[narconews] Trujillo: Zapatistas Host Thousands in Chiapas
 
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:47:40 -0500 (CDT)


July 30, 2007
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleague,

Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico hosted eight days of meetings
that moved through three of the autonomous municipal seats - known as
"Caracoles" - in their territory last week. Juan Trujillo reports
from the Caracol of Morelia:

"Afternoon fell in this corner of the Chiapaneco geography; the cool
came down from the two mountains cloaking this rebel space, while
militiapersons descended the left hand side of the mountain giving
way to members of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee
General Command of the EZLN; through the commentary and bustle of the
participants the night listened, as Lieutenant Colonel Moises,
Comandante Zebedeo, and Subcomandante Marcos made themselves present
for the welcoming. Rain and a slight chill intermittently refreshed
the visitors from more than 80 countries: hundreds of collectives and
social organizations, sympathizers, members of the Other Campaign and
adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lancandon Jungle (La Sexta).

"...For her part Ofelia, member of the Good Government Council,
commented with notable emotion, that 'the most important thing is to
unite our struggles and thoughts against the capitalist system that
continues to steal our labor. Our voice and our struggle is one that
as we walk we learn and as we walk we teach... so that we can
recuperate what the system has stolen from us.' Finally, she asked
all the participants for 'concentration, respect and discipline in
the activities of the Encuentro.'"

Read Trujillo's full report (additional reports await translation on
our Spanish language pages, too), along with other Latin American
news, at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com

 From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

David B. Briones
Webmaster
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com
webmaster@narconews.com

Narco News is supported by:

The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 241 Natick, MA 01760
http://www.authenticjournalism.org

The Fund receives online donations at this web page:

http://www.authenticjournalism.org

Apply for your co-publisher's account, here:

http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php

Subscribe for free alerts of new reports:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews

Suscribete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en espanol:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes

Inscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do ultimo minuto em
portugues brasileiro:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil