{"id":7482,"date":"2013-01-24T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2013-03-01T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T02:18:33","slug":"ellos-y-nosotros-iv-los-dolores-de-abajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=7482","title":{"rendered":"ELLOS Y NOSOTROS. IV.- Los dolores de abajo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ELLOS Y NOSOTROS. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">IV.- Los dolores de abajo.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enero del 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00bfCu\u00e1ntas veces no nos ha parado en la calle una patrulla por el delito de<br \/>\n\u201cportaci\u00f3n de cara\u201d sospechosa o cresta y despu\u00e9s de unos golpes y de ser<br \/>\nextorsionados nos dejan ir?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u201cRepresi\u00f3n y Criminalizaci\u00f3n\u201d, Cruz Negra Anarquista-M\u00e9xico. Enero\/2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>&#8211; \u00bfY a la gente joven que ahora mismo ven en ti un h\u00e9roe y un ejemplo de<br \/>\nuna persona que ha sido injustamente castigado por un sistema represor? \u2013 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>&#8211; Que h\u00e9roe, no. Que h\u00e9roe es cada uno de los j\u00f3venes que salen cada d\u00eda a<br \/>\nla calle a organizarse a cambiar esta sociedad injusta y este sistema<br \/>\necon\u00f3mico, pol\u00edtico. Y se organizan, se defienden\u2026 Que no teman, que el<br \/>\nmiedo va a cambiar de bando \u2013 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Alfonso Fern\u00e1ndez, detenido en prisi\u00f3n a ra\u00edz del 14N, en el Estado Espa\u00f1ol,<br \/>\nentrevistado por Shangay Lily, en Kaos en la Red. enero del 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u201cEs necesario un enemigo para darle al pueblo una esperanza. (\u2026)  Ahora<br \/>\nbien, el sentimiento de la identidad se funda en el odio hacia los que no son<br \/>\nid\u00e9nticos.  Hay que cultivar el odio como pasi\u00f3n civil. El enemigo es el<br \/>\namigo de los pueblos.  Hace falta a quien odiar para sentirse justificados en<br \/>\nla propia miseria.  Siempre.  El odio es la verdadera pasi\u00f3n primordial.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Umberto Eco.  El Cementerio de Praga.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00bfD\u00f3nde y cu\u00e1ndo empieza la violencia?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Veamos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Frente a un espejo, en cualquier calendario y en cualquier geograf\u00eda\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Imagine que usted es diferente al com\u00fan de la gente.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Imagine que usted es algo muy otro.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que usted tiene determinado color de piel o de cabello.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que lo desprecian y lo humillan, que lo persiguen, que lo encarcelan, que lo matan por eso, por ser diferente.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que desde que nace, todo el sistema le dice y le repite que  es usted algo raro, anormal, enfermo, que debe arrepentirse de lo que  es y que, despu\u00e9s de achacarlo a la mala suerte y\/o a la justicia  divina, debe hacer todo cuanto le sea posible por modificar ese \u201cdefecto  de fabricaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em> \/ Y, claro, mire usted, precisamente tenemos un producto que sencillamente<br \/>\nhace m-a-r-a-v-i-l-l-a-s con defectos cong\u00e9nitos.  Este pensamiento lo alivia<br \/>\nde la rebeld\u00eda y ese tan molesto estarse quejando de todo.  Esta crema le<br \/>\ncambia el color de la piel.  Este tinte para el cabello le da la tonalidad de<br \/>\nmoda.  Este curso de \u201cc\u00f3mo ganar amig@s y ser popular en la red\u201d le da<br \/>\ntodo lo necesario para ser una persona moderna.  Este tratamiento le<br \/>\ndevolver\u00e1 la juventud.  Este dvd le mostrar\u00e1 c\u00f3mo comportarse en la mesa,<br \/>\nen la calle, en el trabajo, en la cama, en los asaltos ilegales (ladrones), en<br \/>\nlos asaltos legales (bancos, gobernantes, elecciones, empresas legalmente<br \/>\nestablecidas), en las reuniones sociales\u2026 \u00bfqu\u00e9?  Oh, \u00bfno lo invitan a las<br \/>\nreuniones sociales?\u2026 ok, tambi\u00e9n le indica c\u00f3mo hacer para que lo inviten.<br \/>\nEn fin, aqu\u00ed sabr\u00e1 usted el secreto de c\u00f3mo triunfar en la vida.  \u00a1Deje muy<br \/>\natr\u00e1s a lady Gaga y yustin biber en n\u00famero de seguidores en tuiter!  Incluye<br \/>\nuna m\u00e1scara seg\u00fan su elecci\u00f3n.  \u00a1Tenemos de todas!  Tambi\u00e9n la de CSG\u2026<br \/>\nok, ok, ok, \u00e9se fue un mal ejemplo, pero s\u00ed tenemos una para cada necesidad.<br \/>\n\u00a1Que ya no lo miren con asco!  \u00a1Que ya no le digan nac@, indi@, prole,<br \/>\nnegr@, regi\u00f3n 4, zombie, filozapatista! \/<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine usted que, a pesar de todos sus esfuerzos y buenas acciones, no logra ocultar su color de piel o de cabello.<\/p>\n<p>Ahora imagine que se lanza una campa\u00f1a para eliminar a tod@s quienes son como usted.<\/p>\n<p>No es que haya un evento para darle inicio, o una ley que lo  establezca, pero usted se da cuenta que todo el sistema empieza a andar y  dirigirse contra usted, y contra quienes son como usted. Toda la  sociedad convertida en una m\u00e1quina cuyo prop\u00f3sito principal es  aniquilarlo.<\/p>\n<p>Primero hay miradas de desaprobaci\u00f3n, asco, desprecio.  Siguen los  insultos, agresiones.  Despu\u00e9s hay detenidos, deportados, encarcelados.   Luego muertos por aqu\u00ed y por all\u00e1, legal e ilegalmente.  Finalmente una  campa\u00f1a en forma, la m\u00e1quina en toda su capacidad, para desaparecerl@ a  usted y a tod@s l@s que se le asemejen.  La identidad de quienes forman  la sociedad se afirma con el odio hacia usted.  \u00bfSu culpa?  Ser  diferente.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfTodav\u00eda no lo ve?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, imagine entonces que usted es\u2026 (ponga usted el masculino, el femenino o lo otro, seg\u00fan su caso).<\/p>\n<p>Un ind\u00edgena en un pa\u00eds dominado por extranjeros.  Una parvada de  helic\u00f3pteros militares se dirige a sus tierras.  La prensa dir\u00e1 que la  ocupaci\u00f3n del parque e\u00f3lico imped\u00eda la disminuci\u00f3n de la contaminaci\u00f3n o  que la selva estaba siendo destruida.  \u201c<em>El desalojo era necesario para reducir el calentamiento global del planeta<\/em>\u201c, secretario de gobierno.<\/p>\n<p>Un negro en una naci\u00f3n dominada por blancos.  Un juez <em>WASP<\/em> le va a dictar sentencia.  El jurado lo declar\u00f3 culpable.  Entre las  pruebas presentadas por la fiscal\u00eda est\u00e1 un an\u00e1lisis de la pigmentaci\u00f3n  de su piel.<\/p>\n<p>Un jud\u00edo en la Alemania nazi.  El oficial de la Gestapo lo mira  fijamente.  Al otro d\u00eda el informe dir\u00e1 que se ha depurado la raza  humana.<\/p>\n<p>Un palestino en la Palestina actual.  El misil del ej\u00e9rcito israel\u00ed  apunta a la escuela, el hospital, el barrio, la casa.  Ma\u00f1ana los medios  dir\u00e1n que se abatieron objetivos militares.<\/p>\n<p>Un inmigrante en el otro lado de cualquier frontera.  Se acerca una patrulla de la <em>migra<\/em>.  Al d\u00eda siguiente no aparecer\u00e1 nada en los noticieros.<\/p>\n<p>Un cura, monja, seglar que opt\u00f3 por los pobres, en medio de la  opulencia del Vaticano.  El discurso del Cardenal va dirigido contra  quienes se inmiscuyen en cosas terrenales.<\/p>\n<p>Un vendedor ambulante en un centro comercial exclusivo en una zona  residencial exclusiva.  El cami\u00f3n de granaderos se estaciona.  \u201c<em>Defendemos el libre comercio<\/em>\u201c, declarar\u00e1 el delegado gubernamental.<\/p>\n<p>Una mujer sola, de d\u00eda o de noche, en un transporte p\u00fablico lleno de  hombres.  Una peque\u00f1a variaci\u00f3n en el porcentaje de \u201cviolencia de  g\u00e9nero\u201d.  El agente policial dir\u00e1: \u201c<em>es que luego ellas provocan\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Un gay solo, de d\u00eda o de noche, en un transporte p\u00fablico lleno de  machos.  Una m\u00ednima variaci\u00f3n en el porcentaje de \u201cviolencia  homof\u00f3bica\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Una trabajadora sexual en una calle extra\u00f1a y esquina ajena\u2026 se acerca una patrulla.  \u201c<em>El gobierno combate la trata de blancas con eficacia<\/em>\u201d dir\u00e1 la prensa.<\/p>\n<p>Una punk, un rastafari, una skatera, un cholo, una metalera, en la calle, de noche\u2026 se acerca otra patrulla.  \u201c<em>Estamos inhibiendo las conductas antisociales y el vandalismo<\/em>\u201c, jefe de gobierno.<\/p>\n<p>Un grafittero \u201c<em>rayando<\/em>\u201d en el World Trade Center\u2026 se acerca una otra patrulla.  \u201c<em>Haremos todo lo necesario para tener una ciudad bella y atractiva para el turismo<\/em>\u201c, cualquier funcionario.<\/p>\n<p>Un comunista en una reuni\u00f3n del partido fascista de derecha.  \u201c<em>Estamos en contra de los totalitarismos que tanto da\u00f1o han hecho en el mundo<\/em>\u201c, el presidente del partido.<\/p>\n<p>Un anarquista en una reuni\u00f3n del partido comunista.  \u201c<em>Estamos en contra de las desviaciones peque\u00f1o-burguesas que tanto da\u00f1o han hecho a la revoluci\u00f3n mundial<\/em>\u201c, el secretario general del partido.<\/p>\n<p>Un programa del noticiero \u201c31 minutos\u201d en la barra informativa de  CNN.  Tulio Trivi\u00f1o y Juan Carlos Bodoque se miran desconcertados, no  dicen nada.