FORUM OF NATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH Zapatista communities
October 27, 2007 - Jojutla - Morelos
Statement of the Sixth Commission of the EZLN SOLIDARITY
as brothers or HOW TO WEAR
"... the pessimism continued to have her won little by little, hunger and thirst, fatigue, feeling of helplessness in the face of enemy forces laid siege to us even more and, above all, the dreaded disease feet from the farmers known by the name of mazamorra - which turned into an intolerable martyrdom every step of our soldiers - had made this an army of shadows. It was hard going, very difficult. Day after day, the physical condition of our troops and the food got worse, every other day and another does not, perhaps another, nothing helped to improve the level of poverty that we were enduring. We spent the worst days of hidden (...) in pestilential swamps, without a drop of water, constantly attacked the air force, without a single horse to carry the weak through the inhospitable swamps, with shoes completely destroyed by water muddy sea, with plants that hurt his bare feet, our situation was really disastrous attempt while struggling to get out dall'accerchiamento (...). We had no time to rest even for a short time when a new shower, the inclemency of the climate, in addition to the attacks of the enemy or to the news of his presence, returned to impose the march. The troop was increasingly tired and discouraged. But when the situation was even more tense, just now when the empire of the insult, the entreaties, the blunders of all kinds, could have carried the exhausted people, one vision in the distance encouraged their faces and infused new spirit the guerrillas. "
" Steps of the Revolutionary War.
The Offensive Finale: The Battle of Santa Clara "- Ernesto Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara
So described an October almost 50 years ago. Some weeks after this disaster, who commanded one of the most impressive battles of world military history: the Battle of Santa Clara.
Days after the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista fell, turning the people of Cuba, after being the last to be emancipated in the first to be free in America.
I say this while blabbering of national sovereignty (now supposedly defended by senators "patriots") or in the fight against drug trafficking, forgetting that the so-called "Iniciativa Merida" or "Plan Mexico" has as one of its objectives being to close the military and diplomatic vise around that solitary star of dignity in the Caribbean.
Suddenly, the same after almost 50 years, the U.S. government discovered that the option chosen by the Cuban people is not dependent on an exceptional man, but from the historical mission shared by the peoples of Latin America: that freedom and justice.
The problem, therefore, for the U.S. government is not named Fidel Castro Ruz, but, to put it simply, is called the Cuban Revolution.
40 years ago, the foreign power found that the rebellion of a continent did not die with the bullet that killed Ernesto Che Guevara, and sometimes that feeling is embodied in individuals, but always in the people.
Maybe someone, or someone, it will sound strange that our intervention in this forum of solidarity with the Zapatista communities start quoting Che and Cuba, but comes about because, according to the Zapatista our thinking, we can not speak of solidarity as brotherhood without thinking about Cuba, its struggle and its history.
Cuba and naming the unnamed victim of the moment, but what there is in play at regional, continental and global levels.
and appoint That is not an offer to the complex and repeated death cult. It is, however, honor the life and rebellion that gives meaning and direction.
A little 'history.
"Everything seems impossible the day before" - said one of our, then added - "but the future is right there, close, not because we expect, but because we build it to his time on another calendar."
Among the impossible of yesterday, today we are the future. Men, women, children and the elderly who have embraced the cause synthesized in the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, have decided to do something different, lower left, and face the impossible today.
But it is not the first time.
The recent history of our movement, the Zapatistas of the EZLN, has seen many distortions in regard to the way we see the world, to look to the political sphere.
Thinking that we were not only alone, but with everything going against it, we prepared for the dawn of January 1994.
14 years ago, with the moon roof as of October on our way, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, are refining the last details of the uprising. I said "refining the last details" just to repeat a cliché, actually walked messy, with a looseness that gave a lot to think about the real possibility of political success and military insurrection in arms of thousands of indigenous people and the establishment of 7 municipal capitals of the south-eastern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Making the final preparations for the insurrection seemed the effort to cut with hammer and chisel one of those little jewels of glassware in colors that dazzle and shine. And so it was then, and it is now.
