{"id":38909,"date":"2021-08-13T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=38909"},"modified":"2021-08-22T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:56:44","slug":"apenas-500-anos-despues-el-escuadron-maritimo-zapatista-llamado-escuadron-421-13-de-agosto-de-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=38909","title":{"rendered":"[:es]Apenas 500 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s | El Escuadr\u00f3n Mar\u00edtimo Zapatista, llamado \u201cEscuadr\u00f3n 421\u201d | 13 de agosto  de 2021[:en]Only 500 years later[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<small>Fuente: <a href=\"https:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2021\/08\/13\/apenas-500-anos-despues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enlace Zapatista<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Palabras de los pueblos zapatistas.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Escucha aqu\u00ed:<\/strong><br \/>\n[podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RZ_PalabraEscuadron421_Madrid_Agosto_2021.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13 de agosto del 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Hermanas, hermanos, <strong><em>hermanoas<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, <strong><em>compa\u00f1eroas<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Por nuestras voces hablan las comunidades zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>Primero queremos agradecer.<\/p>\n<p>Agradecer que nos hayan invitado.<\/p>\n<p>Agradecer que nos hayan recibido.<\/p>\n<p>Agradecer que nos hayan hospedado.<\/p>\n<p>Agradecer que nos hayan alimentado.<\/p>\n<p>Agradecer que nos hayan cuidado.<\/p>\n<p>Pero sobre todo agradecerles que, a pesar de sus diferencias y contrariedades, se hayan puesto de acuerdo para esto que hoy hacemos.\u00a0 Que tal vez les parecer\u00e1 poco a ustedes, pero para nosotros los pueblos zapatistas es muy grande.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Somos zapatistas de ra\u00edz maya.<\/p>\n<p>Somos de una geograf\u00eda llamada M\u00e9xico y atravesamos el oc\u00e9ano para decirles estas palabras, para estar con ustedes, para escucharles, para aprender de ustedes.<\/p>\n<p>Somos de M\u00e9xico y en ustedes y con ustedes encontramos cari\u00f1o, cuidado, respeto.<\/p>\n<p>El Estado Mexicano y sus gobiernos no nos reconocen como nacionales de esa geograf\u00eda.\u00a0 Somos extra\u00f1os, extranjeros, indeseables, inoportunos en los mismos suelos que fueron cultivados por nuestros antecesores.<\/p>\n<p>Para el Estado Mexicano somos \u201cextempor\u00e1neos\u201d.\u00a0 Eso dice el acta de nacimiento que, despu\u00e9s de muchos gastos y viajes de nuestros poblados a las oficinas del mal gobierno, logramos obtener.\u00a0 Y lo hicimos para poder llegar hasta ustedes.<\/p>\n<p>Pero no hemos llegado hasta ac\u00e1 para quejarnos.\u00a0 Ni siquiera para denunciar al mal gobierno que padecemos.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f3lo les decimos esto, porque es ese mal gobierno el que le ha exigido al Estado Espa\u00f1ol que pida perd\u00f3n por lo ocurrido hace 500 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p>Deben comprender que, adem\u00e1s de ser un sinverg\u00fcenza, el mal gobierno de M\u00e9xico es tambi\u00e9n ignorante de la historia.\u00a0 Y la tuerce y acomoda a su conveniencia.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que dejemos de lado a los malos gobiernos que cada quien padecemos en nuestras geograf\u00edas.<\/p>\n<p>Ellos son s\u00f3lo capataces, empleados obedientes de un criminal mayor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quienes formamos el Escuadr\u00f3n Mar\u00edtimo Zapatista, y que nos conocen como el Escuadr\u00f3n 421, hoy estamos frente a ustedes, pero s\u00f3lo somos el antecedente de un grupo m\u00e1s grande.\u00a0 Hasta 501 delegados.\u00a0 Y somos 501 s\u00f3lo para demostrarles a los malos gobiernos que vamos delante de ellos.\u00a0 Mientras ellos simulan un festejo falso de 500 a\u00f1os, nosotros, nosotras, <strong><em>nosotroas<\/em><\/strong>, vamos ya en lo que sigue: la vida.<\/p>\n<p>En el a\u00f1o 501 habremos de recorrer los rincones de esta tierra insumisa.<\/p>\n<p>Pero no se preocupen.\u00a0 No vendr\u00e1n los 501 delegados y delegadas de un jal\u00f3n.\u00a0 Sino que por partes ir\u00e1n llegando.<\/p>\n<p>Ahora mismo, en las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano, se est\u00e1 preparando la compa\u00f1\u00eda zapatista aerotransportada a la que llamamos \u201cLa Extempor\u00e1nea\u201d y que est\u00e1 formada por mujeres, hombres, ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>Con esta compa\u00f1\u00eda aerotransportada viajar\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n una delegaci\u00f3n del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena-Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno y del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y el Agua.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Todas, <strong><em>todoas<\/em><\/strong>, todos han padecido para conseguir papeles y vacunas.\u00a0 Se han enfermado y se han aliviado.