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FIVE YEARS LATER,

ATENCO DEMANDS JUSTICE

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An end to impunity for state crimes committed in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco on 3 and 4 May 2006 was a demand for a day of activities in Atenco and Mexico City five years later. The lives of young Javier Cortes and Alexis Benhumea, killed by police, was commemorated with ceremonies and offerings in Atenco and the Pantheon of San Jeronimo, while the sexual torture of women reported with the Attorney General's Office in the Federal District. The day ended with a march of a thousand people from the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo in Mexico City.

On Tuesday May 3 public meeting / press conference with the PGR in the Paseo de Reforma was convened by the Human Rights Centre Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (PRODH) and women complaining of sexual torture. About 150 people demanded justice and alleged government inaction in punishing those responsible for sexual torture. Hundreds of cards and letters of support stuck on the wall reminded the international solidarity received by women.

Center for PRODH, "the events of 2006 did not occur in isolation, were the result of a decision of the three levels of government to act against the social unrest .... Human rights violations, including sexual torture against women complainants, is itself a strategy to inhibit the Mexican state social mobilization and create fear to members of the Peoples Front in Defense of Earth (FPDT), people and groups that require and exercise their rights and especially women. "

is likely that the criminals who ordered the sexual torture as part of its military strategy, Enrique Peña Nieto, Wilfredo Robledo Madrid, Eduardo Medina Mora, and the sadistic police the ASES who enjoyed his spoils of war, had the silence of women, thinking that would be too ashamed and afraid to tell the indignities they had suffered. But they miscalculated. Even for these women, has not been easy to tell in public the violent invasion of their bodies, they have done with great value in Europe and elsewhere.

Taking the floor at the press conference, Italia Méndez said that the resistance of the peasants of FPDT has been an example of struggle and organization and that the eight women plaintiffs continue to show sexual torture used against social movements against organized people. Said "The State with jail, death and torture to stop the movement and why it is necessary to continue to fight this ... will not stop. Continue to resist ". When police burst over them with obscene and misogynistic statements five years ago, one in particular is left in memory: "Let them go home to wash the dishes." Now the women of Atenco are not as victims but as women wrestlers who go to public forums around the world to remove the mask of legitimacy to their torturers.

Edith Rosales made use of the microphone to say that "Five years ago we were tortured and raped and men also raped him but they never reported. Five years ago killed a boy of fourteen, Javier Cortes and young Alexis Benhumea. We were tortured and imprisoned us, but they spent more than four years in prison now are not prisoners. They are back there. Remain in the community. We know that we are not going to have an answer. In Mexico, we will not get justice. But we will not be silent. We will continue to denounce the attack on social movements .... We live in a repressive country. When we were in prison we saw several people guilty and not guilty which had been the same as us. Now under the pretext of the war on drugs, there is a constant repression. No more, comrades! Is what we say. Ya basta! "

FPDT

Marta Pérez said that for five years, women in the People's Front have not remained silent. "Women who have experienced sexual torture are here to give face to Peña Nieto, Calderon, the senior police to tell them that we are not defeated, we are not silent, they kept walking .... All the great officials of the PRI, PAN, PRD have remained silent about the outrage committed in Atenco, and are also complicit ". Marta said it was the presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto who said 'I ordered the raid of 3 and May 4 in Atenco' , but is protected by the PGR. "That's why we go to people in general, because the town does respond. We are also taking our complaints to all international bodies. Justice is not going to come from the high command of the country .... Justice has to come from the people. Justice has to come from the work we are doing every day. Sister, brother, several months ago our prisoners were released because you responded, because you get up, raise your voice. We now want justice and punishment for those responsible for this slaughter and rape of 3 and May 4 .... In Atenco not lower our guard. We defend our territory. And with the same force also defend our dignity as women. Took to the streets to defend our rights without fear. We stand and we will not crack ".

