EZLN Finalizes Its Internal Reorganization

 

 

Originally published in Spanish by the CCRI-CG of the EZLN

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Translated by irlandesa

 

Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee

of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Mexico.

June 20, 2005

 

To the People of Mexico:

To the Peoples of the World:

 

Brothers and Sisters:

 

First and Only - We are informing you that, since the middle of 2002, the EZLN has been engaged in a process of reorganizing its political-military structure. This internal reorganization has now been completed.

 

We have the necessary conditions in place to survive an attack or enemy action that would do away with our current leadership or which would attempt to annihilate us completely.

 

The chains of command and the succession of responsibilities have been clearly established, as well as those actions and measures to be taken in the event of being attacked by government forces and their paramilitaries.

 

The CCRI-CG of the EZLN is letting it be known that conditions are in place to continue leading the Zapatista struggle even if it were to lose - be it through jail, through death or through forced disappearance - some or all of its publicly known current leadership.

 

That is all.

 

Democracy!

Liberty!

Justice!

 

From the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

 

By the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

 

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

 

Mexico, in the sixth month of the year 2005.