With rage and
indignation we denounce the imprisonment of our compañeras and of our
compañeros from the Ñatho indigenous community of de San Francisco Xochicuautla,
Lerma municipality, in Mexico State. The kidnapping, done by government, was
around 1 o’clock on Monday, November 3: Felipa Gutiérrez Petra, Francisca Reyes
Flores, Rosa Saavedra, Armando García Salazar, Domingo Hernández Ramírez,
Mauricio Reyes Flores, Jerónimo Martínez, and Venancio Hernández Ramírez, have
been criminally imprisoned.
Our compañeras
and compañeros were realizing, in an organized manner, an action of civil and
peaceful resistance for the defense of their land and their territory: they
were preventing with their bodies, their lives, and their hearts, timber
harvesting. In this way, they demonstrated that the Naucalpan-Toluca Highway,
constructed by the company Autovan S.A. de C.V., is not only illegal and
illegitimate, but represents a project which seeks to strip material, socially,
culturally, and economically, from the Indian peoples of the region who for
centuries have conserved and reproduced with dignity a life in community.
In the face of
the struggle for life, the state police, in complicity with the paid media, who
in a cowardly manner stepped aside, lashed out at our compañeras and
compañeros, in spite of the fact that they have legal protection which prevents
continuation of said highway’s construction.
Nor is it coincidental that this community in resistance is the site for the inauguration of the upcoming Global Festival of Resistances and Rebellions, to be carried out this December, convened by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Indigenous National Congress, this aggression falls upon all of us, of this magnitude is the fear of the lords of money, but there above They know well, their repression does not scare us, it contends us and in an organized manner we will know how to respond.
Like so things
in this country and the world, while in the rotten structures of power
stupidity, cynicism, and crime are government and show their most tyrannical
face; below resistance and rebellion continue, dignity and pain organize to
defend and flourish life.
The Network against
Repression and for Solidarity holds responsible Eruviel Ávila, that one who
naïvely believes that he governs Mexico State, and his foreman Enrique Peña
Nieto for this and any eventual aggression against the community of Xochicuautla.
We tell our
compañeras and compañeros from San Francisco Xochicuautla that they are not
alone, that we will denounce this affront and that we are attentive to the
actions which you convene to reaffirm our solidarity and compañerismo.
We also make a
call to the compañeras and compañeros adherents to the Sixth Declaration, to
the students of the Zapatista Escuelita, and to all people who feel called from
below and to the left, in accordance with your times, ways, forms, and
geographies, to realize actions of denouncement, information, solidarity, and
compañerismo with the dignified community of Xochicuautla.
Because freedom
and justice are not demanded, but fought for and built from below and to the
left.
Freedom and Justice for Xochicuautla!
An end to the aggressions!
No to the Naucalpan-Toluca highway!
Yes to organization from below and to the
left!
Freedom for the political prisoners!
Against plunder and repression: Solidarity!
Red contra la Represión y por la
Solidaridad
(RvsR)
Translated from Spanish by Henry
Gales.
Originally published on November 5th,
2014.
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