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Today we will not talk about an ephemeris. It is about putting up a crude portrait of the current war against indigenous peoples, their resistance, the divisions they suffer, most of them promoted by real factors of power, the State and others involved, whether they are companies or criminal networks, hoping that the old narrative of the intracommunity conflict
. In short, with broad strokes we will draw the impact of the daily militarization of meat and bone
suffered by the peoples, with the deployment of guards and barracks in their territories, converted into scenes of confrontations, real and supposed, with the so-called organized crime, whose alphabet is well known.
Tomorrow there will be a march in Mexico City, as part of the global action against militarization and the capitalist and patriarchal war towards the peoples of all of Mexico and the world, towards the EZLN and the Zapatista communities and towards the original peoples of Mexico
, summoned, action and march, by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). He pointed it out on his 26th anniversary: 530 years after the misnamed conquest of America, we and we have nothing to celebrate, other than the resistance and rebellion of the original peoples and of humanity as a whole
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The immediate precedent of these calls was the expanded meeting of the CNI Coordination Commission in the house of the Samir Flores Soberanes peoples, Mexico City, on September 24, with the participation of organized members of the Mayan, Rarámuri, Otomí, Nahua, Mixtec, Chontal, Mazatec, Chinantec, Náyeri, Tepehuano, Totonac, Zoque, Purépecha, Mazahua, Zapotec, Coca, Mayo and Yaqui from the states of Campeche, Mexico City, Colima, Chiapas, Chihuahua, State of Mexico , Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Veracruz and Yucatán. Spaces that accompany the CNI’s walk were also invited, such as the collective Llegó la Hora; the Anti-Capitalist Metropolitan Coordination; the Anti-Capitalist University Network; Women and the Sixth; MyCZ Network; the Organized Resistance People’s Front; the Iztapalapa Sixth Support Network; the Francisco Villa Popular Organization of the Independent Left; the Grietas del Norte Collective; Weaving Revolutionary Organization; Twelve Towns of Tecamac; Communist Party; Coordination of Towns, Neighborhoods and Colonies of Xochimilco, and the Coordinator of Colonies of Ecatepec. Likewise, the words of the parents of the 43 students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, were heard and supported.
Said meeting shared testimonies, region by region, of serious common problems, which portray the war scenario they are experiencing, such as the difficulty in expanding participation due to the impact of government programs; They insisted that Sembrando Vida, especially, operates as if it were about paying the work of the peasantry and even leads them to deforest to prove it.
The Mayan Train is accepted on many occasions for the use it offers without information about the meaning of the project and its effects, even in the short term, for example, with land speculation. There is a link of violence, in all regions due to the growth of organized crime and drug trafficking. They also highlighted the impact on young people in consumer networks. In this sense, the need for a military presence is naturalized regardless of its effectiveness. The organizations that make up the CNI have carried out significant mobilizations such as the Caravan for Water that lasted 34 days and within all they have managed to displace Bonafont and the fight against megaprojects such as mining in Tetlama, in Cuentepec, Morelos. They highlighted the contamination of the water and the new forms of pressure where they are asked to prove that they are native peoples. The destruction of forests with armed groups and the murder of community leaders. The disarmament of the community guards in the Costa Chica of Guerrero is very serious and now the threat in Ostula, which is defending itself legally and politically. Self-defenses are essential for autonomy. Day after day the aggressions and conflicts do not stop, only last week 138 Tsotzil indigenous people from the Santa Martha ejido, municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas, fled the violence that has generated an internal conflict over land.
In the face of this war, the State only guarantees impunity, there is not an example where any of the three levels of government intervene in favor of the peoples and when it announces it, we have to wait for the proof of the facts. Twenty-six years after the founding of the National Indigenous Congress, the Zapatista position that the struggle is for life is confirmed, and the CNI reaffirms that today dignity is an urgent need.
