Statement in solidarity with the
indigenous peoples of Northern Cauca, in defense and liberation of
their ancestral lands by Anarchist Student Group (ca) [machine
translation]
... And we will continue in solidarity until the sun goes down ---- Since that 1492, the
sun was dimmed but not extinguished, indigenous peoples and we (workers, students,
teachers, farmers, etc.) we continue unabated resistance struggle and perseverance. These
lands are those inhabitants of this land mass long before the so-called "conquest". Are
their legitimate inhabitants long before the borders and flags. ---- We exist because we
resist: resist the capitalist, authoritarian and hegemonic offensive. The indigenous
struggle has not been a whim, much less a game has since involved until today blood, sweat
and tears of all those flying the flag dignity hold high the fight against injustice.----
The communities after 523 years of invasion, rape and death, continue on fighting,
defending their cultures, Mother Earth with its mighty, rich and protective embrace
welcomes us. Constant struggle until the sun today, and since early 2015 the indigenous of
Northern Cauca have declared uprising to regain their ancestral lands that have robbed
with violence and injustice. They oppose losing their territories because from its
legitimate cosmogony nothing can steal what is proper and has been working daily with the
sweat of who needs and wisdom to those who work in harmony with the environment.
The reasons why are not only mobilized by the usurpation of sugar, or extractive
multinationals sugarcane that have bloodstained fields, but is a much more complicated
issue. For example, one of the requirements is for the state to restore their 20,000 ha of
land; according to 2010 data, in the Cauca indigenous families share 201,987 51,000 ha,
with an average of 6 people per family gives a ratio of 0.66 ha per person1. -and Because
the state is not anything new to them has been failing in the return of land since 2009,
as a result of their mobilizations. Moreover, demand compliance with the judgment of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for the slaughter committed to 21 indigenous
Nasa people to expropriate their land 23 years ago, at the hands of the national police
and paramilitaries in the hacienda "The Nile" of the municipality of Caloto (December 16,
1992) 2. And you still wonder why the rightness of their actions?
The response has been the government of Juan Manuel Santos, "person of peace" has been
demagogic cheating on every word, every look, because on one hand, he mocks his desire for
peace with the insurgents, while on the other, the war rages dispossessed applying the
brutality of its military apparatus painless as can be seen in what will tour the uprising
by the "Liberation of Mother Earth 'where they have been injured over 100 indigenous and
murdered two gunshot and unconventional weapons Esmad, police and army.
Now, the role of the mass media has been to deny or justify such action, setting aside the
indigenous vision to preserve their ancestral culture of caring for the earth, free from
excessive exploitation; reason, it is for us: you, me, all, visible the struggle for land
to the tiller, protects and realizes the joy of living in it. We declare ourselves in
sampling with indigenous, peasant, workers, against the state, capital and hegemony. We
declare in struggle for a decent life, free land and solidarity.
We can not allow the ruling classes continue in their profit and consumption exploiting
and suppressing the various social sectors. With the fierce opposition of all the
exploited not continue destroying nature, cultures, or anything that belongs to humanity.
Land and Freedom!
Above the fighting!
Anarchist Student Group
March 2015
1 Gisbert, Thomas. Pintos, María Jesús. (11 March 2015). Sugar stained with blood of
northern Cauca. ElDiario.es.
2 View the respecto
https://www.cidh.oas.org/Indigenas/Colombia.11.101.htm
http://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/tierra-amapola-muerte/16724-3
Related Link:
https://grupoestudiantilanarquista.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/y-seguiremos-solidarizandonos-hasta-que-el-sol-se-apague/
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/28023
