d say clearly, \u201cNo! Go fuck yourself<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n We know mother earth, we have lived in harmony with her for five hundred and twenty-some years. Those who have not known nor felt the sweat of living and working with the mother earth do not know her, like those idiot senators and representatives who think they know everything. They do not know poverty, they do not know what it is to sweat over the earth. We do. That is why they do not know how to make laws for our peoples, for the originary peoples. We do, because we know what it is to suffer and we know what kind of law we need and want; they do not.<\/p>\n Take for example, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras, those deceitful tricksters in all three branches of power in Mexico\u2014the judicial, executive, and legislative powers\u2014and look at what they do, especially the party that currently holds the majority in the national congress [MORENA] and who names indigenous people representatives so they can sit beside Ricardo Monreal[iii]<\/a>, for example. It\u2019s just like before when they put a Tojolabal man in the national congress right there beside Diego Fern\u00e1ndez de Cevallos[iv]<\/a>, who owns a whole bunch of ranches. They sit that Tojolobal indigenous man next to him and you think that Tojolabal man is going to say we have to redistribute the lands that belong to the ranch owners? That\u2019s what they want to show us, that with a salary and sitting comfortably in a restaurant or hotel, that all of the senators, representatives, cabinet secretaries, council members, etc., will continue to abandon their people. That is what they want, for us as Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Chol, Tojolabal, and all the other languages spoken here in Mexico to be the ones who lie and cheat our own peoples. That is what they are showing us, that is their job, that is what their bosses have mandated. For us they are not government, they are mere overseers for the real boss.<\/p>\n Now we see that they are coming for us, the originary peoples. We see clearly that the referendum they are carrying out is a way to manipulate the people; they are using the vote to get permission to come attack the originary peoples. That\u2019s what that referendum is about, but the people have still not awoken to the truth, and thus today we will not be able to attend fully to the 25th<\/sup> anniversary. We are tired. We talk and talk but for them it just goes in one ear and out the other, what we say does not truly enter into their thought.<\/p>\n This is what the new government is doing right now, consulting the voters as to if they can come attack us, as originary peoples and especially as the Zapatista Army for National Liberation with that bullshit \u201cMayan Train,\u201d which they have the nerve to name after our ancestors. We will not accept it. They can put any name on it, it has nothing to do with the Maya. If it was up to us we\u2019d say they should name it after their mother.<\/p>\n Over these 25 years, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras, bases of support, men and women, milicianas<\/em> and milicianos<\/em>, we have seen around the world that there are those who say they struggle, some who say they are progressive, others who say they are leftists, others who say they are revolutionaries. But they don\u2019t have any idea what a revolutionary is, because a revolution is to turn things around. Like we say here, we have to prepare our young people, young men and women, because we ourselves will one day turn around and return [to the earth], and that is why we have to leave the next generation ready. Those on the outside have no idea what they are talking about, it\u2019s such a pity that with all their education and degrees and diplomas they don\u2019t know what a revolution is. And on top of that there are even some out there who say we\u2019re electoralists.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t have the slightest idea how to revolutionize an idea, thinking itself. They think that we lie like they lie. We told the Mexican people that we would dialogue with them and we honored that pledge, and if one day we say we are going to defend ourselves against even the most minimal provocation, then that means we are going to defend ourselves. We\u2019re also not going to let anyone come seek cover here or cloak themselves in this territory of resistance and rebellion to start stupid shit. We won\u2019t permit it.<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras, we have not deceived the people of Mexico, but we also have to tell them that they are still letting themselves be fooled. We don\u2019t know why, and it causes us great sadness and anger. What good is it to study, to know history if we are not going to see our own reality for what it is? What good is study if one can\u2019t see even that. What we have built we have built without formal study, and here it is, alive in practice. That\u2019s what we are showing you, and will continue to show you. What they will do over there, who knows.