Chiapas burns. It burns with a war between organized crime cartels. It burns with the proliferation of armed groups everywhere. It burns with conflicts for territorial control encouraged by the state and federal governments. It burns with violence against those who struggle against violence.
Faced with this, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation creates common lands to contribute to peace. It plans meetings to reflect on the crisis of civilization. It stimulates the arts and sciences to combat the catastrophe. It proposes dialogue, creativity, critical thinking, reflection. It proposes life.
In the face of this, capital, the State and organized crime (the tripod that underpins the national catastrophe) respond with more violence. On October 16, the EZLN, in the voice of Subcomandante Moisés, denounced that people from the community of Palestina have been attacking the Zapatista community of 6 de Octubre, belonging to the Caracol de Jerusalén, threatening the inhabitants with expulsion from their lands, recovered in the 1994 uprising and peacefully occupied by them for three decades. This with promises of “legalization” of the lands in favor of the invaders from Palestine by the municipal and state governments and with the participation of organized crime. For this reason, the EZLN is contemplating the cancellation of the announced series of meetings, which would begin this December.
In addition to this, the nefarious assassination of Father Marcelo Perez Perez, tireless fighter for peace in Chiapas, last Sunday in San Cristobal de Las Casas. To put an end to every voice dedicated to building peace and denouncing violence, abuse and arbitrariness… that seems to be the slogan of the powers that be in this crumbling state and country.
Faced with this, thousands of people marched in various cities on October 24, the international day of struggle in support of the Zapatista communities. The march in Mexico City included the participation of the National Indigenous Congress, the Otomí community residing in the Samir Flores House of the Peoples and thousands of people in solidarity.
source: School of Chiapas