{"id":36325,"date":"2020-12-23T06:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:57:49","slug":"tercera-parte-la-mision-subcomandante-insurgente-galeano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=36325","title":{"rendered":"[:es]TERCERA PARTE: LA MISI\u00d3N. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano[:en]Part Three: The Mission[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TERCERA PARTE: LA MISI\u00d3N.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>De c\u00f3mo Defensa Zapatista trata de explicarle a Esperanza cu\u00e1l es la misi\u00f3n del zapatismo y otros felices razonamientos.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Bueno, de ah\u00ed que te voy a explicar algo muy importante.\u00a0 Pero no lo puedes tomar apunte, sino que quiere que lo guardas en tu cabeza.\u00a0 Porque el cuaderno donde quiera lo dejas botado, pero la cabeza la tienes que cargar todo el tiempo<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defensa Zapatista camina de un lado a otro, como dice que hac\u00eda el finado cuando explicaba algo muy importante.\u00a0 Esperanza est\u00e1 sentada sobre un tronco y, previsora, ha colocado un nailon sobre la madera h\u00fameda, floreciente de musgo, hongos y ramitas secas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>\u00bfAcaso lo vamos a mirar el lugar donde llegamos con la lucha?<\/em>\u201d, suelta Defensa Zapatista se\u00f1alando con sus manitas a ninguna parte.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza est\u00e1 pensando una respuesta, pero es evidente que Defensa hizo una pregunta ret\u00f3rica, es decir, no le interesa la respuesta, sino las preguntas que le siguen a la primera cuesti\u00f3n.\u00a0 Seg\u00fan ella, Defensa Zapatista est\u00e1 siguiendo el m\u00e9todo cient\u00edfico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>La<\/em><\/strong><em> problema no es entonces llegar, sino hacerse un camino.\u00a0 Que sea que si no hay camino, pues hay que hacerlo, porque si no, c\u00f3mo<\/em>\u201d, la ni\u00f1a blande un machete que a saber de d\u00f3nde sali\u00f3, pero seguro en alguna champa lo est\u00e1n buscando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Entonces, <strong>la<\/strong> problema como que se cambi\u00f3 y lo m\u00e1s primero es el camino.\u00a0 Porque si no hay camino para donde quieres ir, pues de balde est\u00e1s con esa preocupaci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Entonces, \u00bfqu\u00e9 vamos a hacer si no hay camino para donde vamos?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza responde con satisfacci\u00f3n: \u201c<em>Esperamos a que deje de llover para que no nos mojamos cuando hacemos el camino<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defensa se mesa los cabellos -y arruina el peinado que a sus <strong><em>mamaces<\/em><\/strong> le tom\u00f3 media hora acomodar- y grita: \u201c<em>\u00a1No!<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza duda y aventura: \u201c<em>Ya s\u00e9: le decimos una mentira al Pedrito de que hay caramelos all\u00e1 donde vamos, pero no hay camino y viera qui\u00e9n hace un su camino primero, pues se atasca de caramelos<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defensa reacciona: \u201c<em>\u00bfAcaso vamos a pedir apoyo a los pinches hombres?\u00a0 <strong>Nuncamente<\/strong>.\u00a0 Nosotras lo vamos a hacer como mujeres que somos<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Cierto<\/em>\u201d, dice Esperanza, \u201c<em>qu\u00e9 tal y de repente hay chocolates<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defensa sigue: \u201c<em>Pero \u00bfqu\u00e9 tal que nos perdemos cuando vamos abriendo el camino?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza responde: \u201c<em>\u00bfGritamos pidiendo ayuda?<\/em> <em>\u00bfSacamos cohet\u00f3n o tocamos el caracol para que oyen en el pueblo y vienen a rescatarnos?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Defensa entiende que Esperanza est\u00e1 tomando el asunto literalmente y, adem\u00e1s, est\u00e1 obteniendo el consenso del resto del p\u00fablico.\u00a0 Por ejemplo, el gato-perro ahora se relame los bigotes imaginando la olla llena de chocolates al final del arco\u00edris, y el caballo choco sospecha que tal vez tambi\u00e9n hay ma\u00edz con sal y la olla rebosa de botellas de pl\u00e1stico.\u00a0 La Calamidad ensaya la coreograf\u00eda que le dise\u00f1\u00f3 el SupGaleano, llamada \u201c<em>pas de chocolat<\/em>\u201d, que consiste en abalanzarse, en modo \u201crinoceronte\u201d, sobre la olla.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00edas Contreras, por su parte, desde el primer cuestionamiento sac\u00f3 su lima y afila su machete de doble canto.