{"id":8230,"date":"2013-03-14T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2013-06-18T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T02:16:46","slug":"ellos-y-nosotros-vii-ls-mas-pequens-7-y-ultimo-dudas-sombras-y-un-resumen-en-una-palabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=8230","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->ELLOS Y NOSOTROS VII.- L@s m\u00e1s peque\u00f1@s 7 y \u00faltimo. Dudas, sombras y un resumen en una palabra.<!--:--><!--:en-->THEM AND US VII. The Smallest of Them All, 7th and Final Part. On Doubts, Shadows, and A One-Word Summary<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/03\/15\/loro-e-noi-vii-lei-piu-piccol-7-e-ultimo-dubbi-ombre-ed-il-riassunto-in-una-parola\/\">Traduzione italiana<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/03\/16\/eux-et-nous-vii-les-plus-petit%E2%80%A2e%E2%80%A2s-vii-et-dernier-7-doutes-ombres-et-un-resume-en-une-parole\/\">Traduction fran\u00e7aise<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/03\/16\/them-and-us-vii-the-smallest-of-them-all-7th-and-final-part-on-doubts-shadows-and-a-one-word-summary\/\">English Tanslation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/03\/31\/sie-und-wir-vii-die-kleinsten-7-und-letzte-7-zweifel-schatten-und-eine-zusammenfassung-in-einem-wort\/\">Deutsch \u00dcbersetzung<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/04\/26\/haiek-eta-guk-vii-txikienak-eta-azkena-7-zalantzak-itzalak-eta-hitz-bateko-laburpena\/\">Euskal itzulpena<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/04\/30\/eles-e-nos-vii-s-mais-pequens-7-e-ultimo-duvidas-sombras-e-um-resumo-em-uma-palavra\/\">Tradu\u00e7\u00e3o para o portugu\u00eas<\/a><br \/>\n:::::::::::::::::::::::<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ELLOS Y NOSOTROS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>VII.- L@s m\u00e1s peque\u00f1@s 7 y \u00faltimo.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>7.- Dudas, sombras y un resumen en una palabra.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marzo del 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Las Dudas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Si despu\u00e9s de  leer los fragmentos de la palabra de las compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros del  EZLN, usted todav\u00eda sostiene que los ind\u00edgenas zapatistas son  manipulados por la mente perversa del <em>supmarcos<\/em> (y ahora tambi\u00e9n del subcomandante insurgente Mois\u00e9s) y que nada ha  cambiado en territorio zapatista desde 1994, entonces usted no tiene  remedio.<\/p>\n<p>No le recomendamos que apague la televisi\u00f3n, o que deje de repetir  las ruedas de molino que la intelectualidad suele repartir entre sus  feligreses, porque se le quedar\u00eda la mente en blanco.\u00a0 Siga usted  creyendo que la reciente ley de telecomunicaciones va a democratizar la  informaci\u00f3n, que elevar\u00e1 la calidad de la programaci\u00f3n, y que mejorar\u00e1  el servicio de telefon\u00eda celular.<\/p>\n<p>Pero si usted pensara as\u00ed, ni siquiera habr\u00eda llegado hasta esta  parte de la saga \u201cEllos y Nosotros\u201d, as\u00ed que, es un supositorio, digamos  que usted es una persona que se precia de un coeficiente intelectual  promedio y una cultura progresista.\u00a0 Con esas caracter\u00edsticas es muy  probable que usted practique la duda met\u00f3dica frente a todo, as\u00ed que  ser\u00eda l\u00f3gico suponer que dude de lo que aqu\u00ed ha le\u00eddo.\u00a0 Y dudar no es  algo condenable, es uno de los ejercicios intelectuales m\u00e1s sanos (y m\u00e1s  olvidados) en la humanidad.\u00a0 Y m\u00e1s cuando se trata de un movimiento  como el zapatista o neo-zapatista, sobre el que se han dicho tantas  cosas (la mayor parte sin siquiera haberse acercado a lo que somos).<\/p>\n<p>Dejemos de lado un hecho, que fue constatable hasta por los grandes  medios de comunicaci\u00f3n: decenas de miles de ind\u00edgenas zapatista tomando,  en forma simult\u00e1nea, 5 cabeceras municipales del suroriental estado  mexicano de Chiapas.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque, ya entrados en dudas, si nada ha cambiado en las comunidades  ind\u00edgenas zapatistas, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 siguen creciendo?\u00a0 \u00bfNo hab\u00edan dicho todos  que era algo del pasado, que los errores del <em>ezetaelene<\/em> (ok, ok,  ok, de marcos) le hab\u00edan costado su existencia (\u201cmedi\u00e1tica\u201d, pero eso  no lo dijeron)?\u00a0 \u00bfNo se hab\u00eda desbandado la direcci\u00f3n zapatista?\u00a0 \u00bfNo  hab\u00eda desaparecido el EZLN y de \u00e9l s\u00f3lo quedaba la empecinada memoria de  quienes, fuera de Chiapas, sienten y saben que la lucha no es algo  sujeto a los vaivenes de la moda?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, obviemos ese hecho (el <em>ezetaelene<\/em> creci\u00f3 exponencialmente  en estos tiempos en que no estaba de moda), y abandonemos el intento de  plantear esas dudas (que s\u00f3lo servir\u00e1n para que sus comentarios en los  art\u00edculos de la prensa nacional sean editados o lo <em>banneen<\/em> a usted \u201cpor siempre jam\u00e1s\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Retomemos la duda met\u00f3dica:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si esas palabras, que aparecieron en estas p\u00e1ginas como de hombres  y mujeres ind\u00edgenas zapatistas, en realidad son autor\u00eda de Marcos?<\/p>\n<p>Es decir, \u00bfy si Marcos simul\u00f3 que eran otr@s l@s que hablaban y sent\u00edan esas palabras?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si esas escuelas aut\u00f3nomas en realidad no existen?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si los hospitales, y las cl\u00ednicas, y la rendici\u00f3n de cuentas, y  las mujeres ind\u00edgenas con cargo, y la tierra trabajando, y la fuerza  a\u00e9rea zapatista, y \u2026?<\/p>\n<p>En serio: \u00bfy si nada de lo que ah\u00ed dicen esas ind\u00edgenas, esos ind\u00edgenas existe realmente?<\/p>\n<p>En resumen, \u00bfy si todo no es nada m\u00e1s que una monumental mentira,  levantada por marcos (y Mois\u00e9s, ya que en \u00e9sas estamos) para consolar  con quimeras a l@s izquierdistas (suci@s, fe@s, mal@s, irreverentes, no  lo olvide) que nunca faltan y que siempre son unos cuantos, pocos,  poqu\u00edsimos, una minor\u00eda despreciable?\u00a0 \u00bfY si el <em>supmarcos<\/em> invent\u00f3 todo esto?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfNo ser\u00eda bueno confrontar esas dudas y su sano escepticismo con la realidad?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si fuera posible que usted viera directamente esas escuelas, esas  cl\u00ednicas y hospitales, esos proyectos, esas mujeres y esos hombres?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si usted pudiera escuchar directamente a esos hombres y mujeres,  mexican@s, ind\u00edgenas, zapatistas, esforz\u00e1ndose por hablarle en espa\u00f1ol y  explic\u00e1ndole, cont\u00e1ndole su historia, no para convencerlo o para  reclutarlo, s\u00f3lo para que usted entienda que el mundo es grande y tiene  muchos mundos en su interior?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfY si pudiera usted concentrarse s\u00f3lo en mirar y escuchar, sin hablar, sin opinar?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfTomar\u00eda usted ese reto o seguir\u00eda usted en el refugio del  escepticismo, ese s\u00f3lido y magn\u00edfico castillo de las razones para nada  hacer?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSolicitar\u00eda ser invitado y aceptar\u00eda la invitaci\u00f3n?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfAsistir\u00eda usted a una escuelita en la que las profesoras y los  profesores son ind\u00edgenas cuya lengua materna est\u00e1 tipificada como  \u201cdialecto\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSe aguantar\u00eda las ganas de estudiarl@s como objeto de la  antropolog\u00eda, la psicolog\u00eda, el derecho, el esoterismo, la  historiograf\u00eda, de hacer un reportaje, de hacerles una entrevista, de  decirles su opini\u00f3n, de darles consejos, \u00f3rdenes?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfL@s mirar\u00eda, es decir, l@s escuchar\u00eda?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Las sombras.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A un lado de esta luz que ahora brilla, no se advierte la forma  irregular de las sombras que la han hecho posible.\u00a0 Porque otra de las  paradojas del zapatismo es que no es la luz la que produce las sombras,  sino son de \u00e9stas de las que la luz nace.