(President Ernesto) Zedillo destroyed any confidence in his government. Without confidence, it is impossible to reach agreements. If there are no agreements, why hold a dialogue? ... July 1998 from the mountains of southeastern Mexico. |
a paunch like a six-month pregnancy. |
All these discussions are going to help decide what we are. |
Surely the agents of the government, businessmen and political parties have sent to inform you what happens here. After hearing us and hearing you, they will write in their report a false alarm. There's nothing to be worried about. The suspects are crazy and they haven't noticed each other. End of report. |
The aim is to listen and learn about the struggles, the resistance and rebel movements, support them and bind them together to build a national anti-capitalist, leftist program. |
The movement is growing, more people are coming in, we are getting to know people that we did not know before. |
The world has lost one of those women it requires. Mexico has lost one of the combative women it needs and we, we have lost a piece of our heart. |
The Zapatista delegation will start out where it started 12 years ago on January 1 2006, in San Cristobal de las Casas. |
There is a difference between an inconsequential left and a consequential right, the difference is they both do the same things, but one says they don't. |
We are going to rise up to overthrow the supreme governments, to overthrow corrupt officials, to throw all the rich and powerful out of this country and begin building a new Mexico with humble, simple people. |
We don't care who gets elected on July 2, because whoever it is will be overthrown. |
We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes. |
We hold a dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. That's why we hold a dialogue. |
We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above. |
We want to say here to the directors of the PRD and to the party's leaders, 'don't keep lying' and 'look for better arguments to debate' because, if you don't, not only will we think you're shameless morons, but we will conclude you're stupid. |