\u00a0 Han tenido hambre y han estado lejos de sus familias, sus comunidades, su tierra, su lengua, su cultura.<\/p>\n<p>Pero todos, todas y <strong><em>todoas<\/em><\/strong> est\u00e1n animados y entusiasmados por llegar a encontrarles.\u00a0 Pero no es en actos grandes, sino que en los lugares donde ustedes resisten, se rebelan, luchan.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez a alguien le parezca que nos interesan los grandes actos y el impacto medi\u00e1tico, y as\u00ed valoren los \u00e9xitos y fracasos.<\/p>\n<p>Pero nosotros hemos aprendido que las semillas se intercambian, se siembran y crecen en lo cotidiano, en el suelo propio, con los saberes de cada quien.<\/p>\n<p>El ma\u00f1ana no se gesta en la luz.\u00a0 Se cultiva, se cuida y se nace en las sombras inadvertidas de la madrugada, cuando la noche empieza apenas a ceder terreno.<\/p>\n<p>Los terremotos que sacuden la historia de la humanidad empiezan con un \u201cya basta\u201d aislado, casi imperceptible.\u00a0 Una nota discordante a mitad del ruido.\u00a0 Una grieta en el muro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Por eso es que no venimos a traer recetas, a imponer visiones y estrategias, a prometer futuros luminosos e instant\u00e1neos, plazas llenas, soluciones inmediatas.\u00a0 Ni venimos a convocarles a uniones maravillosas.<\/p>\n<p>Venimos a escucharles.<\/p>\n<p>No ser\u00e1 f\u00e1cil, cierto.<\/p>\n<p>Somos tan diferentes, tan distintos, tan lejanos, tan contrarios y, sobre todo, tan contradictorios.<\/p>\n<p>Nos separan muchas cosas.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez, al hablar, queri\u00e9ndolo o no, no s\u00f3lo decimos nuestra historia, tambi\u00e9n demostramos la convicci\u00f3n de que lo nuestro es lo que vale, es la verdad.<\/p>\n<p>Cada mirada al pasado nos divide.\u00a0 Y no es de balde esa diferencia.\u00a0 En cada mirada hay rabia y dolor que con legitimidad se asoman a lo anterior.<\/p>\n<p>Es cierto que al mirar la historia pasada buscamos encontrar lo que queremos.\u00a0 Sea rabias, rencores, condenas o absoluciones.\u00a0 Aunque hay estudios serios y profundos, podemos buscar el que nos conviene, el que nos da la raz\u00f3n.\u00a0 El que nos justifica.\u00a0 Y lo hacemos \u201cverdad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed podemos juzgar y condenar.\u00a0 Pero la justicia queda olvidada.<\/p>\n<p>Y as\u00ed podemos encontrar muchas cosas que nos dividen y confrontan.<\/p>\n<p>Tenemos broncas en nuestra familia, en nuestro grupo, colectivo, organizaci\u00f3n.\u00a0 En nuestro barrio.\u00a0 En nuestra comarca.\u00a0 En nuestra geograf\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Cada quien tiene un dolor que le marca.\u00a0 Una rabia que le mueve.<\/p>\n<p>Y esos dolores y esas rabias, que no son pocas, est\u00e1n ah\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Y los pueblos zapatistas decimos que s\u00f3lo una amenaza m\u00e1s grande, un dolor m\u00e1s terrible, una rabia mayor, es la que puede hacer que nos pongamos de acuerdo en dirigir esa rabia y ese dolor m\u00e1s arriba.<\/p>\n<p>Pero no es que desaparezcan esas diferencias que tenemos, como en los falsos llamados a la \u201cunidad\u201d que suelen hacer los de arriba cuando los de abajo les piden cuentas.<\/p>\n<p>No, de lo que hablamos las comunidades zapatistas es de una causa, de un motivo, de una meta: la vida.<\/p>\n<p>No se trata de abandonar convicciones y luchas.\u00a0 Al contrario.\u00a0 Pensamos que las luchas de mujeres, de <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>, de trabajadores, de originarios, no s\u00f3lo no deben detenerse, sino que debieran ser m\u00e1s profundas y radicales.\u00a0 Cada quien enfrenta una o varias cabezas de la Hidra.<\/p>\n<p>Porque todas esas luchas, de ustedes y de nosotros los pueblos zapatistas, son por la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Pero mientras no destruyamos al monstruo en su coraz\u00f3n, esas cabezas seguir\u00e1n brotando y cambiando de forma pero con mayor crueldad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahora, en estos tiempos, miramos y sufrimos una destrucci\u00f3n gigantesca; la de la naturaleza, con la humanidad incluida.<\/p>\n<p>Porque bajo los escombros, las cenizas, el lodo, las aguas sucias, las pandemias, la explotaci\u00f3n, el desprecio, el despojo, el crimen, el racismo y la intolerancia, hay seres humanos sin vida.\u00a0 Y cada vida es una historia que se convierte en un n\u00famero, una estad\u00edstica, un olvido.<\/p>\n<p>El futuro, la historia por venir, es, como el presente, una pesadilla real.\u00a0 Y, cuando pensamos que no puede ser peor, viene la realidad a golpearnos en el rostro.<\/p>\n<p>Y entonces cada quien ve por s\u00ed mismo y, en el mejor de los casos, por sus cercanos: su familia, sus amistades, sus personas conocidas.<\/p>\n<p>Pero, as\u00ed como en cada rinc\u00f3n del planeta, en cada coraz\u00f3n que late, hay una desgracia presente y una por llegar, hay tambi\u00e9n una resistencia, una rebeld\u00eda, una lucha por la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Porque vivir no es s\u00f3lo no morir, no es sobrevivir.\u00a0 Vivir como seres humanos es vivir con libertad.