<\/p>\n<p>Mujeres y hombres de rincones lejanos y cercanos en todo el planeta  hicieron posible no s\u00f3lo lo que se va a mostrar, tambi\u00e9n enriquecieron  con sus miradas el andar de estos hombres y mujeres, ind\u00edgenas y  zapatistas, que ahora levantan de nuevo la bandera de una vida digna.<\/p>\n<p>Individuos, individuas, grupos, colectivos, organizaciones de todo  tipo, y en diferente nivel, contribuyeron a que este peque\u00f1o paso de l@s  m\u00e1s peque\u00f1@s se realizara.<\/p>\n<p>De los 5 continentes llegaron las miradas que, desde abajo y a la  izquierda, ofrecieron respeto y apoyo.\u00a0 Y con estas dos cosas no s\u00f3lo se  levantaron escuelas y hospitales, tambi\u00e9n se levant\u00f3 el coraz\u00f3n  ind\u00edgena zapatista que, as\u00ed, se asom\u00f3 a todos los rincones del mundo a  trav\u00e9s de esas ventanas hermanas.<\/p>\n<p>Si hay un lugar cosmopolita en tierras mexicanas, tal vez lo sea la tierra zapatista.<\/p>\n<p>Frente ante tal apoyo, no correspond\u00eda menos que un esfuerzo de igual magnitud.<\/p>\n<p>Creo, creemos, que toda esa gente de M\u00e9xico y del mundo puede y debe  compartir como propia esta peque\u00f1a alegr\u00eda que hoy camina con rostro  ind\u00edgena en las monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano.<\/p>\n<p>Sabemos, s\u00e9, que no lo esperan, ni lo exigen, ni lo demandan, pero  como quiera les mandamos un gran abrazo, que as\u00ed es como los zapatistas,  las zapatistas, agradecemos entre compa\u00f1er@s (y de manera especial  abrazamos a quienes s\u00ed supieron ser nadie).\u00a0 Tal vez sin propon\u00e9rselo,  ustedes fueron y son, para todas nosotras, nosotros, la mejor escuela.\u00a0 Y  sobra decir que no dejaremos de esforzarnos por conseguir que, sin  importar su calendario y su geograf\u00eda, respondan siempre afirmativamente  a la pregunta de si vale la pena.<\/p>\n<p>A todas (lo lamento desde lo profundo de mi esencia machista, pero  las mujeres son mayor\u00eda cuantitativa y cualitativa), a todos: gracias.<\/p>\n<p>(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Y, bueno, hay de sombras a sombras.<\/p>\n<p>Y las m\u00e1s an\u00f3nimas e imperceptibles son unas mujeres y hombres de  baja estatura y de piel del color de la tierra.\u00a0 Dejaron todo lo que  ten\u00edan, aunque fuera poco, y se convirtieron en guerreras, en  guerreros.\u00a0 En silencio y en la oscuridad contribuyeron y contribuyen,  como nadie m\u00e1s, a que todo esto sea posible.<\/p>\n<p>Y ahora hablo de las insurgentas y los insurgentes, mis compa\u00f1er@s.<\/p>\n<p>Van y vienen, viven, luchan y mueren en silencio, sin hacer bulla,  sin que nadie, a no ser nosotr@s mism@s, les lleve la cuenta.\u00a0 No tienen  rostro ni vida propia.\u00a0 Sus nombres, sus historias, tal vez s\u00f3lo vengan  a la memoria de alguien cuando muchos calendarios se hayan deshojado.\u00a0  Entonces, tal vez en torno a alg\u00fan fog\u00f3n, mientras el caf\u00e9 hierve en una  vieja tetera de peltre y se enciende el fuego de la palabra, alguien o  algo salude su memoria.<\/p>\n<p>Y como quiera no importar\u00e1 mucho, porque de lo que se trataba, de lo  que se trata, de lo que se ha tratado siempre, es contribuir en algo a  construir esas palabras con que suelen comenzar los cuentos, las  an\u00e9cdotas y las historias, reales y ficticias, de las zapatistas, de los  zapatistas.\u00a0 Tal y como comenz\u00f3 lo que ahora es una realidad, es decir,  con un:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong> \u201dHabr\u00e1 una vez\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vale.\u00a0 Salud y que no falten, nunca, \u00a0ni el o\u00eddo ni la mirada.<\/p>\n<p>(ya no continuar\u00e1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A nombre de las mujeres, hombres, ni\u00f1os, ancianos, insurgentas e insurgentes del<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Desde las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">M\u00e9xico, Marzo del 2013.<\/p>\n<p>P.D. QUE ADELANTA.- Seguir\u00e1n saliendo escritos, no alegrarse de  antemano.\u00a0 Principalmente ser\u00e1n del compa\u00f1ero Subcomandante Insurgente  Mois\u00e9s, referentes a la escuelita: fechas, lugares, invitaciones,  inscripciones, proped\u00e9uticos, reglamentos, niveles, uniforme, \u00fatiles  escolares, calificaciones, asesor\u00edas, d\u00f3nde conseguir los ex\u00e1menes ya  resueltos, etc.