Zapatista tour National Indigenous Congress of Mexico: "Thanks to Insumisa Europe, which is not sold, that does not claudica"
The delegates of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) who accompanied the Zapatista delegation in the "tour of life" participated in an act of dismissal in which delegates and delegates of the Nahuatl, Otomi, Rarámuri, Bini'zaa, Bini'zaa, Bini'zaa, Bini'zaa, Bini'zaa,Maya, Popoluca and Purépecha explained that they were sent by the assemblies of their peoples to share with Europe insumisia the situation of their territories, their word, their resistances, the pain of dispossession, repression, the fight against the megaprojects of death and theCriminalization and disappearances of companions and partners for defending Mother Earth."We came to this land to meet groups that are also fighting the capitalist system, because in every corner of the world the mother earth is being stripped".
They came to weave last ties, brotherhood ties.A delegate said that “we think it is a struggle of all, of humanity.We need to work in solidarity and collectively against this monster, capitalism, which is present everywhere.Maybe this is the last opportunity we have as a humanity to save ourselves from this serious situation ".That is why they also came to explain who they are, how they organize, what their struggles are, and to share what they found in this territory, Slumil k´ajxemk'op or insumisa land as the advanced Squadron 421 of the Ezln that arrived by boatFor the port of Vigo on June 22.
Marichuy, healer and spokeswoman of the CNI, took the floor and explained that the National Indigenous Congress is a meeting space for the original peoples of Mexico.The EZLN brothers made an invitation, two years after the armed uprising so that in 1996 most of the peoples were cited.At that time, says the spokeswoman, the peoples “commented on their problems, in each region.At that time the government said that the conflict was only from Chiapas and that the rest of Mexico was fine.And we saw no, that there were also problems in the other villages.It made us think of the need to have our own space as peoples ".On October 12, 1996, the CNI was born in Mexico City, with the presence of the Ramona del Ezln Commander, who was the first woman who left the conflict zone.
In this founding event, the Ramona Commandanta gave the original peoples a flag of Mexico, as a symbol “since the peoples have never been taken into account.It was also a symbol that we were not separatists, that we wanted to belong to Mexico and we wanted our collective rights to be respected.That is why the motto never again a Mexico without us! ".The CNI was then thought to work horizontally, as in communities.“There would be jobs, but always monitored by the Assembly.The CNI is the house of the peoples.When we are together we are an assembly, and when we are separated we are network.Because we are very far.We try that the assemblies be by consensus, not by votes, because we consider that the votes can separate us ".
EZLN is part of the CNI.A milestone in its history of collective road was when in 2001 the "March of the color of the Earth" was made in.That time Marichuy points out “we arrive at the capital, the Congress of the Union, all the peoples of Mexico.It came with the idea that San Andrés agreements were fulfilled.But it was not accepted, another law was imposed, which imposed some rights below those that were already conquered.It was then decided to take into account the agreements of San Andrés and assume them as our law, to strengthen the processes of autonomy of the peoples ".The San Andrés agreements had been signed by EZLN with the three parties in the government, including the institutional left.However, they were betrayed and the peoples from that moment decided that they would not dialogue with the Government and that they would build their autonomy through the facts, without asking permission.
Marichuy gave way to the word of another delegate who explained the experience of presenting himself to the presidential elections: “In 2017, a national assembly was convened in which all the peoples attended, lasted three days, with the proposal to analyze the political situation of that moment.In the agreements it was decided.We have different languages, different ways of seeing the world.We cannot compare our worldviews.To talk about a subject, it is many times difficult but not impossible ".The result was that Marichuy participated through an assembly, - the Indigenous Government Council - and the accompaniment of the peoples, all organized always horizontally and from below.62 representatives of the communities were chosen, a man for each woman, of each language of Mexico.These councilors were going to move the voice to Marichuy, so that she would speak in the name of all the peoples of Mexico.
The CNI delegate explained that Marichuy carried the mandate to spread that “there are other ways to organize.Because for this electoral situation, for example, money was not received from the Government, from the National Electoral Institute.We had to make events to generate financial resources and with the help of international compasses.We toured the whole country to carry the other word.When they despised this proposal, for being an indigenous woman, Nahuatl healer, for racism, we saw that Mexico was racist, with denigrating attacks.We learned that in order to participate with the votes that are required, it is necessary.In the process of this experience, the territories of the native peoples of Mexico were toured, networks were created."We also gave a headache to political parties.It was a big step, "said the CNI delegate.
