IN VIEW OF THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE FINDINGS AT THE FORCED RECRUITMENT CENTER OF THE EXTERMINATION CAMP WITH CLANDESTINE OVENS IN TEUCHITLÁN, JALISCO, WE HOLD THE MEXICAN NARCO-STATE RESPONSIBLE.
THIS CAPITALIST WAR, IMPOSED THROUGH DISORGANIZED CRIME, NOT ONLY ANNIHILATES HUMANITY WITH TERROR, BUT ALSO AIMS TO END THE FUTURE OF YOUNG PEOPLE, BOYS AND GIRLS.
To the General Command of the EZLN
To the National Indigenous Congress, CIG-CNI
To the Adherents of the National and International Sixth
To Dignified and Rebel, Insubordinate Europe
To the peoples and neighborhoods that were never conquered
To the public
WE DENOUNCE: IT WAS, IT IS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE NARCO-CAPITALIST STATE.
19 clandestine graves have been discovered so far this year in Jalisco; however, as of January 27th, 2025, the number of missing persons reached 121,651, according to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDN).
The search collective Colectivos Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco in the municipality of Teuchitlán reported the discovery of crematoriums, bone remains, and personal belongings such as shoes, jewelry, hats, backpacks, and accessories.
Given the acts of the Narco-State, which evoke images of the worst attacks against humanity, with mechanisms of militarized warfare, in a previously vulnerable society, accompanied by racism, classism, and an immeasurable hatred of life (sic).
We state, in these painful moments, that there are no words we can share with our searching sisters who, day after day, dedicate their time, their effort, and whatever little money they may have to this profession called SEARCHING, to bring a little peace to the families who have lost a loved one.
We are grateful for your endless love for your children, husbands, brothers, sisters, and strangers whom you honor day after day in your search, despite so much pain and barriers, despite the risk to your physical integrity.
We tell you with great sadness that your work always inspires us with strength to continue defending our land and water. The same causes that threaten you with forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, repression, and other crimes of this criminal state also affect us. Therefore, with these words, we embrace you and join you with our voices, demanding clarification of the facts and justice, and we make your demands our own. We embrace your dignified rage, your dignified rebellion, your dignified struggle for life.
We reaffirm and echo just a few points from some human rights organizations that support searching families, and official websites of searchers.
– That in recent years, thanks in large part to the #SearchingMothers groups, places like this have been found in several states across the country.
– That a #ForensicBacklog exists, as is the case at the Regional Center for Human Identification in Coahuila.
– That the Mexican State’s priority in recent years has been to manipulate the figures, abandoning the National Center for Human Identification, leaving each state to deal with the issue, allowing the empowerment of prosecutors’ offices, disdaining international support, and denying the existence of the crisis.
– That the change in administration brought with it state violence, forced disappearances by action, omission, and acquiescence, executions, arbitrary detentions, and repression by this criminal state.
– That impunity is perpetuated by bad governments responsible for the narco-graves, and by their illegal hand, drug trafficking.
We witness and denounce the excessive cruelty experienced by hundreds of thousands of human beings in Mexican territory and how the capitalist hydra embodied in this bad government feeds on the pain and suffering of this humanitarian crisis.
Therefore, we hold the Mexican State responsible for these state crimes and recall its failure to carry out the search in September 2024, in which no findings were reported on this same property.
Therefore, we, the people who make up the National Assembly for Water, Life, and Territory, demand that the State fulfill its obligations under the Mexican Constitution and international conventions.
A thorough review of the issue in the face of the crisis of disappearances is essential.
It is essential to recognize the humanitarian crisis and adopt a state policy on the matter, as recommended by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.
The functioning of the National Forensic Data Bank and the National Center for Human Identification.
Despite these demands on the State’s responsibilities, we cannot conceive of justice being served by those who disappear and murder Mother Earth and her children (humanity). Therefore, we call on the CONSCIOUS SOCIETY OF GOOD HEART to:
– Join the dignified demands of the searching families.
– Physically accompany them at their gatherings.
– Take direct action to demand their just demands.
– Disseminate, monitor, and follow up on the search groups and brigades’ search events and calls for action posted on their official websites.
– We remember the call made by the National Search Brigade on April 19th and 20th, 2025, and their solidarity, empathy, and support in the humanitarian brigade.
Today it is our turn to look, feel, and act because sooner or later it will knock on our door, and perhaps we will be the latest.
We join the call for National Mourning: “400 candles + 400 pairs of shoes” organized by groups of searching families in Jalisco, Querétaro, Mexico City, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Colima, Michoacán, and other territories for March 15th at 5:00 pm.
Let us raise our voices, let us make the Dignified Rage of the Searching Mothers our own, regardless of calendars and geographies, because our fight is for Life.
They Took Them Alive, We Want Them Alive!
KINDLY YOURS
LAND, WATER, AND FREEDOM
UNTIL DIGNITY BECOMES A CUSTOM!
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WATER, LIFE, AND LAND
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Original statement from the National Assembly for Water and Life, Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.