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> From: Jason Wehling <jason@EE.PDX.EDU>
> Subject: Mobilize Now to Stop the Mexican Government! (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 23:12:10 -0600 (CST)
> From: Harry M. Cleaver <hmcleave@mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
> To: chiapas-l@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx
> Cc: mexico94@profmexis.dgsca.unam.mx, reg.mexico@igc.apc.org,
> mexico-l@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx
> Subject: Mobilize Now to Stop the Mexican Government!
>
> Action Alert!
>
> At 6 o'clock this evening, Mexican President Zedillo went on television
> and announced that the government had discovered EZLN arms caches in
> Veracruz City and Mexico City. He identified Subcommandante Marcos as
> "Rafael Santiago Guillen Vicente". He proceeded to brand the EZLN
> "terrorists" and announced that he had ordered to Mexican Army to
> "capture" them, i.e., to attack. Zedillo said the army has been ordered
> to "search" for them "in all national territory". This seems a code for
> attacking Zapatista territory in Chiapas.
>
> This appears to be the attack that we have all feared was coming. The
> velvet glove of peaceful negotiations has been cast off and the mailed fist
> of the Mexican state has once more been bared. Zedillo's branding of the EZLN
> as "terrorists" is a return to the language used by Salinas a year ago in
> his first reactions to the uprising.
>
> The only thing that stopped the military then, and the only thing
> that will stop it now is massive mobilization against the government's actions.
>
> Therefore, all who have mobilized in solidarity with the struggle for
> democracy in Mexico should organize immediate action. If we can, once again,
> create an international wave of protest against the Mexican state's actions
> perhaps we can bring this new offensive to a stop. If we do not so
> organize we will share responsibility for the murders and tortures the
> Mexican army and police have probably already begun.
>
>
> ======================================
> Harry Cleaver
> Department of Economics
> University of Texas at Austin
> Austin, Texas 78712-1173
> USA
>
> Phone Numbers: (hm) (512) 442-5036
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> Fax: (512) 471-3510
> E-mail: hmcleave@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
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