\u00a0 Pero si preguntan cu\u00e1ntos niveles son y en cu\u00e1nto  tiempo se llega a la graduaci\u00f3n, les decimos: nosotras, nosotros  llevamos m\u00e1s de 500 a\u00f1os y todav\u00eda no terminamos de aprender.<\/p>\n<p>P.D. QUE DA UN CONSEJO PARA ASISTIR A LA ESCUELITA- Eduardo Galeano,  un sabio en el dif\u00edcil arte de mirar y escuchar, escribi\u00f3, en su libro  \u201cLos Hijos de los D\u00edas\u201d, en el calendario de marzo, lo siguiente:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCarlos y Gudrun Lenkersdorf hab\u00edan nacido y vivido en Alemania.\u00a0  En el a\u00f1o de 1973, estos ilustres profesores llegaron a M\u00e9xico.\u00a0 Y  entraron al mundo maya, a una comunidad tojolabal, y se presentaron  diciendo:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> \u2013 Venimos a aprender.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> Los ind\u00edgenas callaron.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> Al rato, alguno explic\u00f3 el silencio:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> \u2013 Es la primera vez que alguien nos dice eso.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> Y aprendiendo se quedaron all\u00ed, Gudrun y Carlos, durante a\u00f1o y a\u00f1os.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> De la lengua maya aprendieron que no hay jerarqu\u00eda que  separe al sujeto del objeto, porque yo bebo el agua que me bebe y soy  mirado por todo lo que miro, y aprendieron a saludar as\u00ed:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> \u2013 Yo soy otro t\u00fa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> \u2013 T\u00fa eres otro yo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>H\u00e1gale caso a Don Galeano.\u00a0 Porque es sabiendo mirar y escuchar, como se aprende.<\/p>\n<p>P.D. QUE EXPLICA ALGO DE CALENDARIOS Y GEOGRAF\u00cdAS.- Dicen nuestros  muertos que hay que saber mirar y escuchar todo, pero que en el sur  siempre habr\u00e1 una riqueza especial.\u00a0 Como se habr\u00e1n dado cuenta quienes  pudieron ver los videos (se quedaron no pocos en el bolsillo, a ver si  en otra ocasi\u00f3n) que acompa\u00f1aron los escritos de esta serie de \u201cEllos y  Nosotros\u201d, tratamos de hilar diversos calendarios y geograf\u00edas, pero  hubo un empecinamiento en nuestro respetado sur latinoamericano.\u00a0 No  s\u00f3lo por la Argentina y el Uruguay, tierras sabias en rebeld\u00eda, tambi\u00e9n  porque, seg\u00fan nosotras, nosotros, en el pueblo Mapuche no s\u00f3lo hay dolor  y rabia, tambi\u00e9n entereza en la lucha y una profunda sabidur\u00eda para  quien sabe mirar y escuchar.\u00a0 Si hay un rinc\u00f3n en el mundo a donde hay  que tender puentes, es el territorio Mapuche.\u00a0 Por ese pueblo, y por  tod@s las desaparecid@as y pres@s de este adolorido continente, sigue  viva la memoria.\u00a0 Porque no s\u00e9 si del otro lado de estas letras, pero s\u00ed  de este lado: \u00a1ni perd\u00f3n, ni olvido!<\/p>\n<p>P.D. SINT\u00c9TICA.- S\u00ed, lo sabemos, este desaf\u00edo no ha sido ni ser\u00e1  f\u00e1cil.\u00a0 Vienen grandes amenazas, golpes de todo tipo y de todos lados.\u00a0  As\u00ed ha sido y ser\u00e1 nuestro caminar.\u00a0 Cosas terribles y maravillosas  componen nuestra historia.\u00a0 Y as\u00ed ser\u00e1.\u00a0 Pero si se nos pregunta c\u00f3mo  podemos resumir en una palabra todo: los dolores, los desvelos, las  muertes que nos duelen, los sacrificios, el continuo navegar contra  corriente, las soledades, las ausencias, las persecuciones y, sobre  todo, este empecinado hacer memoria de quienes nos precedieron y ya no  est\u00e1n, entonces es algo que une todos los colores de abajo y a la  izquierda, sin importar el calendario o la geograf\u00eda.\u00a0 Y, m\u00e1s que una  palabra, es un grito:<\/p>\n<p>Libertad\u2026 \u00a1Libertad!\u2026 \u00a1LIBERTAD!<\/p>\n<p>Vale de nuez.<\/p>\n<p>El sup guardando la compu y caminando, siempre caminando.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Un poema de Mario Benedetti (que responde a la pregunta de por  qu\u00e9, a pesar de todo, cantamos), musicalizada por Alberto Favero. Aqu\u00ed  en la interpretaci\u00f3n de Silvana Garre, Juan Carlos Baglietto, Nito  Mestre.\u00a0 \u00a1Ni perd\u00f3n ni olvido!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6TVm-MuhL8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Camila Moreno interpreta \u201cDe la tierra\u201d, dedicado al luchador  Mapuche, Jaime Mendoza Collio, asesinado por la espalda por carabineros.