{"id":7402,"date":"2012-12-22T11:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:50:16","slug":"21-de-diciembre-de-2012-el-sonido-de-la-esperanza-zapatista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=7402","title":{"rendered":"[:es]21 de Diciembre de 2012: El sonido de la esperanza zapatista[:en]21 December 2012: The sound of zapatista hope[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7400\" title=\"ezln colores\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores.jpg 403w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>El 21 de Diciembre de 2012 fue el \u00faltimo d\u00eda del bakt\u00fan de la cuenta larga de los mayas. No sabemos desde qu\u00e9 hora empezaron a llegar los miles de zapatistas que ocupar\u00edan las cabeceras municipales de Ocosingo, Palenque, Las Margaritas, Altamirano y San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas. Lo que s\u00ed sabemos es que desde las ocho de la ma\u00f1ana empezaron a hacerse visibles, a ocupar cuidadosamente sus lugares asignados en filas y contingentes. En la ciudad de San Crist\u00f3bal los contingentes iban desde el reci\u00e9n construido Soriana hasta m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de una de las entradas al Huitepec en el perif\u00e9rico de esta ciudad. Hombres, mujeres y ni\u00f1os bajaron desde sus comunidades en medio de un fr\u00edo y una lluvia tenaces que no cesar\u00edan durante todo el d\u00eda. Y as\u00ed, con n\u00fameros bordados en sus pasamonta\u00f1as que marcaban el contingente al que pertenec\u00edan y en un perfecto orden, empezaron a avanzar una vez m\u00e1s sobre la orgullosa Jovel.<\/p>\n<p>El gris, la tempestad que los esperaba ese d\u00eda no dejan de ser simb\u00f3licos. As\u00ed se mira, se siente el mundo estos d\u00edas, particularmente la realidad nacional. El retorno del PRI al poder \u00a0(que es pr\u00e1cticamente en los tres niveles en Chiapas), las reformas laboral y educativa, la amenaza inminente de desmantelamiento de lo que queda del ejido (en la forma de reformas a la ley agraria presentada por Calder\u00f3n a d\u00edas de terminar su mandato), la represi\u00f3n y criminalizaci\u00f3n de la protesta social con el PRI <em>reloaded<\/em> y \u00a0la profundizaci\u00f3n del modelo extractivista, l\u00e9ase de saqueo abierto de recursos naturales. As\u00ed de gris y tormentoso es el panorama. Y en medio de esa noche aparecieron una vez m\u00e1s los y las zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>En silencio, en un orden perfecto, aguantaron la lluvia, el fr\u00edo y el viento como de por s\u00ed resisten. Avanzaron las columnas, los r\u00edos de gente, de pasamonta\u00f1as y paliacates. A su paso, salieron los simpatizantes que se han sentido convocados por el zapatismo. Tambi\u00e9n hubo periodistas y turistas como en el 94.\u00a0 Muchos negocios cerraron sus puertas, as\u00ed es el miedo coleto. Pero tambi\u00e9n hubo aquellos, los menos, \u00a0que saludaban a \u00a0los contingentes desde las puertas de sus negocios.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando las columnas alcanzaron la Plaza de la Resistencia, ya una brigada zapatista hab\u00eda montado un templete sencillo y peque\u00f1o. La vanguardia que tra\u00eda las banderas de M\u00e9xico y la Zapatista se pusieron como fondo para lo que ser\u00eda un espect\u00e1culo de dignidad. Por ese templete pasaron todas las columnas, todos y todas de los miles de zapatistas que vinieron a San Crist\u00f3bal subieron y bajaron con el pu\u00f1o izquierdo en alto, en medio de un silencio que s\u00f3lo era roto por el ruido de sus pisadas al subir y bajar apuradamente. Eso y de vez en cuando alguna consigna de los simpatizantes que observaban desconcertados, pregunt\u00e1ndose a qu\u00e9 hora se dar\u00eda el comunicado tan anunciado en la p\u00e1gina de Enlace Zapatista. Sin embargo, ese acto era el comunicado: el mensaje fuerte y sabio que mandaba no s\u00f3lo la Comandancia General del EZLN, sino las bases de apoyo zapatista. El EZLN que resiste, camina y construye son ellos que son sujeto colectivo y alzan su pu\u00f1o izquierdo como diciendo: no nos rendimos, no nos vencimos, aqu\u00ed seguimos.<\/p>\n<p>Por las calles aleda\u00f1as a la plaza central segu\u00edan llegando los y las zapatistas, apurando el paso para despu\u00e9s tomar su lugar en un acto que pareciera ensayado muchas veces y que sin embargo no hab\u00eda visto el escenario hasta ese d\u00eda. El esfuerzo organizativo de movilizar a miles de personas\u00a0 en un acto cargado de simbolismo y dignidad contrastan como nunca con toda la vacuidad y el cinismo de los actos de gobierno. La pista de hielo construida por el gobierno municipal y que ocupa pr\u00e1cticamente la mitad de la plaza de la catedral puede tambi\u00e9n servir de met\u00e1fora: costos\u00edsimo elefante blanco construido sin duda para el turismo, con fondos del erario p\u00fablico en un estado en quiebra, la pista se encuentra no s\u00f3lo fuera de contexto sino que adem\u00e1s no sirve. \u00a0\u00a0Ocupaci\u00f3n-usurpaci\u00f3n del espacio p\u00fablico. Y \u00bfqu\u00e9 pas\u00f3 durante la movilizaci\u00f3n zapatista? Ah\u00ed sigui\u00f3 el elefante blanco, mientras que la movilizaci\u00f3n, los zapatistas desbordaron las calles, los l\u00edmites: el centro entero fue tomado.