AUT: Urgent EZLN Communique on Attack on San Jose de la Esperanza, Aug

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:40:49 -0400
From: irlandesa <irlandesa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: chiapas-n <chiapas-n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Urgent CCRI-CG Communique

Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN
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Translated by irlandesa

Date:   Wednesday, August 25, 1999 20:47
From:   enlacecivil-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

CCRI-CG of the EZLN Communique
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Communique From the Comandancia General -
        Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee of the
        Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Mexico

August 25, 1999.

To the People of Mexico
To the Peoples and Governments of the World
To the National and International Press

Today, August 25, 1999, in the morning hours, Federal Army troops and
public security police from the State of Chiapas attacked the community of
San Jose la Esperanza, located between the towns of Rizo de Oro and the
Aguascalientes of La Realidad

During the military attack the companeros Enrique Lopez Cruz, Estanislao
Lopez Gomez and Carmelino Mendez Lopez were arbitrarily detained, beaten
and tied up.

In addition, Hermelindo Vazquez Lopez and Francisco Vazquez Vazquez were
wounded by gunfire, and the women from the community were beaten up by the
soldiers.

The Albores-Zedillo couple are continuing their war against the indigenous.

THAT IS ALL

DEMOCRACY
LIBERTY
JUSTICE

For the Comandancia General of the
        Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee of the
        Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Felipe, Comandante David, Comandante Moises, Daniel and Rafael



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