Chiapas: Zapatistas mark Maya calendar change
December 21 2012. Source: WW4 Report
Photo: ROAR Mag
Thousands of Maya followers of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) marched, masked but unarmed, on the towns of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Ocosingo, Las Margaritas, Palenque and Altamirano, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, marking the turning of the Maya calendar Dec. 21.
The largest march was in Ocosingo, on the edge of the Lacandon Selva, the rebels’ jungle stronghold, with 6,000 arriving at dawn for a silent procession through the town’s center. A mass silent vigil of thousands of Zapatistas in the town’s central square continues at press time, despite unseasonable rain. There were no speakers, and no visible leaders present. The EZLN is expected to release a communique for the occasion.
Photo: ROAR Mag
The group’s last communique was in May 2011, proclaiming solidarity with the poet Javier Sicilia and his movement against Mexico’s Drug War militarization. The EZLN’s spokesman Subcommandante Marcos also issued a presonally signed statement on the then-upcoming Mexican elections later last year. (CNN Mexico, W Radio, APRO, Dec. 21)
Communique below. Link here.
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21 December 2012
To whom it may concern
DID YOU HEAR?
It is the sound of their world collapsing.
It is that of ours rising anew.
The day that was the day, used to be night.
And night will be the day, that will be the day.
Democracy!
Freedom!
Justice!
From the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
On behalf of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the EZLN
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Mexico, December 2012
Translated by Leonidas Oikonomakis
