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Translated from the Spanish by Irlandesa for Nuevo Amanecer Press.
Original communique published in Mexico in La Jornada.
III. - The Mexican Federal Army: Between Angeles and Huertas
(Audio can be used by any news media in the service of the Supreme. Images will be those of the attacks on the communities of Chavajeval and Union Progreso, in the autonomous municipality of San Juan de la Libertad, Rebel Chiapas, on June 10, 1998).
Look at the federal soldiers: so young, so strong, so well fed, so well equipped, so well trained, so so. Look at them fight so heroically from behind their tanks, their light artillery, their helicopters, their bomber planes. Look with what decisiveness and courage they shoot and confront the enemy. What dedication! What great heroism! What bravery! What contempt for danger! What commitment to the defense of national sovereignty! Aren't they admirable? Don't you feel like singing the National Hymn where it says: "Mexicans to the cry of war...?
This is patriotism. It doesn't matter that the other side, the "enemy's" side, only has machetes, stones, sticks, hands, fingernails, teeth. It doesn't matter that on the other side, the "enemy's" side, are Mexican indigenous, those who first populated these lands, those who resisted the war of conquest, those who gave birth to the Nation fighting with Miguel Hidalgo, Jose Maria Morelos, Vicente Guerrero, those who fought against the gringos in 1847, those who fought by Juarez' side against the French invasion, those who gave flesh, blood and cries for justice in the revolution of Villa and Zapata, those who refused to be liquidated by a model, the neoliberal model, which makes a war of extermination against them through all means and in all forms.
It is not important, look at the brave federal soldiers fighting.
Don't look at the rapes, the beatings, the executions, the extermination of men, women, children and old ones. Don't look at the exodus of tens of thousands of displaced.
Don't look. Don't listen.
Only listen to Comandante Zedillo, the chief of those soldiers whom he has ordered to save Mexico....from those who are more Mexican than anyone.
Look and listen to what we tell you to see and hear.
This is nationalism! This is being a patriot! This is the "State of Law!"
This is the Federal Army! The armed guarantor of the defense of National Sovereignty!
So strong and not caring that those they are facing are so weak! So brave despite the fact that those they are fighting are unarmed! So bold even though those they are fighting are defenseless!
Do not look at or listen to your commander-in-chief lowering his head, embarrassed, in front of his North American equivalent. Do not see or hear the clumsy and grotesque "translation service" with which the Chancellor tries to hide the cowardice of Zedillo's government in front of the open faucets of the empire of the stripes and murky stars. Don't look at his army, the federal army, giving military honors to the Supreme Commander of the chief of the......North American Army. Don't look at the Mexican officials accounting to and following orders from their United States "advisors."
Do not see or hear the silence of those Mexican indigenous who are fighting for democracy, liberty and justice.
Do not see or hear that anachronistic "For everyone, everything, nothing for us." To whom would that occur during these times of "save yourself if you can'?
Do not see or hear reality.
These indigenous ("zapatistas" I believe they call themselves) are the primary enemy, they sell the homeland; those who want to deliver national sovereignty to dark foreign interests; those who want to rebel against economic injustice; those who demand that he who governs, governs obeying; those who demand democracy for all; those who want a place in the Nation; those who struggle for justice; those who want a roof, land, work, bread, health, education; those who defend the independence of Mexico; those who want a new world, better...
What am I saying? Don't listen! Don't look! Applaud!
There are our brave soldiers killing the dark enemy (the color of their skin gives them away)!
Shout! Viva Mexico! Again! Viva Mexico!
Look at and listen to the part of the war which our selfless soldiers delivered to their chief, Comandante Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, and which we offer you exclusively on this channel:
Part of the War #1998/6.
