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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 17:07:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Sendic Estrada Jimenez <sestrada-AT-fcfm.buap.mx>
Subject: M-NEWS: E;Letter from Marcos, Sep 3 (fwd)






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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 00:36:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chiapas95 <owner-chiapas95-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
Subject: E;Letter from Marcos, Sep 3


This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of 
Accion Zapatista de Austin.


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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 16:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: NUEVO AMANECER PRESS <amanecer-AT-aa.net>
Reply-To: mexico2000-AT-mep-d.org
Subject: (Fwd) Letter from Marcos, September 3rd

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Date:          Fri, 5 Sep 1997 17:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:          Joshua Paulson <joshua-AT-peak.org>
Subject:       Letter from Marcos, September 3rd

   
   Zapatista Army of National Liberation 
   
   To the National and International Press:
   
   3 September 1997.
   
   Ladies and Gentlemen:
   
   Attached is a communique explaining what we are going to do in Mexico
   City. Over here, we are continuing the preparations. We will go even
   though, after the State of the Nation address, it is quite clear to us
   where the indigenous problem fits into the government's agenda. Is
   there anyone truly listening up there?
   
   Vale. Health, and may the homeland now be ours as well.
   
	   From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
   
	      The Sup, preparing his little flag.
   
  		 Mexico, September of 1997.
   

   Section "The Counting Postscript of Stories and of the Dead".
   (for when the sea awakes).
   
   P.S.- THAT GREETS ALL THE CLOSETS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE WORLD:
   
   I. The Tale of the Little Seamstress
   
   "Once upon a time, there was a little seamstress who sewed a lot and
   sewed very well on his sewing machine. The machines in his
   neighborhood laughed at him, and shouted "Fairy", "only old women are
   seamstresses", etcetera. So then the little seamstress sewed the
   mouths shut of everyone who made fun of him, and now we don't know how
   the story ended because no one could tell it. The end".
   
   P.S.- THAT WARNS:
   
   II. The Tale of the Little Newspaper Vendor
   
   "Once upon a time, there was a little newspaper vendor who was very,
   very poor, and only could sell old newspapers because he didn't have
   enough money to obtain new ones. The people didn't buy his newspapers,
   because they were all so old, and the people wanted new newspapers. So
   the little newspaper vendor didn't sell anything, and every day he
   accumulated more and more old newspapers. So then what the little
   newspaper vendor did was put up a paper recycling plant and he became
   a millionaire, bought out all the newspaper enterprises and the news
   agencies, prohibited the publication of current news, and thus obliged
   the people to read only the news of the past. In the papers which went
   out on sale today, for example, one could read that the Zapatistas
   were about to arrive in Mexico City and that there they would meet
   with the Villistas. The date can't quite be made out, but it seems to
   say either '1914' or '1997'. The End."
   
   P.S.- FOR THE CCN OF THE FAC-MLN. That argument of "we are the
   organization with the most prisoners, the most dead, and most
   repression against us" was already thrown in our face by the PRD three
   years ago. It would be better for you to learn to add and, above all,
   to subtract. Indigenous Mexico has many schools in which to learn to
   the deadly mathematics of repression and oblivion. There, they teach
   that the legitimacy of an organization is not obtained with the number
   of dead, but with honest and consequent practices, those which allow
   the dead to live.
   
   While you learn the arithmetic, add into the total that which some of
   your leaders receive from Ruiz Ferro, the trips to the United States
   and Europe which, dressed as "Zapatistas", two of the signers (one of
   whom didn't even put their name correctly) of the letter of
   "clarification" enjoyed during all this time, and add all of the
   support which they have spared to the rebel indigenous peoples, with
   the argument of the "reformism of the FZLN". If after totalling it all
   up, you still believe that it is not "clear opportunism", then you can
   use the term "political realism", which, yes, is the same thing, but
   doesn't sound quite as bad.
   
   Anyway, you are now going to find real Zapatistas even in the soup.
   Your monopoly on the radical left is over. What's coming is coming,
   and then what follows will follow. As someone said whose name I can't
   remember, "let the bases decide".
   
   The little letter of follow-up reinforcement by the Dynamic Duo of
   Miron and Botey is useless, and we are not losing any sleep over it.
   We are not worried by their threats, their "annoyance", and their
   governmental calls to "prudence".
   
   In any case, we are going to Mexico City, now not only without the
   "support" of the leadership of the FAC-MLN. Now we are going in spite
   of it and, of course, in spite of the government. The end.
   
   The Sup reading, in the late-edition newspapers, the letter that Villa
   writes to Zapata on January 8th, 1916.
   






[Translated by Joshua Paulson]


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