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Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos Sharpens the Call for Expropriation of the Means of Production
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2169.html
By Al Giordano
October 15, 2006
LA PAZ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; OCTOBER 14, 2006: The greedy grab by international hotel chains and real estate speculators, among other industries, for
the more than 3,000 kilometers of coastline along the Baja California Peninsula has placed its human residents and nature itself under daily attack.
Pristine beaches have turned into expensive tourist traps with skyscraping buildings rising higher each day, condos and waterfront parcels sold in
English with prices set in dollars, big plans for golf courses, proposals for casinos, corrupt government functionaries and politicians that steal the
lands from the poor and sell them to the rich, while bays and inlets that once counted 217 edible species of seafood are turned into open sewers where
the dying fish wash up on shore daily.
It is an environmental and human disaster of epic proportions, irreversible, irrevocable. No slow “reform” or “legislation” could stop this death
sentence killing Baja – the fourth longest peninsula on earth – even if it were to be tried, but that is a moot point anyway since the members of the
Mexican political class have rented themselves out to make the first attacks and behind them come the big money boys of international capitalism to
mop it up: All of it. In every corner of the peninsula’s southernmost tip the destruction is visible but the pain of those who suffer most from it is
silenced.
But on Friday and Saturday that silence turned into word. Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos – who arrived in Baja California Sur by ferry boat early
Friday morning after authorities backed down from their threats to deny him a ticket – heard the testimony of those who witnessed and must live in the
ruins of what happened to this Eden on Earth. By midday Saturday, with urgency in his voice, he suggested a path out of this hell in paradise:
“Imagine if the big hotels were owned by you and if you were the administrators… There is a hotel owned by an indigenous community in the state of
Hidalgo… The education of all the children of that community is funded through scholarships from the proceeds through their graduation from
universities.”
Is there any environmental organization, public agency, newspaper editorial board, congressional bill, or any kind of “reform” that any such
do-gooders or pretenders have suggested that could possibly bring this billionaire assault on the land, the water, the air and their residents, to a
stop before the damage can’t be repaired? No. And that is why the simple suggestion – that the people take back what once belonged to everyone – is so
irresistible. It is why the model of expropriating land refined in 1994 by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials)
in the bottom corner of a country called Mexico, the state of Chiapas, is so relevant to the problems in the upper corner of Baja.
On Friday, in Cabo San Lucas, on the peninsula’s tip, Marcos and all who accompanied him heard detailed testimony of what has occurred up and down the
coast at an outdoor forum titled “Capitalism: the land, the water, the air” outside that town’s House of Culture.
“We Have to Retake It”
One of those who spoke, Sergio Rodríguez Aroña, had trekked three hours from the ejido El Centenario near La Paz to explain that in his neighborhood
“100 percent of the communal land owners have been expelled from their lands… Now the new owners are building a gringo colony called Lomas del
Centenario and the former farmers are the pawns and construction workers for the gringos.” The new owners have buried half the mangrove swamps along
the salt-water inlet in landfill to build their estates, he reported, and have turned the bay into “a glass of fecal water.” He invited all present to
come and see it for themselves the following day.
Sad, what he said, but true. Saturday’s visit to the waterside by Marcos and a swarm of reporters – independent and commercial media alike – revealed
a foul smell, dead fish, and clumps of ugly brown matter floating along the shore as neighbors told him what had happened to this once-beautiful
(before capital invaded) place. At once point Delegate Zero grabbed a tape recorder from a member of the Other Journalism Road Team and conducted the
interviews himself, then handing the apparatus back so the words could be reported (see Kristin Bricker’s upcoming report for the details).
And on the plot of land where Sergio grew up and from where his father, Manuel Rodríquez Barrajan was arrested – spending three years in prison in the
1980s for trying to defend the communal ejido – others, still, took the microphone to tell of their pain and to urge resistance. What is interesting
about this fight, like others in the region, is that the government says it is over, that those who once worked this land growing cotton, wheat and
alfalfa, that those who once hunted the bay’s floor for clams, oysters, scallops and other shellfish, that those who once fished for squid and shrimp
and so many other foods, will never own their lands again; that it’s all a done deal, it has been sold to the foreigners, and tough luck.
But that is not how those who live on the sand streets (without pavement, drainage or any other kind of government service) of El Centenario see it:
“We have to organize ourselves to retake it,” said Sergio Rodríguez Aroña.