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e1s all\u00e1, un ser indefinido, extraordinariamente parecido a un escarabajo, porta una pancarta donde se lee: \u201c<em>Llamadme Ismael<\/em>\u201d, discute con el Viejo Antonio las ventajas de la inmovilidad en tierra firme, y as\u00ed argumenta: \u201c<em>Pues s\u00ed, mi estimado Queequog, no hay ballena blanca que se acerque a puerto<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 El anciano ind\u00edgena y zapatista, maestro involuntario de la generaci\u00f3n que se alz\u00f3 en armas en 1994, se forja un cigarrillo con doblador y escucha atento los argumentos del bichito.<\/p>\n<p>La ni\u00f1a Defensa Zapatista asume que, al igual que las ciencias y las artes, est\u00e1 en el dif\u00edcil lugar en que se es incomprendida: como un <em>pas de deux<\/em> aguardando el abrazo para las <em>pirouettes<\/em> y el sost\u00e9n para <em>un port\u00e9<\/em>; como un filme preso en una lata, esperando una mirada que lo rescate; como un puerto sin embarcaci\u00f3n; como una cumbia pendiente de unas caderas que le den vocaci\u00f3n y destino; como un Cigala c\u00f3ncavo sin convexo; como Luz Casal yendo al encuentro de la flor prometida; como Louis Lingg sin las bombas del punk; como Panchito Varona buscando, detr\u00e1s de un acorde, un abril robado; como un ska sin slam; como un helado de nuez sin un Sup que le haga los honores.<\/p>\n<p>Pero Defensa es defensa, pero tambi\u00e9n es zapatista, as\u00ed que nada de que nada, resistencia y rebeld\u00eda, y con la mirada busca el socorro del Viejo Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Pero las tormentas no respetan nada: lo mismo en mar y en tierra, en cielo y suelo.\u00a0 Hasta las tripas de la tierra se retuercen y sufren humanos, plantas y animales. No importan su color, su tama\u00f1o, su modo<\/em>\u201d, dice con voz apagada el Viejo Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Todos guardan un silencio mitad respeto y mitad terror.<\/p>\n<p>Sigue el Viejo Antonio: \u201c<em>Las mujeres y los hombres ven de guarecerse de vientos, lluvias y suelos rotos, y esperan a que pase para ver qu\u00e9 qued\u00f3 y qu\u00e9 no.\u00a0 Pero la tierra hace m\u00e1s porque se prepara para despu\u00e9s, para lo que sigue.\u00a0 Y en su guardarse empieza ya a cambiar.\u00a0 La madre tierra no espera a que termine la tormenta para ver qu\u00e9 hacer, sino que desde antes empieza a construir.\u00a0 Por eso dicen los m\u00e1s sabedores que la ma\u00f1ana no llega as\u00ed nom\u00e1s y aparece de pronto, sino que est\u00e1 ya acechando entre las sombras y, quien sabe mirar, la encuentra en las grietas de la noche.\u00a0 Por eso los hombres y mujeres de ma\u00edz, cuando siembran, sue\u00f1an con la tortilla, el atole, el pozol, el tamale y el marquesote.\u00a0 No hay todav\u00eda, pero saben que habr\u00e1 y es lo que manda su trabajo.\u00a0 Miran su trabajadero y miran el fruto incluso antes de que la semilla toque el suelo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Los hombres y mujeres de ma\u00edz, cuando miran este mundo y sus dolores, miran tambi\u00e9n el mundo que habr\u00e1 que levantar y se hacen un su camino.\u00a0 Tres miradas tienen: una para lo anterior; la otra para lo de ahora, y otra una para lo que sigue. As\u00ed saben que siembran un tesoro: la mirada\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defensa asiente entusiasmada.\u00a0 Entiende que el Viejo Antonio entiende el argumento que no alcanza a explicar.\u00a0 Dos generaciones distantes en calendario y geograf\u00eda tienden un puente que va y viene\u2026 como los caminos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>\u00a1Correcto!<\/em>\u201d, casi grita la ni\u00f1a y mira con cari\u00f1o al anciano.<\/p>\n<p>Y sigue ella: \u201c<em>Si ya sabemos d\u00f3nde vamos, quiere decir que ya sabemos d\u00f3nde no queremos ir.\u00a0 Entonces en cada paso vamos alej\u00e1ndonos de unos lados y nos vamos acercando a otro uno.\u00a0 No hemos llegado todav\u00eda, pero el camino que hacemos nos va marcando ya por ese destino.\u00a0 Si queremos comer tamales, no vamos a estar sembrando calabazas<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El auditorio en pleno hace un comprensible gesto de asco, imaginando una horrible sopa de calabazas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Aguantamos la tormenta con lo que sabemos, pero ya estamos preparando lo que sigue.\u00a0 Y lo preparamos ya de una vez.\u00a0 Por eso hay que llevar la palabra lejos.\u00a0 No importa si quien la dijo ya no va a estar, sino que lo que importa es que llegue la semilla a buena tierra y que, donde ya hay, se desarrolle.\u00a0 O sea apoyar.\u00a0 \u00c9sa es nuestra misi\u00f3n: ser semilla que busca otras semillas<\/em>\u201d, sentencia Defensa Zapatista y, dirigi\u00e9ndose a Esperanza, pregunta: \u201c<em>\u00bfEntendiste?