Zapatistas Give Reasons for Red Alert
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 - General Command of
the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
To
the People of
To
the Peoples of the World:
Brothers
and Sisters:
First
- As has been made public, starting
The
reason for this general Red Alert is that the Clandestine Revolutionary
Indigenous Committee - General Command of the EZLN has called to consulta their
insurgent troops, all their comandantes and comandantas, regional and local responsables and their support
bases.
This
Red Alert is a precautionary defensive measure. As you will recall, in February
of 1995, while the EZLN was carrying out an internal consulta, it was attacked by
government forces. At that time the betrayal was carried out by Ernesto Zedillo
Ponce de León (then the head of the federal executive
and today employed by transnational companies) and Esteban Moctezuma
Barragán (then the Secretary of Government and today
employed by
Second
- During this internal consulta...
-
The EZLN leadership is recognizing the sacrifice, willingness and heroism of
their support bases, responsables
and activists, and of the insurgentes and insurgentas, for these almost 12 years of war and
resistance. All the good that we have done and achieved has been by them. The Zapatista
leadership has been exclusively responsible for errors that have been
committed.
-
The CCRI-CG of the EZLN is presenting its members with an assessment of the
stage our organization is in and an analysis of the current national situation.
They are also proposing to their support bases - who
make up the supreme command of our movement - a new step in the struggle, a
step which entails, among other things, risking the much or little which has
been achieved and worsening the persecution and harassment of the Zapatista
communities.
-
Through this means, by speaking to its members, the EZLN is returning the word
it gave on the first of January of 1994. All Zapatistas are now morally free to
continue with the EZLN, or not, in the next step which is being consulted upon,
if it is approved by the majority.
Third
- When this internal consulta
is concluded, we shall inform national and international public opinion of the
results.
Democracy!
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