The war
against our indigenous peoples has lasted now more than 520 years, capitalism
was born from the blood of our peoples and the millions of our brothers and
sisters who died during the European invasion, we must add those who died in
the wars of independence and of reform, with the imposition of liberal laws,
during the Porfiriato, and in the revolution.
In this new
war of neoliberal conquest the death of our peoples is this system’s life
condition.
In the last
decades thousands and thousands of us have been tortured, murdered,
disappeared, and imprisoned for defending our territories, our families, our
communities, our culture, our life itself.
We do not
forget. Because that blood, those lives, those struggles, that history with the
essence of our rebellion against those who kill us; they live in the life and
in the struggle of our peoples.
These are our
most recent deaths:
CHIAPAS
Compañero
Galeano of the La Realidad Junta de Buen Gobierno and Votán of the Escuelita:
Freedom According to the Zapatistas, violently murdered in the La Realidad
Caracol, Zapatista Autonomous Municipality, San Pedro Michoacán, last May 2nd
by paramilitaries from the CIOAC-H, protected by the paramilitary Manuel
Velazco Coello and the supreme paramilitary boss Enrique Peña Nieto.
On December 22nd,
1997, a group of 49 people from Las Abejas, including 4 unborn children, while
they prayed in the Acteal parish, Chenalhó municipality, were violently
murdered by a group of Priista paramilitaries protected by the state government
and by the criminal Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.
The murdered
adults: Manuel Santiz Culebra, Daniel Gómez Pérez, Victorio Vázquez Gómez,
Miguel Pérez Jiménez, Ignacio Pucuj Luna, Alonso Vázquez Gómez, Lorenzo Gómez
Pérez, Antonio Vázquez Luna, María Pérez Oyalté, Marcela Capote Ruiz, Marcela
Pucuj Luna, Catalina Luna Pérez, Manuela Pérez Moreno or Manuela Paciencia
Moreno, Margarita Méndez Paciencia, Marcela Luna Ruiz, Juana Pérez Pérez or Florinda
Pérez Pérez, María Gómez Ruiz, Verónica Vázquez Luna, Paulina Hernández
Vázquez, Susana Jiménez Luna, Rosa Pérez Pérez, Antonia Vázquez Pérez, Marcela
Vázquez Pérez, Juana Luna Vázquez, Juana Gómez Pérez, María Capote Pérez,
Marcela Capote Vázquez.
The murdered
minors: Martha Capote Pérez, Rosa Vázquez Luna, Loida Ruiz Gómez, Micaela
Vázquez Pérez, Josefa Vázquez Pérez, Sebastián Gómez Pérez, Juana Pérez Luna,
Roselina Gómez Hernández, Lucía Méndez Capote, Graciela Gómez Hernández, María
Luna Méndez, Silvia Pérez Luna, Vicente Méndez Capote, Micaela Vázquez Luna,
Juana Vázquez Luna, Alejandro Pérez Luna , Juan Carlos Luna Pérez, Guadalupe
Gómez Hernández.
Juan Vázquez
Guzmán and Juan Carlos Gómez Silvano, from the Tzeltal community of San
Sebastián Bachajón, murdered on April 24th, 2013 and March 21st,
2013, respectively, for the defense of the territory in conflict with ejidal
Authorities and the three levels of the evil government.
Filemón
Benítez Pérez, Antonio Benítez Pérez, María Núñez González, and Vicente Pérez
Díaz, murdered on November 13th, 2006, members of the Xi-Nich
organization, Choles from the community of Viejo Velasco, Ocosingo at the hands
of elements of the Sectorial Police with high-power weapons.
OAXACA
Héctor
Regalado Jiménez, member of the Popular Assembly of the Juchiteco People, who
died on August 1st, 2013 due to the wounds inflicted by the Auxiliary,
Banking and Industrial, and Commercial Police, and gunmen from the company Gas
Natural Fenosa, who served as guards within the wind farm.
Pablo Jarquín
Ruiz, Mixe murdered upon complaining about the shots fired which frightened the
children from the town elementary school when the army entered their community
on December 17th, 2012.
Maximino
Salinas Hernández, president of the Ejidal commission of his community, Fuerza
Chinanteca Kia-nan, from San Antonio Las Palmas, Jocotepec, murdered on June 30th,
2012 two months after his town withheld machinery from the municipality to
demand public works.
Carlos Sánchez
López murdered on August 8th, 2003 in Juchitan, Oaxaca, Manuel
Posada Chévez murdered on April 5th, 2004 in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca,
in the context of the Unidalguence Citizen Council’s struggle, against Plan
Puebla-Panamá and the corruption of the Priista mayor Armando Sánchez.
JALISCO
Aristeo Flores
Rolón and Nazario Aldama Villa, indigenous representatives of the Nahua
community Ayotitlán, Sierra de Manantlán, who were members of the Elders’
Council, Traditional Authorities of the Sierra de Manantlán and who were
murdered in September 2001 and May 2003.
