(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Mexico, The crime of Iguala and the Coming Insurrection - Claudio Albertani (fr, pt)

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Faced with mass crimes perpetrated by the different political institutions related to 
local and global economies, and legal mafia, "today, says the author of this text, in 
Mexico if it martyred, we do not have any other choice but to break the silence and invent 
our own insurgency." ---- As a result, we take a recent text Ra?l Zibechi brings other 
data. ---- Claudio Albertani ---- In any case, I want to inevitable that we ("we" consists 
of millions of "I"), we intimidions those who have power and threaten us. ---- We have no 
alternative but to respond to threats by other threats and neutralize those politicians 
who, in a completely unconscious way, are resigned to the disaster or even actively 
contribute to prepare. ---- G?nther Anders [*] ---- On September 26, 43 students from the 
Rural Normal School "Ra?l Isidro Burgos" of Ayotzinapa, State of Guerrero, disappeared, 
six people were killed - including five normalistes, one was horribly scratched - and 25 
others were injured in the city of Iguala. Faced with a crime on this scale, the first 
thing we feel is outrage, trembling with emotion and impotence. Immediately, the questions 
arise.

Who is responsible?
The former mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Mar?a de los ?ngeles Pineda, 
alleged intellectual authors of the crime, now on the run?
The Iguala municipal police officers who arrested the students?
The municipal police Cocula that helped?
The federal army, on the premises, which was not involved?
The Guerreros Unidos criminal group linked to Abarca, who would have students disappear 
after police reportedly delivered their I need regular.

We're talking about a network of accomplices. How far will it?
Until deposed governor of Guerrero, ?ngel Aguirre, who was not imprisoned Abarca when he 
could have done?
Until the Attorney General of the Republic, Jes?s Murillo Karam, which does did not act 
against the former mayor, despite repeated complaints against him?
Until Party of the Democratic Revolution [left] which covered both Aguirre and Abarca?
Until the Secretary of State for the Interior, Osorio Chong, who leads his own war against 
students from rural normal schools?
Until the leaders of the European Union, not to lose juicy business, "support the efforts 
of the federal government?"

Rural normal schools are part of a larger project of popular education that emerged during 
the Mexican Revolution. Their very existence is a cry of revolt against the current 
economic model, in which young farmers informed and critics do not have their place. MS 
[Federal Ministry of Education], bureaucrats, the National Union of Education Workers, the 
media, the academic establishment, the police, judges, journalists and all major political 
parties are complicit in this massacre because, one way or another, they helped build the 
image of normal schools as hotbeds of guerrilla and students as figures of scum.

The crime of Iguala did not come alone. December 12, 2011, the Aguirre police killed two 
students slyly of the normal school, Jorge Alexis Herrera and Gabriel Echeverr?a, during a 
violent eviction operation on the highway of the sun. "It was clean Road ", had openly 
declared a police chief. A few days later, January 7, 2012, a truck knocked down a group 
of students in a normal school that collected money from motorists on the federal highway 
Acapulco-Zihuatanejo. Several were injured and two died. On May 24, Aurora Tecoluapa 
student of normal rural school "General Emiliano Zapata" of Amilcingo, State of Morelos, 
was killed by a car on the Mexico-Oaxaca highway, while six of her companions were injured.

What we are experiencing is a war that the Mexican government is waging against youth, 
especially young rebellious of proletarian origin. On 2 October 2013, student Mario 
Gonz?lez Garc?a was arrested in Mexico City while traveling by bus to an event [**]. In 
other words, he was arrested without having committed any crime by the mere fact of being 
an activist and known to have participated in the struggle for the defense of the Colleges 
of Sciences and Humanities (CCH).

Incredibly, Mario was convicted and remains in prison, although he has not committed any 
offense, as Josef K, the protagonist of the novel The Trial Kafka. On October 19, while in 
the country climbed the indignation caused by the events of Iguala, another young, Ricardo 
Esparza Jesus Villegas, a student of the University Centre of Lagos, Jalisco, was killed 
by police State in the city of Guanajuato, where he went to attend the Cervantino Festival.

It would be wrong to believe that these crimes have to do with a supposed "delay" of 
Mexico. These are, on the contrary, events quite modern, "ordinary" in the sense that 
Hannah Arendt denounced when horrified, she talked about the banality of evil. A crime 
like that of Iguala can occur anywhere: in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, no doubt, but also in 
France, the US, Italy... The dictatorship of the bureaucratic economy must be accompanied 
by ongoing violence. We are all human beings collectively extended with an expiration 
date; we are no longer mortal as individuals, but as a group whose existence is only 
allowed until further notice.

How to explain the reaction (so far) modest Mexican people before these events so 
terrible? There are more than half a century, G?nther Anders - the philosopher and 
antinuclear activist - thinking lucidly and ruthless on the problem of how the world today 
produces dehumanized beings who know no remorse or shame the face of crimes horrible they 
themselves committed. We live in a new era of totalitarianism that turns humans into 
mechanical parts incapable of human reactions. While this is most hellish there appear, we 
exist as more than mechanical parts or materials required for the machine.

And yet, the last word has not been said. "From whatever angle it is received, this is 
hopeless. It is not the least of its virtues ", he wrote a few years ago the anonymous 
author of a famous pamphlet, The Coming Insurrection. And they added: "The sphere of 
political representation closes. From left to right, it's the same nothingness that takes 
poses cador or air blank, the same heads gondola exchange their speech according to the 
latest findings of the communication department. (...) Nothing that occurs is, by far, at 
the height of the situation. Even in his silence, the population seems infinitely more 
adult than all the puppets bickering to govern. " These words that relate to France and 
despair of young migrants in the ghettos of European cities, apply perfectly to what we 
experience here and now. Today in Mexico if this martyred, we have no other choice but to 
break the silence and invent our own insurgency.

Claudio Albertani

October 29, 2014, Mexico City

[Translation: JF (OClibertaire)]


Notes:

[*] On G?nter Anders and the passage of Violence yes and no. Need discussion, see the text 
of Osvaldo Bayer here:
http://www.cairn.info/revue-tumultes-2007-1-page-239.htm

[**] It has now been released after more than a year of incarceration, see here http: 
http://oclibertaire.free.fr/spip.php?article1603