\u00a0 Vivir es arte, es ciencia, es alegr\u00eda, es baile, es lucha.<\/p>\n<p>Y claro, vivir tambi\u00e9n es estar en desacuerdo con una u otra cosa, discutir, debatir, confrontar.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces hay alguien o algo que nos impide vivir, que nos arrebata la libertad, que nos enga\u00f1a, que nos estafa, que nos acorrala, que nos va quitando el mundo de cada quien a mordiscos, a tajos, a heridas.<\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00ed podemos elegir al responsable.\u00a0 Buscar un culpable.\u00a0 Confrontarlo y hacer justicia.\u00a0 Alguien o algo que pague, que responda por ese dolor que nos deja solos, solas, <strong><em>soloas<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Que nos arrincona en una isla cada vez m\u00e1s peque\u00f1a, tan diminuta que s\u00f3lo queda el yo de cada quien.<\/p>\n<p>Y a\u00fan ah\u00ed, en la peque\u00f1a isla, lejana de todo y de todos, nos obligan a ser otra cosa, a no ser lo que somos.\u00a0 Nuestra historia individual que tiene su parte de historia colectiva: una habitaci\u00f3n, una casa, un barrio, una comunidad, una geograf\u00eda, una causa que debe ser cambiada y traicionada para ser parte de otra cosa.<\/p>\n<p>Una mujer que sea del agrado del hombre.\u00a0 <strong><em>Unoa<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>otroa<\/em><\/strong> que sea aceptada por lo hetero.\u00a0 Una juventud a la satisfacci\u00f3n de la madurez.\u00a0 Una vejez tolerada por la juventud.\u00a0 Una ni\u00f1ez en disputa por j\u00f3venes, adultos, ancianos.\u00a0 Una fuerza de trabajo eficiente y d\u00f3cil para el capataz.\u00a0 Un capataz al gusto del Mand\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Y esa presi\u00f3n para transformarse en lo que no somos tiene el modo de la violencia.<\/p>\n<p>Y es estructural.\u00a0 Todo el sistema est\u00e1 construido para imponer el molde de la normalidad.<\/p>\n<p>Si somos mujeres, debemos serlo seg\u00fan el molde de los varones.<\/p>\n<p>Si somos <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>, debemos serlo seg\u00fan el molde de lo heterosexual.<\/p>\n<p>Por ejemplo, ya ven que hasta hay cl\u00ednicas para \u201ccorregir\u201d la diferencia sexual.<\/p>\n<p>Bueno, pues el sistema es una gigantesca y brutal cl\u00ednica que \u201ccura\u201d la \u201canormalidad\u201d.\u00a0 Una m\u00e1quina que ataca, a\u00edsla y liquida lo otro, lo diferente.<\/p>\n<p>Entonces pues as\u00ed nos traen, d\u00eda y noche, queri\u00e9ndonos domar, buscando domesticarnos.<\/p>\n<p>Y nosotros, pues resistiendo.\u00a0 Toda la vida y generaciones completas resistiendo, rebel\u00e1ndose.\u00a0 Diciendo \u201cno\u201d a la imposici\u00f3n.\u00a0 Gritando \u201cs\u00ed\u201d a la vida.<\/p>\n<p>No es nuevo, es cierto. Podr\u00edamos remontarnos 5 siglos atr\u00e1s y la misma historia.<\/p>\n<p>Y lo rid\u00edculo de todo eso es que, quienes nos oprimen ahora, pretenden tomar el papel de nuestros \u201clibertadores\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, algo es diferente.\u00a0 Y es que el dolor de la tierra, de la naturaleza, tambi\u00e9n se ha unido al nuestro.<\/p>\n<p>Y aqu\u00ed podemos estar o no de acuerdo.\u00a0 Podemos decir que no es cierto, que las pandemias se terminar\u00e1n, que las cat\u00e1strofes cesar\u00e1n, que el mundo, que nuestra vida en el mundo, volver\u00e1 a ser como antes.\u00a0 A\u00fan cuando ese \u201cantes\u201d era y es de dolor, destrucci\u00f3n e injusticia.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotros, los pueblos zapatistas, pensamos que no.\u00a0 Que no s\u00f3lo no volver\u00e1 a ser como antes.\u00a0 Que se va a poner peor.<\/p>\n<p>Nosotras las comunidades zapatistas nombramos al responsable de estos males y le llamamos \u201ccapitalismo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Y tambi\u00e9n decimos que s\u00f3lo con la destrucci\u00f3n total de ese sistema ser\u00e1 posible que cada quien, seg\u00fan su modo, su calendario y su geograf\u00eda, habr\u00e1 de levantar otra cosa.<\/p>\n<p>No perfecta, pero s\u00ed mejor.<\/p>\n<p>Y a eso que se construya, a esas nuevas relaciones entre los seres humanos y entre la humanidad y la naturaleza, se le pondr\u00e1 el nombre que a cada quien le d\u00e9 la gana.<\/p>\n<p>Y sabemos que no ser\u00e1 f\u00e1cil.\u00a0 Que no lo es ya.<\/p>\n<p>Y sabemos bien que no podremos solos, cada quien en su parcela combatiendo contra la cabeza de la hidra que le toca padecer, mientras el coraz\u00f3n del monstruo se rehace y crece todav\u00eda m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Y sobre todo sabemos que no habremos de mirar ese ma\u00f1ana en el que, al fin, la bestia arda y se consuma hasta que de ella s\u00f3lo quede un mal recuerdo.<\/p>\n<p>Pero tambi\u00e9n sabemos que haremos nuestra parte, aunque sea peque\u00f1a, aunque la olviden las generaciones venideras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Como comunidades zapatistas que somos, vemos se\u00f1ales.<\/p>\n<p>Pero tal vez estamos equivocados como pueblos que somos.<\/p>\n<p>Ya ven que dicen que somos ignorantes, retrasados, conservadores, opositores al progreso, pre-modernos, b\u00e1rbaros, incivilizados, inoportunos e inconvenientes.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez es as\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez estamos atrasados porque como mujeres que somos o como <strong><em>otroas<\/em><\/strong>, podemos salir a pasear sin temor de que nos ataquen, nos violen, nos descuarticen, nos desaparezcan.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez estamos en contra del progreso porque nos oponemos a los megaproyectos que destruyen la naturaleza y nos destruyen como pueblos, y que heredan muerte para las generaciones que siguen.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez estamos en contra de la modernidad porque nos oponemos a un tren, una carretera, una presa, una termoel\u00e9ctrica, un centro comercial, un aeropuerto, una mina, un dep\u00f3sito de material t\u00f3xico, la destrucci\u00f3n de un bosque, la contaminaci\u00f3n de r\u00edos y lagunas, el culto a los combustibles f\u00f3siles.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez somos atrasados porque honramos a la tierra en lugar de al dinero.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez somos b\u00e1rbaros porque cultivamos nuestros alimentos.\u00a0 Porque trabajamos para vivir y no para ganar paga.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez somos inoportunos e inconvenientes porque nos gobernamos a nosotros mismos como pueblos que somos.\u00a0 Porque consideramos el trabajo de gobierno como un trabajo m\u00e1s de los comunitarios que habremos de cumplir.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez somos rebeldes porque no nos vendemos, porque no nos rendimos, porque no claudicamos.<\/p>\n<p>Tal vez somos todo eso que dicen de nosotros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pero algo miramos, algo escuchamos, algo sabemos que est\u00e1 pasando y que va a pasar.<\/p>\n<p>Y por eso estamos en este viaje.\u00a0 Porque pensamos y sabemos que no somos los \u00fanicos que luchamos, que no somos los \u00fanicos que vemos lo que est\u00e1 pasando y lo que va a pasar.<\/p>\n<p>Nuestro rinc\u00f3n del mundo es una peque\u00f1a geograf\u00eda de lucha por la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Estamos buscando otros rincones y queremos aprender de ellos.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso llegamos hasta ac\u00e1, no a traerles reproches, injurias, reclamos, cobros por deudas impagadas.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque eso est\u00e9 de moda y aunque cualquiera dir\u00eda que s\u00ed, que tenemos raz\u00f3n en esos reclamos o que no sabemos lo que debemos hacer y ellos, los malos gobiernos, lo har\u00e1n por nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>Y que est\u00e9 de moda que esos malos gobiernos se escondan detr\u00e1s de nacionalismos de cart\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Y que, bajo la bandera del nacionalismo, nos cubramos nosotros y se cubra tambi\u00e9n quien nos oprime, quien nos persigue, quien nos asesina, quien nos divide y nos confronta.<\/p>\n<p>No. No venimos a eso.<\/p>\n<p>Detr\u00e1s de los nacionalismos se esconden no s\u00f3lo las diferencias, tambi\u00e9n y sobre todo los cr\u00edmenes.\u00a0 Bajo un mismo nacionalismo se cobijan el macho violento y la mujer agredida, la intolerancia heterosexual y la otredad perseguida, la civilizaci\u00f3n depredadora y el pueblo originario aniquilado, el capital explotador y los trabajadores subyugados, los ricos y los pobres.<\/p>\n<p>Las banderas nacionales ocultan m\u00e1s de lo que muestran, mucho m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Porque pensamos eso, es que nuestro empe\u00f1o por la vida es mundial.\u00a0 No reconoce fronteras, lenguas, colores, razas, ideolog\u00edas, religiones, sexos, edades, tama\u00f1os, banderas.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso la nuestra, es una Traves\u00eda por la Vida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9sta es de las pocas veces que haremos uso de la palabra en un acto donde unos pocos hablan y muchos escuchan.<\/p>\n<p>Y lo aprovechamos para hacerles una petici\u00f3n respetuosa.<\/p>\n<p>Cu\u00e9ntenos su historia.\u00a0 No importa si es grande o peque\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p>Cu\u00e9ntenos su historia de resistencia, de rebeld\u00eda.\u00a0 Sus dolores, sus rabias, sus \u201cno\u201d y sus \u201cs\u00ed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Porque nosotras las comunidades zapatistas hemos venido a escuchar y a aprender la historia que hay en cada habitaci\u00f3n, en cada casa, en cada barrio, en cada comunidad, en cada lengua, en cada modo y en cada ni modos.<\/p>\n<p>Porque, despu\u00e9s de tantos a\u00f1os, hemos aprendido que en cada disidencia, en cada rebeld\u00eda, en cada resistencia, hay un grito por la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Y, seg\u00fan nosotros los pueblos zapatistas, de eso se trata todo: de la vida.<\/p>\n<p>Y, cuando un d\u00eda cualquiera, alguien les pregunte \u201c\u00bfa que vinieron los zapatistas?