<\/p>\n<p>Un grupo alternativo de m\u00fasica tratando de vender su disco en un  concierto de Lady Gaga, Madona, Justin Bieber, el o la que les siga.  La  tira se acerca.  Las fans gritan a rabiar.<\/p>\n<p>Una artista danzando fuera del gran centro cultural donde se presenta  la funci\u00f3n  (s\u00ed-de-gala-s\u00f3lo-con-invitaci\u00f3n-lo-sentimos-se\u00f1orita-est\u00e1-usted-estorbando),  del ballet <em>Bolshoi<\/em>.  Seguridad procede a restablecer la tranquilidad.<\/p>\n<p>Un anciano en una reuni\u00f3n presidida por el ministro japon\u00e9s de  finanzas Tar\u00f3 As\u00f3 (estudi\u00f3 en Stanford y hace poco pidi\u00f3 a las personas  mayores de edad \u201c<em>que se den prisa en morir<\/em>\u201d porque sale muy caro que sigan vivos). Se recorta a\u00fan m\u00e1s el gasto social.<\/p>\n<p>Un <em>Anonymus<\/em> criticando el \u201ccopyright\u201d en una junta de accionistas de Microsoft-Apple.  \u201c<em>Un peligroso hacker tras las rejas<\/em>\u201c, se\u00f1alar\u00e1n los medios.<\/p>\n<p>Un joven Mapuche que, en Chile, reclama el territorio de sus  antecesores mientras ve venir las tanquetas y el verde ofensivo de los  carabineros.  La bala que lo hiere mortalmente en la espalda seguir\u00e1  impune.<\/p>\n<p>Un joven y\/o estudiante o desempleado en un ret\u00e9n del ej\u00e9rcito-polic\u00eda-guardia civil-carabineros.  \u00bfLo \u00faltimo que escuch\u00f3?  \u201c<em>\u00a1Disparen!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Un comunero nahua en las oficinas de una empresa minera trasnacional. Uniformados lo secuestran.  \u201c<em>Estamos investigando<\/em>\u201c, respectivos gobiernos.<\/p>\n<p>Un disidente frente a los muros de gris metal levantados, mientras  del otro lado la clase pol\u00edtica mexicana se traga el sapo de una  imposici\u00f3n m\u00e1s.  Recibe el golpe de una bala de goma que le hace perder  un ojo o le rompe el cr\u00e1neo. \u201c<em>Se llama a la unidad por el bien del pa\u00eds. Hora de dejar las rencillas detr\u00e1s<\/em>\u201c, cabezas de noticieros.<\/p>\n<p>Un campesino frente a un ej\u00e9rcito de abogados y polic\u00edas escuchando  que la tierra que trabaja, donde nacieron y crecieron sus padres, sus  abuelos, sus tatarabuelos, y as\u00ed hasta que el tiempo se confunde, es  ahora propiedad de una empresa inmobiliaria y que usted est\u00e1 despojando a  los pobres empresarios de algo que legalmente les pertenece.  La  c\u00e1rcel.<\/p>\n<p>Un opositor al fraude electoral que ve c\u00f3mo son exonerados los 40 ladrones y sus lame-suelas.  La burla: \u201c<em>hay que darle la vuelta a la p\u00e1gina y mirar hacia adelante<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Un hombre o una mujer que se acerca a ver de qu\u00e9 es la bulla y de  pronto es \u201cencapsulada\u201d por las fuerzas del orden.  Mientras la o lo  empujan, golpean y patean para llevarla a la patrulla, usted alcanza a  ver que las c\u00e1maras de conocido canal de televisi\u00f3n est\u00e1n apuntando para  otro lado.<\/p>\n<p>Un ind\u00edgena zapatista en la c\u00e1rcel del mal gobierno (PRI-PAN-PRD-PT-MC) desde hace varios a\u00f1os.  Lee en el peri\u00f3dico: \u201c<em>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 el EZLN reaparece hasta ahora que el PRI regres\u00f3 al Poder? Muy sospechoso.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfNos sigue?<\/p>\n<p>Ahora\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSiente la certeza de estar fuera de lugar?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSiente el miedo de ser ignorad@, insultad@, golpead@, burlad@,  humillad@, violad@, encarcelad@, asesinad@ s\u00f3lo por ser quien es?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSiente la impotencia de no poder hacer nada para evitarlo, para defenderse, para ser escuchado?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfMaldice usted el momento en que se meti\u00f3 en ese lugar, el d\u00eda en que naci\u00f3, la hora en que comenz\u00f3 a leer este texto?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Varios de los ejemplos arriba mencionados tienen nombre, calendario y geograf\u00eda:<\/p>\n<p>Juan Francisco Kuykendall Leal. El compa Kuy, de la Sexta,  profesor, dramaturgo, director de teatro.  Cr\u00e1neo destrozado el 1 de  diciembre del 2012 por un disparo de las \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d.  Planeaba  hacer una obra de teatro sobre Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Uriel Sandoval D\u00edaz.  Joven estudiante de la Universidad  Aut\u00f3noma de la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, e integrante del Consejo Estudiantil de  Lucha.  Perdi\u00f3 un ojo en la represi\u00f3n del 1 de diciembre del 2012, a  ra\u00edz del ataque de las \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d.  Planeaba resistir la  imposici\u00f3n de Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto.