(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #251 - Mexico:
Solidarity with 43 missing (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Last September, forty-three Mexican students were abducted in the province of Guerrero.
Symptomatic event of war social climate in the country. In response, international
solidarity is being established. ---- On 26 September 2014, in Iguala, in the province of
Guerrero, Ayotzinapa of rural normal school students prepare to go demonstrate in Mexico
City in memory of the murder of 2 October 1968[1]. ---- To get to the capital, they
requisitioned several buses before being chased by the municipal police. They are arrested
and the police opened fire. Six people died and there are dozens of wounded es.
Forty-three students were kidnapped and are still missing. This forced disappearance
caused a shock wave in the Mexican social movement, but also internationally, generating a
strong mobilization for the truth and justice are made on the Ayotzinapa cases. Soon, the
collusion between police, municipal authorities and drug traffickers is proven. This drama
then unveils the magnitude of the massacres perpetrated in Mexico (the country has about
22,000 disappeared and 150,000-are still unpunished murder).
Gagging dissent
Given the attitude of the Mexican state that refuses to recognize the state crime, the
support committees and relatives of the victims gathered at the festival organized
resistance by the Zapatistas and the CNI (National Indigenous Congress), decide to
organize several international tours, including a caravan across eleven European countries
and nineteen cities (including Paris and Marseille).
On 3 and 4 May, the arrival of the delegation of Ayotzinapa in Paris was an opportunity to
hold a demonstration against police violence, involving several collectives of relatives
and victims of repression. The next day, an evening of discussion was attended by 150
people, with the speeches of the members of the delegation, including a survivor student
and the father of a missing but also relatives of victims of police in France. The evening
was an opportunity for collective reflection on the repression of social movements.
Indeed, the massacre Ayotzinapa key is not trivial. This school is a historical place of
struggle and politicization in Mexico. The attack involved the terror strategy of muzzling
dissent with bullets and fear, in a fast social war country.
In this case, we still see the consequences of a capitalist state allied with the narcos,
corrupt whose only value is that of profit, regardless of the peoples fighting for their
emancipation. Our answer can only be that solidarity with the collective support to the
Missing, which will not rest until the 43 students Ayotzinapa will not reappeared. "Vivos
llevaron los, los queremos vivos"[2].
As could tell the compañeros, the best support that we can bring to Ayotzinapa through
everyday struggles against all forms of injustice and oppression at home and abroad. They
also strongly denounced the silence of the French state, which works hand in hand with the
Mexican government. Besides, Enrique Pena Nieto, like a good customer of French arms
dealers, is the guest of honor at the next fashion show July 14 in Paris...
Camille and Vincent (Paris North East)
[1] This is the Tlatelolco massacre, where hundreds of students were massacred by the army
[2] Alive they took them, alive we want them
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Mexique-Solidarite-avec-les-43