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSVgl8QE8L0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mercedes Sosa, la nuestra, la de tod@s, la de siempre,  cantando, de Rafael Amor, \u201cCoraz\u00f3n Libre\u201d.\u00a0 El mensaje es terrible y  maravilloso: jam\u00e1s rendirse.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gwlii20ZZd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<!--:--><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THEM AND US VII. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Smallest of Them All, 7th and Final Part<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>7. On Doubts, Shadows, and A One-Word Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Doubts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If after reading the excerpts from the compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros of  the EZLN you still think that the indigenous members of the Zapatistas  are manipulated by the perverted mind of Supmarcos (and now by  Subcomandante Insurgente Mo\u00edses) and that nothing has changed in  Zapatista territory since 1994, then there\u2019s no hope for you.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t recommend that you turn the television off or that you  stop regurgitating the circular arguments that tend to be circulated by  the intellectuals and their followers, because if you did so your mind  would be empty. Go ahead and keep thinking about how the recent  telecommunications law will democratize information, that it will  increase the quality of programming, and that it will make cell phone  service better.<\/p>\n<p>But if you thought this way, you would never have made it to this  part of \u201cThem and Us,\u201d so let\u2019s just take it as a hypothetical that you  are a person with an average IQ and immersed in progressive culture.  With these characteristics, it is very probable that you practice  constant doubt in the face of just about everything, so it\u2019s only  logical to assume that you doubt what you have read here in the previous  pages. To doubt is not something that should be condemned, it is one of  the healthiest (and most forgotten) intellectual exercises available to  humanity\u2014especially if it is exercised with respect to a movement like  the Zapatista or neo-Zapatista movements, about which so many things  have been said (the majority of which do not even come close to what we  are).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s leave to one side the fact that it was undeniable even to the  mainstream press that tens of thousands of indigenous Zapatistas  simultaneously took 5 municipal seats in the Southeast states of Chiapas  [a reference to the events of December 21, 2012].<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s leave that aside and deal head on with doubts: if nothing has  changed in the Zapatista indigenous communities, why have they grown?  Weren\u2019t they saying that the EZLN was history? That the ezln\u2019s errors  (okay, okay, Marcos\u2019 errors) had come at the cost of their existence  (their \u201cmedia\u201d existence, but they never mentioned that part)? Wasn\u2019t  the Zapatista leadership disbanded? Hadn\u2019t the EZLN disappeared and all  that remained of them was the vague memories of those outside of Chiapas  who feel and know that struggle isn\u2019t something that can be subject to  the comings and goings of fads?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, let\u2019s ignore this fact (that the EZLN grew exponentially during  these times when they had fallen out of fashion) and abandon any attempt  to raise these concerns (concerns that will only lead to the editing of  your comments on articles in the national newspapers or your banning  from these sites, \u201cfor ever more\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Lets return to methodical doubt:<\/p>\n<p>What if the words that appeared in the previous pages that were  supposedly from indigenous Zapatistas (men and women) were actually  written by Marcos?<\/p>\n<p>That is, what if Marcos just simulated that others were the ones that wrote and felt those words?<\/p>\n<p>What if the autonomous schools don\u2019t actually exist?