FPDT

Trinidad Ramírez told all the companions who "the fight is not over. The struggle continues day after day, for them, for others, many more, for us who have been attacked in Atenco. And not just a matter of Atenco. The wound is larger. Women are targets of violence, murders committed throughout the country by the policy of Felipe Calderón. Y he will not stop this. Only we, the citizens can do .... Let us defend our land because land is life. Let us defend the education, employment, health, respect for our communities, respect for our way of life. And we continue to demand punishment for this evil government. Let us fight for our children. The partners reject the rule that exists in many social movements' women submissive and quiet and the men bought. " We believe that to heal this open wound is something they do all. So we began to speak loudly still, stay organized, keep fighting. "

on sexual torture, the collective "the chuekas" said "... women survivors of sexual torture persist in the struggle for justice. And so, naming, we want to highlight and accompany them because we know that is the effort to be weighed against the justice, criminal, theirs, which does not represent us because it is cold, misogynistic, patriarchal, because it is, hand, the representation of everything that has oppressed us for centuries. They ask: Were you raped? Prove it. Were you abused? Prove it. Were you murdered? What provoked, did something wrong ".

On Wednesday May 4, various groups and individuals marched in solidarity in answer to the call of FPDT:

"Over four years it took for the Supreme Court's Office, was forced to release 12 political prisoners of Atenco and thus to confirm that the military police assault 3 and May 4, 2006, was a revenge of State for exercising the right to defend our lands and have thrown down the millionaire airport business, which today remains a temptation for owners of money On this occasion, have been sent to the CNA to fund a project that is the dispossession ".

"However, neither the defense of the land or our struggle for justice has ended. The murderers of Javier Cortes and Alexis Benhumea, searches of our homes and our peace, torturers and rapists of women, have gone unpunished in their police uniforms and others dressed candidate Governor Enrique Peña Nieto, as if that were enough to hide the blood carried as ballast to his presidential dreams. "

"So, from Atenco, we echo the cry for justice also denied us. As a people, we join the call of outrage organized to stop it definitively to the savagery and criminal impunity that governments have unleashed against our Mexico. " Arriving

the Zocalo, there were messages of solidarity from various troops and called as the march-caravan organized by the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala from Oaxaca to Mexico City on May 23 and the subsequent return to Copala "by any means" , as support for the 12 political prisoners of the SME. Valle said
America:

"As he shows in 2002 to overthrow the expropriation decree, to take under the airport, the multimillion dollar project that the people broke down and gave example of dignity, and as for more Four years of resistance, fighting tirelessly to achieve freedom of the twelve political prisoners and now justice is pending, so we must return to raise their voices, in addition to the twelve political prisoners of the SME, but also by the many political prisoners remain in our homeland. If Atenco could, why electricians are not going to? "

Interviewed in the Zocalo, the partner Adam Espinoza said

" This march saw relaxed, quiet, but with the idea to seek justice after five years. In our land has been spilled blood. Women have been raped, raped, houses have been raided by those who say they are the law: police, riot, PFP. This can not be so. "

"Five years. But I would say they really are ten because our nightmare began on 22 October 2001 with the expropriated land to build our international airport. It is a situation where one can not believe it's a federal government wants to challenge us with their laws they have made in their favor. It puts a price. Possibly before that we were more relaxed, knowing there was injustice but we had touched. Well now we have learned that, united, organized, can defend itself. "

"The marches, protests do not do anything more for pleasure, but simply the authorities in turn cause, be it president, call the state government of Mexico. Are those who are in collusion with the capitalist to rob what they want. And what they want is our land, our natural resources. But we have learned that what is ours is ours and not to touch anyone without that we want. "

"Now the main struggle of Atenco is the same. Defend our land because it has disguised the airport in a green park that will manage CNA. And that puts a price equal. And now graciously provided CONAGUA to make the changes necessary to define and urban land. But we will not to go that way because our lands are still ejido. The struggle does not stop them. As we always say, the land is not sold, is loved and defended. "

"We came to many marches, rallies and events to accompany the struggles that are occurring now in the country because we have a strong moral commitment to all organizations that have supported us morally and our duty is to pay what we have given. People have sacrificed a lot. Comrade Alexis Benhumea gave his life for us. That way I mean we have a commitment to be with all the people who have a pain that is in prison, with all organizations to protect their land from a wreck. We have to be there. It is our moral obligation. "