San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chis. All “modern” justice systems are unreformable, since they are based on an assumption that is daily contradicted by reality, because “he who pays, rules,” said Captain Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
In a statement, he criticized the fact that indigenous man José Díaz Gómez has been imprisoned in a jail in Chiapas for a year and 9 months “accused of being Cho’ol and of… being a Zapatista.”
He said that “indigenism in Mexico is a cardboard simulation as a tribute to a distant past (and manipulable in official historiography), and thousands of injustices ‘administered’ by the government in power, against indigenous peoples in the present. For governments, indigenous peoples are the raw material for their factory of ‘historical’ alibis… and of culprits.”
He added: “Let us assume, without conceding, that your native people, your language, your culture, your way, is the Cho’ol, a people of Mayan origin, who live in the southeastern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche.”
Let us assume, without conceding, he continued, “that, like all indigenous peoples, you have suffered contempt, racism, injustice, beatings, deception and mockery – in addition, of course, to forced disappearances, imprisonments, rapes and murders – simply for being who you are: a Cho’ol indigenous person.”
He added: ‘Let us assume, without conceding, that you know that a portion of the indigenous peoples in Chiapas, including the Cho’ol people, are part of an organization called Ezetaelene (also known as ‘the Zapatistas of Chiapas’ or ‘neo-Zapatistas’, or ‘lawbreakers’ or whatever is in fashion), which took up arms on January 1, 1994, in what they called ‘the beginning of the war against oblivion’, and thus put an end to Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s plan for a trans-sexennial Power (before it was the wet dream of Salinas, and now it is that of Morena).’
Let us assume, without conceding, he pointed out, “that you know that these Zapatista peoples are in rebellion and resistance because they have undertaken the path of a terrible and marvelous construction: another world, one where all worlds fit” and that “you, as Cho’ol, had the bad luck of being born and living near the farm of a powerful person; that your name or grace is José Díaz Gómez, and you are imprisoned in a jail in Chiapas accused of being Cho’ol and of… being a Zapatista.”
Now, he said, “changing the channel, let’s suppose that you can have access to what is being said in the courts, police stations and prisons of Chiapas. Not without embarrassment, you hear the following: ‘He is a Zapatista, one of those who criticize and do not support the president.’ ‘The boss will be happy that we punished one of the conservatives who refuse to be saved by modernity and progress.'”
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– 2024-08-09 12:29:07