<\/p>\n<p>Poco a poco, as\u00ed como llegaron, los miles de colores que son los pueblos zapatistas \u00a0salieron en silencio de la ciudad para regresar a las monta\u00f1as. Dejaron detr\u00e1s una vez m\u00e1s la algarab\u00eda en medio del gris que reina. Abonaron la semilla de la esperanza que sembraron hace muchos a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7381  aligncenter\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21.jpg 448w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7400\" title=\"ezln colores\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores.jpg 403w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ezln-colores-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>December 21 was the last day of the bakt\u00fan of the Long Count of the Mayas. We do not know from what hour the thousands of Zapatistas that would occupy the municipal centers of Ocosingo, Palenque, Las Margaritas, Altamirano, and San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas began to arrive. What we do know is that from 8:00 o\u2019clock of the morning, they began to make themselves visible, to carefully occupy their assigned places in files and contingents. In the city of San Crist\u00f3bal the contingents went from the recently constructed Soriana to further than one of the entrances to Huitepec on the periphery of the city. Men, women, and children descended from their communities in the midst of tenacious cold and rain that did not cease throughout the entire day. And thus, with numbers embroidered on their balaclavas that marked the contingent to which they belonged and in perfect order, they began to advance once again over the proud Jovel.<\/p>\n<p>The gray, the tempest that awaited them that day do not cease to be symbolic. The world is thus seen, felt these days, particularly the national reality. The return of the PRI to power (which is practically on the three levels in Chiapas), the labor and education reforms, the imminent threat of the dismantling of what remains of the ejido [commons](in the form of reforms to agrarian law presented by Calder\u00f3n days before finishing his term), repression and criminalization of social protest with the PRI rearmed, and the deepening of the extractive model, read the open plunder of natural resources. So gray and stormy is the panorama. And in the middle of that night there appeared once again the Zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>In silence, in perfect order, they bore the rain, the cold, and the wind as if their very nature is to resist. They advanced in columns, the rivers of people, of balaclavas, and bandanas. On their passing, came out their sympathizers who have felt themselves called by Zapatism. There were also journalists and tourists as in \u201894. Many businesses closed their doors, such is shameless fear. But there were also those, the lesser in number, that greeted the contingents from the doors of their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>When the columns reached the Plaza de la Resistencia, already a Zapatista brigade had built a simple and small platform. The vanguard that carried the Mexican and Zapatista flags placed themselves as backdrop for what would be a spectacle of dignity. All the columns passed through that platform, all the thousands of Zapatistas who came to San Cristobal climbed and descended with the left fist raised, in the midst of a silence broken only by the noise of their steps on climbing and descending hurriedly. That and from time to time some word from the sympathizers who watched disconcerted asking themselves at what hour would the communiqu\u00e9 so much announced on the Zapatista link be given. Nevertheless, that act was the communiqu\u00e9: the message strong and wise that not only the General Command of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) but the Zapatista bases of support sent, The EZLN that resists, walks and builds are they who are the collective subject and raise the left fist as if to say: we will not give up, we do not surrender, here we continue.<\/p>\n<p>Through the village streets, to the central plaza continued arriving the Zapatistas hurrying their step to then take their place in an act that seemed many times rehearsed and which nevertheless had not seen the stage until that day. The organizing effort of mobilizing thousands of persons in an act loaded with symbolism and dignity contrasts as never before with the emptiness and cynicism of the acts of the government. The ice rink constructed by the municipal government and which practically occupies half the plaza of the cathedral can also serve as metaphor: extremely costly white elephant built without doubt for tourism with monies from the public funds in a state of bankruptcy, the rink finds itself not only out of context but furthermore is useless. Occupation-usurpation of public space. And what happened during the Zapatista mobilization? There stood the white elephant while the mobilization, the Zapatistas overflowed the streets, the limits: the entire center was taken, occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Little by little, as they had come, the thousands of colors that are the Zapatista peoples went out the city in silence to return to the mountains. They left behind once more the gabble in the midst of the gray that reigns. They fertilized the seed of hope they planted many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>(English translation from the Spanish by \u00a9 Rafael Jes\u00fas Gonz\u00e1lez 2012)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7381  aligncenter\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21.jpg 448w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] El 21 de Diciembre de 2012 fue el \u00faltimo d\u00eda del bakt\u00fan de la cuenta larga de los mayas. No sabemos desde qu\u00e9 hora empezaron a llegar los miles de zapatistas que ocupar\u00edan las cabeceras municipales de Ocosingo, Palenque, Las Margaritas, Altamirano y San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas. Lo que s\u00ed sabemos es que [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,955,190],"tags":[926,253],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiapas","category-ezln-temas","category-radiozapatista","tag-ezln","tag-zapatistas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30547,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/30547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}