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza se pone de pie y, con toda la solemnidad de sus 9 a\u00f1os, responde seria:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>S\u00ed, claro lo entend\u00ed que de por s\u00ed vamos a morir miserablemente<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Y, casi inmediatamente, agrega: \u201c<em>Pero vamos a hacer que valga la pena\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Todos aplauden.<\/p>\n<p>Para reforzar el \u201cque valga la pena\u201d de Esperanza, el Viejo Antonio saca de su <em>morraleta<\/em> una bolsa de los chocolates que llaman \u201cbesitos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El gato-perro se hace de una buena cantidad con un zarpazo y el caballo choco prefiere seguir con su botella de pl\u00e1stico.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00edas Contreras, comisi\u00f3n de investigaci\u00f3n del ezln, repite por lo bajo: \u201c<em>vamos a hacer que valga la pena<\/em>\u201d, y manda el coraz\u00f3n y el pensamiento al hermano Samir Flores y a quienes se enfrentan, s\u00f3lo con su dignidad, al ruidoso ladr\u00f3n del agua y de la vida que se esconde detr\u00e1s de las armas del capataz, \u00e9se que oculta en su palabrer\u00edo la ciega obediencia que debe al Mand\u00f3n: primero dinero, despu\u00e9s dinero, dinero al final.\u00a0 Nunca justicia, libertad tampoco, jam\u00e1s la vida.<\/p>\n<p>El bichito empieza a platicar de c\u00f3mo una barra de chocolate lo salv\u00f3 de morir en la estepa siberiana mientras iba, procedente de las tierras del <strong><em>Sami<\/em><\/strong> \u2013donde enton\u00f3 el <em>Yoik<\/em>-, a territorio de los <strong><em>Selkup<\/em><\/strong> a rendir honores al Cedro, el \u00e1rbol de la vida.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Fui a aprender, que para eso son los viajes.\u00a0 Porque hay resistencias y rebeld\u00edas que no por apartadas en calendarios y geograf\u00edas, son menos importantes y heroicas<\/em>\u201d, dice mientras, con sus m\u00faltiples patitas, libera al chocolate de su prisi\u00f3n de brillante papel aluminio, aplaude y se zampa una porci\u00f3n, todo al mismo tiempo.<\/p>\n<p>Por su parte, Calamidad ha entendido bien eso de que hay que pensar en lo que sigue y, con el chocolate embarrado en sus manitas, declara entusiasmada: \u201c\u00a1Vamos a jugar a las palomitas!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Desde el Centro de Adiestramiento Mar\u00edtimo-Terrestre Zapatista.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">El SupGaleano impartiendo el taller \u201cEl <em>G\u00f3mito<\/em> Internacionalista\u201d.<br \/>\nM\u00e9xico, Diciembre del 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Del cuaderno de apuntes del gato-perro: El tesoro es lo otro.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u201cAl terminar, despacio me mir\u00f3 con su \u00fanico ojo y me dijo: \u00abLo esperaba Don Durito. Sepa usted que soy el \u00faltimo de los piratas verdaderos que vive en el mundo. Y digo lo de \u00abverdaderos\u00bb porque ahora hay infinidad de \u00abpiratas\u00bb que roban, matan, destruyen y saquean desde los centros financieros y los grandes palacios gubernamentales, sin tocar m\u00e1s agua que la de la tina. Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 su misi\u00f3n (me entrega un legajo de pergaminos viejos). Encuentre usted el tesoro y p\u00f3ngalo a buen recaudo. Ahora disc\u00falpeme, pero tengo que morirme\u00bb. Y al decir esto \u00faltimo, dej\u00f3 caer la cabeza sobre la mesa. S\u00ed, estaba muerto. El lorito levant\u00f3 vuelo y se sali\u00f3 por una ventana diciendo: \u00ab<\/em><em>Paso al exiliado de Mitilene, paso al hijo bastardo de Lesbos, paso al orgullo del mar Egeo. Abrid vuestras 9 puertas temido infierno, que all\u00e1 va a descansar el grande<\/em><em> Barbarroja. <\/em><em>Ha encontrado quien le siga los pasos y duerme ahora quien hizo del oc\u00e9ano apenas una l\u00e1grima. Con Escudo Negro navegar\u00e1 ahora el orgullo de los Piratas verdaderos<\/em><em>\u00bb. Bajo la ventana se extend\u00eda el puerto sueco de G\u00f6teborg y a lo lejos una nyckelharpa lloraba\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Don Durito de La Lacandona. Octubre de 1999.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Secci\u00f3n: Tres delirios, dos grupos y un amotinado.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Si seguimos la ruta del Almirante Maxo, creo que llegamos m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido si nos vamos caminando por el estrecho de Bering<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/491289422\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Por ovarios no paramos<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/491451350\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Ya est\u00e1 el motor, ya s\u00f3lo falta\u2026 \u00a1\u00bfla lancha?!