Reality

"They have tricked us. They have brought us here to die. They had not given us anything to defend ourselves." The guerrilla still agonized next to the dozens of corpses that lay on the sidewalks of the streets and between the market stalls of Ocosingo, in the Sierra Lacandona . It was the first days of 1994. "He had two bullets in his belly and a wooden rifle next to him." The anonymous revolutionary was one of the 42 people who were sent to a certain death in front of the tanks and aviation of the Mexican Army. Their weapons were roughly carved wooden logs and an arsenal of utopian hope , in which religious songs were mixed with Marxist slogans, insufflated by a sinister character, who soon became a hero for the parasitic and unscrupulous caste of intellectuals of the European left

Two and a half years after that massacre, Subcomandante Marcos explained how his mythological transmutation in the last revolutionary sanctuary of the twentieth century had not been a coincidence: "We really left on January 1 to a kind of symbolic holocaust that allowed us to open consciousness about this [the indigenous question] (...) We said: we go out, of course they are going to tear us apart, but this will allow many sewers that are still covered to open up. "

But the immolation of those peasants - not Marcos' - would not serve to improve the lives of the forgotten Indians of southern Mexico. That was one of the conclusions anticipated by Subcomandante Marcos. The great imposture ( El País / Aguilar, 1998 ) a book by Bertrand de la Grange and Maite Rico written against Vázquez Montalbán , Ignacio Ramonet , Régis Debray , Alain Touraine , Noam Chomsky ... and all those who visited the Potemkin village in Chiapas that Marcos baptized as La Realidad and that it was nothing more than the trick that concealed that most of the local population was against the insurgents, but was silent to avoid the violence deployed against Zapatismo opponents within their own communities. On that lie, the indigenous ideology that Chávez and Morales then fed on was raised and served as a sentimental education for our leftist populisms .

Zapatismo, now led by the number two of Marcos , Subcomandante Moisés , has launched an offensive again. Twenty-five years later. There are already 43 self-managed and inaccessible territories where legality does not govern. "Welcome, go ahead," the irresponsible president López Obrador has encouraged them.

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