Mexico: Weekly Newsletter
We publish an unofficial translation of the Mexico part of the last Weekly Newsletter published by Sol Rojo Mexico.
The National Day of Struggle No truce, no pardon! continues. In the framework of the tenth anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 teacher students from Ayotzinapa, the determined response of the people’s movement at the national level is clear, as the response of the reaction and the old State, determined to protect the high rank officers and the soldiers who had full participation in this crime against humanity.
As an example of this we have the actions in memory of the comrade Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta, murdered on March 7 at a police checkpoint in Tixtla, Guerrero. His comrades from the Rural Teachers’ “Raúl Isidro Burgos” of Ayotzinapa, together with the Committee of Fathers and Mothers of the 43 and sister organizations paid tribute to him on September 19 denouncing that so far no one has been brought to a trial or punished for this crime.
Another example regarding the regime’s hatred against the teachers’ movement is the recent beating against students of the Teachers’ School of Special Education (ENEE) in Oaxaca, who on September 19 were repressed by elements of the State police. With tear gas, beatings, insults and even death threats, the uniformed officers intercepted the students when they were heading towards CRENO [Translator’s note: Regional Center of Teachers’ Education of Oaxaca, educational institution in Oaxaca] in the northern part of the city in their second day of mobilizations. In response, Section XXII of the SNTE-CNTE issued a statement holding the government of the state of Oaxaca responsible for the events, demanding to stop the repression and intimidation against the teachers’ movement.
Along from these days the actions have continued following the agreed plan; today a meeting was realized at the Federal Judiciary Council, in the city of Mexico, demanding justice and punishment for the guilty, denouncing that despite the apparent disputes between the executive-legislative powers against the judicial power, in reality, the three powers are subordinated to the central power of bureaucratic capitalism which is a living dead that remains standing at the expense of the sweat and blood of the working people.
Covering this activity various actions in various places has been carried out in the country. In Mexico City, teachers students marched towards the Ministry of the Interior where they threw fireworks causing some damage to the facilities of the building. In Oaxaca CP-Red Sun has demonstrated by liberating the toll station of Huitzo, in this place some incidents were reported with police dressed in civilian clothes who, aboard “private” cars, tried to run over the protesters. There were no casualties among our comrades in any of both situations.
More actions are expected in the upcoming days, within the highlight of the first land search for finding Dr. Ernesto Sernas García alive on September 25 in Oaxaca and the national march for the tenth anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 from Ayotzi in the City of Mexico.
We’re not all there, we’re missing 43!
Atoyzi lives and lives, the struggle goes on and on!
Because they took them alive, we want them alive!