<\/p>\n What we are telling you now is that the guy in power now is uttering absurdities, just look at what he says\u2014that he\u2019s going to govern for both rich and poor. Only a crazy person, someone sick in the head could say such a thing, because his mind is not working, his brain isn\u2019t functioning. We\u2019ve heard that before, from that bullshit landowner Absal\u00f3n Castellanos Dom\u00ednguez[v]<\/a>, who is finally now in hell, and who said he would govern for the rich and the poor. We\u2019re not going to be convinced to give up fighting against exploitation because that lunatic says he\u2019s going to govern for both rich and poor. He doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s saying, he doesn\u2019t understand what he\u2019s saying. And he doesn\u2019t even have to understand because he\u2019s just saying what his boss orders him to say. He is obeying, he is taking orders to say what he is told to say so that the citizens keep believing in those in power.<\/p>\n It\u2019s very simple: you can\u2019t support the exploiter and the exploited; you have to choose one or the other. You\u2019re either with the exploiter or with the exploited, but not both. That\u2019s how we see it, that\u2019s how we understand it and that\u2019s how we govern.<\/p>\n What a shame that he calls all this stuff he is doing the fourth [transformation][vi]<\/a>, because it\u2019s not the fourth anything. How do these people of the \u201cfourth\u201d think they follow the third [transformation], which was carried out in practice, confronting reality. This guy says he\u2019s going to pardon all the criminals, \u201cpardon,\u201d he says. From where we stand, that means he\u2019s not going to do anything to the bad government, to our compa\u00f1ero Galeano\u2019s murderers for example. That\u2019s what he\u2019s telling us with that statement. It will be the same for all the other murders, so then what\u2019s the point of him being in power?<\/p>\n There are so many things we could name that he has said that are not true. So are we going to be afraid of this bad government, compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras?<\/p>\n [In unison:] \u201cNo!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Of course not, because we are filled with rage due to all the lies that he\u2019s telling the people of Mexico, and we feel pity for those who speak Spanish well and yet don\u2019t understand that all the things he is saying are lies. It\u2019s hard for us to understand too, not because of the Spanish but because it\u2019s hard to believe he\u2019s saying this amidst the poverty, inequality, and injustice around us. You don\u2019t have to learn Spanish to understand that, you have to learn to see and feel it.<\/p>\n What he\u2019s doing is mocking all of us, especially the originary peoples, humiliating us, but not just us. It\u2019s also a mockery of all those who speak Spanish perfectly well but don\u2019t study the stinking politics of this bad government.<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras, we\u2019re not going to give in to this, or are we?<\/p>\n [Loudly, in unison:] \u201cNo!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Am I speaking loudly enough for those in the back? Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, we\u2019re not going to give in, or are we?<\/p>\n [More loudly, in unison:] \u201cNO!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Nobody is going to come fight for us, the exploited peoples of the countryside and the city, nobody. No man, no woman, no group is going to come fight for us. What we need are women and men who organize themselves, organize themselves more and still more, a whole people who organizes itself to liberate itself. Or you think that the pope is going to come do it?<\/p>\n [In unison:] \u201cNO!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Or that Trump is going to come?<\/p>\n [In unison:] \u201cNO!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Well much less are we going to believe this guy who says he\u2019s the fourth [transformation]. Or do we believe him?<\/p>\n [In unison:] \u201cNO!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s the same damn thing, compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eras, <\/em>I\u2019m not lying to you. During his campaign he said: \u201cIn my party,\u201d (the one that\u2019s in power now, MORENA), \u201cI\u2019m not going to allow any manipulative parasites.\u201d That\u2019s what he said: but manipulative parasites are exactly the people that he\u2019s let into the party since then! They are the very same as always: they\u2019re all politicians from the PAN, from the PRI, from the Partido Verde <\/em>[Green Party of Mexico] and the PT [Worker\u2019s Party]. That\u2019s the big lie. But it seems that there are thirty million people in this country who must not understand Spanish or else how could we explain that they believe his lies?