Political prisoners

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Justice and freedom to the prisoners of Atenco
Political prisoners
By: Carlos Damián August 11, 2010
Thanks to the “zapatistas”
México.- To more than three years and middle of jail, from 4 of May of 2006, carry 12 prisoners of San Salvador Atenco, three of they in a penal of high safety, with penalties of up to 112 jail years. They are far from their households, with restricted and controlled visits, in worse imprisonment conditions that in the unlucky times of the ex presidents Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverria Alvarez. The various non-existent offenses of those which is them accused, manufactured by the judicial and police appliance to the service of the President of the Republic and of the governors, was dissolved as fog to the wind if existed in our country an independent justice, first democracy and equity condition. Now it does not is it, in Mexican lands will not be democracy neither peace.

It is a secular form of protest, homestead by Mexico of the New Spain. Such actions in Mexico is equipped to them with the kidnapping of person for extortion end, which today proliferate in the national territory, and are applied to them similar penalties. Unheard-of. An aggravating is added to the case of Atenco. There is no recent tests that accuse of the fact that the prisoners may have held to someone, while the judicial files overflow of tests of the fact that the state and federal restrictive forces committed in Atenco.

A series of detests offenses were happened by the forces of the order, from woman violations held until domicile searches to the inhabitants with destruction and goods theft, more the assassination of two youths. All of the above happened in the federal administration of the ex president Vicente Fox Quesada, with a great personal and political revenge because the resistance of Atenco in defense of their lands and their rights had prevented the business of the new airport for the Mexico City, that so much needs.

The damage of the justice is double: who would have to be free, they are prisoners and stated; who would have to be under penal process, they are free and unpunished. This situation is one of the so many pledges of the alliance in fact between the Mr. Calderon and the governor of the Mexico State, Enrique Peña Nieto. His immediate objective is criminalizes the social protest, to asphyxiate the union freedom, and of social organization, to infuse the fear and to advance in the militarization of the society and of the governments in Mexico.

It is a re-edition in these times of the historical alliance between the PRI and the PAN from the years 40’s, to assure the authoritative command and the resigned obedience that they call "governability", and this word repeat it with ignorance and fruition. This empty concept advances all over the national territory and before this perspective is made necessary, to unify the movements and the struggles by the freedom of the political and social prisoners. This is some universal demand, which opens the road to other popular and social causes: that of EMS, that of EZLN; that of the miners and the indigenous rights, the defense of the legal right to the abortion; the social security and other.

Thanks to the “Zapatistas”
The indigenous towns of Mexico were made visible the year new of 1994, and compelled to listen to the entire country, thanks to the legendary "already enough" of the “Zapatistas” when gave to they a nut return to the history, were raised in weapons and they said here we are. Never before the indigenous towns of the country, had their demands and demonstrations become civilized taken the center of the national discussion. The national society knew that there was much that to learn from the indigenous peoples.

Thanks to praises “Zapatistas”, in the left crumbled after the collapse of the wall of Berlin reborn somewhat more than a hope. Mexico and other countries gave birth a generation of activists and social thinkers exposed to new release and democracy ideas, and new forms of expressing the old good ideas. The indigenous were returned extroverted, let of requesting, determining to demand and resist. The epicenter of their expansive wave was the recovery of the lands hoarded by estate owners and cattlemen that despise to the peoples.

Already was stirring to awake an historical of the Mayan peoples in Chiapas, Mexico, thousands of indigenous families occupied the land to be occupied of she. It is spoken of 700 thousands hectares. The rebellious peoples, in particular in the jungle “Lacandona”, they finally had where be grown and lived well, Mexico discovered that the dignity is an attribute of our peoples. Emerged the commanding Esther, speaking to the congress and to the country, the sub-commandant Marcos in 1994 in the interviews in Spanish and English emerged as the ideologist of this new indigenous revolution.

The word recovered its truth condition, that the practical political to it there was hot-tempered in Mexico. And as well as its voice is a weapon, a shield, a source, the “Zapatistas” also they have taught the meaning of the silence. The silence of the martial. (La Jornada, cultura, p. 6a, May 17, 2010).