Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 10 09:48:44 1995 > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:44:32 -0600 (CST) > From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Government Set-up? (fwd) > To: Comite de Solidaridad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9502101145.f850-0100000@telesto> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:40:06 -0600 (CST) > From: Harry M. Cleaver <hmcleave@telesto> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Nuevas noticias sobre gobierno y EZLN? > > On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Jouni Pirttijarvi wrote: > > > > > > > Estoy preguntando si ha aparecido nuevas noticias > > despues del discurso de Zedillo presentado el jueves 9.2.? > > Me extrana si la informarcon revelada por el gobierno > > se basa en datos reales (especialmente los datos sobre > > los "planes conspirativos" de EZLN) o si todo ha sido > > una invencion para justificar operativos militares? > > > > La situacion parece muy alarmante, y quisiera meter informacion > > para redes en Finlandia antes de fin de semana. > > > > saludos, Jouni Pirttijarvi > > Centro Iberoamericano > > Universidad de Helsinki > > > > > Jouni: > > The odds have it that the government constructed the so-called "arms caches" > themselves to provide an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway. > > As the content of Zedillo's TV message made clear, they seek legitimacy > for their actions by branding the Zapatistas as "terrorists". Given that > the Zapatistas have never undertaken any "terrorist"-style actions, e.g., > planting bombs in train stations or bus stops, the government would have > to construct something around which to weave its propaganda. But even if > the government actually found arms caches (the Zapatistas ARE an army > after all) the real problem is their interpretation of the find. They > have concocted a political interpretation which is completely at variance > with the Zapatista political behavior over the last year. > > Why have they done this? Because they have been losing ground steadily on > the terrain of political debate that the Zapatistas opened up. They can't > win in a debate about democracy because they are not now and never have > been democratic; nor do they support any real movement toward democracy. > Zedillo's call for the Zapatistas to convert themselves into a formal > political party was a call for them to start playing by the rules and to > become part of the same corrupt system that has ruled Mexico all these > years. > > >From the beginning the Zapatistas have called for a rethinking and a > recasting of Mexican democracy. Not just for marginal reforms, but for a > new kind of bottom up democracy that takes power out of the hands of the > professional, capitalist financed politicians and puts it in the hands of > the grassroots. This was the proposal they made, that Mexicans should > open a dialog about how to do this. This the PRI-state has refused to do. > Virtually dumb in the face of the EZLN's honest and appealing discourse, > the state has done what every authoritarian government has always done: > struck back with force, like the vicious brute it is. > > > ====================================== > Harry Cleaver > Department of Economics > University of Texas at Austin > Austin, Texas 78712-1173 > USA > > Phone Numbers: (hm) (512) 442-5036 > (off) (512) 471-3211 > Fax: (512) 471-3510 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================== > > >