<\/p>\n<p>Celedonio Prudencio Monroy. Ind\u00edgena Nahua. secuestrado el 23  octubre del 2012 por las \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d.  Planeaba resistir el  despojo de las tierras nahuas por parte de las mineras y los talamontes.<\/p>\n<p>Adri\u00e1n Javier Gonz\u00e1lez Villarreal. Joven alumno de la Facultad de  Ingenier\u00eda Mec\u00e1nica y El\u00e9ctrica de la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Nuevo  Le\u00f3n, M\u00e9xico, asesinado en enero del 2013 por las \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d.   Planeaba graduarse y ser un profesional exitoso.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz Morales Calder\u00f3n y Juvencio Lascurain. Campesinos tomados  prisioneros en Veracruz, 2010-2011, por las \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d.   Planeaban resistir el despojo de sus tierras por parte de empresas  inmobiliarias.<\/p>\n<p>Mat\u00edas Valent\u00edn Catrileo Quezada.  Joven ind\u00edgena Mapuche,  asesinado el 3 de enero del 2008, en Chile, Latinoam\u00e9rica, por las  \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d.  Planeaba resistir el despojo de la tierra mapuche  por parte del gobierno, latifundistas y empresas trasnacionales.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez, ind\u00edgena zapatista, preso injustamente por  las \u201cfuerzas del orden\u201d  Planeaba resistir la contrainsurgencia  gubernamental de Juan Sabines Guerrero y Felipe Calder\u00f3n Hinojosa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahora\u2026 no se desespere, ya casi terminamos\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ahora imagine usted que no tiene miedo, o que s\u00ed lo tiene pero lo controla.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que va usted y, frente al espejo, no s\u00f3lo no oculta o maquilla su diferencia, sino que la remarca.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que usted hace de su ser diferente un escudo y un arma, se  defiende, encuentra a otr@s como usted, se organiza, resiste, lucha, y,  sin darse apenas cuenta, pasa del \u201csoy diferente\u201d al \u201csomos diferentes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que no se esconde usted detr\u00e1s de la \u201cmadurez\u201d y la  \u201csensatez\u201d, detr\u00e1s de los \u201cno es el tiempo\u201d, \u201cno hay condiciones\u201d, \u201chay  que esperar\u201d, \u201ces in\u00fatil\u201d, \u201cno hay remedio\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine que no se vende, que no claudica, que no se rinde.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPudo imaginarlo?<\/p>\n<p>Bueno, pues aunque ni nosotros ni usted lo sepamos todav\u00eda, somos parte de un \u201cnosotros\u201d m\u00e1s grande y a\u00fan por construir.<\/p>\n<p>(continuar\u00e1\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Desde cualquier rinc\u00f3n, en cualquiera de los mundos.<\/p>\n<p>SupMarcos.<br \/>\nPlaneta Tierra.<br \/>\nEnero del 2013.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Escucha y ve el video que acompa\u00f1a este texto:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11219730?color=ff9933\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBorn Free\u201d interpretada por M.I.A. (Mathangi \u201cMaya\u201d  Arulpragasam). Video. Director: Romain Gavras (hijo de Costa Gavras).  Fotograf\u00eda: Andr\u00e9 Chemetoff. Producci\u00f3n: Mourad Belkeddar. Producci\u00f3n  Ejecutiva: Gaetan Rousseau \/ Paradoxal. Este video fue censurado por  YouTube debido a su contenido.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8N-77YpUcOU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBurnin\u00b4 an Lootin\u00b4\u201d de Bob Marley. Video inicio de \u201cLa  Haine\u201d (\u201cEl Odio\u201d), escrito y dirigido por Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995.  Subt\u00edtulos en espa\u00f1ol.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Them and Us Part IV:<br \/>\nThe Pains of Those Below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January of 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u201cHow many times have the police stopped us in the street<br \/>\nfor the crime of \u201ccarrying a face\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/01\/27\/them-and-us-part-iv-the-pains-of-those-below\/#i\">[i]<\/a> that looks suspicious, or a mohawk,<br \/>\nand after beating and extorting us, they let us go?\u201d<\/em><strong><br \/>\n\u201cRepression y Criminalization,\u201d Cruz Negra Anarquista-Mexico. January 2013<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u201cAnd the young person that now sees you as a hero and an example<br \/>\nof someone who has been unjustly treated by a repressive system?