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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 05
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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STOP THE WITCH HUNT BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT!
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[La Jornada, 9/1/96. Translation by Conspiracy Nation.
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Prepared statement by FAC-MLN, El Frente Amplio por la
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Construccion del Movimiento para la Liberacion Nacional.]
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Mexico -- The organizations and individuals joined together as
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FAC-MLN (El Frente Amplio por la Construccion del Movimiento para
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la Liberacion Nacional) denounces the declarations made by
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government sub-secretary Arturo Nunez Jimenez, which constitute
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full proof of the witch hunt which the government is carrying out
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against the groups which are developing a democratic alternative
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within the legal limits contained in our Constitution.
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The government wants to put a stop to dissent and social protest,
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caused by its own anti-populist politics, by increasing the
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repression against our organizations and their members through
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use of massive and selective detention, persecution,
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"disappearances" and jailings of activists, whom they brutally
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torture in order to drag out from them "confessions" which make
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them appear responsible for the current unrest in Mexico.
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The Secretary of Government tendentiously tries to link diverse
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entities of the FAC-MLN with the Popular Army of the Revolution
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(EPR, Ejercito Popular Revolucionario) in order to hide that
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those uniquely and truly responsible for the popular discontent
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and for the causes which have given birth to these armed groups
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is the government itself, which through its neo-liberal economic
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policies has plunged Mexico into the most profound crisis in its
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history.
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There is now a campaign by the government to distort, twist, and
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mis-represent our national political reality in order to confuse
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public opinion so as to justify its criminal and repressive
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politics.
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The existence of armed dissident movements in Mexico is the
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result of misery, inequality, injustice, impunity, corruption,
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lack of democracy and collapse of the rule of law which prevails
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in our nation and for which the only one responsible is the
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government itself. But this government, rather than offering a
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solution, instead increases repression and blames some of our
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groups for the situation, pointing to them as "radicals" and
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"subversives" and as being behind armed dissidents such as the
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EPR.
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We ask: Is it radical to exercise the political liberties and
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rights contained in our Constitution? Is it radical to fight to
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achieve a better quality of life and livelihood for our people?
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Is it radical to want to end the misery, injustice, and
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oppression with which the government has tried to oppose us? Is
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it radical to fight to make valid a true rule of law in our
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country? Is it radical to fight for liberty, justice, and
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democracy? Is it radical to demand work, better pay, and that
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our children will have a dignified life, education, health and
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well-being? Is it radical to oppose our people being massacred,
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persecuted, jailed, tortured and assassinated, by fighting to
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obtain better economic and social conditions? Is it radical to
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demonstrate our protest and dissent against the anti-populist
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politics and sub-human conditions to which the government has
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submitted us?
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We think not. To deny a people its right to live is to deny them
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their right to demonstrate and to fight to make real their
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passion for justice, democracy and liberty. This is not just
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unjust, it is criminal. We are not about to abandon our
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passions, nor to abandon our struggle to achieve them. We will
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continue to make use of the rights conferred upon us by our
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Constitution, demonstrating in the streets, before our people,
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and denouncing the government as the only one responsible for the
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situation in which we are living and for any violence suffered by
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our groups or their members.
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We denounce before the national and international community the
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government repression and its police and military institutions
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being used against the people. The government will not be able
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to silence our voices nor halt our struggle to make real our
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constitutional rights.
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We demand that the government put an end to the armed conflict
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which exists in Mexico by redressing the causes which gave it
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birth and not by increasing the militarization of our country,
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nor increasing repression and massacre against our people as it
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is now doing.
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We call upon the people of Mexico, the political and social
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organizations, the political parties, the human rights
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organizations, to help show our repudiation of the political
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violence of this regime which is contrary to the interests of our
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people. The government wants to annul and to drown in blood our
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right to struggle for a life with liberty, equality, justice and
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democracy.
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