Psst!,
psst,
psst!
Is anyone there? Anyone listening?
Someone looking? Even a heart?
Vale. Salud and patience, guerrero virtue.
From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.
Mexico, August of 2004, 20 and 10.
P.S. Pardon the interruption, but the fact is we also have a video. The only problem is that it has to be read (technological limitations of the rebel resistance), and, that's right, you have to switch channelsÉ
Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN ************************************ Translated by irlandesa
The new communiques included
Two Flaws - August 2004
There are two mistakes which seem to have persisted in Zapatista
political work: the place of women, on the one hand, and, on the
other, the relationship between the political-military structure and
the autonomous governments.
Three Shoulders August 2004
So we rose up in arms one first day of January in the year of 1994Éin
order to seek another shoulder which would help us walk, that is, to
exist.
Four Fallacies about the Good
Government Juntas - August 2004
These were brandished by intellectuals of the right, judges,
legislators and officials in order to oppose the San Andrés
Accords, and the putting into practice of those accords with the
creation of the caracoles and the Good Government Juntas
Five Decisions of Good Government
August
Marcos details the first year of the Good Government Juntas in which
some internal accords were formalized and new decisions were defined
Six Advances - August
This is what the zapatista peoples are doing. They're not waiting for
the government to give them charity and speeches. They are working to
improve their living conditions, and they are achieving that.
Seven Days in Zapatista Territory -
August
A snapshot of what is happening on the ground
Enter Durito - August
And so, when no one is expecting it (including me), a beetle appears
on the screen (or on the paper) with the following speech: