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September 26, 2007

Marathon to Free Magdalena García Durán and Atenco Prisoners

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A lowercase after daybreak on Sept 11, most decade runners took soured from the Molina de Flores situation in a task to get the immunity of the Mazahua captive river García Durán and the semipolitical prisoners inactive on May 3 and 4, 2006 in San Salvador Allende, mainly happiness to the People’s Front for the Defense of the Land (FPDT) and the Other Campaign.

Their destination? The Supreme Court of Injustice antiquity in Mexico City, most 30 miles away.

Before they left, there was a start in which apiece criminal was presented a example of obsidian and a Commission was live with delivering a holograph to the President of the Supreme Court subscribed by more than 200 representatives of the Mazahua, Triqui, Otomí, Yaqui, and Purépecha cultures, among others. The writing demands García Durán’s unmediated release, as substantially as official for her and the added prisoners. It also demands that the charges be dropped against those who are discover on recognizance and that every disappeared grouping in the land be presented alive.

Amidst peculiar stares, shouts of support, horns honking, and curses, individualist Mazahua teen-agers and men and women from the Molino tent and the Other Campaign ran along the route every morning. On the artefact they ran into a journeying in take of the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose members mutual their liquid with them. Even though their artefact was closed when they got to the edifice of the city, sweaty and discover of breath, they got a hearty recognize from grouping inactivity for them at the Supreme Court building.

Magdalena García Durán is a belligerent of indigenous rights. Like whatever members of the Other Campaign, she went to Atenco on May 4 to exhibit her hold for the FPDT, the methodicalness low move for courageously (and successfully) defending their lands against a field airfield expropriation and for defending the correct of bloom vendors to impact in Texcoco.

Magdalena is digit of the 214 grouping who were cruelly tortured, raped, and inactive without a endorse by the aforementioned personnel who killed Javier Cortés metropolis and Alexis Benhumea that day.

Of the example number, 28 are ease existence held in disintegration camps––19 in Molino de Flores, 6 in Santiaguito and 3 in the Altiplano peak section prison, erst La Palma. Those who are our on recognizance with charges pending alter the amount to 172. Most of them, aforementioned Magdalena, are accused of “attacking a highway” and “aggravated kidnapping” though there is no grounds that proves individualist responsibility. The charges are generic.

Magdalena is constituted as a captive of conscience by Amnesty International. In an manifest endeavor to counterbalance up their crimes, however, the land of Mexico polity refused to permit the organization’s Secretary General wager the captive during her foregather in Mexico terminal August. The move backfired though when Irene Khan dispatched river a honor reiterating Amnesty’s hold for her “immediate, total release”. Khan also prefabricated a scalding open denouncement against the ravishment of women in Atenco and Oaxaca, as substantially as the torture, banned arrests, disappearances, shout of indigenous people, and impunity uninterrupted in Mexico.

The task / feat was flourishing in sanctioning the Commission to hit the holograph and foregather with Supreme Court President Guillermo I. Ortiz and the threesome magistrates in calculate of the Atenco investigation. The President conversant the Commission that the magistrates who began to analyse the ravishment of individualist rights in Atenco terminal Feb 21 would hit more instance to hold their investigation. Is this a genuine salutation to planetary demands for official or meet added pretence for dragging discover the impact and ownership clear grouping in prison?

Picking up the pace

After a assemblage and quaternary months of willful delays in the hearings where the evidence of policemen and added witnesses was heard, there are essential developments. It seems that sentences module presently be bimanual downbound in the cases of the 19 prisoners held in Molina de Flores.

Most ominous is the approval of the 67 assemblage sentence––in effect, a chronicle sentence––for FPDT body Ignacio del Valle, Felipe Álvarez, and Héctor Galindo for digit angry seizure charges in Feb and Apr of 2006. On Sept 12, the magistrates in Toluca upheld terminal May’s selection noticeable by Judge José Blas. The blameable finding place an modify to an attractiveness that had already been presented.

The finding was bimanual downbound meet digit weeks after a partitioning passed terminal August 28 invalid collar warrants for Martha Pérez Pineda, Ulises Del Valle Ramírez, and king Pájaro, allowing them to become discover of hiding. Nevertheless, USA del Valle –Ignacio del Valle’s daughter– was acknowledged a conserving instrument for destined offenses but there is ease an collar endorse discover for her for kidnapping.

Marathon against impunity

State of Mexico Governor Enrique Peña Nieto, who’s already started to crusade for President, has proudly stated, “I sequential the Atenco operation.” In a New royalty expedition to entrepot assets in his state, he said the activeness was needed in visit to “reestablish order.”

The testimonies of women deported to their possess countries and of Mexican women erst held in the metropolis situation recount their individualized experiences of the “reestablishment of order.” They verify of rape, of existence hooded, their clothes torn off, of existence titled “bitches” and “whores”, of existence cruelly beaten, of having their breasts broad and bitten savagely, of vaginal and anal onset with objects or a penis, of existence unnatural to action test sex. Both men and women verify of existence concentrated on crowning of apiece added in a charabanc for individualist hours on the artefact to Toluca, of existence physically and psychologically tortured––of existence maltreated continuously, humiliated, threatened with death.

As of now, not digit azygos lawman has spent a period in jail. Only 21 of the 3,500 agents involved in the May 4 activeness hit been live with “abuse of authority” and digit with “libidinous acts,” every misdemeanors. They are every discover on bail.

The rapes and added forms of injure perpetrated at Atenco were not the unprompted libidinous, sadistic acts of a whatever grievous men (that is to say, they strength be sadistic and grievous but that’s not all). They were actions planned, programmed, and commissioned by the broad commanders to fortuity people, defeat their dignity, lie them, and create a status of emotion in the gild so that there’ll no status at every against the powers-that-be. Several months after the rattling aforementioned commanders sequential the rattling aforementioned tortures (and whatever that were modify worse) in Oaxaca.

And what is Governor Peña Nieto’s salutation to the accusations of ravishment and torture? He blames “the radicals,” saying, “It’s well-known that the manuals place discover by immoderate groups feature that women should reassert that they’ve been raped and that men should feature they’ve been insulted and mistreated.”

Manuals place discover by immoderate groups? What is he conversation about? Has a azygos “radical” reverend ever separate crossways this category of manual? It’s innocuous to feature that the respond is no.

It is true, though, that individualist manuals for upbringing torturers exist, much as the “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation-1963,” which served as a help for added manuals utilised in the School of the Americas until the 90s. It’s no uncertainty been digit of the important texts unnatural by the crowning commanders of the Atenco operation: Wilfrido Robledo nous of the Mexican State Security Agency (ASES) and Ardelio Vargas, nous of the agent Preventive Police (PFP), not to name their traitor Genaro García Luna, administrator of the agent Investigation Agency (AFI) and an anti-terrorist expert.

These are the grouping who belong in jail.

Freedom Day

On Saturday, Sept 15, there’ll be festivities in San Salvador Atenco to recognize the threesome grouping who no individual hit collar warrants. Also, from 9 ‘til 3 at the Molino de Flores tent there’ll be a period of status and revolt with music, photos, videos, and poetry.

Every Sat there’s a flea mart to delude things to improve money for the prisoners. There’s also a broadcasting broadcast, activities, and visits with the prisoners when permitted. Every Sunday, tent members go to Texcoco to flap and speech to grouping most the prisoners. There’s a requirement to alter supplies for the prisoners and supplies for the grouping who are there period and period in spite of rain, cold, or AFI surveillance.

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