November 20, 1999.
To the Zapatista National Liberation Army and Front:
To the Popular Revolutionary Army and Democratic Popular Revolutionary Party:
To the Greater Front for the Construction of the National Liberation Movement:
To the Provisional Government, Nation of Aztlan:
To the national and international civil society:
To the national and international press:
The Clandestine Command "Division of the North" addresses itself to you to say the following:
First: Regrettably, our own development is not yet to the point at which we can carry out a "Villista Consultation" at this time: the questions, however, remain before the Mexican people: on the Constitutional Convention, on specific proposals to the Constitutional Convention, on specific questions on political and economic development, and on the role of the CCDN (FVLN) and other insurgents the FVLN is seeking to represent in the national liberation.
Secondly: Equally regrettably, the counterinsurgency is developing its repression of national liberation, both in the Mexican Republic and in Aztlan, along lines that will necessitate further efforts on our part of a sort that may further impede our efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis now gripping Mexico.
Third: We wish at this time to articulate further our position on the borders of the Mexican Republic: we feel that these are imposed borders, and that, therefore, Article 42 of the Mexican Political Constitution needs to be amended to include the clause: "The national territory includes all of Mexico as it declared its independence from Spain in 1810; however, pending reintegration of the alienated parts of Mexican territory, the Congress and Government at present extend their authority to (the presently enumerated states of the United Mexican States). The Congress of the United Mexican States may admit or readmit states to the United Mexican States upon acession of those states to the Constitution of the United Mexican States, or may conclude treaties of association of states with the United Mexican States, which need not preclude association of those states with other national states." In this way, we convey the same initial position toward Aztlan as the West German Federal Republic had toward the German Democratic Republic in the East, or as the Republic of Ireland had toward Northern Ireland, leaving the door open toward transitional solutions to ethnic and socioeconomic tensions in the border states.
Fourth: We must at this time reiterate the insurgent demand before the PRI dictatorship that it resign in favour of a Constitutional Convention; in addition, we must demand that the Government of the United States of America immediately suspend all aid to and cooperation with the PRI dictatorship (School of the Americas counterinsurgency training, military assistance groups of all kinds, DEA/FBI laison that in reality aids drug traffickers and hurts insurgents and the Mexican people, financial aid, etc.); and we must demand that the Government of the United States of America end the socioeconomic and ethnic cleansing of Aztlan (the revival of Proposition 187, the continuance of Propositions 209 and 227 in Califas; the promulgation of racist policing, urban planning, and social service policies; Operation Gatekeeper, etc.). Failure to meet these demands, or to offer to negotiate upon the basis of these demands, will endanger the peace in Mexico, both in the Republic and in Aztlan.
That is all for now.
Liberty! Justice! Democracy! Human Rights!
From the Mexican Northwest, Insurgent Subcommander Angeles. Branch of Enlace, Communications, and Investigations, Clandestine Command "Division of the North" (Villista National Liberation Front).
P.S.: Logistical difficulties have delayed the release of this communique until now: we note with satisfaction, mixed with foreboding, the anti-neoliberal popular uprising against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle: a fitting bridge between Revolution Day and International Human Rights Day. We fully support the anti-neoliberal popular uprising, and will do our utmost to continue its courageous and sagacious momentum in all Mexico, both in the Republic and in Aztlan.
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