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very correct decision Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) to organize on December 28 and 29 the International Meeting of Rebels and Resistance, at the Cideci-Unitierra in San Cristóbal de las Casas, to conclude in the snail of Oventik from December 30 to January 2, 2025. This, despite the context of violence in Chiapas that had led them to raise the possibility of suspending a program of meetings starting with the one related to their 31st anniversary. Its content resumes the meaning of the EZLN’s writings throughout the year: The storm: the crime, the executioner and the victims, The Mexico chapter, Zapatista rebellion and resistance, Genealogy of the Zapatista common, his first steps.
He insurgent deputy commander Moisés shared lessons from the European tour experience. Very relevant was the table of the Zapatista women who analyzed the trajectory of their struggle and the changes achieved without omitting difficulties for the full understanding of this gender dimension. The meeting allowed us to offer in broad strokes an account of the organizational construction of 31 years and the voice of the Zapatista leadership was incorporated into this exercise. He highlighted the participation of Subcommander Moiséshe Captain Marcosmembers of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee and a group of Zapatista women, as well as around a thousand attendees.
The topic addressed by guests in the case of Mexico offered an overview of the serious situation of violence with its flow of impunity in the face of crimes, dispossessions and alarming numbers of disappearances that placed a critical gaze on the so-called 4T and its megaprojects, such as the so-called Mayan Train, the Interoceanic Corridor and the manipulation of the official discourse that they will be the way to finance the continuity of the programs that in the case of what they call Sembrando Vida is already causing the commercialization of the land and even its hoarding.
He Captain Marcos He elaborated on the ravages of climate change in the world, such as the increase in cyclones, extreme droughts, looting and dispossession of ecosystems due to the demands of economic growth. He pointed out that there is massive death of forests and productive lands are degraded; The serious contamination of soil, water and air advances without brakes.
Some interventions invited consideration of strategies to increase the participation of other sectors, such as youth, especially indigenous people. He insurgent captain Marcos He called for a discussion with preparation, but with simplicity, so that the message of resisting crime and criminals, and defending victims, can reach all sectors in Mexico and other countries that face the attacks of the system.
In the count of insurgent captain Marcos, The crow’s nest: a long view into yesterday, warned that antagonistic sectors have announced for decades the imminence of its disappearance. Incapable of assuming the signs of its strengthening in contexts of counterinsurgency that has not ceased.
The crucial decision of the EZLN to join the unilateral ceasefire decreed by Carlos Salinas de Gortari in the face of the massive mobilization that demanded it on January 12, 1994, meant a watershed that, despite the attacks and provocations such as that of the Zedillo betrayal of the 9th, of February 1995, among many others, such as the current ones against the recovered lands, has allowed the construction of its autonomy. The EZLN pointed it out this way: and instead of dedicating ourselves to training guerrillas, soldiers and squads, we prepared education and health promoters and the foundations of autonomy that today marvel the world were being laid.
Instead of building barracks, improving our weapons, raising walls and trenches, schools were built, hospitals and health centers were built, we improved our living conditions.
Instead of fighting for a place in the Parthenon of individualized deaths below, we choose to build life. (Between light and shadow
, insurgent subcommander Galeano. Enlace Zapatista, Mexico, May 2014.)
Therefore, the call of the Captain Marcos: “We say free Palestine, that is, free from war, but also from those who tell it what to do and how” and that war It must stop now, because it has left many victims under the rubble
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The meeting was far from complacency, especially when the internal problems of their structure that they call the pyramid were addressed and which led them to propose other instances that relocate the participation of the people. The success of his option for the peaceful route in the construction of autonomy, anti-capitalism and the fight for life was shown. We are waiting for the message of December 31 to dawn on January 1 with the next steps to advance in the commons without privatization of the land.