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHero, no. A hero is each of those young people that go outside everyday<br \/>\nto organize themselves to change this unjust society and this<br \/>\neconomic and political system. And they do organize, they defend themselves\u2026<br \/>\nThey shouldn\u2019t be afraid, because fear is about to change direction.<\/em><strong><br \/>\nAlfonso Fern\u00e1ndez, held in prison since N14,<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/01\/27\/them-and-us-part-iv-the-pains-of-those-below\/#ii\">[ii]<\/a> in Spain,<br \/>\ninterviewed by Shangay Lily, on Kaos en la Red. January 2013.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>We need an enemy to give a people hope. [\u2026]<br \/>\nBut the meaning of identity is now based on hatred,<br \/>\non hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be<br \/>\ncultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people.<br \/>\nYou always want someone to hate<br \/>\nin order to feel justified in your own misery. Always.<br \/>\nHatred is the true primordial passion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Umberto Eco.\u00a0<em>El Cementerio de Praga<\/em> (The Prague Cemetery).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When and where did the violence start?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a mirror, on whatever calendar, in whatever geography\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you are different from most people.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you are something very different.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you have a particular color skin or hair.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you are disrespected, humiliated, pursued, incarcerated, or killed for this, for being different.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that since you were born, the entire system tells you over  and over that you are something odd, abnormal, sick, that you should  repent from what you are, chalk it up to bad luck and\/or divine justice,  and do everything possible to modify this \u201cmanufacturing defect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>And of course for you, precisely, we have this product that is simply<br \/>\nm-a-r-v-e-l-o-u-s for genetic defects. This type of thinking<br \/>\nwill relieve you of rebellion and that bothersome habit of complaining<br \/>\nabout everything all the time. This cream will change your<br \/>\nskin color. This dye will give your hair a fashionable tint.<br \/>\nThis class on \u201chow to make friends and be popular in the network\u201d<br \/>\nwill give you everything necessary to be a modern individual.<br \/>\nThis treatment will give you your youth back. This DVD will show you<br \/>\nhow to behave at the table, in the street, at work, in bed,<br \/>\nin illegal assaults (by thieves), in legal assaults (by banks,<br \/>\ngovernment, elections, and legally established businesses),<br \/>\nin social gatherings\u2026 what?<br \/>\nOh, they don\u2019t invite you to social gatherings?\u2026 ok, well it<br \/>\nwill also tell you what to do so that you get invited. Anyway,<br \/>\nhere you will learn the secret of how to triumph in life.<br \/>\nLeave Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber behind in your<br \/>\nnumber of twitter followers! Include a mask of your choice.<br \/>\nWe have everything! We even have that of CSG\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/01\/27\/them-and-us-part-iv-the-pains-of-those-below\/#iii\">[iii]<\/a><br \/>\nOkay, okay, okay, that was a bad example,<br \/>\nbut we do have something for every need. Let them no longer look on you<br \/>\nwith disgust! Let them not call you trash, indian, prole,<br \/>\nBlack, region 4,<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/01\/27\/them-and-us-part-iv-the-pains-of-those-below\/#iv\">[iv]<\/a> zombie, Zapatista-lover!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you, despite all of your best efforts and intentions, don\u2019t manage to hide the color of your skin or your hair.<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine that a campaign is launched to eliminate everyone who is like you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that there\u2019s an event to inaugurate the campaign, or a law  to establish it, but you realize that the system in its entirely has  begun to work against you, and those who are like you. The entire  society has become a machine whose principal purpose is to annihilate  you.<\/p>\n<p>First there are disapproving glances, disgust, contempt. Later there  are insults, aggressions. After that come detentions, deportations,  imprisonment. Later deaths here and there, legally and illegally.  Finally, a true campaign, the machine at full force, to disappear you  and all those who are like you. The identity of those who make up  society is affirmed by the hate directed against you. Your sin? Being  different.\u00a0<ins><br \/>\n<\/ins><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You still don\u2019t see it?