LOS LLANOS OF LOS ALTOS, CHIAPAS ADDS ITS REJECTION OF THE SC-PALENQUE SUPER-HIGHWAY AND EXTENDS INVITATION

“No to the destruction of our Mother Earth because in her we live and for her we die. No to the super-highway,” painted on a building in Los Llanos Ejido.

Los Llanos Ejido, San Cristobal de Las Casas, adds itself to the resistance against construction of the Super-Highway, and extends an invitation to know its culture, to share the fruits that Mother Earth yields and to exchange ideas for walking to defend Mother Earth, on October 12.

After the mega-march of Believing People where 15,000 indigenous marched, 2,000 Bachajón ejido owners, and the almost 3,000 people of Candelaria that got together to reject the construction of the Super-Highway on their lands, passing through the sacred Laguna Suyul and the blockage of the Ocosingo-Palenque highway, the Los Llanos ejido owners add themselves to the rejection.

THE COMPLETE COMUNICADO

IN LOS LLANOS EJIDO, MUNICIPALITY OF SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, MEXICO
, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

TO THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLES IN RESISTANCE

TO THE COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA

TO BELIEVING PEOPLE

TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

TO THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS

TO THE ADHERENTS TO THE SIXTH DECLARATION OF THE LACANDON JUNGLE

Brothers and sisters, compañeros and compañeras, our people continue organizing in defense of our lands that the government has said publicly it wants to affect for the construction of the San Cristóbal de Las Casas to Palenque super-highway. We are making our struggle a legal and political one faced with the threat from the authorities that want to deprive us of our rights as indigenous peoples without respecting the Constitution and the international treaties, just as it wants to do with other Tsotsil, Tseltal and Chol peoples and communities without taking their opinion in to account. The government only wants to do what it wants without asking, by means of force and threats.

We are not in agreement that we are dispossessed of our territory only to serve the capitalist interests of the rich and to discriminate as always against poor campesinos, against we Indigenous that live from Mother Earth. The government must respect its own laws and respect the peoples that don’t sell their lands and dignity for a few pesos; the land has no price.

Our people want to share their struggle with other communities, peoples and organizations that are resisting in the defense of their territory and therefore our Peoples’ Assembly has made an agreement to celebrate the resistance of the indigenous peoples next October 12, 2014 at 8 o’clock, the hour of God, in our lands.

We want you to accompany us so that you know our culture, share the fruits of Mother Earth with us and exchange ideas for walking together to defend Mother Earth.

We await you on October 12, 2014 a las 8 AM, hour of God, in the place known as Chivero, located at kilometer 5+100 of the San Cristóbal de Las Casas Highway on the way to Ocosingo, one kilometer before arriving at the State Center of Social Re-adaptation Social Number 5 (CERSS 5) of San Cristóbal, in front of the GASCOM gas plant.

Tierra y Libertad!

Ejido Commission de Los Llanos,
Municipio of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

Juan López López, Miguel Jiménez Díaz, Francisco Díaz Gómez,
President, Secretary and Treasurer

Vigilance Council of Los Llanos, Municipio of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

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Originally Posted in Spanish by Espoir Chiapas

Sunday, September 21, 2014

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