COMMUNIQUÉ FROM THE CLANDESTINE REVOLUTIONARY INDIGENOUS CLANDESTINE COMMITTEE-GENERAL COMMAND OF THE ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.
MEXICO.
OCTOBER 16, 2024.
TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SIXTH:
TO THOSE WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION FOR LIFE:
COMPAS:
FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS, SETTLERS FROM PALESTINA HAVE THREATENED WOMEN, THE ELDERLY, CHILDREN AND MEN FROM THE ZAPATISTA VILLAGE OF “6 DE OCTUBRE,” PART OF THE CARACOL DE JERUSALÉN, WITH EVICTION FROM THE LANDS THEY HAVE OCCUPIED AND WORKED PEACEFULLY FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
UNTIL BEFORE THIS “CHANGE” IN GOVERNMENT, THE “6 DE OCTUBRE” SETTLEMENT HAD LIVED IN PEACE AND HARMONY WITH THE SURROUNDING POPULATIONS, WITHOUT ANY FRICTION OR PROBLEMS.
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS PROBLEM, THE LOCAL AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT (GAL) OF “6 DE OCTUBRE” AND THE ASSEMBLY OF ZAPATISTA AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT COLLECTIVES (ACEGAZ) OF CARACOL JERUSALÉN HAVE INSISTED ON DIALOGUE AND AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNAL AUTHORITIES OF PALESTINA, BUT TO NO AVAIL. THESE AUTHORITIES OF PALESTINA POINT OUT THAT THEY HAVE THE BACKING OF THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES OF OCOSINGO AND THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF CHIAPAS (PVEM AND MORENA RESPECTIVELY), AND THAT THEY HAVE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THESE BAD GOVERNMENTS TO GRANT THE AGGRESSORS THE PAPERS THAT ACCREDIT THEIR OWNERSHIP OF THE DISPOSSESSED LANDS.
THE INHABITANTS OF PALESTINA THEMSELVES POINT OUT THAT THERE IS PRESSURE FROM ORGANIZED CRIME TO EVICT OUR COMPAÑEROS AND COMPAÑERAS, AND THAT THERE IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO MAKE THIS EVICTION “LEGAL.”
THE THREATS HAVE BEEN ESCALATING TO INCLUDE THE PRESENCE OF PEOPLE FROM PALESTINA WITH HIGH-POWERED ASSAULT WEAPONS, THREATS OF RAPE OF WOMEN, BURNING OF HOUSES AND THEFT OF BELONGINGS, CROPS AND ANIMALS.
THE PROVOCATIONS DO NOT CEASE. THE CARACOL OF JERUSALÉN WAS ONE OF THE VENUES CONSIDERED FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE MEETINGS OF RESISTANCE AND REBELLION 2024-2025.
AS WE MUST BE AWARE OF THE DETERIORATION OF THIS SERIOUS SITUATION, WE WILL SUSPEND ALL COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION ABOUT THESE MEETINGS AND WE WILL CONTEMPLATE THE CANCELLATION OF THEM BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO SECURITY FOR THE ATTENDEES IN ANY PLACE IN CHIAPAS.
THIS IS THE REALITY OF “CONTINUITY WITH CHANGE” IN BAD GOVERNMENTS.
THAT IS ALL.
By the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.
Mexico, October 2024.
Original communiqué published at Enlace Zapatista on October 16th, 2024.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.