Juan Monroy
and José Luis Rosales Conteras from the highland communities of the Nahua Ejido
of Ayotitlán, in the Telcruz delegation: Pursued and gunned-down for defending
the organization against overlogging in the zone.
MICHOACÁN
Diego Ramírez
Domínguez, Simón Pineda Verdía, Simón Pineda (Jr.), Quintín Regis Valdez, Erik
Nemecio Domínguez, Ernesto Nicolás López, Pedro Nazario Domínguez, Pedro Guzmán
Ramírez, Ambrosio Verdía Macías, Francisco Verdía Macías, Pedro Leyva, Isidro
Mora Domínguez, Feliciano Cirino Domínguez, Jonathan Verdía Gómez, Fortino
Verdía Gómez, Nicolás de la Cruz Rojas, Rafael de la Cruz, Juan Faustino
Nemesio, J. Trinidad de la Cruz Crisóstomo, Crisóforo Sánchez Reyes, Teodulo
Santos Girón, Feliciano Corona Cirino murdered between 2008 and 2013 in the
Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula, Michoacán.
For them we
demand JUSTICE!
These are our
disappeared:
JALISCO
Celedonio
Monroy Prudencio, Nahua from the community of Loma Colorada, in the Nahua ejido
of Ayotitlán, Sierra de Manantlán, Jalisco, who was disappeared by alleged
ministerial police in his residence last October 22nd, 2012.
Agustín
Mancilla Partida, Nahua disappeared last October 2012 in the Nahua community of
Villa Purificación.
MICHOACÁN
Javier Martínez
Robles, Gerardo Vera Orcino, Francisco de Asís Manuel, Enrique Domínguez Macías,
and Martín Santos Luna, Nahua villagers from Santa Maria Ostula, disappeared on
various dates between 2010 and 2013.
The Guzmán
Cruz family, first names Amafer, Solón, Armando, Venustiano, and José de Jesús
Guzmán Jiménez, disappeared on July 24th, 1974, persecuted for their
political activism, in an operation in which the Mexican Army entered into the
Purépecha community of Tarjero, Zacapu municipaliy, Michoacán, taking the
family with them.
MEXICO CITY
Teodulfo
Torres Soriano, indigenous migrant from Oaxaca, was disappeared between March
23rd and 26th, 2013 for being the principal witness of
the attack and subsequent death of Juan Francisco Kuykendall on December 1st,
2012.
VERACRUZ
Flabio Granado
Llanos and Cornelio Viberos Venabidez natives of San Francisco Agua Fria,
Tatahuicapan municipality, they were coming from San Antonio, disappeared since
December 21st, 2012.
They took them
ALIVE, we want them ALIVE!
These are our
prisoners:
OAXACA
Alejandro
Regalado Jiménez, Binnizá from Juchitán de Zaragoza, prisoner on April 3rd,
2013 and sentenced to 10 years in the Tehuantepec prison detained for being
Zapoteco indigenous and living in the seventh section of the town where the Popular
Assembly of the Juchiteco People (APPJ) defended the land, the territory, and
the air against the invasion of the Spanish company Gas Natural Fenosa’s Bii
Yooxh’o wind farm.
Álvaro
Sebastián Ramírez, Justino Hernández José, Eleuterio Hernández García, Abraham
García Ramírez, Zacarías Pascual García López, Agustín Luna Valencia and
Fortino Enríquez Hernández, Binnizá indigenous from San Augustín Loxicha,
teachers and peasants, guardians of their towns, detained for 18 years,
sentenced between 20 and 30 years in prison.
Pablo López
Alavez, Binnizá indigenous from San Isidro Aloapan, prisoner in the Villa de
Etla, kidnapped in 2010 by alleged furniture-makers and reappeared in said
prison. Defender of the forests, territory, and natural resources of his
community.
Dionisio Tapia
Isidro, Sixto José Miramar y Filomeno Ortiz Antonio, Mixe indigenous from San
Lucas Comotlán, Oaxaca, who were imprisoned only for asking the Mexican Army
the reason why it entered into their community on December 17th,
2012.
PUEBLA
Enedina Rosas
Vélez ejidal commissioner of San Felipe Xonacayacan, Atlixco Nahua indigenous
member of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land and the Water of Morelos,
Puebla, and Tlaxcala FPDTA-MPT detained last April 6th, prisoner in
the regional CERESO of Atlixco, for defending and respecting the decision of his
people against the plunder of lands by the Morelos Integral Project (PIM) and
denounced by the Italian company Bonatti.
Juan Carlos
Flores Solís from San Andres Colula, Nahua region of the Puebla valley, member
of the FPDTA-MPT detained last April 7th, prisoner in the regional
CERESO of San Pedro Cholula, for defending the right of the peoples in the face
of the plunder caused by the PIM, denounced by the evil government of Rafael Moreno
Valle, 2 more apprehension orders were read to him, one by the Italian company
Bonatti, and the other by the Federal Electricity Commission.
CHIAPAS
Alejandro Díaz
Santís, Tzotzil from Mitontic, sentenced to 30 years in prison without having
committed any crime, he is imprisoned in CERESO number 5 in San Cristóbal de
las Casas.