Our cause, the most beautiful, noble and ancient history of humanity, the cause of freedom of the people, has so much light and colors that even now, almost 24 years since the beginning of our efforts, we have not finished to discover it in its entirety.
We know now and knew then.
But we're not used to fix the facts of our own history to provide lessons that we have never taken or to give an idea of clear consistent, so I have to tell you that, seen from above, bright night in October of 1993, the plan of insurrection was very similar to disorderly many pieces of a puzzle that had nothing to do with each other.
I could brag now, after looking at the calendar and neo-militarization of the whole country, saying the chaos of that time was part of the plan, and all showed a disorder studied with the aim to rattle the government intelligence service in Mexico and the United States, but I will not.
If that bag of questions that you call "moon", wondering what he saw on those nights in the mountains of southeastern Mexico certainly would say: "It seemed Multiple shadow, without destination, route. "
doubt I would have preferred that the moon we describe as a "fragmented mirror, but he who does a lot of questions can not lie, so what we were: a shadow route. Maybe we still are, perhaps we will return to be it.
On other occasions I have given pieces of this so peculiar that we have the Zapatistas, Zapatista, to look out ahead to tomorrow. There is a certain irony of death and at the same time, a great hope for life.
Why?
There were a few lonely dawns when I tried to answer that question tells us that the moon with its bright bustle. It was the Old Antonio, quell'indigeno Mayan roots of that for us was the door and window, ventured an answer:
"It's a matter of speaking and his time. This is spoken individually, the past and the future collectively. Death, then, is a question that has power only as individuals, and life is only possible collectively. For this reason we say 'die' and for that we say 'live' and 'live'. "
So, now I remember the diagnosis of typical Zapatista nurses as well as communicated to patients. It was not, "is not serious, get well," but "surely die, but not immediately, it will take of time. " The patient left the matter quickly. I do not know if the stimulus of a diagnosis ... or why so motivating, preparing the injection Insurgenta health officer had the courtesy to inform the patient that the last time you had an injection the needle was broken in the buttock of the companion. "Poor Missions" - said while rubbing with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol to the area where the injection would have done - "I think he's still inside the piece of needle, so lame."
With all this I mean that 14 years ago we thought yes to death, but it was a private matter, as are the toothbrush and underwear ... well, if you can Lingerie call those bits of cloth that women use now and that, moreover, are arranged so that they sprout from pants that do not extend to the sides.
Mmm ... I'm getting hungry, so I'd better hurry to complete what I have to tell you ...
I was saying that yes, death can and probably was, and is an individual matter and personal, but life was and is, for us, a collective issue as we were, we, we.
In other words, the Zapatistas of the EZLN, failure and death come together at the first personal singular ("I, Me, me, with me"), which gave the title to a disc Joaquín Sabina), however, the success and life always bring up the "we" that gives us identity, past and future (what is known as "Utopia" which, of course, is the name of an album by Joan Manuel Serrat ).
In summary, the eve of the war against oblivion, is not that we brought with us, over the fire, when in doubt. We had, and many. But it did not relate to our individual and collective destiny. These issues were resolved long ago, when each of us, each of us, we had reached the point where, yes this is something personal and individual, we had reached the big fork that normally shows the passing of the world: at the top or low? Right or left? Individual or collective protagonist anonymity? Light or shadow?
No, the doubts had to do with what we found out there.
Imputatelo to our dialectical pessimism or lack of confidence in our ancestral past, but the fact is that we thought we would be received with silence, deafness, his conviction, the stoning. Of course, as well as bullets and bombs. "There are bombs, rockets are" - said the historian and then autodenominato fan of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, as then it would be Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, López Obrador (before the fraud, of course) and now it is Felipe Calderón. I think it's called Camino that Héctor Aguilar, for sure, now a book signing on Acteal because Tello Díaz was not available. More money to extend the implications and consequences of the crime in exchange for cleaning the State that bears the stamp of a war of extermination which now takes 515 years.