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, imagine then that you are\u2026 (insert masculine, feminine, or other pronoun, whatever the case may be):<\/p>\n<p>An Indigenous person in a country dominated by foreigners. A fleet of  military helicopters is heading toward your lands. The press will say  that the occupation of the wind power plant impeded the reduction in  contamination, or that the jungle was being destroyed. \u201c<em>Eviction was necessary in order to reduce planetary global warming,<\/em>\u201d \u2014Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>A Black person in a nation dominated by whites. A WASP [White Anglo  Saxon Protestant] judge is about to sentence you. The jury has declared  you guilty. Among the evidence presented by the district attorney is an  analysis of your skin pigmentation.<\/p>\n<p>A Jew in Nazi Germany. The Gestapo official stares at you steadily.  The next day the report will say that they have purified the human race.<\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian in today\u2019s Palestine. An Israeli army missile is aimed  at your school, hospital, neighborhood, home. Tomorrow the press will  say that they took out military targets.<\/p>\n<p>An immigrant on the other side of whatever border. An immigration  patrol approaches you. The next day nothing will appear in the press.<\/p>\n<p>A priest, a monk, or a layman that has opted [to advocate] for the  poor, in the midst of the opulence of the Vatican. The Cardinal\u2019s sermon  is directed against those who interfere in earthly matters.<\/p>\n<p>A street vendor in an exclusive commercial mall in an exclusive residential district. A truck full of riot police pulls up. \u201c<em>We must defend free trad<\/em>e,\u201d the government representative will declare.<\/p>\n<p>A woman alone, night or day, on some form of public transport full of  men. A small increase in rates of \u201cgender violence.\u201d The police officer  will say: \u201c<em>you know how some women are asking for it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A gay person alone, night or day, on public transportation full of\u00a0<em>machos<\/em>. A minimal increase in rates of \u201chomophobic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A sexworker on a strange street on an unfamiliar corner\u2026 the police pull up. \u201c<em>The government efficiently combats sex trafficking<\/em>\u201d the press will say.<\/p>\n<p>A punk, a Rastafarian, a skater, a\u00a0<em>cholo<\/em>, a metalhead, on the street, at night\u2026 another police patrol pulls up. \u201c<em>We are preventing vandalism and antisocial behavior<\/em>\u201d \u2014Head of Government<\/p>\n<p>A graffiti artist \u201ctagging\u201d the World Trade Center\u2026 another police patrol pulls up. \u201c<em>We will do everything necessary to make our city beautiful and attractive for tourism<\/em>,\u201d \u2014any government official<\/p>\n<p>A communist in a meeting of the fascist right-wing party.\u00a0<em>\u201cWe are against the totalitarianism that has done so much damage in the world,\u201d <\/em>\u2014Party President.<\/p>\n<p>An anarchist in a meeting of the Communist Party. \u201c<em>We are against those petit-bourgeois deviationists that have done so much damage to world revolution<\/em>,\u201d \u2014Secretary General of the Party.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201c31 Minutes\u201d news show on the CNN ticker. Tulio Trivi\u00f1o and Juan  Carlos Bodoque look at each other, disconcerted, but don\u2019t say anything.<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/01\/27\/them-and-us-part-iv-the-pains-of-those-below\/#v\">[v]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An alternative music group trying to sell their CD at a concert  featuring Lady Gaga, Madonna, Justin Bieber, or whoever will follow  them. The police come up. The fans scream like mad.<\/p>\n<p>An artist dancing outside a great cultural center where the\u00a0<em>Bolshoi<\/em> Ballet  is performing  (yes-it\u2019s-a-gala-invitation-only-we\u2019re-sorry-miss-you\u2019re-in-the-way-here).  Security proceeds to reestablish order.<\/p>\n<p>An elderly person at a meeting presided over by the Japanese Minister  of Finance Tar\u00f3 As\u00f3 (he studied at Stanford and recently asked elderly  people \u201c<em>to hurry up and die<\/em>\u201d because their lives are getting very expensive). Social spending is cut further.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<em>Anonymous<\/em> criticizing \u201ccopyright\u201d in a meeting of Microsoft-Apple shareholders. \u201c<em>A dangerous hacker behind bars<\/em>,\u201d the press will say.