Mexico: Ayotzi lives, the struggle continues
We hereby publish an unofficial translation of an article by Periódico Mural:
This September 26 and 27 mark a decade since the disappearance of the 43 students from the “Isidro Burgos” Rural Teachers’ School in Ayotzinapa. The fateful night in Iguala resulted, in addition to forced disappearance, in 6 people killed, including 3 teacher students, a player and the driver of the Los Avispones soccer team and a taxi passenger, as well as 40 people injured by firearms.
It has been 10 years since the Mexican State in collusion with organized crime orchestrated these violent and repressive acts, 10 years of impunity where the historical truth of the EPN government has not been very different from the version that AMLO has given to the mothers and fathers of the teacher students, 10 years in which we continue to ask ourselves: where are they?
In the context of this regrettable anniversary, three of the most important expressions of the popular movement have taken a position on the matter: the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and Current of the People – Red Sun (CP-Sol Rojo).
The CNI speaks out against the lack of justice, declaring “… Ten years of shameful and blatant impunity have stained the last decade of this country, including the last 6 years of the so-called Fourth Transformation. We have come to tell you that no transformation is possible without truth for the parents who tirelessly seek; no transformation is possible without justice in the face of these events that have marked our country and no transformation is possible when being in complicity of the entire political class, of all parties, of all institutions, and especially, without admitting and sanctioning the intervention and guilt of the Army, which instead has been praised and exalted.”
For its part, the EZLN emphasizes “… In this long journey they have encountered betrayals, with those who only used their pain to obtain a political position, a cause to change the color of the government, or, the most miserable, a wage. And in bad governments the hunter’s gaze continues looking for its next victim … If there is no truth or justice, let there be no lack of rage and memory.”
Finally, the CP-Sol Rojo mentions “…we have not come before you to talk about the regime; we do not expect anything from it and its bureaucratic path, it must be swept away and that’s it. We have come, instead, to shake your hand again, not in a gesture of bourgeois diplomacy, but as class brothers and sisters, with class solidarity. We have come to reaffirm our militant solidarity with each one of you and each one of the boys, wherever they are, because you have done the same with us, with our struggle for truth and justice, with our demand for the alive presentation of our comrade Dr. Ernesto Sernas García, who disappeared by the regime on May 10, 2018 in San Agustín de las Juntas, Oaxaca .”
Each of these organizations shares the criticism of the impunity in the Ayotzinapa case, making it clear that the solution will not come from above, but from people, with the organization and struggle of the people.
