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The state of Chiapasin the south of Mexicois on the brink of civil war with paramilitaries, hitmen from various cartels that are fighting for the plaza and self-defense groups, indigenous organizations, activists and international celebrities warned this Wednesday.
“He Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), which has maintained peace and has developed its autonomous project in its territories and which has tried to avoid violent clashes with paramilitaries and other forces of the Mexican State, is constantly harassed, attacked and provoked”, the organizations pointed out in a public statement.
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Among the personalities signing the position stand out the American philosopher Noam Chomskythe mexican writer Jorge Volpifilm director Alfonso Cuaronand actors like diego luna, gael garcia and Joaquin Cosioamong thousands of signatures.
The members of the indigenous peoples also denounced in a conference the active or passive complicity of the local government of Chiapas and the fed.
“The first, for overlapping the growth of criminal groups that have made Chiapas go from relative tranquility to being a hot spot of violence. The second, for remaining silent and passive in the face of the obvious situation in the southeast”, they pointed out.
The alert call by the Zapatistas is given after registered attacks against the community moses gandhifor which he was seriously injured Jorge Lopezwho is at risk of death from a bullet to the chest.
This attack was orchestrated by the paramilitary group of the Ocosingo Regional Organization of Coffee Growers (Orcao), which has attacked Zapatista support bases more than a dozen times in the last four years.
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mayvelline flowersmember of the Anticapitalist University Networkdenounced that this situation has already claimed lives and described as “a state of terror” what lives Chiapas.
He EZLN is a movement that has developed an autonomous project in the south of Mexico and was born in 1994 as a movement that sought to highlight the rights of indigenous communities.
Notable organizations and individuals, such as the philosopher michael hardtthe French sociologist Yvon LeBot and the Franco-Brazilian michael lowythe film producer, bertha navarroamong others, defended that the EZLN avoids a violent clash.
They added that Zapatismo has opted for the political struggle along civil and peaceful paths, “despite their communities being shot at, their crops set on fire and their livestock poisoned”.
They also affirmed that they have chosen not to invest their work in the war, but rather in building hospitals, schools and autonomous governments that have benefited Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas alike.
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On May 27, indigenous groups protested at the National Palacewhere the Mexican president resides, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The organizations also asked that the armed attack against the Moisés Gandhi community be stopped, that their autonomous territory be respected, and that the perpetrators and masterminds of these paramilitary attacks be punished.
Source: Elcomercio
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