EZLN Communique regarding Cecilia Rodriguez
Gerardo Otero (otero@sfu.ca)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:09:23 -0600
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>From: "CECILIA RODRIGUEZ" <moonlight@igc.apc.org>
>Organization: NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY
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>Subject: EZLN Communique regarding Cecilia Rodriguez
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>-------------- Enclosure number 1 ----------------
>La Jornada, November 13
>
>Top Headline from La Jornada Back Page:
> *The EZLN will look for the aggressors against women*
> *The government, incapable in the case of Cecilia
>Rodriguez*
>
>Headline of article:
> *EZLN announces that it will pursue the aggressors of
>Cecilia Rodriguez*
> *It will judge them according to Zapatista laws
>
>Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine
>Committee, General Command of the Zapatista Army for
>National Liberation, Mexico
>
>November 4, 1995
>
>To the people of Mexico:
>
>To the peoples and governments of the world:
>
>Brothers and sisters:
>
>The Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee, General
>Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation
>declares the following:
>
>First. On October 26, 1995 the companera Cecilia Rodriguez,
>United States citizen and legal representative of the EZLN
>in the United States by means of the National Commission for
>Democracy in Mexico, was attacked by a band of criminals who
>serve the evil government in its politics of intimidating
>honest people who are helping the EZLN in the achievement of
>a just and dignified peace.
>
>Second. The cowardly aggression against the Zapatista
>Cecilia Rodriguez makes up part of a campaign of
>intimidation and threats against women who struggle for
>democracy in Mexico and which includes crimes against
>indigenous and non-indigenous women in the territory of
>Chiapas.
>
>Third. The evil government is incapable of guaranteeing the
>security of any person in Chiapas despite maintaining dozens
>of thousands of soldiers, whose only goal is to assure the
>impunity of the powerful.
>
>Fourth. In view of the fact that the laws of the evil
>government do not do anything to address these situations,
>the EZLN has initiated the work of finding and taking
>prisoner those responsible for this and other similar
>aggressions against women in Chiapas in order to judge them
>according to Zapatista laws.
>
>Fifth. The EZLN adds its voice and its action to that of the
>thousands of human beings who carry forward the demand for
>justice in all cases of aggression against women. We call
>upon all the men and women who in Mexico and the world
>struggle for democracy, liberty and justice, in order that
>we mobilize with regard to this fundamental demand for all
>human beings: respect for women.
>
>Democracy!
>
>Liberty!
>
>Justice!
>
>>From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.
>
>Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee, General
>Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation
>
>Mexico November, 1995
>
>Signed by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
>
>Translated by Cindy Arnold, National Center for Democracy,
>Liberty and Justice
>
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