<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/493600348\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>La tripulaci\u00f3n I<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/492361822\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>La tripulaci\u00f3n II<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/492339543\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>No tenemos todav\u00eda barco, pero ya hay quien encabece el mot\u00edn a bordo<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/492973959\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How\u00a0<em>Defensa Zapatista<\/em>\u00a0tried to explain Zapatismo\u2019s mission and other happy reasonings to\u00a0<em>Esperanza<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAll right, I\u2019m going to explain something very important to you. But don\u2019t take notes\u2014just keep it in your head. You might leave the notebook laying around anywhere, but you have to carry your head with you all the time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defensa Zapatista paced back and forth, just like the late SupMarcos used to do when he was explaining something really important. Esperanza was sitting on a tree stump, over which she had wisely placed a piece of plastic tarp to cover the damp wood which was covered in moss, mushrooms, and dry twigs.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou think we\u2019re going to be able to see where the struggle will take us?\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Defensa Zapatista blurted out, gesturing in no particular direction with her little hands.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza tried to think of how to answer, but it was clear Defensa Zapatista was asking a rhetorical question and wasn\u2019t interested in an answer. She was asking a question that led to other questions. According to Defensa Zapatista, she was following the scientific method.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe problem isn\u2019t getting to the destination, but making the path. That is, if there is no path, one has to make it. That\u2019s the only way,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she continued, brandishing a machete\u2014who knows where she got that, I\u2019m sure somebody somewhere is looking for it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo the thing is that the problem has changed\u2014the most important thing now is the path. If there is no path to where you want to go, well then that\u2019s your principal concern. So, what do we do if there\u2019s no path to where we want to go?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Esperanza responds confidently:\u00a0<em>\u201cWe wait until it stops raining so we don\u2019t get wet making the path.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>No!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Defensa yells, throwing her hands up and clutching her head, ruining the hairdo her mom had spent a half hour fixing.<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza hesitates and then tries again, \u201c<em>I know: we lie to Pedrito and tell him that there\u2019s a bunch of candy where we want to go, but no way to get there, and whoever makes a path the fastest gets all the candy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou think we\u2019re going to ask the men? Hell no! We\u2019re going to do it ourselves as the women that we are,\u201d<\/em>Defensa responds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>True<\/em>,\u201d Esperanza concedes, \u201c<em>plus maybe there will actually be chocolate there<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defensa continues, \u201c<em>But what if we get lost as we try to make the path?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Esperanza responds promptly,\u00a0<em>\u201cWe yell for help? Set off some firecrackers or take the conch shell along so we can call the village to come rescue us?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defensa sees that Esperanza is taking the issue quite literally, and worse, getting the approval of everyone gathered around. The cat-dog, for example, is licking his lips imagining the pot of chocolates at the end of the rainbow; the one-eyed horse suspects that there also might be maize with salt and maybe another pot full of plastic bottles; and Calamidad is practicing the choreography designed by SupGaleano called \u201c<em>pas de chocolat<\/em>,\u2019 which consists of balancing rhinoceros-style over a large pot.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00edas Contreras, meanwhile, had been sharpening his machete on both sides since the very first question.