QUERETARO
Rubén Díaz
Orozco who spent 17 years imprisoned for being a societal leader, is imprisoned
in the CERESO of San José El Alto, Querétaro since March 1998. The compañero is
about to turn seventy and with serious health problems. (It is demanded that he
be released due to his being elderly and his severe health problems).
MEXICO STATE
Rómulo Arias
Mireles, Pedro Sánchez Berriozabal, and Teófilo Pérez González, water defenders
in the Nahua community of San Pedro Tlanixo: sentenced to 54, 52, and 50 years
in prison respectively; Lorenzo Sánchez Berriozabal, Marco Antonio Pérez
González, and Domingo Martínez González, who are currently being processed
imprisoned in the Santiaguito Prison, Almoloya de Juárez, for struggling
against the plunder of water on the slopes of the Xinantecatl volcano for large
flower-growing companies.
For them we
demand their FREEDOM!
Just the same
we demand the cancellation of the apprehension orders of the following brothers
and sisters of ours:
OAXACA
Mariano López
Gómez, Raymundo Regalado Jiménez, and Carlos Sánchez Martínez, members of the
Juchiteco People’s Popular Assembly, who were denounced for fabricated crimes
and have to live in constant alert, denounced by the transnational wind company
Gas Natural Fenosa.
PUEBLA
Avelino
Velazques Tapia, Eusebio Aguilar Torres, Alejandro Torres Chocolatl, Adela
Ramos Villalba, Juan Álvares Tapia, Federico Villalba Ramos, Nahua indigenous
members of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land and Water of Morelos,
Puebla, and Tlaxcala FPDTA-MPT denounced by the Federal Electricity Commission
for defending the land and the water in opposition to the Morelos Integral
Project.
JALISCO
Cirilo Rojas
López y Casiano Pérez Magallón, Jorge de los Santos Pérez, Vicente Paredes
Perales, José Abraham de la Rosa Sanabria, Ismael de los Santos González, Petra
Sanabria Claro, and Manuel Alejandro Jacobo Contreras, all inhabitants and
villagers of the Coca community of Mezcala de la Asunción, who have been
denounced and persecuted unjustly by the invader Guillermo Moreno Ibarra
beginning in September 2011 for defending communal territory. Salvador de la
Rosa Paredes who was denounced and who now is denounced by the aforementioned
invader.
Likewise we
demand an end to the harassment and threats against the following brothers and
sisters of ours:
PUEBLA
Last Monday,
August 4th, while we were doing this exchange, 10 civil servants
from the Federal Communications Institute (IFETEL), lead by Raúl Leonel Mulhia
Arsaluz, and accompanied by two police officers and three pickup trucks of the
Federal Preventative Police, violently raided the facilities of Radio
Zacatepec, in the Nahua community of Santa María Zacatepec, in the Municipality
of Juan C. Bonilla, confiscating a transmitter, two microphones, a transformer,
a CPU, and a console; minutes later eight plainclothes men, with slacks and
plain white collared-shirts, with a IFETEL badge as identification and
accompanied by three police officers from the Federal Preventative Police who
blocked access to the street, threatened compañera María Eugenia Toxocoyoa,
operator of Axocotzin Radio, from the Nahua community of San Bernadino
Tlaxcalancingo, in the Municipality of San Andrés Cholula, demanding that she
allow them to enter the radio facilities, or if not they would make use of
police force; six men entering the facilities and damaging them, taking the
transmitter, the monitor, three microphones, and the CPU which contains all the
historic, social, and political memory which the radio had gathered in the
Tlaxcalancingo Auxiliary Committee. These actions were orchestrated by the
federal government and the government of Rafael Moreno Valle with the purpose
of curbing the struggle of the peoples of Tlaxcala, Puebla, and Morelos against
the Morelos Integral Plan.
MICHOACÁN
The commander
of the community police in Santa María Ostula, Cemei Verdía Zepeda, against
whom it is intended to put together a homicide attempt in his struggle against
the plunder of land and natural resources.
MEXICO STATE
Rey Pérez
Martínez, former president of the Ejidal Commission of San Pedro Tlanixco, and
Santos Alejandro Álvarez Zetino, against whom a systematic repression was
unleashed, raids of their homes at high hours of the night, and they cannot
return to their homes for the past 11 years.
OAXACA
Carmen Ruiz
Martínez, member of the APPJ who has received death threats, via telephone by
hitmen from the company Gas Natural Fenosa, who intend to kidnap her.
Raúl Javier
Gatica Bautista, indigenous Mixtec exiled outside of the country by the
constant death threats that he received for defending the right of the peoples
who make-up the Ricardo Flores Magón Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca
(CIPO-RFM).
From our pain
our rage was born, from the rage our rebellion, and from the rebellion the
freedom of the peoples of the world will be born.
From La
Realidad Zapatista, August 2014
For the integral reconstruction
of our peoples
Never more a
Mexico without us
INDIGENOUS NATIONAL CONGRESS
ZAPATISTA ARMY
OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.
Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.
Originally published on August 16th,
2014.
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