It has been presented by the Mexican government and some media as conflict between "Protestant" and "Catholic" natives but what is in fact going on? According to La Jornada the real issue is the formation of paramilitary militia of Evangelical (fundamentalist Protestant) ideology self described as El Ejército de Dios (God's Army).This "religious" death squad has already been involved in many violent actions, including the murder of a local politician. They are apparently in connivance with the police, both at state and federal levels, as well as to the Evangelical groups that perturb neighboring Guatemala (there as well in connivance with the army and the totalitarian and genocidal regime of Ríos Montt, who was preacher of these cults).
"Orangist" marches in Chiapas, what else?
January 1st, happy New Year and all that. It's time to commemorate modern revolutions: today it's the 50th anniversary of the success of the Cuban Revolution, that created the only Leninist system still standing (Vietnam and China have surrendered to Capitalism, even if keeping the red banner by the moment, while Russia has become markedly fascist). Today is also the 15th anniversary of the Zapatista armed uprising in the Maya highlands of southern Mexico, a revolt that lightened the hearts of so many after the catastrophic failure of the rerform (Perestroika) in the Soviet Union. After 50 years of revolution and blockade, Cuba has many challenges ahead but can proudly state that nobody suffers hunger, that everybody has free healthcare and, maybe more importantly, that every single Cuban citizen is well educated. It can also stand proudly of having resisted ll this time such a powerful neighbour and declared enemy as the USA. In Mexico the process is still unfolding, the revolution still has to be done... but, as the country descends into the abyss of illegitimate governments, extreme corruption, organized crime and an economic alliance with the USA that brings nothing but greater poverty and abuses, the autonomous Zapatista region stands as the only light in such darkness, resisting quite incredibly the siege imposed by the conservative government. Overall, around the world, the socio-economical siuation is clearly worsening, what is certainly bad news but also offers the opportunity to escape the illusion of unsustainable consumerism/productivism and of people becoming gradually more and more aware of the real problem: Caitalism and it's ficticious economy of scam, bubble and fraud, only intended to concentrate wealth and power in few hands. Even with the many shortcomings, today most people in the world can read and write, what means they can become aware and eventually arise with some knowledge of what is going on. The time has not yet come maybe but it's approaching. Happy New Revolutionary Year. Humankind shall prevail over the parasites within itself.
Corte de Caja will be the original title (sorry but no idea what may that mean in Mexican Spanish) and takes the form of interview by Mexican journalist Laura Castellanos.
In the advance found at Rebelión, the subcomandante Marcos mentions his admiration for Fidel Castro, whom he compares with historical heroes like Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, and Che Guevara, whom he believes was way before his time, that he belonged to a generation not yet fully born. More critical he is with modern left-wing American leaders: he gives the benefit of doubt to Evo Morales, feels plainly disillusionated with Lula and is also relatively critical with Hugo Chávez, of whom he says that has a foot in mediatic politics with aftertaste to "caudillo" and another in the movement that is awakening in Venezuela.
On the Colombian guerrilla FARC he says that they have a huge mediatic campaign against them, trying to link them with drugs trade. On the other Mexican armed group, the People's Revolutionary Army (EPR), he declares to have no contacts with them and that they differ in their strategies: that the EPR is focused in military action, while the Zapatistas are instead dedicated to popular organization.
Regarding the Zapatista movement itself, he says that we are like in 1993 [before the armed uprising of January 1st 1994]. They neither see nor hear us. The disadvantage is that they have already seen and heard us and now just pull us to the side.
But he also believes that the situation of Mexico is of total destruction. That if the elites believe that the people is going to put up with a dictatorship of the party, of the state, they are wrong. No. The country won't stand it.
He also meditates that he was maybe too active in the media early on and that, in contrast, this book may be his last interview.
Marcos with comandante (major) Tacho 1999
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