Zapatistas (EZLN), the National Indigenous Congress
(CNI) and the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico (CIG) mark distance from
López Obrador
"Words only cannot express the dismay before the announced sowing of a million hectares with fruit and timber trees in the south of the country, before the illegal and rigged consultation for the construction of the New Airport of Mexico City, or the offer to continue investing in mining companies that have been granted large concessions of indigenous territories.”
"Words only cannot express our dismay, on how without consulting our peoples, the future government imposes the creation, in the style of the old paternalism of indigenismo, of the new National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, commanded by the deserters of our long struggle of resistance," said the indigenous people represented in this Second Assembly.
"Words alone are cannot express the outrage when we see the cynicism with which the peoples of Mexico are delivered to the economic interests of the United States through the new North American Free Trade Agreement, which the future government of López Obrador promises to formally ratify, and who in one of his first speeches did not hesitate to also ratify the continuity of the current monetary and fiscal policies of the government.
"That is to say, continuity in the neoliberal policies will be guaranteed with the announcement that the federal military forces will continue patrolling in the public streets and now even be strengthened with the added pretension of recruiting 50 thousand young people into the very same armed forces that have served to repress, disposes and sow terror throughout the county".
They pointed out in the pronouncement that when they made the call to end the hostilities of war in 1994 and that when the rights of the Indigenous Peoples were to be recognized in the Mexican Constitution, as translated into the San Andrés Accords, they were betrayed" because the master who remains unseen and who is the real boss, he who is served behind those who claim to govern, ordered the imposition of many laws instituted to make it appear legal to violently steal the lands of Indigenous Peoples, institute programs to divide and create conflict among themselves, and to sow contempt and racism in all directions.
They indicated that if the San Andres Accords were approved in the current context, "the successive reforms to Article 27 of the Constitution, which have transformed the land into a commodity and put the riches of the subsoil into the hands of large companies, without ending the water concession regimes, mining, national goods and hydrocarbons, without imposing limits on the imperial power by repealing the current Free Trade Agreement and severely limiting the large transnational corporations, without destroying the control exercised by the big crime cartels, supported by the military force who are invading their indigenous territories, this would be to be manifest in the best of cases, a gross illusion which attempts to legitimize the capitalist assault against the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico.
"We, in the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Council of Government, we have no doubt and we will not be part of any exponential capitalist transformation in Mexico, which with its corrupt practices, has its sights set on our territories," said the organizations. "We will not be part of this lie thirsting for our blood and our extermination."
And that is why, they agreed to continue building the organization that shall serve as a form of self-government, autonomous and rebellious, with companions and comrades from other geographies, to collectively break through the deadly inertia imposed on them from above.
"We agree to consult in our communities, peoples, nations, tribes and neighborhoods regarding the ways and means of building together through networks of networks, small and large, a coordination that enriches us all in support and solidarity, that makes our differences our strength, strengthening the networks of resistance and rebellion to carry our word and the common voice that unites us, in a respectful and horizontal way," the letter says.
"If it is your decision, coming from below and in the spirit of autonomy, we call upon you to consult in a serious and committed way within your organizations and collectives whether or not it is necessary for you to form your Council of Self Government", says the statement.
And they conclude that, at a time and in accordance with the consultation they carry out in all their communities, CNI and CIG will discuss the incorporation into something of larger scope, which is capable of integrating all of their struggles, thoughts and identities.
"Something larger that becomes stronger with the visions, ways, forms and times of each one".
By Isaín Mandujano
October 15, 2018
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS - The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico (CIG) agreed this weekend to realize a consultation with each and every one of the community bases of support where they have a presence, to discuss "the incorporation into something of larger scope, which that is capable of incorporating all of our struggles, thoughts and identities", in order to face the continuity of the neoliberal policy in which, they accuse, is the present profile of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in Mexico.
They pointed out that the continuity of the neoliberal policies of the Mexican government is not only reflected in the intention to ratify the reformatted North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but also the fact that not only will the armed forces not be taken off the public streets to return to their barracks, but the AMLO government has announced intentions with "the pretense of recruiting 50,000 young people into the very armed forces that have served to suppress, dispossess and spread terror throughout the nation."
The Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples represented in the Second National Assembly of the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico and the National Indigenous Congress held in San Cristobal de las Casas from October 11 to 14, marked their distance from the newly elected government of López Obrador by noting that from today they do not have any doubt and that they will not be part of "any capitalist exponential transformation" that is in alignment with such vicious predatory practices, which now has its gaze fixed on the territories of the Indigenous Pueblos of Mexico.