His proposal for participation in the presidential elections had a very different spirit from that of traditional Mexican politics.“In the process we did not seek.The idea was to visible all these struggles, a strategy, to make visible repression, disappearances, the dead.It was a call to organize us, the vote did not matter so much, win the elections, but to travel the country and organize, become aware.Look for another political way to fight ".
The delegates of the Cnitan also took the opportunity to thank the networks of European organizations that made possible the tour of life.“We thank the networks for the reception, for the sharing.In Mexico they told us that in Europe there were no poor, but we saw that there are and also many aggressions.We have found struggles similar to those of our peoples, imposition of death projects to Mother Earth.There are European countries where their language is no longer spoken, it looks like a crime.Not just the fight is for communities, but for Mother Earth, because communities need to take care of the land to eat.Here we have looked at the struggles, where the same attacks of capitalism are repeated.We get the best for here, we will share with our communities the struggles here ".
Death megaprojects.THE INTEGRAL MORELOS PROJECT.
The delegate Isabel also wanted to appreciate support: “We are going to take it in the heart and our communities.When we arrived we said that we are the eyes and voice of the peoples of all Mexico.We are here to say that they did not conquer us "and loaded against one of the megaprojects in Mexico:“ Here they are also suffering megaprojects, such as the Integral Morelos project, a thermoelectric plant that represents a strong attack on nature.To the volcano (Popocatepetl) we are not afraid because it has always been active, but the thermoelectric plant does.We are receiving a lot of repression.In Mexico you have to be clear that there is no fourth transformation, pure repressors that come together to prostitute the land.You have to join, there are no borders in words.We all have the goal of fighting capitalism that wants to kill us.We must continue organizing against this capitalism.We must not forget our history and confuse ourselves with which they want to impose on us ".
The badly called Maya Train
The Delegate of the Mayan people commented on the resistance struggle of the communities against the Mayan Train: “From the Yucatan Peninsula, the Maya are resisting.We say it from each town.They have declared us war.Many times we indigenous people have to read scientific things to know how they want to kill us, eradicate.Through an amparo we ask that a manifestation of environmental assessment be delivered on the Mayan Train project, I tell me mesh, with double ‘L’.And on page404, we thought we were sleepy when we read it, but not.In the text he put ‘ethnocide can have a positive turn’.Literal, that's how you can search, download.What we did was to get together and give a press conference denouncing in a textual way that they want to end us.The federal government replied that it was a finger error.But obviously we don't believe them ".
On November 25, in the Official Gazette of the Federation of Mexico, it was published “that if they do not give an answer in favor of all the priority projects of Mexico, they will build them with or without the permission of the Semarnat, Conagua orThe Federal Electricity Confederation - the Mayan delegate appeared - which are Mexican institutions through which the territories are delivered to multinational companies: Deutshe Bank, EDF (French), Halston, Enagás, Elector (Spanish) and many others,that arrive and strip the peoples.They have removed the right to fight legal.A repressor process will begin to walk in a few days, where rights will be obsolete.We cannot say not to projects, because we have a dictator government.Our partner Pedro Huk came a message to his cell phone telling him that if he does not leave the fight, they kill him, but before killing his children, then his wife, and then to him ".
The role of the United Nations Organization
The Mayan delegate also said about Samir Flores killed for his fight against the thermoelectric plant of the Morelos Integral Project and member of the Amiltizogo community that: “Samir Flores was killed, threats came first.Through the coming Mexicans.We do not believe in the UN, it is shit, because UN Habitat through an official document, for which they paid 5.5 million pesos, said the Mayan Train project is viable.To the ILO agreement, they use it, prostitute it.Instead of international organizations, they represent only the interests of Canadian capitalists, the United States or Europe, but other countries are not well represented ".The Mayan delegate also thanked European support networks and launched a message towards the collective organization: “Thank you for the networks they wove, do not let them start, separate.We believe that a world where many worlds are possible is possible.We don't care that they are socialists, anarchists, and with variants.We do not care that they think differently.In the CNI we do not bring our thinking to the insumisa Europe to walk it.But we do have the same enemy, the bastard capitalism and its death projects.That is the word that my communities commissioned me to share companions and colleagues ".
