PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS AND THE EZLN IN RESPONSE TO THE VIOLENT EVICTION OF THE TIERRA Y LIBERTAD “LAND AND FREEDOM” ENCAMPMENT

IN THE MIXE COMMUNITY OF MOGOÑE VIEJO, GUICHICOVI, OAXACA, BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT.

To the peoples of Mexico and the world.

To the organizations and collectives that defend human rights.

To the Sexta National and International Sexta.

To the national and international media.

With outrage, we denounce that today, April 28, at around 10:38 a.m., a large group of members of the National Guard, the Mexican Navy and the Oaxaca state police, violently attacked those participating in the CAMP TIERRA Y LIBERTAD, causing its destruction along with the theft of the belongings of the peasants who were in the camp. ALARMINGLY, THE MIXE EJIDATARIOS MARÍA MAGDALENA MARTÍNEZ ISABEL, FERNANDO HERNÁNDEZ GÓMEZ, ADELA SEVERO TEODORO, ESPERANZA MARTÍNEZ ISABEL, ELIZABETH MARTÍNEZ ISABEL AND ELIODORO MARTÍNEZ ISABEL WERE DETAINED WITHOUT THEIR LOCATION BEING KNOWN, AND COMPAÑERA ADELA SEVERO TEODORO WAS BEATEN BY MEMBERS OF THESE ARMED FORCES. In this context, we denounce, as on other occasions, the intentional use of military and police forces by the state to rape women and generate terror.

Just today the CAMP TIERRA Y LIBERTAD, organized by the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus, completed 61 days of blocking the railroad tracks of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Mogoñe Viejo-Vixidu section, in protest against the imposition of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Interoceanic Corridor megaproject in order to paralyze the work to modernize the railroad.

In fact, yesterday the NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CARAVAN “THE SOUTH RESISTS”, in struggle against the Interoceanic Corridor, the Mayan Train and all the death projects of this repressive and servile government to the interests of big capital, was received at the CAMP TIERRA Y LIBERTAD. The purpose of that visit was to link and unite the resistance of the peoples of the south, of Mexico and of the world. We cannot omit to indicate that since its beginning on April 25 in Pijijiapan, Chiapas, the CARAVANA has been permanently hampered and harassed by government espionage and an endless number of military checkpoints.

With the operative orchestrated by the military and police corporations against the CAMP TIERRA Y LIBERTAD it is clear, once again, that the current governments are at the service of the large transnational corporations and that militarization; and patriarchal violence and repression are the means they choose to counter the struggle and resistance of our Peoples against the Interoceanic Corridor and the Mayan Train, and against capitalist dispossession and the war.

WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OUR COMPAÑERAS AND COMPAÑEROS: MARÍA MAGDALENA MARTÍNEZ ISABEL, FERNANDO HERNÁNDEZ GÓMEZ, ADELA SEVERO TEODORO, ESPERANZA MARTÍNEZ ISABEL, ELIZABETH MARTÍNEZ ISABEL AND ELIODORO MARTÍNEZ ISABEL; THE PUNISHMENT OF THOSE GUILTY OF PHYSICAL AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE, ROBBERIES AND REPRESSION DIRECTED AGAINST THE TIERRA Y LIBERTAD ENCAMPMENT AS WELL AS GUARANTEES FOR ITS PERMANENCE. IN ADDITION, WE DEMAND GUARANTEE FOR FREE TRANSIT AND ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CARAVAN “EL SUR RESISTE” (THE SOUTH RESISTS).

Sincerely,

Mexico, April 28, 2023.

For the Integral Reconstitution of Our Peoples

Never Again A Mexico Without Us

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS

INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT

EZLN-Zapatista Sixth Commission.

English translation by Schools for Chiapas.

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