06 Mayo 2006 AHORA SOMOS SAN SALVADOR DE ATENCO / NOW WE ARE SAN SALVADOR DE ATENCO

Este estado, Chiapas, está lleno de militares en las carreteras. Nos paran y nos revisan todo. Al fin y al cabo la Bantam no pasa desapercibida. Al final todo se queda en pura curiosidad por esta casa rolante, y lo peor que ha sucedido es que a las chicas nos invitasen a un baile. Ooooops. No gracias, pero por si acaso, nosotros llevamos a nuestros dos zapatistas escondidos detrás del cuerno de la Bantam. Sólo por si acaso.
Over ten years ago, the 1st of January of 1994, the, now, internationally known, subcomandante Marcos, and an indigenous group of people, had the world’s attention by taking over the town of San Cristóbal de las Casas (with sticks, hammers, and a few weapons), in the name of the rights of the indigenous people of this country.
I don’t know how the news has spread out around the world, but a few days ago, a really bad thing happened in the town of San Salvador de Atenco, in Mexico State. TV here tells us that trying to ‘clean’ a group of flower sellers in the main square, since they gave a ‘bad image’ to the city, the last ones stood up to the police, and between kicks and hits, a young man died due to a tear-gas-bull. But what the tv doesn’t say, as this flyer given today in the square in front of the church shows us, is that ‘there were 3000 police man going into the square, over 200 people arrested, hostility and raping of women, a 14-year-old man killed by the police (due to a .38 which only the ones wearing blue carry), illegal arrests, brutality, and torture.’
The EZLN, Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, (the Zapatist Army of National Liberation), has declared itself under Red Alert. Narco News Bulletin (http://www.narconews.com/) Zapatista Red Alert: The Other Mexico on the Verge of an Explosion from Below
It really is overwhelming to see how people work against a corrupt government. Being here in San Cristobal de las Casas, where the revolutionary feeling is so alive, means living the problem in first hand. We can hear rumors, people looking at each other…All of a sudden, somebody says: ‘in this country, something big is going to happen’.
This state, Chiapas, is full of military people on the roads. They say they are looking for weapons. They stop us and take a good look inside the Bantam. After all, we are too obvious to everybody. At the end, everything ends up as pure curiosity for this mobile house. The worst that has happened is that the girls have been invited to an army dance. Oooooops. No, thank you. Just in case, we carry our own two Zapatistas hiding behind the horn of the Bantam. Just in case.
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