<\/p>\n He says he\u2019s going to fight corruption. Ha! Meanwhile his Cabinet Secretary[vii]<\/a> is the first person he should investigate. She worked\u2026 well, you all know where she came from, I don\u2019t have to tell you. We know where his Cabinet Secretary came from and she herself says, \u201cI\u2019m not getting involved in that fight against corruption,\u201d and the same guy who says he\u2019s going to fight corruption has nothing to say about that.<\/p>\n Pure lies, all of it. He\u2019s not going to do anything for the people. The bad government thinks it\u2019s going to come and fuck us over with its PRO\u00c1RBOL[viii]<\/a> project, which is the same strategy they\u2019ve been using for years. It\u2019s a new name for the same programs which we already defeated with our resistance and rebellion.<\/p>\n Twenty-five years ago we defeated Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who was known as \u201cthe most powerful man,\u201d but we weren\u2019t afraid of him. And back then the Mexican people had never heard of us. Now they\u2019ve known us for the last 25 years, and we\u2019ve always told them the same thing. Today, we\u2019re tired. We\u2019ve tried so hard to make them understand. Only a few have; the majority has not.<\/p>\n But this is what we\u2019ve been able to accomplish, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras. We\u2019re not asking the brothers and sisters out there to take up arms. Over the past 25 years what we have won we haven\u2019t won with bullets or bombs, but with resistance and rebellion. That\u2019s what has allowed us to succeed and that\u2019s what people have come to see\u2014but it seems they\u2019ve only come to see, not to take this message to other brothers and sisters who haven\u2019t been able to come because they don\u2019t have the money, just like us.<\/p>\n We\u2019re not afraid of capitalism, and we\u2019re not afraid of the old plantation owners or the new ones. Or are we?<\/p>\n [In unison] NO!<\/em><\/p>\n In that case, whatever people say, whatever they think, we are going to defend ourselves\u2014whatever might happen, whatever it takes. We\u2019re going to defend ourselves and we will fight if necessary. Isn\u2019t that so, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras?<\/p>\n [In unison] YES!<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s be clear, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras: here there are no saviors. The only saviors are the men and women who struggle and organize themselves, always together with their peoples.<\/p>\n The change we want is that one day, the people\u2014the world, men and women\u2014to decide how they want to live, and that there not be a group that decides about the lives of millions of human beings.<\/p>\n We express this in just a few words: the people command, and the government obeys. That\u2019s what we must struggle for.<\/p>\n They think we\u2019re still ignorant and backwards, compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras.<\/em> But we\u2019re here ready and willing to defend ourselves.<\/p>\n Because of that and everything I\u2019ve already said, we are ready for whatever it takes and whatever might happen.<\/p>\n Because of this, we say:<\/p>\n Here we are!<\/p>\n We are the Zapatista Army for National Liberation and we will continue on!<\/p>\n LONG LIVE ZAPATISTA AUTONOMY! <\/p>\n Listen in Spanish: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/25AnivCCRI.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n January 1, 2019<\/p>\n Compa\u00f1eros <\/em>and compa\u00f1eras <\/em>who are bases of support; compa\u00f1eros <\/em>and compa\u00f1eras <\/em>who are milicianos; compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eras <\/em>who are insurgentes;<\/em> compa\u00f1eros <\/em>who are commanders of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation:<\/p>\n Brothers and sisters, compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eras<\/em>:<\/p>\n Today, January 1, 2019, we commemorate the 25th<\/sup> anniversary of our armed uprising on January 1, 1994.<\/p>\n Despite all the ideological, political, economic, and military and paramilitary attacks against us, we want to reiterate that we are still here building autonomy for the life of our peoples.<\/p>\n Here in the Zapatista communities where we are governed by the Juntas de Buen Gobierno<\/em> and the Zapatista Autonomous Rebel Municipalities [MAREZ], there is no place for humiliations, manipulations, tricks, lies and fake referendums.<\/p>\n For this reason we will not allow the implementation of any project here that destroys the life of humanity and kills our mother earth, because behind all that lie the interests of the big Mexican and transnational capitalists.