There is a point at each turn of history when the grievances build to a critical mass to the point that the very legitimacy of the system that causes
them collapses. Baja California Sur is on a collision course with that fateful day. And – as is the point of the Other Campaign – this time it is not
alone.
The Macossay Doctrine
This week marks the first visit by the man known as Subcomandante Marcos (at least since he became that person two decades ago in the Lacandon Jungle
of Chiapas) to Baja California Sur. The busloads of North American tourists, the schmaltzy “spring break” bars along the hotel strips – masking the
abuse of impoverished workers, most of them from other parts of Mexico, who clean the rooms, wait the tables, prune the gardens, and do the rest of
the grunt work – immediately reminded him of what he had seen last January along the shores of the Yucatán Peninsula at the far other end of Mexico
when he began this trek through the entire country.
On Friday, in Cabo San Lucas, he cited the situation in the state of Quintana Roo, where from Cancún through Playa del Carmen, down to Tulum and
Chetumal, the “development” (read: destruction) of the Caribbean coast bodes what future money and power have in store for Baja California Sur. And he
recalled one of the Other Campaign’s dead: the late Julio Macossay (1949-2006), the labor and environmental lawyer from Playa del Carmen who helped
organized this effort ten months ago, only to perish of heart problems later in the Spring. “Julio Macossay said that the destruction of the land is a
product of capitalism,” remembered Marcos.
“The development (of tourist resorts) did not generate a single job in Quintana Roo,” the Subcomandante said, noting that “all inclusive” and other
resorts bring in workers from out of state and from Guatemala to build and staff their facilities, urging the Baja Sureños to distrust the claims of
government and business that tourism development brings jobs and benefits to the locals. (A theme of the Other Journalism’s video newsreel: Delegate
Zero Comes to Quintana Roo/A Land of Immigrants.)
But it was in Sergio’s backyard on Saturday that Delegate Zero offered more definition than any moment before along the ten-month Other Campaign trail
on the matter of expropriation of the means of production, a theme he had opened up last March in Querétaro, underscored during The First National
Workers’ Gathering on April 29, and drove home on May 1.
Specifically, it means entire communities and workers taking back the big hotels in this state and elsewhere. “What this country needs is an uprising,
civil and peaceful,” he said. “Out with the hotel owners and may the hotels belong to the people of Baja California Sur!”
Noting that when a situation becomes so severe, as here along this peninsula, “that you either must fight or you will die,” he added: “The people’s
instinct is to fight instead of die.”
Then, he expanded the concept beyond that of communities retaking hotels. “Imagine,” said Marcos, challenging the many media workers present, “if a
newspaper became property of the workers.”
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Why doesn't he also point out the fact that many of us Mexicanos are too short sighted and dumb to develop what we have. We are as guilty as any
foreigner for whats happening in Baja.
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Wait a minute
| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Why doesn't he also point out the fact that many of us Mexicanos are too short sighted and dumb to develop what we have. We are as guilty as any
foreigner for whats happening in Baja. |
It sounds like you're blaming the victim? The poor and uneducated are the victims here and perhaps the ability to be far sighted needs to be
developed. Dumb? Perhaps naive and innocent better describes those people.
The poor need someone to represent them and their interests. Whoever is speaking out against the injustice and inequity represents them.
Were the Indians who were swindled by the white's that showed up short sighted and dumb?
When the Spanish ruling class entrenched themselves in Mexico back when, they brought the greed and corruption that is here today.
Don't blame the Mexicans, please, especially those who suffer from the benefits of the others.
 
US Marines: providing enemies of America an opportunity to die for their country since 1775.
What I say before any important decision.
F*ck it.
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Jesse:
I do not agree that you are other Mexicanos are Dumb!
I have Traveled and Lived in Baja Sur for nearly 40 years. I have lived with the Poor, known the Rich, advised some to stay in Baja and not go North
to be Americanized.
The Sub-Commander is predictable in His words and Actions as he is Controlled by the "Elite Left " out of Mexico City. Like other such movements, if
successful, the Elite bunch will take control and keep the Masses at Bay, throwing them a Scrap now and then to try to keep them Happy. Cuba is a
Great Example!!
For the many Mexicanos that I have known, there is in their Nature'To produce only what they need for on a Given Day"'. Not to Worry!!
There are others who always want More and are Driven by Hunger for Food and a better way of Life. Such as yourself.
