{"id":12365,"date":"2016-05-06T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elenemigocomun.net\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:54:58","slug":"red-may-10-years-later-atenco-resists-plunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elenemigocomun.net\/2016\/05\/red-may-10-years-later-atenco-resists-plunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Red May: 10 years later, Atenco resists plunder again"},"content":{"rendered":"

x carolina<\/p>\n

Sky-rockets blast off. Machetes gleam. Atenco is in town to head up a march from the Independence Angel to the Mexico City Zocalo. More than a thousand people join in. Chants ring out: Atenco lives! The struggle continues!<\/p>\n

The march brings two days of activities to a close \u2013\u2013 activities organized by the Peoples\u2019 Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) to mark the brutal repression of May 3 – 4, 2006, in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco, where a struggle in support of local flower vendors was in full swing. The aim of the police terror, incited by the news media, was to punish campesinos who had succeeded in stopping the most important project of the Vicente Fox administration in 2002 \u2013\u2013an airport that would have robbed them of their lands. <\/p>\n

Just a few days before, in a visit to the town of Atenco, Subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN had said: “We\u2019ve come to recognize you as our older brothers because you\u2019ve shown us how to defy the powerful, confront them, and with our own hands, defend what they want to take from us: land, liberty and life. This noble land of Atenco has much to teach, not only to us as Zaptatistas, but to all people in struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why so many groups and organizations all over the country have invited the Atenco comrades to visit their communities and explain how they were able to defeat Fox\u2019s number one project. And when solidarity is called for, Atenco is always there.<\/p>\n

\"atenco-4mayo4--\"<\/p>\n

A voice comes over the sound truck:
\n\u201cLet no one forget the invasion of 3,500 state and federal police in our town, the violent house searches, the bloody beatings, the murders of young Alexis Benhumea and Javier Cort\u00e9s, the arrests of 207 comrades, and the sexual torture of at least 26 women, 11 of whom have brought international court action against the State\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Red May repression was ordered by then Governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, now President of the country. He\u2019s proud of it. He brags about it. That repression is cloaked in impunity.<\/p>\n