<\/p>\n However much they might try to humiliate us with their repressive apparatus, like the national guard, we will not rest from defending our mother earth. We were born to this earth, we live on this earth and on this earth we will die.<\/p>\n In these lands of rebel men and women, they should know that we will not give up, we will not sell out, and we will not give in, much less will we betray the blood, the life and the death of our compa\u00f1eros<\/em> who died in our struggle.<\/p>\n They can consult a billion people\u2014we\u2019re still not going to give in. Even if they get permission from their fucking mothers, they will not break our will.<\/p>\n From 1492 to 2018, there have been 525 years of resistance and rebellion against the worst humiliations by foreigners and Mexicans, but they were never able to exterminate us. Those of us with brown blood, the color of mother earth, are still here and here we will stay.<\/p>\n Even if one billion years go by, we Zapatistas will still be here.<\/p>\n Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee, General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, EZLN.<\/p>\n From the caracol<\/em> of La Realidad, Mother of the Caracoles<\/em>, Sea of our Dreams.<\/p>\n Mexico, January 2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Listen in Spanish: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/25AnivJBG.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n January 1, 2019.<\/p>\n Good morning to all of you, compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eras.<\/em><\/p>\n In the name of my compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eras<\/em> of the Junta de Buen Gobierno<\/em> [Good Government Council] of the selva fronteriza <\/em>zone, <\/em>from our caracol<\/em>, Mother of the Caracoles<\/em>, Sea of our Dreams, seat of the Junta de Buen Gobierno<\/em>:<\/p>\n To all the compa\u00f1ero<\/em> and compa\u00f1era<\/em> bases of support of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation; to the local authorities and the municipal councils:<\/p>\n We welcome you to celebrate with us the 25th<\/sup> anniversary of our armed uprising on January 1, 1994, when we declared ourselves the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.<\/p>\n Today marks 25 years of our struggle, we who are the most forgotten, marginalized and exploited by the neoliberal capitalist system.<\/p>\n Before that time, nobody bothered to find out whether we indigenous peoples lived or died, but in 1994, we said Enough!<\/em> We declared ourselves at war with the bad government, taking over five municipal government headquarters in Las Margaritas, San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Ocosingo, Altamirano and Oxchuc.<\/p>\n Five hundred years ago, our grandfathers and grandmothers were not taken into account by the capitalist system, because for the system we are worth nothing. They were just slaves for the plantation owners:<\/em> they were worked to the bone, paid nothing and abused like animals with no humanity. Our grandparents suffered all this mistreatment and more.<\/p>\n They were tired of so much abuse and injustice and for this reason they decided to organize themselves to struggle against exploitation.<\/p>\n For this reason 25 years ago our compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and compa\u00f1eros <\/em>faced off with the Mexican army. Many brave compa\u00f1eras <\/em>and compa\u00f1eros <\/em>put their lives on the line with no expectation of anything in return.<\/p>\n They gave their lives in order that future generations might live better than they did. We will always remember these brave men and women because they were our teachers.<\/p>\n Today as the Junta de Buen Gobierno<\/em>, we say that we have conquered our freedom: the freedom to govern ourselves as peoples, to make decisions and develop our own rules as peoples without asking permission from anyone.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve trained health and education promoters, carried out collective work projects, and formed the Autonomous Municipalities and the Juntas de Buen Gobierno<\/em>. Though it hasn\u2019t been easy for us\u2014we don\u2019t have any books or manuals to guide us\u2014we are now governing ourselves.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve faced many attacks from the bad government, which wants to get rid of us and has created different projects and programs to confuse us in order to do away with our organization\u2014but we are organized and they won\u2019t be able to wipe us out.<\/p>\n Each day we\u2019re working to further our autonomy to face the neoliberal capitalist system.