Mexico: Weekly Newsletter

We hereby publish an unofficial translation of the latest Weekly Newsletter by Sol Rojo on Mexico:

Sheinbaum denies the war against the people, as do the State governments, but there are other facts.

In Oaxaca, on February 13, three members of the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) were murdered in the midst of an ambush by the criminal group “The 33.” The comrades belonged to the agrarian community of El Platanillo, which is currently under siege by the criminal group with the complicity of the municipal, State and federal governments. Of the three murdered comrades, only the body of comrade Wilfrido Atanacio was able to return to the town, since the criminals prevented the return of the other two who had to be buried in the municipality of Matías Romero. After the armed siege, the community is running out of food and classes have already been suspended.

In Chiapas, an armed commando stormed a community assembly in the town of Lacanjá Chansayab on February 12, leaving at least two people injured. The events are related to the control of drug traffickers over indigenous territories.

In Guerrero last week, on February 11 and 12, the lifeless bodies of three children aged 15, 12 and 14 were found, which showed signs of torture, the first of them in Iguala and the other two in Chilapa de Álvarez. According to the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities of the Founding Peoples (CRAC-PF), the minors were attacked with AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles.

While this is happening, in Sinaloa an image makes clear the priorities of the State (and this includes the ruling party): the photo of the narco-governor Rubén Rocha Moya next to Andrés Manuel López Beltrán (the son of the false messiah) boasting his formal affiliation to Morena. The regime cannot hide the sun with a finger, and it cannot pretend that the blood that flows throughout the country is invisible.

Stop the war against the people and State terrorism!