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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 05
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 05
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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STOP THE WITCH HUNT BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT!
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[La Jornada, 9/1/96. Translation by Conspiracy Nation.
Prepared statement by FAC-MLN, El Frente Amplio por la
Construccion del Movimiento para la Liberacion Nacional.]
Mexico -- The organizations and individuals joined together as
FAC-MLN (El Frente Amplio por la Construccion del Movimiento para
la Liberacion Nacional) denounces the declarations made by
government sub-secretary Arturo Nunez Jimenez, which constitute
full proof of the witch hunt which the government is carrying out
against the groups which are developing a democratic alternative
within the legal limits contained in our Constitution.
The government wants to put a stop to dissent and social protest,
caused by its own anti-populist politics, by increasing the
repression against our organizations and their members through
use of massive and selective detention, persecution,
"disappearances" and jailings of activists, whom they brutally
torture in order to drag out from them "confessions" which make
them appear responsible for the current unrest in Mexico.
The Secretary of Government tendentiously tries to link diverse
entities of the FAC-MLN with the Popular Army of the Revolution
(EPR, Ejercito Popular Revolucionario) in order to hide that
those uniquely and truly responsible for the popular discontent
and for the causes which have given birth to these armed groups
is the government itself, which through its neo-liberal economic
policies has plunged Mexico into the most profound crisis in its
history.
There is now a campaign by the government to distort, twist, and
mis-represent our national political reality in order to confuse
public opinion so as to justify its criminal and repressive
politics.
The existence of armed dissident movements in Mexico is the
result of misery, inequality, injustice, impunity, corruption,
lack of democracy and collapse of the rule of law which prevails
in our nation and for which the only one responsible is the
government itself. But this government, rather than offering a
solution, instead increases repression and blames some of our
groups for the situation, pointing to them as "radicals" and
"subversives" and as being behind armed dissidents such as the
EPR.
We ask: Is it radical to exercise the political liberties and
rights contained in our Constitution? Is it radical to fight to
achieve a better quality of life and livelihood for our people?
Is it radical to want to end the misery, injustice, and
oppression with which the government has tried to oppose us? Is
it radical to fight to make valid a true rule of law in our
country? Is it radical to fight for liberty, justice, and
democracy? Is it radical to demand work, better pay, and that
our children will have a dignified life, education, health and
well-being? Is it radical to oppose our people being massacred,
persecuted, jailed, tortured and assassinated, by fighting to
obtain better economic and social conditions? Is it radical to
demonstrate our protest and dissent against the anti-populist
politics and sub-human conditions to which the government has
submitted us?
We think not. To deny a people its right to live is to deny them
their right to demonstrate and to fight to make real their
passion for justice, democracy and liberty. This is not just
unjust, it is criminal. We are not about to abandon our
passions, nor to abandon our struggle to achieve them. We will
continue to make use of the rights conferred upon us by our
Constitution, demonstrating in the streets, before our people,
and denouncing the government as the only one responsible for the
situation in which we are living and for any violence suffered by
our groups or their members.
We denounce before the national and international community the
government repression and its police and military institutions
being used against the people. The government will not be able
to silence our voices nor halt our struggle to make real our
constitutional rights.
We demand that the government put an end to the armed conflict
which exists in Mexico by redressing the causes which gave it
birth and not by increasing the militarization of our country,
nor increasing repression and massacre against our people as it
is now doing.
We call upon the people of Mexico, the political and social
organizations, the political parties, the human rights
organizations, to help show our repudiation of the political
violence of this regime which is contrary to the interests of our
people. The government wants to annul and to drown in blood our
right to struggle for a life with liberty, equality, justice and
democracy.
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