THE FPFVI UNOPII
DENOUNCES AGGRESSIONS AGAINST ITS MEMBERS
We denounce that on November 7th, 2013,
compañeros and compañeras of the Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente
member of the Unidad Nacional de Organizaciones Poulares de Izquierda
Independiente (FPFVI-UNOPII), were assaulted by an armed group which with
excessive violence and weapons in hand expelled residents from a property
belonging to the organization located in Delegación Tlahuac, Colonia Miguel
Hidalgo, on the street Francisco Landino near the corner with Guillermo Prieto.
A group of approximately 40 men with shotguns and in cars,
cocked their guns and after a dozen shots, threatened, beat, and ultimately expelled
residents from the property, which was protected by compañeros and compañeras
left injured, some of them, with fractures, bruises, and wounds that left
permanent marks on their foreheads and various parts of their bodies.
Moments after said events police units arrived from the Mexico
City Department of Public Safety (SSPDF) which did not make even the least
attempt to stop any of the armed aggressors, the “Benito Juárez”
motorcycle-taxi group are also indicated as aggressors, who operate and have
their base on the street Arabela, in the colonia Miguel Hidalgo, in the borough
of Tlahuac, who are sheltered by officials from the Mexico City government.
Finally and when everything had already happened 300 more riot
police came to the property contending, that they were going to restore order,
when in reality they only went to make sure that members of our organization
did not retake the property, without regard for the abuse that we suffered, the
excuse they said was that they were there to keep the peace and see that the
property was turned over to whoever owns it, nothing else mattered.
We know that those who have as their motto “to serve and
protect” only serve for the protection of those who beyond performing their job
for the benefit of the people, only abuse the positions that they have, like
the ex-official Alejandro López Villanueva who is also indicated as an
instigator and using double standards presents himself as a supposed mediator,
even though we now know that the true objective is to create a conflict through
deceit and confusion in order to benefit with this.
That is why we denounce and frame these actions as part of
the strategy to disarticulate and silence the voices that in this country are
seeking better living conditions, clear examples are the states of Oaxaca,
Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán to name a few; today these states face a climate
of violence and repression that is made latent and each day worsens at the
national level against social organizations.
It is clear to us that acts like those which we suffered in
the previous days, are repeated by the same bosses who live in other states and
who have the same objective: to provoke, intimidate, displace, and try to
weaken the struggle today. A struggle that like ours now carries 25 years,
where we have stayed away from political parties, developing in spaces like the
property that they intend to take away from us, places where dignified living
truly exists. At the same time it is important to point out that this leaves
uncovered the conspiracy that the authorities, as much as the political
parties—like the PRD—have in these boroughs and that their leaders beyond
seeing to the well-being of the population only operate under individual
interests.
In the face of the extreme secrecy and silence of the
authorities complicit with the media, we make a call to all those who struggle
against corruption, plunder, contempt, and all other actions that violate human
dignity, also to those organizations or unions that day to day are struck by
this politics that is increasingly repressive against everyone, as well as all
of the anticapitalist organizations, which through all this time have
accompanied us national ones as much as international ones, and to the people
in general, we encourage you to be attentive.
Due to this we declare the following:
-We demand that the property in question be returned to our
organization, since we already have the documentation that guarantees that it
is our property; it is not true that the property is in dispute, thus we do not
accept negotiation with those who have clearly proven to take advantage of necessity
as is the case with Alejandro López Villanueva or any other ex-official or official
who with false documents and contending that there is a supposed dispute, which
does not exist, want to profit from the matter, we reiterate that our
organization acquired said property in a legitimate manner, which for the
authorities today is not valid, nor is it of importance.
-An end to the climate of violence and hostility using armed
groups against the social movement since combined with the negligence of public
officials can have confrontations as a result, generating a climate of violence
and ungovernability.
-We hold responsible the authorities that are to blame for
any act of violence against the members of the organization.
-Punishment and presentation of the intellectual and
physical authors who with great violence, injured our compañeros.
-We call for solidarity, denouncing and not permitting the
plunder of a space, where members of one of our cooperatives have focused their
efforts and resources to be able to construct a dignified space for living.
-We reaffirm the ultimatum that as part of the Alianza
Mexicana de Organizaciones Sociales (AMOS), we made in various boroughs such as
Iztapalapa and Tlahauc, for the resolution of the demands mentioned there,
adding to these, the recent problematic otherwise we will make good on our word
and implement the plan of action that we announced in said acts and which
consists of a general shutdown in the east of Mexico City and Mexico State, as
well we will also be denouncing and creating other actions that allow for the
unmasking of the repressive politics that is being implemented in the city by
officials that call themselves left-wing.
FPFVI-UNOPII
Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales
Read the original text on the UNOPII website or Enlace Zapatista
Originally published on November 8, 2013
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