<\/p>\n<p>A little beyond him, an undefined being bearing extraordinary resemblance to a beetle and carrying a sign that reads \u201c<em>call me Ismael<\/em>,\u201d is debating Old Antonio over the advantages of stasis on dry land, arguing, \u201c<em>Yes indeed my dear Queequeg, no white whale goes near a port.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>\u00a0The old indigenous Zapatista, involuntary teacher of the generation that rose up in arms in 1994, rolls a cigarette and listens attentively to the beetle\u2019s arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Defensa Zapatista assumes that she, just like science and art, is in the difficult position of being misunderstood, like a\u00a0<em>pas de deux<\/em>\u00a0without the embrace to facilitate the\u00a0<em>pirouettes<\/em>\u00a0or the support for a\u00a0<em>port\u00e9<\/em>; like a film held prisoner in a can, waiting for a gaze to rescue it; like a port without a ship to dock there; like a\u00a0<em>cumbia<\/em>\u00a0awaiting hips to give it action and destination; like a concave Cigala without its convex<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a>; like Luz Casal on her way to meet the\u00a0<em>flor prometida<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a>; like Louis Lingg without the punk Bombs<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a>; like Panchito Varona looking behind a chord for a stolen April<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[v]<\/a>; like a ska without a slam; like praline ice cream without a Sup to do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>But Defensa being defense and also Zapatista, accepts none of this and, in resistance and rebellion, looks to Old Antonio for assistance.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cStorms respect no one; they hit both sea and land, sky and soil alike. Even the innards of the earth twist and turn with the actions of humans, plants, and animals. Neither color, size, nor ways matter,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Old Antonio says in a low voice.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone falls silent, half out of respect and half out of terror.<\/p>\n<p>Old Antonio continues:\u00a0<em>\u201cWomen and men seek to take shelter from wind, rain, and broken land, waiting for it to pass in order to see what is left. But the earth does more than that; it begins to prepare for what comes next, what comes after. In that process it begins to change; mother earth does not wait for the storm to pass in order to decide what to do, but rather begins to build long before. That is why the wisest ones say that the morning doesn\u2019t just happen, doesn\u2019t appear just like that, but that it lies in wait among the shadows and, for those who know where to look, in the cracks of the night. That is why when the men and women of maize plant their crops, they dream of\u00a0<\/em>tortilla, atole, pozol, tamale<em>, and\u00a0<\/em>marquesote<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[vi]<\/a><em>. Even though those things are not yet manifest, they know they will come and thus this is what guides their work. They see their field and its fruit before the seed has even touched the soil.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen the men and women of maize look at this world and its pain, they also see the world that must be created and they make a path to get there. They have three gazes: one for what came before; one for the present; and one for what is to come. That is how they know that what they are planting is a treasure: the gaze itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Defensa agrees enthusiastically. She understands that Old Antonio understands the argument that she could not explain. Two generations distant in calendars and geographies build a bridge that both comes and goes\u2026 just like paths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>That\u2019s right<\/em>!\u201d she almost shouts and looks fondly at the old man.<\/p>\n<p>She adds,\u00a0<em>\u201cIf we already know where we want to go, that means we also know where we don\u2019t want to go. So every step we take moves us toward one path and away from another. We haven\u2019t gotten there yet, but the path we walk shows us what our destination will be. If we want to eat tamales, we\u2019re not going to plant squash.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The whole crowd makes an understandable gesture of disgust, imagining a horrible squash soup.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe live out the storm however we know how, but we are already preparing what comes next. We prepare it now. That is why we have to take our word far and wide. It doesn\u2019t matter if the person who said it originally isn\u2019t there anymore; rather what matters is that the seed reaches fertile ground and grows. Our word must support others. That is our mission: to be a seed that looks for other seeds<\/em>,\u201d Defensa Zapatista declares, and looking at Esperanza asks, \u201c<em>Do you understand?