"We will not be part of this lie thirsting for our blood and our extermination," they said.
In the joint statement signed by the EZLN, the CNI and the CIG, after a four-day meeting at the CIDECIO-Unitierra, they announced that they met to see each other, consult with each other and take new steps to build the new world that is needed.
"We speak urgently, because we who are Indigenous Peoples, in our struggle against the profound disease caused by capitalism, we are the weavers of life, and because this is the heritage that we have received from our ancestors.
"This means for us, to generate life and make it grow in every corner, with a hope that flows from our collective memory and for the times yet to come. We weave ourselves collectively as Indigenous Peoples and into that work we also have woven each of ourselves as persons", they say in the letter published on Sunday.
They recalled that by agreement of the Fifth National Indigenous Congress it was decided to form an Indigenous Council of Government (CIG), to reveal to the world that it is not true that the governments should exist to destroy but to instead to build.
"It is not true that the government should only exist to serve itself, but to serve the people. It must be a mirror of what we are when we dream about the decisions of our destiny, and not a lie that impersonates us to speak in our name the death sentence for everything that surrounds us".
They pointed out that they are the weavers of that what is called organization and territory, which they defend. This is the language they speak and refuse to surrender, it is the identity that they do not forget and that they magnify with their struggle.
"For that reason, in exercising our autonomy guided by the walk of our ancestral ways, this is the only door to be able to continue making our life an unrenounceable path, because everything from the outside is being reformatted to strengthen the terror and profiteering of the powerful," they said in the pronouncement.
They indicated that the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico (CIG) is the way to honor all their differences, to find there the reflection of their word, the voice of a true government of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico.
"That other entity, that which is named from above as the Mexican State, is just a lie made to impose, repress and hide the death that already overflows upon us making evident the deception. That is to say, they are no more than a band of thieves who alternatively pretend to be institutions of the right or left. In any case, they all bring war with them and even though they try to hide the farce, the master is still the boss," they say.
Opposing the Maya Train Project
They indicated that now they will have to defend the life of their pueblos from the threats that loom over the Binniza, Chontal, Ikoots, Mixe, Zoque, Nahua and Popoluca peoples of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec who are facing the trans-isthmian projects, and the expansion of the Special Economic Zones. Then there is the threat against the Mayan Pueblos with the "Capitalist Train" project that strips and destroys the earth as it passes.
October 15, 2018
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS - The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico (CIG) agreed this weekend to realize a consultation with each and every one of the community bases of support where they have a presence, to discuss "the incorporation into something of larger scope, which that is capable of incorporating all of our struggles, thoughts and identities", in order to face the continuity of the neoliberal policy in which, they accuse, is the present profile of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in Mexico.
They pointed out that the continuity of the neoliberal policies of the Mexican government is not only reflected in the intention to ratify the reformatted North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but also the fact that not only will the armed forces not be taken off the public streets to return to their barracks, but the AMLO government has announced intentions with "the pretense of recruiting 50,000 young people into the very armed forces that have served to suppress, dispossess and spread terror throughout the nation."
The Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples represented in the Second National Assembly of the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico and the National Indigenous Congress held in San Cristobal de las Casas from October 11 to 14, marked their distance from the newly elected government of López Obrador by noting that from today they do not have any doubt and that they will not be part of "any capitalist exponential transformation" that is in alignment with such vicious predatory practices, which now has its gaze fixed on the territories of the Indigenous Pueblos of Mexico.
"We will not be part of this lie thirsting for our blood and our extermination," they said.
In the joint statement signed by the EZLN, the CNI and the CIG, after a four-day meeting at the CIDECIO-Unitierra, they announced that they met to see each other, consult with each other and take new steps to build the new world that is needed.
"We speak urgently, because we who are Indigenous Peoples, in our struggle against the profound disease caused by capitalism, we are the weavers of life, and because this is the heritage that we have received from our ancestors.
"This means for us, to generate life and make it grow in every corner, with a hope that flows from our collective memory and for the times yet to come. We weave ourselves collectively as Indigenous Peoples and into that work we also have woven each of ourselves as persons", they say in the letter published on Sunday.
They recalled that by agreement of the Fifth National Indigenous Congress it was decided to form an Indigenous Council of Government (CIG), to reveal to the world that it is not true that the governments should exist to destroy but to instead to build.
"It is not true that the government should only exist to serve itself, but to serve the people. It must be a mirror of what we are when we dream about the decisions of our destiny, and not a lie that impersonates us to speak in our name the death sentence for everything that surrounds us".