<\/p>\n As peoples in resistance and rebellion we\u2019ve come to understand that there is no other way except to organize ourselves. In every corner of the world and in every organization we have our own ways and customs for how we organize ourselves, but what we have in common is our shared enemy, the neoliberal capitalist system. The global crisis of the system gets worse every day, but those who created it don\u2019t care if they destroy humanity or the universe: for them, everything is a commodity and the only thing that interests them is profit, to get richer and richer.<\/p>\n This system converts countries into plantations where the national governments are just overseers. For us the bad governments are no longer governments of the people, because they are at the service of an even bigger boss.<\/p>\n For this reason, we as the EZLN don\u2019t believe anything they say anymore because they are the same thieving and murderous traitors always. For this reason, we say that here we will continue with our autonomy, resistance and rebellion in our Zapatista territory.<\/p>\n From La Realidad, Chiapas.<\/p>\n Junta de Buen Gobierno<\/em> \u201cTowards Hope\u201d.<\/p>\n [i]<\/a> Refers to La Virgen de Guadalupe, the figure of a dark-skinned virgin Mary and Mexico\u2019s patron saint. The text could be referring to news reports that many religious believers prayed to la Virgen de Guadalupe [la virgen Morena, <\/em>or the \u201cbrown virgin\u201d] that Lopez Obrador [whose party\u2019s acronym is MORENA] would honor his promises to assist the poor: https:\/\/www.eluniversal.com.mx\/metropoli\/que-lopez-obrador-cumpla-promesas-piden-la-virgen<\/a>.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a> Refers to Andres Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador and the MORENA party.<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> Former prominent PRI senator and party officer as well as long-term associate of Carlos Salinas de Gortari. It should be noted that Ricardo Monreal has also repeatedly been accused of direct involvement with drug cartels. After a long career with the PRI (1975-1998), Monreal later switched parties to the PRD (1998-2008), then to the Labor Party (2008-2012), then to the Citizens Movement Party (2012-2015) and today, at the L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s request, Monreal has been made senate leader for the MORENA party.<\/p>\n [iv]<\/a> Former senator for the PAN, notorious for his visceral racism and his large land holdings.<\/p>\n [v]<\/a> Former PRI governor of Chiapas, federal Mexican army general, and wealthy landowner in the state of Chiapas. He was taken as a prisoner of war by the EZLN in the 1994 uprising, convicted in a popular trial of crimes against the Chiapan indigenous population, and then released with the sentence of \u201cliving out his life with the shame of having received the pardon and mercy of the very people who he had for so long robbed, displaced, kidnapped, humiliated, and murdered\u201d [EZLN, January 20, 1994]. He died in March of 2017.<\/p>\n [vi]<\/a> AMLO has deemed his own governing project the \u201cFourth Transformation,\u201d supposedly on par with historic events such as Mexican Independence (1810), a period of reform in the mid-19th century, and the Mexican Revolution (1910).<\/p>\n
\nPalabras del Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s:<\/h3>\n
\nCompa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros Autoridades Aut\u00f3nomas Zapatistas:
\nCompa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros Comit\u00e9s y Responsables regionales y locales:
\nCompa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros milicianas y milicianos:
\nCompa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros insurgentas e insurgentes:<\/p>\n
\n\u00a1VIVAN LOS PUEBLOS ORIGINARIOS!
\n\u00a1MUERA EL MAL GOBIERNO!
\n\u00a1MUERAN LOS CAPITALISMOS!
\n\u00a1VIVA EL EJ\u00c9RCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACI\u00d3N NACIONAL!<\/p>\nPalabras del Comit\u00e9 Clandestino Revolucionario Ind\u00edgena.<\/h3>\n
\n1\u00b0 de enero de 2019<\/p>\nPalabras de la Junta de Buen Gobierno Hacia La Esperanza.<\/h3>\n
\n[:en]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nWords by Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s:<\/h3>\n
\nTo our compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros who are Zapatista Autonomous Authorities:
\nTo our compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros who are part of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee [CCRI] and those who are Regional and Local Authorities:
\nTo our compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros who are milicianas<\/em> and milicianos<\/em>:
\nTo our compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros who are insurgentas<\/em> and insurgentes<\/em>:<\/p>\n
\nLONG LIVE THE ORIGINARY PEOPLES!
\nDEATH TO THE BAD GOVERNMENT!
\nDEATH TO ALL CAPITALISMS!
\nLONG LIVE THE ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION!<\/p>\n
\nWords of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee:<\/h3>\n
\nWords of the Good Government Council \u201cTowards Hope\u201d<\/h3>\n
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