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Esperanza stands up and with all the solemnity she can muster at 9 years of age, responds:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Yes, of course. I have understood that we are all going to die miserably<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then she adds immediately, \u201c<em>But we\u2019re going to make it worth it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone applauds.<\/p>\n<p>In order to reinforce Esperanza\u2019s \u201c<em>make it worth it<\/em>,\u201d Old Antonio takes a bag of chocolate \u201ckisses\u201d out of his bag.<\/p>\n<p>The cat-dog downs a good number of them in one gulp, though the one-eyed horse prefers to continue gnawing on its plastic bottle.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00edas Contreras, EZLN investigative commission, repeats in a low voice, \u201c<em>we\u2019re going to make it worth it<\/em>,\u201d and his heart and thoughts go to brother Samir Flores and those who confront, with dignity as their only weapon, the loud-mouthed thief of water and life who hides behind the weapons of the overseer, who himself blabbers on and on to hide his blind obedience to the true Ruler, which is first, money, then more money, and in the end, still money.<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[vii]<\/a>\u00a0It is never justice, never freedom, and never, ever life.<\/p>\n<p>The beetle begins to talk about how a chocolate bar kept him from dying on the Siberian steppes as he was traveling from the lands of Sami<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\">[viii]<\/a>\u2013where he sang the\u00a0<em>Yoik<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn9\" name=\"_ednref9\"><strong>[ix]<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u2014in Selkup territory<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn10\" name=\"_ednref10\">[x]<\/a><strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>to pay tribute to the Cedar, the tree of life. \u201c<em>I went to learn, that\u2019s what journeys are for. There are resistances and rebellions that are no less important and heroic because they are far away<\/em>,\u201d he says as he uses his many legs to liberate a chocolate from its aluminum foil, applaud, and gulp down a portion of it, all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Calamidad, for her part, has understood perfectly well what it means to think about what comes next and with her hands muddied with chocolate, exclaims enthusiastically, \u201c<em>vamos a jugar a las palomitas<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the Zapatista Center for Maritime-Terrestrial Training,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SupGaleano giving a workshop on \u201cInternationalist Vomiting\u201d<br \/>\nMexico, December of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the notebook of the Cat-Dog: The Treasure is the Other<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cUpon finishing, he looked at me slowly with his one eye and said, \u2018I was waiting for you, Don Durito. Know that I am the last true, living pirate in the world. And I say \u201ctrue\u201d because now there are an infinite number of \u201cpirates\u201d in financial centers and great government palaces who steal, kill, destroy and loot, without ever touching any water save that of their bathtubs. Here is your mission (he hands me a dossier of old parchments): find the treasure and put it in a safe place. Now, pardon me, but I must die.\u2019 And as he said those words, he let his head fall to the table. Yes, he was dead. The parrot took flight and went out through a window, saying, \u2018The exile of Mytilene is dead, dead is the bastard son of Lesbos, dead the pride of the Aegean Sea.<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn11\" name=\"_ednref11\">[xi]<\/a>\u00a0Open your nine doors, fearsome hell, for there the great Redbeard will rest. He has found the one who will follow in his footsteps, and the one who made of the ocean but a tear now sleeps. The pride of true Pirates will now sail with Black Shield.\u2019 Below the window, the Swedish port of Gothenburg spread out, and, in the distance, a\u00a0<em>nyckelharpa<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn12\" name=\"_ednref12\"><strong>[xii]<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0was weeping . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Don Durito<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>of the Lacand\u00f3n Jungle. October 1999.