By Greg Berger, October 22, 2006
Only six short months ago, the town of Texcoco, in Mexico State, was made infamous throughout Mexico and the world as the place where one of the worst police massacres in recent Mexican history began. Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left’s most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), comprised of teachers and social movements from Oaxaca. On Friday, the three organizations pledged mutual support to fight for the liberation of political prisoners and to create a united front against municipal, state and federal authorities. With less than a month and a …
Delegate Zero Presents Seven Zapatista Comandantes to the Other Campaign in Mexico City
By Al Giordano, The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City
October 2, 2006
MEXICO CITY, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006: Two thousand organizers of the Zapatista Other Campaign convened today in the Pantitlán neighborhood of Mexico City for a conference to “analyze the national situation,” a task made still more complicated nineteen hours earlier when the Mexican Armed Forces conducted helicopter surveillance flights on Saturday over the city of Oaxaca, six hours to the south of the nation’s capital. The flagrant participation by the national army added the specter of military intervention against the very citizenry that the institution is sworn to defend.
The first two compañeros to use the mic had come from that state, where a violent June 14 raid by police against striking teachers – who had been joined in their downtown Oaxaca encampment by indigenous, …
From the Mexican news agency APRO, Sept. 20 via Chiapas95 (our translation):
JALAPA - Protesting the failure of authorities to indemnify hundreds of families left homeless by a flood this past June, and to complete public works in the region, hundreds of indigenous people of the Sierra Soteapan closed the valves of the Yuribia Dam that supplies water to an important southern zone of Veracruz.
The occupation of the Yuribia installations since last Sunday leaves the municipalities of Coatzacoalcos, Minatitlan and Cosoleacaque without drinking water.
No agreement has been reached to re-establish the supply, confirmed the governor, Fidel Herrera Beltran.
The inhabitants of various Nahua and Populuca communities, supported by the mayor of Tatahuicapan de Juarez, Julian Cruz Gomez, took possession of the dam installations to press demands that the state government fulfill its commitments to the impacted communities.
The region affected by the cut-off of water supply, above all in Minatitlan, Coatzacoalcos and Cosoleacaque, …
Associated Press (AP) - Defeated leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected a court decision awarding Mexico’s presidency to Felipe Calderon, insisting he will never recognize his rival’s legitimacy and vowing to create a parallel government from the streets. Calderon celebrated his long-delayed victory by reaching out to the millions of Mexicans who did not vote for him and calling on his main adversaries, including Lopez Obrador, to help heal the nation’s divisions.
Lopez Obrador’s supporters threw trash at the headquarters of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal, whose seven magistrates voted unanimously to declare Calderon president-elect. The decision rejected Lopez Obrador’s allegations of systematic fraud and awarded Calderon the presidency by 233,831 votes - a margin of 0.56 percent.
The ruling cannot be appealed. “I do not recognize someone who tries to act as the chief federal executive without having a legitimate and democratic representation,” Lopez Obrador told thousands of …
Pedro Jiménez Gómez and Juan Jiménez, Adherents of the Zapatista Other Campaign, Are the Latest Political Prisoners in Mexico
By Al Giordano
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chiapas
September 9, 2006
On Friday, Juan Jiménez, 33, and Pedro Jiménez Gómez, 18, armed with gardening rakes, walked out to work the field where they cultivate radishes, cucumbers, carrots and flowers to sell in the markets of San Cristóbal, Chiapas. Agents of the federal attorney general’s office (PGR, in its Spanish initials) seized their rakes and placed the two men under arrest. As of Saturday morning they were still imprisoned in the PGR offices of San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
About 80 neighbors and family members from their community, Huitepec Sección 2, kept vigil overnight outside of the PGR building near the entrance to the new federal highway that connects San Cristóbal with the state capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The highway was built through …
Words of the Sixth Comission of the EZLN for the Second Indigenous Gathering of the Yucatan Peninsula
By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, The Other Mexico
SECOND PENINSULAR INDIGENOUS REUNION
Candelaria, Campeche, Mexico
August 2006
Compañeras and compañeros:
We thank the Peninsular Indigenous Coordination and the National Indigenous Congress, who have given us a space for this meeting.
We also thank our friends of Candelaria, Campeche, for being the place where our words and thoughts find their place and march onward.
This is our word as the Zapatista indigenous that we are, not only greeting the Mayan roots that unite us to the Indian peoples who dignify the lands and skies of Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Campeche.
Also with the roots that make us one with all the indigenous of our country.
If at one time in the National Indigenous Congress we found indigenous dignity with different tongues, cultures and ways of life, struggle for our rights, now in the Other Campaign …
The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the narco-traffic in Chiapas “are factors that affect the national security,” says an internal document of Superior Center of Naval Studies (CESNAV) of the Secretary of the Navy. Developed for students of national security, high command and officers of the Navy of Mexico with the participation of officials with the rank of captain of the Navy, colonels of the Army and high-level functionaries of the secretariats of Exterior Relations, Government, Communications and Transport and the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN) the paper warned that the state of Chiapas confronts “threats and weaknesses” that affect not only that entity but the entire country.
Contrasting the frequent assurances from President Vicente Fox that “the issue of the EZLN is practically a thing of the past” and that stability and the rule of law have been secured, the course participants were told, “the isolation of …
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