Interconnected megaprojects
The word of the communities in the voice of the CNI delegates continued to share their struggles and thanks with the assistants to the farewell of the tour of life.A delegate explained about megaprojects in Mexico: “All projects are connected, seem separate but no, and it is actually a megaproject package.In addition to the most violent that we denounce, there are many more, mining, photovoltaic parks, water extractions, wind farms, monocultures, which are linked to the State, which protects drug trafficking and militarization.Where these megaprojects arrive increase violence, femicides, disappearances, trafficking.They say it gives us benefits, but on the contrary, they come to strip, to dismantle us.But it is the same enemy, patriarchal capitalism, we are against death in this tour of life ".
“Where these megaprojects arrive increase violence, femicides, disappearances, trafficking.They say that it gives us benefits, but it is Alcontrario, they come to strip, to dismantle us.But it is the same enemy, patriarchal capitalism "
The fight for the autonomy of the community of Santa María Ostula
"Other worlds are possible if you fight for them".The delegate of the ostula community points out in the northern state of Michoacán.“Our fight comes from many years, we have sought that the community is free of exploitation, of abuse.That people have a full life.But we are also currently resisting land dispossession.The government using people stripped us for a time of 1300 hectares, where there is a two kilometers virgin beach, but there are also mountains, river.The community on a couple of occasions tried to recover it, but we went back ".In 2018 the Assembly of Santa María de Ostula, which is the highest authority, determined to recover its territory.A commission was formed, but in the process they were repressed.In 2009 they made the declaration of recovery of their lands.It was occupied by a drug sign.
The result of that recovery was violent.35 lives and 6 missing.These were people that the community had delegated to follow up on the fight.Physically the territory has been recovered by the community of Ostula, but the Michoacan government has not yielded ownership, so the community has fought in parallel through legal protections and resigning the aggressions: “Violence shot up, in 2014 it was decided in an assembly to expelTo organized crime, and with the Communal Guard, it was decided to make the expulsion.It was not easy, not a front attack.Because organized crime has a powerful armament, but strategically it was possible to retreat to all.Also in the recovered territory they wanted to make a port for commerce, because the mines are towards the mountains ".
In 2015 they arrested a Commander of the Community Guard of Ostula with more than 1000 elements of the Mexican Navy, but the CNI delegate said that “the strong thing was that when people mobilized to block the roads, the execution began to shoot againstthe population, leaving more than 50 people injured and a dead child of bullet impact on the forehead.The community before that, decided to stop paying the Light to the Government, until the cases of murders were clarified.And the passage to federal and state forces was blocked, because there is a road that connects the ports of Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, for two years.They currently pass, but it is controlled.Now we have an amparo with the people who claim to be owners, in an agrarian court in Morelia, the capital, but we are waiting for them to rule.We are not willing to give up and they don't.We are going to give life.In Mexico it is not easy to be an indigenous community.The government only tries to exterminate and do cheap labor.Those who kill us are the same political parties, wooden tarators..."
Finally, the delegate of the CNI from the Oaxaca community of Santiago Mextitlán, but based in Mexico City said that “we have been fighting for a decent housing, struggle of more than 50 years.To the peoples of the CNI we are told that we are ignorant, that we do not understand, that we harm the development and have called us conservatives, and yes, we want to conserve the water, the rivers, our uses and customs.Our fight is for life."
Acknowledgments to Europe below and left
All delegates and delegates of the CNI attacked their participation in the tour of life.One of the delegates projected a presentation with thanks for some of the sites through which his group had passed: “Thanks to the towns that received us in Vienna, in Austria, in France where we shared the fight against Danone, thanks to Paris where alsoWe find a lot of repression by the State.Thanks to Berlin, for his marches against Deutsche Bank, thanks to Covas de Barrosoen Portugal for sharing his fight against mining.Thanks to Marseille, Torino, Parna, Düsseldorf, Porto, Rom. Gracias a la Europa insumisa, que no se vende, que no claudica".
What will happen next?
To the fact of one of the launders, what will happen later? A delegate replied: “We come to tell what is happening in Mexico.All the dispossession disguised as development and that is bringing destruction and death.Here there is also development that is destroying them.There are organizations, groups that are resisting.We are not to say what we are going to do now, but each one here in the fight is organized.Get desire. Ir tejiendo una organización desde abajo".Another delegate shared: “I feel happy, when someone tells us his migration story, how they left his country because if they don't kill him.And then from Europe they strengthen the fight from here to its peoples, it is very brave, another form of struggle and thanks to these groups that shelter these struggles is a joy. Es muy bueno encontrar otros y otras indígenas, porque sabemos que están resistiendo, porque donde hay pueblos indígenas, hay defensa de la naturaleza, hay resistencia".