Balza attention that the memory you carry the logo of Acteal Gustavo Iruegas, external relations officer of the so-called legitimate government of López Obrador. And, when it denounced the participation of former guerrillas in counterinsurgency strategy that broke out then and that culminated in the massacre of Acteal, one forgets that one of the leaders of the government delegation was Mr. Zedillo Iruegas, now converted suddenly Case of the Left.
Well, I digress, after all there, Aguilar Camín who will collect.
return to those days. Why is that we're wrong. And we're wrong twice. Why
met yes, Outbuildings and Turn right on, but then who also met, then we thought, was trying to understand, to understand each other.
Even before I made reference to the fact that at that time, we had the good fortune to count on the workers of the media, as well as artists, scientists, intellectuals and progressives. Listening to it soon then it is something that was important and that we remember with more nostalgia.
The presence of these people was important. However, I will not refer now to their notable absence to silence their criticism, or their dissociation of fashion and convenience.
Instead, I would cite those approaching the struggles, movements and people offering support, but in reality is granting a loan at high interest rates. That is, those persons who process solidarity to a cause, in a loot, and use this support to build their own rise to power.
Why is that if we are wrong to suppose that we were alone, we also wrong to think that what was of primary interest, then sympathy, support and solidarity, it was something sincere and honest.
In those early days, unaware of what was going on out there, people came to us that we fidammo. So we did not know that, with them, were also their phobias and did not think of nothing but how to make use of the place that the blood of our dead had conquered.
is common that when we talk in general, stakeholders say that we are referring to others, or others. Therefore, we must also appoint the people who were Conac of LN-and then the FAC-MLN. That's when it became fashionable to accuse us of being "armed reformists" and "petty bourgeois" we gave him with unusual enthusiasm. The "radical" back then are now meek lambs in the precincts of power. Mr. Benito Mirón Lynx is the proof. The current official of the Government of the DF, past chair in the chair, forgets that a few years ago was a furious critic of the institutional left and reformism. Radicalism's lasted until he reached the budget.
Then we discovered that the supposed solidarity with the Zapatistas, for all and all of them was not merely an investment. Current
officials distribute alms to wash her face, store or exhibit their photos with the Zapatistas, depending on how the wind blows, congratulate each other for their prudent maturity and fatten their portfolios with notes and credit cards, and their hearts with excuses that hide their treachery and vacillation.
This happened and is happening not only in Mexico but also in Europe. Collective solidarity that then stretched bridges, now they attack us, keeping a silent accomplice or dissociate with a pedometer as opportunism that has the rating on the media.
And pretend that a payment of "favors received" (so they say), the EZLN support their positions with regard to the just struggle of the Basque people, their support policies of interventionism shameful North America and Europe, their sighs for monarchies that stain the continent. And since we do not, then you retire or change based on Fashionable, yes, after dissociation public or private ....
on these and other lands, the usurers of solidarity calling for self-criticism by us, require that we ask forgiveness because they do not obey them, not follow them, that we submit.
Then we're wrong. We now know that the solidarity is not given unconditionally, without expecting anything in return, is only another form of wear, thanks to which you want to profit from the pain and struggle of others.
This is all about because this is a forum of solidarity with the Zapatista indigenous communities.
And I have come only to warn that those people, those groups, those collectives and organizations that think they practice usury presenting an account of their support and their solidarity with our people, we know that there will be no refund.
We tell them to look in the mirror pretending to be in the top left, to participate in their coffee, encounters, drawing tables, in their councils, their government offices.
hear, with surprising unanimity, that the Zapatista movement is out of fashion, which has made many mistakes, which is not realistic, which is sectarian, radical, stubborn ... which is consistent.
not get me wrong, we are not bad debtors, not that we do not want pay.
It is simply confusion.
Because in this long fight, all the Indian peoples, not only for the Zapatistas, are the creditors.
is so since the world began to spin. So it was 200 years ago. So it was a century ago.
So when the calendar will return to the low turn and present the high-ending account of the debts that accumulate in the lower left.
Why, it must be said, perhaps what Che said he saw in the distance was nothing but a place where freedom is the point of arrival and the next step: to be better.
Well (good for gasoline). Greetings and that between addition and subtraction, win tomorrow.
Many thanks.
Subcomandante Marcos
