While the media (and indeed the State) maintain a status-quo “democracy” of the misinformed, Raúl Zibechi asserts that the movements from below and to the left have no alternative but to build outside of that system altogether.
The territory on the border between Mexico and Guatemala has been used for decades by groups that traffic illegal merchandise and smuggle people; but the difference with the current situation, he says, is the acts of violence against the population that does not agree (with these activities); the use of arms, the control of roads and means of communication.
Published in December of 2022, the CNI makes its second call to members of the national and international resistances to convene in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas to build the resistance and alternatives to the cult of death that is destroying our communities and our planet.
Many families living in the Lacandon just in the last decades fled the violence of large plantation owners to make a life for themselves in the jungle. Now they face a new threat to their well being – the dominance of the cartels in the region.
In a complicated national and international scenario, the originary peoples organized in the CNI continue weaving, building horizons, insisting on the global and anti-capitalist character of the struggle. Accustomed to resisting, the people walk knowing that the path is made by walking.
