\u201cThose from above have declared war on the Zapatista communities, a war which these days is focused on the community in resistance of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and the Zapatista political prisoner Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez.\u201d <\/em>– Ra\u00fal Zibechi<\/p>\nCompa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros:<\/p>\n
Another letter in support of our Zapatista sisters and brothers is born amidst the global consciousness raising activities which form a strategic part of the first phase of the \u201cWorldwide Echo in support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n
This time the words of solidarity come to us from Uruguayan lands by way of the pen of the thinker and activist Ra\u00fal Zibechi. Like in the previous letters, these words are full of truth, anger, and dignity. Our compa Raul sums up for us the true goal of those from above in their war against the Zapatista communities–“to defeat a dream made \u200b\u200breality, one which we can see in the Good Government Junta of Oventic, and in so many other places.\u201d<\/p>\n
That dream is ours as well. <\/p>\n
Here is Ra\u00fal Zibechi\u2019s letter in full:<\/p>\n
\nThose from above have declared war on the Zapatista communities, a war which these days is focused on the community in resistance of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and the Zapatista political prisoner Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n
The information sent to us by the compa\u00f1eros and compa\u00f1eras of the Movement for Justice in El Barrio shows us the nature of this offensive: it is aimed at eliminating all resistance at a time when capital is unleashing hunger and misery upon those from below in order to increase and protect its gigantic profits. To safeguard their continued accumulation of wealth, it is necessary to wipe from the face of the earth all obstacles, every kind of resistance.<\/p>\n
What the media and the “experts” call crisis, is actually part of this offensive to remove from the scene the peoples and the individuals who refuse to give way. Those from above are not in crisis. It is we, our strategies to survive and change the world, who have entered a crisis after decades of being anaesthetized with electoral illusions which promote the idea that it is possible to build an Other World without struggling, without addressing the hatred and the crimes of those from above.<\/p>\n
It is not a coincidence that the Zapatista communities are being repressed. They have shown millions, throughout the whole world, a path of resistance and construction that is multiplying in the most remote places. For those from above, destroying the Zapatista movement would be a double victory: against the peoples and communities of Chiapas and against all those in the world who find inspiration in their example. It would mean bringing down a dream made flesh, like the one we can see in the Good Government Junta of Oventic, and in so many other places.<\/p>\n
For all these reasons, solidarity with San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez is as essential as it is urgent.<\/p>\n
Ra\u00fal Zibechi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cEco Mundial en Apoyo a l@s Zapatistas: Justicia y Libertad para San Marcos Avil\u00e9s y Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d http:\/\/sanmarcosaviles.wordpress.com \u201cLos de arriba declararon la guerra a las comunidades zapatistas que en estos d\u00edas se enfoca en la comunidad en resistencia de San Marcos Avil\u00e9s y contra el preso pol\u00edtico zapatista Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez.\u201d – Ra\u00fal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[36,546,508,70,37,311,27],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comunidades-zapatistas","tag-eco-mundial","tag-francisco-santiz","tag-movimiento-por-justicia-del-barrio","tag-presos-politicos","tag-san-marcos-aviles","tag-solidaridad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}