The Solution is not easy, nor will it be Speedy as you know there has always been the saying" It takes a LOng time to Change Mexico".
What would Happen if the Govt. Nationalised all the Big Hotels, as they did the Oil?
What would Happen if the Govt. prevented any workers, other than Locals to do the Construction work on the new Hotels?
Some of the Happyist People I have ever Known have lived most of their Lives in a Cardboard Shack, getting up in the Morning to work or go fishing,
herd their Goats, with a Smile on their faces,not concerned about "Tommorrow".
Compare that to the Un Happy Americanos, driving to work which may take 2 hours each way, scratching and Clawing to "Keep up with the Jones",
Drinking, Drugging, Cheating, Stealing,Robbing, Having their Children Killed in School and on the Streets, the Prisons overflowing etc.
Shortsighted? I think Not.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lee
| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Why doesn't he also point out the fact that many of us Mexicanos are too short sighted and dumb to develop what we have. We are as guilty as any
foreigner for whats happening in Baja. |
It sounds like you're blaming the victim? The poor and uneducated are the victims here and perhaps the ability to be far sighted needs to be
developed. Dumb? Perhaps naive and innocent better describes those people.
The poor need someone to represent them and their interests. Whoever is speaking out against the injustice and inequity represents them.
Were the Indians who were swindled by the white's that showed up short sighted and dumb?
When the Spanish ruling class entrenched themselves in Mexico back when, they brought the greed and corruption that is here today.
Don't blame the Mexicans, please, especially those who suffer from the benefits of the others.
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I do blame us, and i blame us because i know theres a lot more we could do, and we dont, simply because we lack determination and do not want to risk
anything.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Jesse:
I do not agree that you are other Mexicanos are Dumb!
I have Traveled and Lived in Baja Sur for nearly 40 years. I have lived with the Poor, known the Rich, advised some to stay in Baja and not go North
to be Americanized.
The Sub-Commander is predictable in His words and Actions as he is Controlled by the "Elite Left " out of Mexico City. Like other such movements, if
successful, the Elite bunch will take control and keep the Masses at Bay, throwing them a Scrap now and then to try to keep them Happy. Cuba is a
Great Example!!
For the many Mexicanos that I have known, there is in their Nature'To produce only what they need for on a Given Day"'. Not to Worry!!
There are others who always want More and are Driven by Hunger for Food and a better way of Life. Such as yourself.
The Solution is not easy, nor will it be Speedy as you know there has always been the saying" It takes a LOng time to Change Mexico".
What would Happen if the Govt. Nationalised all the Big Hotels, as they did the Oil?
What would Happen if the Govt. prevented any workers, other than Locals to do the Construction work on the new Hotels?
Some of the Happyist People I have ever Known have lived most of their Lives in a Cardboard Shack, getting up in the Morning to work or go fishing,
herd their Goats, with a Smile on their faces,not concerned about "Tommorrow".
Compare that to the Un Happy Americanos, driving to work which may take 2 hours each way, scratching and Clawing to "Keep up with the Jones",
Drinking, Drugging, Cheating, Stealing,Robbing, Having their Children Killed in School and on the Streets, the Prisons overflowing etc.
Shortsighted? I think Not. |
Skeet,
Lets call things for what they are, the Japanese are smart, the Germans are smart, the Chinese are smart. But Mexicans in general, smart? i think the
results speak for themselves. Now, i am not saying that all Mexicans are dumb, but in general, theres a lot more dumb people here or a lot less smart
people here than what you would normally find in other places. I know it because i see it everyday, i hear it from politicians, i hear it from our
policies, i hear it everywhere.
I am not going to support Marcos claims that Mexicans are poor victims, and foreigners are wolves. Its our fault for everything thats happening. We
vote politicians into office, they legislate the laws that make this happen, and we fail to do our part and inform ourselves of whats happening and
how beneficial it is to us. Then to make it worst, we keep supporting these stupid ignorant politicians by keeping them into office over and over
again.
Heres proof of what we are seen in the type of politicians we elect:
Irma serrano
Ex erotic movie star, ignorant extraordinare, who we voted for for senator.
Felix Salgado
Runs around in a Harley with a skull on front, was once arrested for peeing on a street drunk, and has an average IQ of less than 80 points.