They pointed out that they are the weavers of that what is called organization and territory, which they defend. This is the language they speak and refuse to surrender, it is the identity that they do not forget and that they magnify with their struggle.
"For that reason, in exercising our autonomy guided by the walk of our ancestral ways, this is the only door to be able to continue making our life an unrenounceable path, because everything from the outside is being reformatted to strengthen the terror and profiteering of the powerful," they said in the pronouncement.
They indicated that the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico (CIG) is the way to honor all their differences, to find there the reflection of their word, the voice of a true government of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico.
"That other entity, that which is named from above as the Mexican State, is just a lie made to impose, repress and hide the death that already overflows upon us making evident the deception. That is to say, they are no more than a band of thieves who alternatively pretend to be institutions of the right or left. In any case, they all bring war with them and even though they try to hide the farce, the master is still the boss," they say.
Opposing the Maya Train Project
They indicated that now they will have to defend the life of their pueblos from the threats that loom over the Binniza, Chontal, Ikoots, Mixe, Zoque, Nahua and Popoluca peoples of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec who are facing the trans-isthmian projects, and the expansion of the Special Economic Zones. Then there is the threat against the Mayan Pueblos with the "Capitalist Train" project that strips and destroys the earth as it passes.
"Words only cannot express the dismay before the announced sowing of a million hectares with fruit and timber trees in the south of the country, before the illegal and rigged consultation for the construction of the New Airport of Mexico City, or the offer to continue investing in mining companies that have been granted large concessions of indigenous territories.”
"Words only cannot express our dismay, on how without consulting our peoples, the future government imposes the creation, in the style of the old paternalism of indigenismo, of the new National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, commanded by the deserters of our long struggle of resistance," said the indigenous people represented in this Second Assembly.
"Words alone are cannot express the outrage when we see the cynicism with which the peoples of Mexico are delivered to the economic interests of the United States through the new North American Free Trade Agreement, which the future government of López Obrador promises to formally ratify, and who in one of his first speeches did not hesitate to also ratify the continuity of the current monetary and fiscal policies of the government.
"That is to say, continuity in the neoliberal policies will be guaranteed with the announcement that the federal military forces will continue patrolling in the public streets and now even be strengthened with the added pretension of recruiting 50 thousand young people into the very same armed forces that have served to repress, disposes and sow terror throughout the county".
They pointed out in the pronouncement that when they made the call to end the hostilities of war in 1994 and that when the rights of the Indigenous Peoples were to be recognized in the Mexican Constitution, as translated into the San Andrés Accords, they were betrayed" because the master who remains unseen and who is the real boss, he who is served behind those who claim to govern, ordered the imposition of many laws instituted to make it appear legal to violently steal the lands of Indigenous Peoples, institute programs to divide and create conflict among themselves, and to sow contempt and racism in all directions.
They indicated that if the San Andres Accords were approved in the current context, "the successive reforms to Article 27 of the Constitution, which have transformed the land into a commodity and put the riches of the subsoil into the hands of large companies, without ending the water concession regimes, mining, national goods and hydrocarbons, without imposing limits on the imperial power by repealing the current Free Trade Agreement and severely limiting the large transnational corporations, without destroying the control exercised by the big crime cartels, supported by the military force who are invading their indigenous territories, this would be to be manifest in the best of cases, a gross illusion which attempts to legitimize the capitalist assault against the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico.
"We, in the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Council of Government, we have no doubt and we will not be part of any exponential capitalist transformation in Mexico, which with its corrupt practices, has its sights set on our territories," said the organizations. "We will not be part of this lie thirsting for our blood and our extermination."
And that is why, they agreed to continue building the organization that shall serve as a form of self-government, autonomous and rebellious, with companions and comrades from other geographies, to collectively break through the deadly inertia imposed on them from above.
"We agree to consult in our communities, peoples, nations, tribes and neighborhoods regarding the ways and means of building together through networks of networks, small and large, a coordination that enriches us all in support and solidarity, that makes our differences our strength, strengthening the networks of resistance and rebellion to carry our word and the common voice that unites us, in a respectful and horizontal way," the letter says.
"If it is your decision, coming from below and in the spirit of autonomy, we call upon you to consult in a serious and committed way within your organizations and collectives whether or not it is necessary for you to form your Council of Self Government", says the statement.
And they conclude that, at a time and in accordance with the consultation they carry out in all their communities, CNI and CIG will discuss the incorporation into something of larger scope, which is capable of integrating all of their struggles, thoughts and identities.
"Something larger that becomes stronger with the visions, ways, forms and times of each one".
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