Zapatistas Offer to Defend Indigenous Lands Against Government/Corporate Threats Jose Gil Olmos and Isain Mandujano - Proceso
go to original August 19, 2013

Closing Ceremony: National Indigenous Congress (Miguel Dimayuga)

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Chiapas - The General Command of the EZLN [Zapatista Army of National Liberation] pledged to defend lands of the original peoples threatened by the government and transnational corporations "regardless of consequences."

In closing the meeting of the National Indigenous Congress, reinstituted at the convocation "Tata Juan Chávez" held at the University of the Earth, Comandanta Miriam said that the EZLN was endorsing the defense of indigenous territories. On behalf of the Zapatista leadership, Comandanta Miriam said that the bad, neoliberal governments and transnational corporations "reign with money and impose projects of death in our territory."

She pointed out that the indigenous people have to defend themselves "regardless of the consequences."

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