Zapatistas in Atenco: Chapias Caracoles Reopen Today; “Intergalactic” Gathering Is Called for December 30 to January 2, 2007
Zapatistas in Atenco: Chapias Caracoles Reopen Today; “Intergalactic” Gathering Is Called for December 30 to January 2, 2007: Grabiela, Zebedeo and Miriam will Stay in the Center of the Country
By Juan Trujillo
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City
October 1, 2006
MEXICO CITY, September 30, 2006: After his arrival last night in this city, Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos and seven comandantes from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command (CCRI-CG in its Spanish initials) of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) met this afternoon in the town of San Salvador Atenco. This information has been confirmed to Narco News by Jorge Salinas – a telephone operator and member of the Other Campaign and one of the people who faced the brutal repression begun on May 3 in Atenco. Salinas was invited to the meeting at the Emiliano Zapata auditorium at 1:00 p.m.
Speaking to Narco News later in the day, at an event in memory of slain student Alexis Benhumea, Salinas said that the meeting between the EZLN comandantes and subcomandante and the members of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) was “private” in nature, a first step toward the direct support that the Chiapas-based indigenous rebel group has promised to the communal farmers of Atenco.
The seven comandantes constitute a new group of delegates that will support not only Subcomandante Marcos (“Delegate Zero”), but also the fight for the release of the 28 political prisoners still held in the Santiaguito Prison, in Mexico state. The rebel leaders who will hold public events with the FPDT in Mexico City and Atenco are: Grabiela (“Delegate One”), Zebedeo (“Delegate Two”) and Miriam (“Delegate Three”). Comandanta Gema (“Delegate Four”) and Comandantes David (“Delegate Six”) and Tacho (“Delegate Seven”) will return soon to Chiapas. As for Comandanta Hortencia (“Delegate Five”) and her young daughter Lupita (“Delegate Five-and-a-Quarter”), they will accompany Subcomandante Marcos (“Delegate Zero”) in his tour through northern Mexico beginning October 8.
According to Salinas, the message of “brotherhood” from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN, through the voice of its representatives, was one of total solidarity with the farmers of Atenco. “You are not alone,” the comandantes expressed, “we will support you in this struggle until the last prisoner is released.” With an emotional tone in his voice, Salinas said that Comandante David remarked “the pain we all feel is provoked by capitalism,” and asked: “How long will this pain go on that we all feel, farmers, women…? Until we organize ourselves in a unified manner.”
READ FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2107.html
By Juan Trujillo
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City
October 1, 2006
MEXICO CITY, September 30, 2006: After his arrival last night in this city, Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos and seven comandantes from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee-General Command (CCRI-CG in its Spanish initials) of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) met this afternoon in the town of San Salvador Atenco. This information has been confirmed to Narco News by Jorge Salinas – a telephone operator and member of the Other Campaign and one of the people who faced the brutal repression begun on May 3 in Atenco. Salinas was invited to the meeting at the Emiliano Zapata auditorium at 1:00 p.m.
Speaking to Narco News later in the day, at an event in memory of slain student Alexis Benhumea, Salinas said that the meeting between the EZLN comandantes and subcomandante and the members of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) was “private” in nature, a first step toward the direct support that the Chiapas-based indigenous rebel group has promised to the communal farmers of Atenco.
The seven comandantes constitute a new group of delegates that will support not only Subcomandante Marcos (“Delegate Zero”), but also the fight for the release of the 28 political prisoners still held in the Santiaguito Prison, in Mexico state. The rebel leaders who will hold public events with the FPDT in Mexico City and Atenco are: Grabiela (“Delegate One”), Zebedeo (“Delegate Two”) and Miriam (“Delegate Three”). Comandanta Gema (“Delegate Four”) and Comandantes David (“Delegate Six”) and Tacho (“Delegate Seven”) will return soon to Chiapas. As for Comandanta Hortencia (“Delegate Five”) and her young daughter Lupita (“Delegate Five-and-a-Quarter”), they will accompany Subcomandante Marcos (“Delegate Zero”) in his tour through northern Mexico beginning October 8.
According to Salinas, the message of “brotherhood” from the CCRI-CG of the EZLN, through the voice of its representatives, was one of total solidarity with the farmers of Atenco. “You are not alone,” the comandantes expressed, “we will support you in this struggle until the last prisoner is released.” With an emotional tone in his voice, Salinas said that Comandante David remarked “the pain we all feel is provoked by capitalism,” and asked: “How long will this pain go on that we all feel, farmers, women…? Until we organize ourselves in a unified manner.”
READ FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2107.html
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