\u201d, juntos podremos responder, sin pena para ustedes y sin verg\u00fcenza para nosotras, \u201cvinieron a aprender\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>500 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, las comunidades zapatistas vinieron a escucharnos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Desde Madrid, en la geograf\u00eda que llaman Espa\u00f1a,<br \/>\ny en estos suelos y bajo estos cielos renombrados como<br \/>\n<strong><em>SLUMIL K\u00b4AJXEMK\u00b4OP, o \u201ctierra insumisa\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A nombre de las comunidades zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">El Escuadr\u00f3n Mar\u00edtimo Zapatista, llamado \u201cEscuadr\u00f3n 421\u201d.<br \/>\nPlaneta Tierra. 13 de agosto, apenas 500 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/587003044\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nM\u00fasica: Rage Against The Machine \u2013 \u00abWake Up\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Only 500 years later<\/strong><br \/>\nWords of the Zapatista Peoples<\/p>\n<p>August 13, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Sisters, brothers, hermanoas:<\/p>\n<p>Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eroas:<\/p>\n<p>The Zapatista communities speak through our voices.<\/p>\n<p>First, we would like to express our thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having invited us.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having welcomed us.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having housed us.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having fed us.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having taken care of us.<\/p>\n<p>But above all, we\u2019d like to express our gratitude for the fact that despite differences and obstacles you have all agreed to what we\u2019re doing today. Perhaps it seems small to you, but for us Zapatista communities it is huge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>We are Zapatistas of Mayan descent.<\/p>\n<p>We are from a geography called Mexico, and we crossed the ocean to share these words with you, be with you, listen to you, and to learn from you.<\/p>\n<p>We are from Mexico and in and with you we find love, care, and respect.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican state and their administrations don\u2019t recognize us as citizens of this geography. We are strangers, foreigners, undesirable and unwelcome in the same lands that were farmed by our ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>For the Mexican state we are \u201cextemporaneous.\u201d That\u2019s what it says on the birth certificates that we managed to obtain after we made many trips and incurred many expenses on visits to the offices of the bad government. And we did all that to be able to come to where you are.<\/p>\n<p>But we didn\u2019t come all this way to complain or even to denounce the bad government we have to put up with.<\/p>\n<p>We only share this because it is this same bad government which has demanded that the Spanish State apologize for what happened 500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>You should understand that in addition to being shameless, the bad government of Mexico is also ignorant of history, twisting and adapting it to its liking.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s leave aside the bad governments that each of us have to put up with in our geographies.<\/p>\n<p>They are just overseers, obedient employees of a greater criminal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who make up the Zapatista Maritime Squadron, known as the 421st Squadron, are here in front of you today, but we are just the first wave of a much larger group. There will be up to 501 delegates. There are 501 of us just to show the bad governments that we are ahead of them: while they simulate a false celebration of 500 years, we [nosotros, nosotras, nosotroas] are already heading towards what\u2019s next: life.<\/p>\n<p>In the year 501, we will have explored the corners of this rebellious land.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But don\u2019t worry. The 501 delegates will not arrive in one fell swoop, but in waves. Right now in the mountains of Southeastern Mexico, they are preparing the Zapatista airborne company, which we call \u201cThe Extemporaneous\u201d and which is made up of Zapatista women, men, boys and girls.<\/p>\n<p>The airborne company will be joined by a delegation from the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council and the People\u2019s Front in Defense of the Land and Water.<\/p>\n<p>All of us [todas, todoas, todos] have suffered to obtain our documents and vaccines. We have gotten sick and recovered. We have been hungry and far from their families, communities, lands, language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>But all of us are excited and enthusiastic to meet you, not at large events but in the places where you all resist, rebel, and struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Some might think that what interests us are large events and media coverage and would evaluate our successes and failures from that perspective. But we have learned that seeds are exchanged, planted, and grown in the terrain of the everyday using everyone\u2019s own knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow doesn\u2019t grow in the spotlight. It is nurtured, cared for, and born in the unobserved shadows during the early morning, when the night just begins to cede ground.