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Zapatistas to Join Latest Protests Over Disappeared Mexican Students

  • Zapatistas march in solidarity with Ayotzinapa (Photo:DorsetChiapasSolidarity)

    Zapatistas march in solidarity with Ayotzinapa (Photo:DorsetChiapasSolidarity)

Published 21 October 2014
Opinion

The Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) will protest in solidarity with disappeared students in Guerrero.

The Mexican insurgent Zapatista movement has said it  will participate in actions planned for Wednesday October 22 to demand the safe return of 43 teacher-training school students disappeared after last being seen detained by police.

The actions this Wednesday are also demanding punishment for those responsible for their forced disappearance and murders.

This is the second time in the last few weeks that the EZLN and their support bases have mobilized for over this cause.

On October 10, approximately 15,000 Zapatistas marched in silence through San Cristobal de las Casas and other areas of Chiapas to demand the appearance of the rural students of Ayotzinapa, attacked by the municipal police of Iguala, Guerrero last September 26.

In their latest communique addressed  to family members and comrades, the EZLN promises to “shine our small light on some of the paths that we tread. Along the highways, dirt roads, paths and potholes, the Zapatista people will add our outrage to that of our Ayotzinapa brothers and the heroic Yaqui people. Although small, our light is our way of embracing those who are missing and those who suffer in their absence. Let this light demonstrate that we are not alone in the pain and rage that fill the soils of Mexico from below. It is  with rage and rebellion, and not with resignation and conformity, that we on the ground suffer.”

The communique signed by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés also calls on international supporters to join in the actions this Wednesday, when an enormous torchlight march is planned in Mexico City, as well as marches, highway blockades and the takeover of public buildings in other parts of the country.

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