<\/p>\n<p>What if\u2026.the hospitals and the clinics, and the accountability  process, and the indigenous women in leadership positions, and the  productive lands, and the Zapatista air force, and\u2026..?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what if none of the things that those indigenous people  talk about exist, what if those indigenous people don\u2019t exist?<\/p>\n<p>In sum, what if everything is just a monumental lie created by Marcos  (and Mo\u00edses since that\u2019s the process we\u2019ve now begun) in order to  console those leftists (don\u2019t ever forget that they\u2019re dirty, ugly, bad,  irreverent) who are always present and who are always just a few, very  few, a tiny minority, with mere illusion? What if the Supmarcos made all  that stuff up?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be good to place your doubts side by side with reality?<\/p>\n<p>What if it was possible for you to see for yourself those schools,  the clinics, the hospitals, those projects, those women and men?<\/p>\n<p>What if you could listen directly to those Mexican, indigenous,  Zapatista men and women, making an effort to speak in Spanish so that  they could explain, so that they could tell you their history, not to  try to convince or recruit you, but just so that you could understand  that the world is very big and it has many worlds inside itself?<\/p>\n<p>What if you could concentrate on observing and listening, without talking, without giving your opinion?<\/p>\n<p>Would you take up that challenge? Or would you continue taking refuge  in your cynicism, that solid and wonderful castle of reasons not to do  anything?<\/p>\n<p>Would you ask to be invited? Would you accept that invitation?<\/p>\n<p>Would you come to a little school in which the professors (women and  men) are indigenous and whose mother tongue is considered a mere  \u201cdialect\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Would you be able to contain your desire to study them as if they  were anthropological, psychological, legal, esoteric, or historiographic  objects? Would you hold back your desire to interview them? To tell  them your opinion? To give them your advice? To give them orders?<\/p>\n<p>Would you look at them? That is, would you listen to them?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-*-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shadows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On one side of this light that now shines you can\u2019t see the form of  the strangely shaped shadows that have made it all possible. Because  another of the paradoxes that characterize Zapatismo is that it is not  light that creates the shadows, rather, it is from these shadows that  light is born.<\/p>\n<p>Women and men from corners near and far across the planet made  possible what we will show you, but they also enriched, with their gaze,  the path of these indigenous Zapatista men and women who today once  again raise the banner of a dignified life.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals (women and men), groups, collectives, all types of  organizations, and at all different levels, contributed so that this  small step of the very smallest could be taken.<\/p>\n<p>From all five continents arrived gazes that, from below and to the  left, offered their respect and support. And with this respect and  support not only schools and hospitals were built, but we also the  indigenous Zapatista heart that, through those gazes, through those  windows, were able to look out to all of the corners of the world.<\/p>\n<p>If there is a cosmopolitan place on Mexican lands it is certainly Zapatista territory.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of all this support nothing but an effort of equal magnitude would have sufficed.<\/p>\n<p>I think, we think, that all those people from Mexico and the world  can and should share in this small joy that today walks through the  mountains of Southeastern Mexico and has an indigenous face.