<\/p>\n<p>A young Mapuche who, in Chile, reclaims the land of his\/her ancestors  while watching the approach of the tanks and the offensive green of the  soldiers. The bullet that mortally injures him\/her will go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>A young person and\/or student or unemployed person at an army-police-civil guard-carabineer checkpoint. The last they hear? \u201c<em>Shoot<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Nahua commoner in the offices of a transnational mining company. Uniformed men kidnap him. \u201c<em>We\u2019re investigating<\/em>,\u201d \u2014respective governments.<\/p>\n<p>A dissident facing gray, raised metal walls, while on the other side,  the Mexican political class swallows the bitter pill of yet another  imposition. You are hit with the blow of a rubber bullet that takes out  your eye or breaks your skull. \u201c<em>Calls for unity for the good of the country. Time to leave bickering behind<\/em>,\u201d \u2014News headlines<\/p>\n<p>A peasant facing an army of lawyers and police, hearing that the land  where you work, where your parents were born and raised, as well as  your grandparents, your great-grandparents, and so on back to where time  becomes blurry, is now the property of a real estate developer and that  you are robbing the poor businessmen of something that legally belongs  to them. Jail.<\/p>\n<p>An opponent of electoral fraud who sees the forty thieves<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/01\/27\/them-and-us-part-iv-the-pains-of-those-below\/#vi\">[vi]<\/a> and their boot-lickers exonerated. The mockery: \u201c<em>one must turn the page and look ahead<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A man or a woman who comes to see what all the racket is about, and  is suddenly \u201ckettled\u201d by the forces of order. While they push, hit, and  kick him or her in taking them to the patrol, you can see the cameras  from a well-known television channel pointing the other way.<\/p>\n<p>An indigenous Zapatista who has been in a prison of the bad  government (PRI-PAN-PRD-PT-MC) for many years. You read in the  newspaper: \u201c<em>Why has the EZLN reappeared now that the PRI has returned to power? Very Suspicious<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Do you follow?<\/p>\n<p>Now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel convinced that you are out of place?<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel the fear of being ignored, insulted, beaten, mocked,  humiliated, raped, incarcerated, or murdered, simply for being who you  are?<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel the impotence of not being able to do anything to avoid it, to defend yourself, to be heard?<\/p>\n<p>Do you curse the moment that you came to this place, the day that you were born, the hour that you began to read this text?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Many of the examples above have a name, a calendar, and a geography:<\/p>\n<p>Juan Francisco Kuykendall Leal. Compa Kuy, adherent of the Sixth  Declaration, professor, playwright, theater director. Skull broken on  December 1, 2012 by a bullet from the \u201cforces of order.\u201d He was planning  to do a play about Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Uriel Sandoval D\u00edaz. Young student from the Autonomous  University of Mexico City, part of the Student Council of Struggle. He  lost an eye in the repression of December 1, 2012 following the attack  by the \u201cforces of order.\u201d He was planning resist the imposition of  Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto.<\/p>\n<p>Celedonio Prudencio Monroy. Indigenous Nahua. Kidnapped on October  23, 2012 by the \u201cforces of order.\u201d He was planning to resist the taking  of Nahua lands by miners and loggers.<\/p>\n<p>Adri\u00e1n Javier Gonz\u00e1lez Villarreal. Young student at the School of  Mechanical and Electric Engineering at the Autonomous University in  Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Mexico, murdered in January 2013 by the \u201cforces of order.\u201d  He was planning to graduate and be a successful professional.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz Morales Calder\u00f3n and Juvencio Lascurain. Peasant farmers taken  prisoner in Veracruz, 2010-2011, by the \u201cforces of order\u201d. They planned  to resist the taking of their lands by real estate developers.<\/p>\n<p>Mat\u00edas Valent\u00edn Catrileo Quezada. Young indigenous Mapuche,  assassinated on January 3, 2008, in Chile, Latin America, by the \u201cforces  of order.\u201d He was planning to resist the taking of Mapuche land by the  government, large landowners, and transnational businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez, indigenous Zapatista, taken prisoner unjustly  by the \u201cforces of order.\u201d He planned to resist the governmental  counterinsurgencies of Juan Sabines Guerrero and Felipe Calder\u00f3n  Hinojosa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Now\u2026don\u2019t despair, we are just about finished\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine you that you aren\u2019t scared, or that yes, you are, but you can control it.