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquakes that shake the history of humanity start with a single, almost imperceptible cry of \u201cEnough!\u201d; a discordant note in the midst of the noise; a crack in the wall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>For this reason we have not come to share recipes, impose visions or strategies, or promise bright and instantaneous futures, crowded squares, or immediate solutions; nor did we come to convoke you to join marvelous coalitions.<\/p>\n<p>We came to listen to you.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly won\u2019t be easy: we are so different, so distinct, so distant, so opposite, and above all, so contradictory. Many things separate us.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps as we begin to talk, like it or not, we will not just share our history, but will also demonstrate our conviction that what\u2019s ours is what counts and what is true.<\/p>\n<p>Each look backwards to the past divides us, and this difference is not unfounded: each glance back brings out legitimate pain and rage about the past.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that in looking to the past we find what we seek, whether it\u2019s rage, resentments, condemnations or acquittals. Even though there are serious and profound studies of history, we can find those that are most convenient for us, that prove us right and justify us, which we then turn into the \u201ctruth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We can judge and condemn in this way, but in doing so justice is forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>We can find many things that divide us and pit us against each other like this.<\/p>\n<p>We fight with our family, with our group, collective or organization, and in our neighborhood, region and geography.<\/p>\n<p>Each person carries pain that marks them and rage that moves them.<\/p>\n<p>This pain and rage, which are not small, are there.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we Zapatista peoples say that only a larger threat, a more terrible pain and a greater rage will allow us to agree to direct our rage and pain upwards.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not that the differences among us disappear, like in the false calls for \u201cunity\u201d often made by those above when those below try to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n<p>No, what we Zapatista communities are talking about is a cause, a motivation, a goal: life.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about abandoning convictions and struggles: on the contrary, we think that the struggle of women, otroas, workers, and originary peoples should not only not stop, but should be even deeper and more radical. Each individual faces one or more heads of the Hydra.<\/p>\n<p>All of those struggles, yours and ours as Zapatista peoples, are for life. But until we destroy the monster in its heart, its heads will continue sprouting and changing shape in even more cruel forms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Today, in these times, we see and are suffering under the destruction of nature at an enormous scale, with humanity included.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the rubble, ashes, mud, contaminated waters, pandemics, exploitation, disdain, dispossession, crime, racism and intolerance, there are human beings without life. And each life is a history that gets converted into a number or a statistic and forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The future\u2014the history to come\u2014is, like the present, a real nightmare. And when we think that it couldn\u2019t get any worse, reality comes and smacks us in the face.<\/p>\n<p>So people look out for themselves and, in the best of cases, for those close to them: their family, friends and the people they know.<\/p>\n<p>But just as in each corner of the planet and in each beating heart there is tragedy today and more to come, at the same time, there is also resistance, rebellion, and a struggle for life.<\/p>\n<p>Living is not just about not dying, about surviving: living as human beings means living with freedom. Living is about art, science, joy, dance, and struggle.<\/p>\n<p>And of course living is also about disagreeing, discussing, debating, and confronting.<\/p>\n<p>There is someone or something that is stopping us from living, taking away our freedom, deceiving us, scamming us, cornering us and taking away the world from each one of us with bites, cuts, and wounds.<br \/>\nWe can identify the responsible party, look for a culprit, confront them and bring them to justice. We look for someone or something to pay and answer for this pain that leaves us isolated and alone [solos, solas, soloas], forcing us onto an ever-shrinking island, so small that only each person\u2019s ego is left.