Maria Rojo
Another cheap ex erotic star whos claim to fame is supporting obrador and nothing much
Thats just a minor sample, i could go on and on and our congress and senate is full of these types of idiots, so how come we Mexicans are so smart we
elect certified idiots to represent us and make our laws?
Lets face it folks, i cannot guarantee that in 30 yrs things might change and this nation will jump into the selected club of developed nations. But
for the meantime, we have what we have.
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Jesse, We have the same caliber people here influencing a bunch of sub 80 IQ's.
Jane Fonda..Traitor
Barbara Streisand
Dixie Chicks
Cindi Sheehand
Damn there are so many not worth going on.
But this is not about the US it's about Baja and this Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos is just another Castro, but too late the world
IS Getting smarter and not so many people believe in something for nothing anymore.
The Mexican people deserves more credit.
Think about it, if there was a one on one election, Calderon would have had a landslide. I think you know that.
Keep the faith Mexico will be a developed nation and will stand proud.
Albert G
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The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Al G
Jesse, We have the same caliber people here influencing a bunch of sub 80 IQ's.
Jane Fonda..Traitor
Barbara Streisand
Dixie Chicks
Cindi Sheehand
Damn there are so many not worth going on.
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You can add Bush,Cheney,Rumsfield,Rice&FOX news to that list. Damn there are so many not worth going
on. :moon:
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I was born in Tijuana, we are not dumb we are some what lazy at times but dumb? My wife is from Agauascalinete, Aguascalinte, and has a masters in
civil engineering are we dumb? no. We decided to get off are lazy butt and hustle, I came out of Tj and and we own a few properties here in San diego
and Rosarito so whos dumb and whos hustling? you just need to hustle or you'll be the hustled, even if your millionare it doesnt
matter.............
[Edited on 10-15-2006 by Von]
READY SET.....................
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Well Said Jesse; Buttttttt;
An I.Q. does not make a Kind, caring,Compassionate People such as you see in many of the Doctors in Mexico.
The doctors in the States have excellent I.Q's but not Compassion-Their intent being to Keep up with the Doctor Jones.. Money----
We have the same type in the States-Kinky Freedman- running for Governor of Texas- various Congressmen and Women- Senators that fit into to the High
I.Q. but do not have a Lick of "Common Sense".
We Have the Haters- Howard Dean
Many of the Mexicanos I know have much more Compassion than Americanos/Canadains.
Don't sell your self Short-
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Von
I was born in Tijuana, we are not dumb we are some what lazy at times but dumb? My wife is from Agauascalinete, Aguascalinte, and has a masters in
civil engineering are we dumb? no. We decided to get off are lazy butt and hustle, I came out of Tj and and we own a few properties here in San diego
and Rosarito so whos dumb and whos hustling? you just need to hustle or you'll be the hustled, even if your millionare it doesnt
matter.............
[Edited on 10-15-2006 by Von] |
Von.. May not mean much to you, but you have my respect amigo.
Albert G
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bancoduo
| Quote: | Originally posted by Al G
Jesse, We have the same caliber people here influencing a bunch of sub 80 IQ's.
Jane Fonda..Traitor
Barbara Streisand
Dixie Chicks
Cindi Sheehand
Damn there are so many not worth going on.
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You can add Bush,Cheney,Rumsfield,Rice&FOX news to that list. Damn there are so many not worth going
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influencing a bunch of sub 80 IQ's.
Albert G
Remember, if you haven\'t got a smile on your face and laughter in your heart, then you are just a sour old fart!....
The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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Just what were the IQ's of the people that voted them in? Don't tell me I already know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Von!
Well said and good for you. Hustle, Hustle and you will get there!
My hat is off to you and your Wife.
But like in the States there are People who do not have Hustle, they are content to lead there lives as they see Fit.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Von
I was born in Tijuana, we are not dumb we are some what lazy at times but dumb? My wife is from Agauascalinete, Aguascalinte, and has a masters in
civil engineering are we dumb? no. We decided to get off are lazy butt and hustle, I came out of Tj and and we own a few properties here in San diego
and Rosarito so whos dumb and whos hustling? you just need to hustle or you'll be the hustled, even if your millionare it doesnt
matter.............
[Edited on 10-15-2006 by Von] |
I am from Tijuana too Von, and i wouldnt say Tijuanenses are lazy at all, but you have Jorge Hank as mayor these days. that says a lot about who we
are as a society. I don't like to sugar coat things, so i admit we are not the smartest people around based on our society. Will things change? i
believe so, do i believe in Mexico? yes i do. But lets admit the truth, right now, we are as a society, very inmature, and not very smart.