TO: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Supreme Commander
FROM: Operational Command Group of the Federal Army
THEATRE OF OPERATIONS: Southeastern Mexico
MILITARY CAMPAIGN: "The State of Law via actions"
DATE: December 22, 1997 to June 10, 1998
NUMBER OF TROOPS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: 60,000 (Note: not including the number of special forces, those which the opposition calls "paramilitaries")
MILITARY EQUIPMENT OF THE FORCES OF THE SUPREME GOVERNMENT: War tanks, armed personnel carriers, Hummer vehicles, reconaissance aircraft, combat and bomber airplanes, helicopters, howitzers, mortars, light artillery, machine guns, automatic rifles, grenades, electronic surveillance equipment
NUMBER OF TROOPS OF THE TRANSGRESSORS OF THE LAW: 300 (including the masked joker who commands them)
MILITARY EQUIPMENT OF THE REBEL FORCES: shotguns, the kind they call "chimbas," 22 caliber rifles, sticks, machetes, stones, hands, fingernails, words and (as discovered by our intelligent intelligence services)....silence
ACTIONS CARRIED OUT:
- Acteal, Chenalho, Chiapas: 45 enemy casualties (men, women and children included), carried out by our special troops, in a tactical action they call "undercover"
- Various indigenous communities, Chiapas: An undetermined number of decommissioned weapons (previously planted by us), subversive books such as "the gospel according to the masked joker."
- Navil, Tenejapa, Chiapas: Two sacks of beans (which shows that the transgressors were preparing for bacteriological warfare) and some weapons which we planted
- Chavajeval, El Bosque ("San Juan de la Libertad" for the transgressors of the law), Chiapas: 3 enemy casualties owing to our brave and bold light artillery fire, mortars and land and air machine guns.
- Union Progreso, El Bosque, Chiapas: 5 enemies executed for the crime of having rebelled against sacrosanct institutions
- Amparo Agua Tinta and Taniperla, in the self-styled autonomous municipalities of "Tierra y Libertad" and "Ricardo Flores Magon," Chiapas: 2 wooden shacks burned, one mural destroyed, dozens arrested (alive, unfortunately)
- State of Chiapas in general: an undetermined number of dead, wounded and imprisoned, product of actions which are called "undercover," and the strict application of the law
Result: resounding triumph of the state of law which you honorably represent.
My dear sir: the national armed forces have covered themselves in glory.
Flourishes.
PS: If they could!
PS: To note the selfless labours and ample intelligence of Field Marshall Roberto Albores Guillen, under whose orders we had the honor of serving the Republic.
PS: From Marshall Albores: grrrr, bow-wow, woof, grr.
RESPONSE:
TO: Operational Command Group of the Federal Army
FROM: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon
Congratulations. The federal Army will not be leaving Chiapas. Continue on with your enforcement of legality and the establishment of the state of law.
The only thing that is left for me to say: Guys, get tough on them!
"Everything with violence, nothing with politics."
EZPL Flourishes
PS: A big hug (and a few croquettes) for my faithful friend and servant, Camp Marshall Albores.
PS: Never before have so few (me and those who support me) owed so much to so many (federales).
PS to the PS: Didn't it go like that?
Look and listen to these courageous soldiers, applaud your eminent chiefs.
Don't see or hear the other soldiers, those who fight the fires and help the population with the natural disasters. Don't see or hear the soldiers who fight the national and international drug traffic. Don't see or hear the soldiers dead in the fight against organized crime, which means destruction, hunger and misery for hundreds of people.
Don't see or hear the soldiers who fall, those, yes, in the carrying out of their duties.
For these soldiers there is no applause, not even one word, nor one salute.
For these soldiers there is silence, the forgetting.
Don't see or hear the soldiers who fight fires in various states in the country.
Look at and listen to (and applaud!) the soldiers who set fires and worship the fire in the Mexican south and southeast.
Look at and applaud the Huertas soldiers. Do not see or hear the Angeles soldiers.
Don't look, don't listen. Take your mask and your silence. Don't look and don't listen. Don't choose...
General Felipe Angeles. Official of the Federal Army in times of the Mexican Revolution, he crossed over to rebel lines and put his ingenuity and his knowledge at the service of the cause of the oppressed. He fought under the orders of Francisco Villa in the Division of the North. His brothers in arms in the government army of that time branded him a traitor to his country.
History remembers him as a military patriot.
General Victoriano Huerta. Official of the federal army during the times of the Mexican Revolution, he put himself under orders of the ambassador from the United States of North America to the then President Francisco I. Madero. He headed the counterrevolution and organized massacres of indigenous and the destruction of villages in his military campaign against a transgressor of the law, the self-named "Emiliano Zapata." His brothers in arms of the then government army extolled him and praised him as a patriot.
History remembers him as a traitor to his Homeland.
1998, the Mexican Federal Army: so close to the Huertas and so far from the Angeles.
The mask of war, the silence of death always comes with it. And with death comes....
Forward to Part IV. The masks and the silences of those from below