<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_edn13\" name=\"_ednref13\">[xiii]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Section: Three deliriums, two groups, and a rioter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we follow Admiral Maxo\u2019s route, I think we\u2019d arrive faster by walking over the Bering Strait:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/491289422\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just try and stop us:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/491451350\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Motor is ready, now just missing\u2026 the boat?!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/493600348\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First crew:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/492361822\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Second crew:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/492339543\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have the boat yet, but we\u2019ve got the guy who\u2019ll lead the riot onboard:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/492973959\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a>\u00a0The first line of Herman Melville\u2019s Moby-Dick. Ishmael is the narrator of the book. Queequeg is another character in the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cConcavo y convexo\u201d (<em>Concave and convex<\/em>) is the title of a love song by Flamenco singer Diego el Cigala.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cFlor prometida\u201d (<em>Promised flower<\/em>) is the title track of Spanish pop artist Luz Casal\u2019s seventh studio album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[iv]<\/a>\u00a0Louis Lingg and the Bombs is a French anarchist punk band named in honor of Chicago anarchist Louis Lingg, who was sentenced to death in 1887 for allegedly making the bombs used in the Haymarket Square riot. Lingg committed suicide in prison using an explosive device rather than be executed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[v]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cQui\u00e9n me ha robado el mes de abril\u201d, (<em>Who stole the month of April from me?<\/em>) is a song written by renowned Spanish rock music writer and producer Panchito Varona and sung by Spanish songwriter and musician Joaqu\u00edn Sabina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[vi]<\/a>\u00a0All maize-based food and drink common in southern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[vii]<\/a>\u00a0This references the struggle of the communities in Morelos resisting the construction of a thermo-electric plant in their region which is part of the \u201cIntegrated Plan for Morelos\u201d mega-project. Samir Flores, one of the leaders of the resistance, was killed in February, 2019, in the course of this struggle. The \u201coverseer\u201d refers to Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel Lopez Obrador who backs the megaproject and protects the business interests that would divert water supplies from local communities to the plant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\">[viii]<\/a>\u00a0The Sami are an indigenous people inhabiting what is now the Northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\">[ix]<\/a>\u00a0Yoik is a traditional form of song among the Sami people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\">[x]<\/a>\u00a0The Selkup are an indigenous people whose traditional territory is in central Russia between the Ob and Yenisey rivers. Trees are an important religious symbol for the Selkup, with cedar personifying the world of the dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\">[xi]<\/a>\u00a0This passage refers to Barbarossa (Redbeard) who was born in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea and wound up in Constantinople as the Admiral of the Sultan\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\">[xii]<\/a>\u00a0A\u00a0<em>nyckelharpais<\/em>\u00a0a traditional Swedish stringed instrument played with a bow and keys that slide under the strings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2020\/12\/24\/part-three-the-mission\/#_ednref13\" name=\"_edn13\">[xiii]<\/a>\u00a0The excerpt above is from a 1999 communiqu\u00e9 in which Don Durito, the recurring beetle character in EZLN writings, returns from a long voyage to Europe. Translation and footnotes borrowed from \u201cConversations with Durito\u201d:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cril.mitotedigital.org\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/cwdcomplete_0.pdf\">http:\/\/cril.mitotedigital.org\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/cwdcomplete_0.pdf<\/a>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] TERCERA PARTE: LA MISI\u00d3N. 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