I know plenty of Mexicans who are succesful, smart, and very hardworking, but that does not apply to the mayority.
It hurts, but so far we have always avoided facing reality and accepting our flaws, and that obviously hasnt worked, so lets try what has worked for
so many others. admiting the truth, planning to fix mistakes, and working hard to get where we want to go.
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Go for it, Sergio!
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“We have to organize ourselves to retake it,” said Sergio Rodríguez Aroña.
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If this were tried just once and received enough publicity, most of the gringo developers and prospective buyers would get cold feet. Prices
would drop and land speculation would again become affordable for the 'little guy'.
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Is it "Smart"?
To have the Highest Drug Use in the World?
To have the Highest Prison Population in the World?
To Allow our children to be Taught "Fear" in our Schools?
To consume more Hard Liquor than all other Countries put together?
To have the largest Market for Porn?
To have the Largest number of Pedophilles?
To have "Cheating" as a common Virute?
Now that is "Dumb to Me"!!
Germans Smart?= Remember the N-zi's and Russia "Kicking their Burro's all the way back from Moscow!
Japanese Smart? Remember Pearl Harbor-They got the "Bomb"!
I disagree with you Jesse, In many , many ways, my Freinds in Loreto are much Smarter, living in their Cardboard Shacks--With a Smile on their Face
and Compassion in their Hearts!!
HAPPY
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This troubles me
After a considerable amount of time in Baja I decided to buy again and spent a lot of time examining the market. Lomas del centenario provided an
opportunity to own close to but not on the water. It was not a dense development, no homeowners assn., and essential services but not much superfluous
infrastructure- no golf course or club houses etc., and a thorough search of title gave me some comfort and now I have a fidecomiso and deed for my
property where I'll be building in 12 months or so. Then this guy comes along and says the ejido owners were kicked off etc.
Like most folks I didn't look for a deal to deprive anyone of any valuable interests, I processed my purchase through the local agencies and the
National land review authorities. the Notario signed off and the bank holds the title for me in trust- just as required by Mexican law. I will be
sinking $100,000's into construction , hiring a local architect, construction company, landscapers, and other local companies to provide services. The
land was never suitable for agriculture- go look at it- but housing is very amenable to the hillside locations and the desert fauna, and flora as we
are plotting every plant and will replant every one that is in the house footprint.
Then this guy makes wild accusations about the land and possibly creates ill will for me before I ever show up. Like I said this is upsetting as I've
trod gently on the land wherever I've gone and obey the laws of the locality- and have done so here. Norm
And Dave-- thanks a lot pal-- do you support anachy like the loser of the presidential campaign?
[Edited on 10-16-2006 by capitolkat]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Is it "Smart"?
To have the Highest Drug Use in the World?
To have the Highest Prison Population in the World?
To Allow our children to be Taught "Fear" in our Schools?
To consume more Hard Liquor than all other Countries put together?
To have the largest Market for Porn?
To have the Largest number of Pedophilles?
To have "Cheating" as a common Virute?
Now that is "Dumb to Me"!!
Germans Smart?= Remember the N-zi's and Russia "Kicking their Burro's all the way back from Moscow!
Japanese Smart? Remember Pearl Harbor-They got the "Bomb"!
I disagree with you Jesse, In many , many ways, my Freinds in Loreto are much Smarter, living in their Cardboard Shacks--With a Smile on their Face
and Compassion in their Hearts!!
HAPPY
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I find myself in a difficult situation here in La Paz skeet. on one hand i think the lifestyle of paceños is far better than the one we live. They
worry about water and electricity, we worry about nukes and deficits, they worry about what to do in the weekend, we worry about how to get that nice
home we always wanted with all the toys in a nice area.
But
Paceños are being displaced by foreigners, more and more not being able to buy a home, to get a good job. they are and will slowly lose their
lifestyle to people like us. thats reality, and theres not much we can do about that.
We may have a better lifestyle, but we are not smart enough to defend it and to keep it.
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Agree with Al G. Marcos is just another Castro wanabee. Castro turned an Island
paradise into a big work-release program on food stamps. capitolkat's environmental concerns are shared by the vast majority of folks. Why destroy what you love? Regarding the IQ's of various ethnic groups, actors, singers etc.  Not qualified to judge!
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