Chiapas.- In the final stretch of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) released a document entitled “Shall we start over?”, signed by “Captain” Marcos, in which he criticizes violence, displacement, and the megaprojects of the Fourth Transformation.
In the text signed with the characteristic signature of a skull, the man formerly known as Subcomandante Marcos used lines from the poem “Romance Sonámbulo” by Federico García Lorca to suggest an intention to return.
“But who will come? And from where?” he said.
By using allusions to the wind, he praised the strength from where he said he was: “the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.”
Without mentioning the state of Chiapas, where his movement originated, he condemned the fact that the population is the victim of multiple crimes, and said that the government is not a solution.
“I could tell you the exact date, but it’s not relevant or something, depending. You might not understand this firm but apparent resignation or resistance: the mountain in enduring one blow after another; the wind in its apparent retreat, giving up to return later. Always the same, always different.
“In the displaced and in those evicted from life by extortion. In the libertarian @ who has been warning for some time that the State is not a solution but a problem. In the Palestinian girl who with that bomb received the unknown of life and the certainty of death (…) to women who seek forced absences,” he noted.
He also criticized the federal works of the current Administration, the first of the Morena party.
“But it is not these hasty twists and turns that concern the mountain. It has seen worse, if you ask it. No, what concerns it are the storms that come with bulldozers, excavators, mineral prospectors, tourist companies, factories, shopping malls, trains, governments that pretend to be what they are not, destruction, death. In short: the system.
“(They hear the wind) in La Polvorilla and in the wound that the Trans-Isthmus Train, a festering sore, leaves in the hearts of the natives who fight (…) in tortured Haiti and in the Mayan cenotes defiled by the rails of demagoguery,” he said.
In the final part of his writing, he sent a message in which he called for waiting.
“Not everyone listens. Only those who look far and deep understand what that word spoken by Ixmucané (goddess), the most wise, says and warns. (…) Patience is a virtue of the warrior. Okay. Cheers and may the night find us as it is law, that is, awake,” he concluded.
On January 1, in the framework of the 30th anniversary of their armed uprising, from the wooden platform of Caracol VIII, in the municipality of Ocosingo in the jungle of Chiapas, Subcommander Moisés, spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), sent a message in which he affirmed that they will remain distant from capitalism and will walk alone.
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