<\/p>\n<p>And even there, on that small island, far from everything and everyone, we\u2019re supposed to be something else and are still not allowed to be what we are\u2014even there in our individual history, made in part by collective history: in a room, a house, a neighborhood, a community, a geography, a cause which should be changed and betrayed to be part of something else. A woman who is to a man\u2019s liking, unoa otroa who is accepted as hetero, a youth who is to the satisfaction of maturity, an old age tolerated by youth, a childhood disputed by youth, adults, and the elderly, an efficient and docile workforce for the overseer, an overseer to the liking of the boss.<\/p>\n<p>And this pressure to transform ourselves into what we are not takes the form of violence which is structural. The whole system is made to impose the mold of normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>If we are women, we should be so according to the mold made by men.<\/p>\n<p>If we are otroas, we should be so according to the mold made by heterosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>For example there are even clinics to \u201ccorrect\u201d sexual difference.<\/p>\n<p>Really, the system itself is a gigantic and brutal clinic to \u201ccure\u201d our \u201cabnormality:\u201d a machine that attacks, isolates, and liquidates that which is other and different.<\/p>\n<p>All day, every day the system tries to tame and domesticate us.<\/p>\n<p>And we resist: everything that\u2019s alive and entire generations resisting and rebelling, saying \u201cno\u201d to imposition and shouting \u201cyes\u201d to life.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that this is not new. We could go back five centuries and see the same story.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s ridiculous about all that is that those who oppress us today pretend to play the role of our \u201cliberators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>However, something is different: the pain of the Earth and nature has joined together with our pain.<\/p>\n<p>And here we can either agree or disagree. We can say that it\u2019s not true: pandemics will end, catastrophes will cease to happen, the world and our life in the world will return to how it was before, even though this \u201cbefore\u201d was and is full of pain, destruction and injustice.<\/p>\n<p>We, the Zapatista peoples, don\u2019t think so: not only will things not return to how they were before, but they will actually get worse.<\/p>\n<p>We, the Zapatista communities, name what is responsible for these wrongs and call it \u201ccapitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We also say that it is only through the total destruction of this system that it will be possible for each person, according to their own ways, calendars and geographies, to be able to build something else.<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be perfect, but it will be better.<\/p>\n<p>What is built after that, those new relations between human beings and between humanity and nature, will be named whatever people want to call it.<\/p>\n<p>We know it won\u2019t be easy: it\u2019s not easy now.<\/p>\n<p>We know that we won\u2019t be able to do it alone, with each person on their own plot of land fighting against the head of the hydra they happen to face, while the heart of the monster remakes itself and grows even larger.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, we know that we will not live to see the day when, in the end, the beast burns and crumbles until all that remains of it is a bad memory.<\/p>\n<p>But we also know that we will do our part, though it may be small and future generations may not remember it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>As the Zapatista communities that we are, we see signs. But perhaps we are wrong as the peoples that we are. You see how they call us ignorant, backwards, conservative, against progress, pre-modern, barbaric, uncivilized, unwelcome and inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s true. Maybe we are backwards because here, as the women that we are and the otroas that we are, we can go out without fear that we\u2019ll be attacked, raped, butchered and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are against progress because we are opposed to the megaprojects that destroy nature, destroy us as peoples, and leave death as the next generation\u2019s inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are against modernity because we oppose a given train, road, dam, thermoelectric plant, mall, airport, mine, or toxic waste dump, the destruction of a forest, the polluting of rivers and lakes, and the cult of fossil fuels.<br \/>\nMaybe we are backwards because we honor the land instead of money.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are barbaric because we grow our own food and because we work to live and not to make money.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are inappropriate and inconvenient because we govern ourselves as the peoples that we are and because we see the work of government as one of the many responsibilities that we as community members must carry out.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are rebellious because we do not sell out, give up, or surrender.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we are everything that they say about us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>But we see and hear something: we know something is happening and is going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we are on this journey, because we think and know that we are not the only ones who struggle and we are not the only ones who see what is happening and is going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Our corner of the world is a small geography of struggle for life.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for other corners and want to learn from them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we came here, not to bring you insults and complaints or to collect on unpaid debts, even though this is in fashion and everyone would agree that we have a right to these complaints, or they say that we don\u2019t know what we should do, so the bad governments will do it for us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also currently fashionable for these bad governments to hide themselves behind pseudo-nationalisms.<\/p>\n<p>The flag of nationalism covers us together with those who oppress, persecute, murder, and divide us.<\/p>\n<p>No. We did not come here for that.<\/p>\n<p>The banner of nationalism hides not only differences but also, and above all, crimes. Under a unified nationalism, they shelter the violent man and the assaulted woman, heterosexual intolerance and persecuted otredad [otherness, other sexualities], predatory civilization and annihilated originary people, exploitative capital and subjugated workers, and the rich and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>National flags hide much more than they reveal.<\/p>\n<p>This is why our resolve for life is global. It does not recognize borders, language, color, race, ideology, religion, sex, age, size, or flags.<\/p>\n<p>This is why our journey is a Journey for Life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>This marks one of the few times where we will talk at an event in which only a few speak and many listen.<\/p>\n<p>We will take this opportunity to make a respectful request.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us your history, no matter how big or small.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us your history of resistance and rebellion: tell us about your pain, rage, and your \u201cno\u2019s\u201d and your \u201cyes\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because we Zapatista communities have come to listen and to learn the history that exists in each room, house, neighborhood, community, language, and the ways that you do and don\u2019t do things.<\/p>\n<p>After so many years, we have learned that in each act of dissidence, rebellion or resistance, there is a clamor for life.<\/p>\n<p>In our view as Zapatista peoples, that\u2019s what this is all about: life.<\/p>\n<p>Someday when someone asks you, \u201cWhy did the Zapatistas come?\u201d together we can respond, without any shame on your or our part, \u201cThey came to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred years later, the Zapatista communities came to listen to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From Madrid, in the geography called Spain, in the lands and under the skies renamed<br \/>\nSLUMIL K\u00b4AJXEMK\u00b4OP or \u201crebellious land\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the name of the Zapatista communities.<br \/>\nThe Zapatista Maritime Squadron, known as the \u201c421st Squadron\u201d.<br \/>\nPlanet Earth. August 13, only 500 years later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/587003044\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRage Against The Machine \u2013 \u00abWake Up\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]Fuente: Enlace Zapatista Palabras de los pueblos zapatistas. Escucha aqu\u00ed: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RZ_PalabraEscuadron421_Madrid_Agosto_2021.mp3[\/podcast] &nbsp; 13 de agosto del 2021. Hermanas, hermanos, hermanoas: Compa\u00f1eros, compa\u00f1eras, compa\u00f1eroas: Por nuestras voces hablan las comunidades zapatistas. Primero queremos agradecer. Agradecer que nos hayan invitado. Agradecer que nos hayan recibido. Agradecer que nos hayan hospedado. Agradecer que nos hayan alimentado. Agradecer que [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":38916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,51,1318,955,118,956,1284,954,953,935],"tags":[644,36,58,920,926,545,148,27,483,1317],"class_list":["post-38909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autonomia","category-autor","category-caravana-zapatista-a-europa","category-ezln-temas","category-ezln","category-sexta","category-latinoamerica","category-mexico","category-mundo","category-temas","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-comunidades-zapatistas","tag-derechos-humanos","tag-europa","tag-ezln","tag-pueblos-indigenas","tag-resistencia","tag-solidaridad","tag-tierra-y-territorio","tag-travesia-por-la-vida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39055,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38909\/revisions\/39055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}