<\/p>\n<p>We know, I know, that you are not expecting, that you are not asking  for, that you do not demand this great embrace that we send you. But  this is the way that the Zapatistas (men and women) thank our companer@s  (and we especially thank those who knew how to be nobody). Perhaps  without intending to, you were and are for us (women and men) the best  school. And it goes without saying that we will not spare any effort to  assure that, regardless of your calendars and geographies, you will  always respond affirmatively to the question of whether it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>To all (women) (I apologize from the depths of my sexist essence, but  women are a majority both quantitatively and qualitatively) and to all  (men): thank you.<\/p>\n<p>(\u2026.)<\/p>\n<p>And, well, there are shadows and then there are shadows.<\/p>\n<p>The most anonymous and imperceptible [of these shadows] are some  short-statured women and men whose skin is the color of the earth. They  left behind everything that they had, even if it wasn\u2019t much, and they  became warriors (women and men). In silence, in darkness, they  contributed and continue to contribute, like no one else, so that all of  this could be possible.<\/p>\n<p>And now I am referring to the insurgents (women and men), my compa\u00f1er@s.<\/p>\n<p>They come and go, they live, they struggle and die in silence,  without making any fuss, and without anyone, besides ourselves, noticing  them. They have no face and no life to themselves. Their names, their  stories. may only come to mind after many calendars have come and gone.  Maybe then around a fire, while the coffee is at a boil in an old pewter  pot and the fire of the word has been ignited, someone or something  will toast to their memory.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it won\u2019t matter much because what this has been about,  what it is about, what it has always been about, is to contribute in  some way to build those words with which the Zapatista stories,  anecdotes, and histories, real and imaginary, begin. Just like how what  is today a reality began, that is, with a:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cThere Will Be a Time\u2026\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Vale<\/em>. Health, and let there always be listening and the gaze.<\/p>\n<p>(this will not continue)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In name of the women, men, children, elderly, insurgents (men and women) of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Zapatista Army for National Liberation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the Mountains of Southeastern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subcomandante Insurgent Marcos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mexico, March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>An Anticipatory P.S.: There will be more writings, don\u2019t get happy  ahead of yourselves. They will be primarily from Subcomandante Insurgent  Mo\u00edses regarding the little school: the dates, the places, the  invitations, the sign-up, the propaedeutics, the rules, the grade  levels, the uniforms, the school supplies, the grades, the extra help,  where you can find the exams with all the answers etc\u2026 But if you ask us  how many grade levels there are [in our little school] and how much  time it will take until graduation, we will answer: we (women and men)  have been here for more than 500 years and we are still learning.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. That Gives Some Advice Regarding Attendance at the Little  School: Eduardo Galeano, a sage in that difficult art of observing and  listening, wrote the following in his book, \u201c The Children of the Days,\u201d  on the March calendar:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarlos and Gudrun Lenkersdorf were born and had lived in Germany. In  1973 these illustrious professors arrived in Mexico. They entered the  Mayan world, a Tojolobal community, and they introduced themselves with  the following words:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We came to learn.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The indigenous people were silent. Later someone would explain the silence:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is the first time that someone has said that to us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Learning, they stayed there for years and years.<\/p>\n<p>From the indigenous languages they learned that there is no hierarchy  that separates the object from the subject, because I drink the water  that drinks me and I am observed by everything I observe, and they  learned how to greet people in the following way:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am another you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You are another me.