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you go and, in front of the mirror, not only do you not hide nor cover up your difference, but you highlight it.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you make of your difference a shield or a weapon, you  defend yourself, meet others like you, organize, resist, fight, and  without even noticing, you move from \u201cI am different\u201d to \u201cwe are  different\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you don\u2019t hide behind \u201cmaturity\u201d and \u201cgood judgment,\u201d  behind the \u201cnow is not the time,\u201d or \u201cthere aren\u2019t the appropriate  conditions,\u201d \u201cwe must wait,\u201d \u201cit is useless,\u201d \u201c there is no solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you don\u2019t sell out, don\u2019t give in, and don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n<p>Could you imagine it?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, well although neither you nor we know it yet, we are part of a \u201cwe\u201d that is even larger and yet to be built.<\/p>\n<p>(to be continued\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>From whatever corner, in whichever world.<\/p>\n<p>SupMarcos.<\/p>\n<p>Planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>January 2013.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>See and listen to the video that accompanies this text.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11219730?color=ff9933\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorn Free\u201d performed by M.I.A. (Mathangi \u201cMaya\u201d Arulpragasam).  Video. Director: Romain Gavras (Son of Costa Gavras). Photography: Andr\u00e9  Chemetoff. Production: Mourad Belkeddar. Executive Production: Gaetan  Rousseau \/ Paradoxal. This video was censured by YouTube due to its  content.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8N-77YpUcOU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurnin\u00b4 and Lootin\u00b4\u201d by Bob Marley. Video from the beginning of\u00a0 \u201cLa  Haine\u201d (\u201cHate\u201d), written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995.  Subtitles in Spanish.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a name=\"i\">[i]<\/a> \u201dCarrying a face\u201d [<em>portaci\u00f3n de cara<\/em>] is used here as a substitute for the usual Mexican legal phrase \u201ccarrying a weapon\u201d [<em>portaci\u00f3n de arma<\/em>]  and is used in Mexico much the same way as the crimes of \u201cDriving while  Black\u201d or \u201cFlying while Arab\u201d are used in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a name=\"ii\">[ii]<\/a> November 14, 2012 was the day of a massive  general strike in Spain and Portugal, as well as other strikes across  Europe, especially in Greece and Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a name=\"iii\">[iii]<\/a> Carlos Salinas de Gortari.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"iv\">[iv]<\/a> Region 4 refers to Latin America on DVD coding. Referring to someone as \u201c<em>regi\u00f3n 4<\/em>\u201d is a putdown, something like saying \u201coh, you\u2019re so third world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"v\">[v]<\/a> \u201c<em>31 Minutos<\/em>\u201d is a Chilean television  show that parodies television newscast. Tulio Trivi\u00f1o and Juan Carlos  Bodoque are both puppet characters who parody real life figures.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"vi\">[vi]<\/a> \u201c40 thieves\u201d (as in Ali Baba and his 40  thieves) refers to the 30 governors and presidential cabinet members  that assisted the launching of the \u201cNational Crusade Against Hunger\u201d by  Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto in Las Margaritas, Chiapas (a zone of heavy Zapatista  influence), but is also used by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and the  Zapatistas as a way to refer to the Mexican political class in general.<\/p>\n<p>****************************<br \/>\nTraducci\u00f3n del Kilombo Intergal\u00e1ctico.<br \/>\n****************************<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLOS Y NOSOTROS. IV.- Los dolores de abajo. Enero del 2013. \u00bfCu\u00e1ntas veces no nos ha parado en la calle una patrulla por el delito de \u201cportaci\u00f3n de cara\u201d sospechosa o cresta y despu\u00e9s de unos golpes y de ser extorsionados nos dejan ir? \u201cRepresi\u00f3n y Criminalizaci\u00f3n\u201d, Cruz Negra Anarquista-M\u00e9xico. Enero\/2013 &#8211; \u00bfY a la [&hellip;]<\/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":[644,926],"class_list":["post-7482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-ezln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}