Justice for Felix Vicente Cruz!

We hereby reproduce a publication by the website Red Sun Mexico, denouncing the murder of Felix Vicente Cruz and statements from different democratic organizations demanding justice.

Justice for Felix Vicente Cruz!

Another crime sheds the blood of the people in the Rebelling Isthmus.

Yesterday afternoon, comrade Félix Vicente Cruz was shot and killed. An armed group took his life inside the Municipal Agency of the Community of Veinte de Noviembre “El Morro”, where he served as a community authority.

We have great memories of Félix since the beginning of the resistance struggle against the cacicazgo in 2010, going through the regional mobilizations against the wind farms and the struggle of the Civil Resistance against the high rates of the CFE [Federal Commission of Electricity]. Felix, a committed worker in the arts and culture, worked in Mexico City several years ago; there he was an announcer, theater actor and dubber. When he returned to his community he began to teach theater, dance and singing classes to young peasants and fishermen. Some of them, inspired by him, decided to emigrate to the City of Oaxaca to study at the UABJO [Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca] and others supported the birth of the UACO [Autonomous Communal university of Oaxaca] Ixhuatán campus.

Once the boys at the ranch asked him -why did you return to the countryside if you were doing well in the city?-, he answered them, “because the countryside smells of new life“.

Always smiling, always optimistic, Félix believed that it was possible to build a new world and said that “corn and theater were the food of the poor.

Felix was murdered and now he will be returned to the earth as a seed. The earth will receive him as its son and will surely demand justice for him.

Below, we share some statements from different democratic organizations demanding justice for Félix.

CURRENT OF THE PEOPLE RED SUN

We strongly condemn the devious murder of comrade Félix Vicente Cruz, Municipal Agent of the agrarian community 20 de Noviembre “El Morro”, municipality of San Francisco Ixhuatán.

The events occurred yesterday afternoon, April 13, 2023, when an armed group gunned him down in the offices of the Municipal Agency of his community.

Comrade Félix was a defender of land and territory and a member of the Civil Resistance against the high rates of the CFE, which recently mobilized on April 10 in Huamol in a day of national struggle to make electricity a human right.

For years, comrade Félix was an active sympathizer of the Committee in Defense of the Land, headed by comrade Luis Armando Fuentes Aquino, who was also murdered on April 11, 2019 in the same municipality when he also served as Municipal Agent of the Cerro Grande community.

Our organization DEMANDS the State Attorney General’s Office and the Government of the State of Oaxaca to immediately and promptly investigate these events and punish those guilty of this new crime.

Justice for Felix Vicente Cruz!

Whoever governs, the rights of the people are defended!

With the Red Sun the people will win!

Current of the People Red Sun

April 14, 2023

UCIZONI CONDEMNS THE MURDER OF FELIX VICENTE CRUZ.

Yesterday, April 13, 2023, comrade Félix Vicente Cruz, who served as a municipal agent of the 20 de Noviembre (El Morro) community, in the municipality of San Francisco Ixhuatán, Oaxaca, was murdered; Félix was a defender of land and territory and a member of the peaceful Civil Resistance against the high rates of the CFE. The Union of Indigenous Communities of the North Zone of the Isthmus demands that the State Attorney General’s Office conduct a thorough investigation so that the material and intellectual authors of this homicide are punished.

ENOUGH OF THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE DEFENDERS OF THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE!

PCI-UCIZONI

April 14, 2023

WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR FÉLIX VICENTE CRUZ

April 14, 2023

WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR FÉLIX VICENTE AQUINO, who was murdered yesterday, Thursday, April 13, in the offices of the Municipal Agency, while performing his duties as Municipal Agent of “El Morro”, Ixhuatán.

Comrade DEFENDER OF THE TERRITORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, member of the Current of the People Red Sun, with whom we share the streets and unity in action, on Monday, April 10, in the ARTICULATED AND DISLOCATED ACTIONS IN THE REGION OF THE OAXACAN ISTHMUS.

This act of direct violence against those of us who defend the land, territory and human rights, occurs in the context of the imposition of the INTEROCEANIC CORRIDOR, against the organizations that oppose the imposition, dispossession, looting, contamination and death of our natural assets and territory that this project will bring to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Region and the South-Southeast of Mexico.

We call on the indigenous, agrarian and popular peoples, communities and organizations of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, to generate broad articulation processes in the face of this violent context that threatens our lives and our future.

WITH THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE, THERE IS NO TRANSFORMATION, OR SPRING.

THE GOVERNMENT ASKS FOR DIALOGUE AND THEY KILL, ASKS FOR A SOLUTION AND CREATES CONFLICTS. THEY THREATEN, PERSECUTE AND MURDER US.

WE ONLY HAVE TO DEFEND OURSELVES, AND WE WILL DO SO, FOR OUR HOMES, FAMILIES, LAND, NATURAL ASSETS AND TERRITORY.

Out of anger and outrage:

Assembly of the Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory – APIIDTT

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