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Take heed of Don Galeano, because it is only by knowing how to observe and listen that one learns.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. That Explains Something About Calendars and Geographies: Our  dead say that we have to know how to observe and listen to everything,  but that in the south there will always be a special richness. As you  may have noticed from watching the videos (there are many videos still  left over, perhaps for another time) that accompanied the communiqu\u00e9s in  this \u201cThem and Us\u201d series, we tried to thread together many calendars  and geographies, but we dug into our much respected southern region of  Latin America. This was not only because of Argentina and Uruguay, lands  wise to rebellion, but also due to the fact that according to us (women  and men), there exists in the Mapuche people not only pain and rage,  but also an impeccable integrity in the struggle and a profound sagacity  for those who know how to observe and listen. If there is a corner of  the world toward which bridges must be built, it is Mapuche territory.  It is thanks to those people and to all the disappeared and all the  imprisoned of this pained continent that our memory still lives. I\u2019m not  sure about the other side of these words, but I know that from this  side of these words, \u201cNeither forgive nor forget!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Synthetic P.S.: Yes, we know that this challenge has not been and  will not be easy. Great threats and blows of all types will come from  all directions. That is how our path has been and will be. Terrible and  marvelous things make up our history. It will continue to be this way.  But if you were to ask us how we would summarize all of this in one  word: the pain, the sleepless nights, the deaths that hurt us, the  sacrifices, the continual effort to swim against the tide, the  loneliness, the absences, the persecution, and, above all, the stubborn  memory of those who came before us and are no longer here, it would be  something that unites all the colors that exist below and to the left no  matter what their calendar or geography. More than a word, it is a cry:<\/p>\n<p>Liberty\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Liberty!\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026LIBERTY!<\/p>\n<p><em>Vale de Nuez<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sup putting away his computer and walking, always walking.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=g6TVm-MuhL8\" target=\"_blank\">A poem by Mario Benedetti<\/a> (which responds to the question of why, despite everything, we sing),  put to music by Alberto Favero. Here performed by Silvana Garre, Juan  Carlos Baglietto, Nito Mestre.\u00a0 \u00a1Ni perd\u00f3n ni olvido!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><em>Camila Moreno performs \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=SSVgl8QE8L0\" target=\"_blank\">De la tierra<\/a>,\u201d dedicated to the Mapuche warrior of struggle, Jaime Mendoza Collio, shot in the back by police.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mercedes Sosa, ours, everyone\u2019s, of all times, singing Rafael Amor\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=gwlii20ZZd8\" target=\"_blank\">Coraz\u00f3n Libre<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 The message is terrible and wonderful: never give up.<\/em><\/strong><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traduzione italiana Traduction fran\u00e7aise English Tanslation Deutsch \u00dcbersetzung Euskal itzulpena Tradu\u00e7\u00e3o para o portugu\u00eas ::::::::::::::::::::::: ELLOS Y NOSOTROS. VII.- L@s m\u00e1s peque\u00f1@s 7 y \u00faltimo. 7.- Dudas, sombras y un resumen en una palabra. Marzo del 2013. Las Dudas. Si despu\u00e9s de leer los fragmentos de la palabra de las compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros del EZLN, [&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-8230","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\/8230","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=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}