Statement From the National Assembly for Water and Life and in Solidarity With the Searching Families Throughout the Country

IN VIEW OF THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE FINDINGS AT THE FORCED RECRUITMENT CENTER OF THE EXTERMINATION CAMP WITH CLANDESTINE OVENS IN TEUCHITLÁN, JALISCO, WE HOLD THE MEXICAN NARCO-STATE RESPONSIBLE.

THIS CAPITALIST WAR, IMPOSED THROUGH DISORGANIZED CRIME, NOT ONLY ANNIHILATES HUMANITY WITH TERROR, BUT ALSO AIMS TO END THE FUTURE OF YOUNG PEOPLE, BOYS AND GIRLS.

To the General Command of the EZLN

To the National Indigenous Congress, CIG-CNI

To the Adherents of the National and International Sixth

To Dignified and Rebel, Insubordinate Europe

To the peoples and neighborhoods that were never conquered

To the public

WE DENOUNCE: IT WAS, IT IS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE NARCO-CAPITALIST STATE.

19 clandestine graves have been discovered so far this year in Jalisco; however, as of January 27th, 2025, the number of missing persons reached 121,651, according to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDN).

The search collective Colectivos Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco in the municipality of Teuchitlán reported the discovery of crematoriums, bone remains, and personal belongings such as shoes, jewelry, hats, backpacks, and accessories.

Given the acts of the Narco-State, which evoke images of the worst attacks against humanity, with mechanisms of militarized warfare, in a previously vulnerable society, accompanied by racism, classism, and an immeasurable hatred of life (sic).

We state, in these painful moments, that there are no words we can share with our searching sisters who, day after day, dedicate their time, their effort, and whatever little money they may have to this profession called SEARCHING, to bring a little peace to the families who have lost a loved one.

We are grateful for your endless love for your children, husbands, brothers, sisters, and strangers whom you honor day after day in your search, despite so much pain and barriers, despite the risk to your physical integrity.

We tell you with great sadness that your work always inspires us with strength to continue defending our land and water. The same causes that threaten you with forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, repression, and other crimes of this criminal state also affect us. Therefore, with these words, we embrace you and join you with our voices, demanding clarification of the facts and justice, and we make your demands our own. We embrace your dignified rage, your dignified rebellion, your dignified struggle for life.

We reaffirm and echo just a few points from some human rights organizations that support searching families, and official websites of searchers.

– That in recent years, thanks in large part to the #SearchingMothers groups, places like this have been found in several states across the country.

– That a #ForensicBacklog exists, as is the case at the Regional Center for Human Identification in Coahuila.

– That the Mexican State’s priority in recent years has been to manipulate the figures, abandoning the National Center for Human Identification, leaving each state to deal with the issue, allowing the empowerment of prosecutors’ offices, disdaining international support, and denying the existence of the crisis.

– That the change in administration brought with it state violence, forced disappearances by action, omission, and acquiescence, executions, arbitrary detentions, and repression by this criminal state.

– That impunity is perpetuated by bad governments responsible for the narco-graves, and by their illegal hand, drug trafficking.

We witness and denounce the excessive cruelty experienced by hundreds of thousands of human beings in Mexican territory and how the capitalist hydra embodied in this bad government feeds on the pain and suffering of this humanitarian crisis.

Therefore, we hold the Mexican State responsible for these state crimes and recall its failure to carry out the search in September 2024, in which no findings were reported on this same property.

Therefore, we, the people who make up the National Assembly for Water, Life, and Territory, demand that the State fulfill its obligations under the Mexican Constitution and international conventions.

A thorough review of the issue in the face of the crisis of disappearances is essential.

It is essential to recognize the humanitarian crisis and adopt a state policy on the matter, as recommended by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.

The functioning of the National Forensic Data Bank and the National Center for Human Identification.

Despite these demands on the State’s responsibilities, we cannot conceive of justice being served by those who disappear and murder Mother Earth and her children (humanity). Therefore, we call on the CONSCIOUS SOCIETY OF GOOD HEART to:

– Join the dignified demands of the searching families.

– Physically accompany them at their gatherings.

– Take direct action to demand their just demands.

– Disseminate, monitor, and follow up on the search groups and brigades’ search events and calls for action posted on their official websites.

– We remember the call made by the National Search Brigade on April 19th and 20th, 2025, and their solidarity, empathy, and support in the humanitarian brigade.

Today it is our turn to look, feel, and act because sooner or later it will knock on our door, and perhaps we will be the latest.

We join the call for National Mourning: “400 candles + 400 pairs of shoes” organized by groups of searching families in Jalisco, Querétaro, Mexico City, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Colima, Michoacán, and other territories for March 15th at 5:00 pm.

Let us raise our voices, let us make the Dignified Rage of the Searching Mothers our own, regardless of calendars and geographies, because our fight is for Life.

They Took Them Alive, We Want Them Alive!

KINDLY YOURS

LAND, WATER, AND FREEDOM

UNTIL DIGNITY BECOMES A CUSTOM!

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WATER, LIFE, AND LAND

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Original statement from the National Assembly for Water and Life, Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
Translated by Schools for Chiapas.

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Pronouncement 6 Years After the Murder of Samir Flores, Impunity and Imposition Reign in the Mexican Narco-State -FPDTA-MPT

This February 20 marks 6 years since our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was assassinated, 6 years since another shot was fired at the forces of rebellion and autonomy. The cowardly bullets that are aimed and fired at the struggle for life that rises with dignity in thousands of places on planet earth are not few, and when the bullet touches a compañero like Samir, that death becomes a seed, an example, a dignified memory, and it is there that justice from below for our compañero, begins to blossom.

Because in the face of the storm, the organization, the flower, the song and the memory will be our guiding ship to attain collective justice for our brother Samir Flores Soberanes and the struggle for life.

This year marks 13 years of attempts to impose the Integral Morelos Project (PIM), 6 years of the bloody betrayal by López Obrador and the 4T of the native peoples of Mexico and the Popocatépetl volcano, 6 years of that February 10 where Samir along with representatives of dozens of peoples affected by the PIM saw the change of heart of the President who in his campaign declared himself against the PIM, and when he came to power, now supported it. Samir and the people shouted to Obrador: “Water yes, thermo[electric] no! Life yes, gas pipeline no! We demand that you keep your word and cancel the PIM!”

An irate López Obrador pointed out to them: “even if they shout, even if there is shouting and hat-waving”, “leftist radicals, who for me are nothing more than conservatives,” “And so they did not vote or they have already forgotten it, those so-called radicals, who are nothing more than conservatives, in not voting.” We did not know that this day was the battle cry, the death sentence for our compañero Samir, assassinated 10 days later.

The Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water has denounced the network of power and relationships that exist between the intellectual and material authors of the murder of Samir. Obrador’s battle cry was given from above, so that the federal superdelegate Hugo Erik Flores (lawyer for the murderers of Acteal and leader of the PES) would handle it, along with the commitments made by the ex-governor of Morelos Cuauhtémoc Blanco with the Jalisco Cartel New Generation “in exchange for pacification” ordering the criminal group “Los Aparicio” to execute Samir.

Hugo Erik Flores was Obrador’s envoy to operate the PIM consultation in Morelos, Samir confronted him and exposed his lies in front of hundreds of attendees who attended the forum of the Federal Government in Jonacatepec on February 19, 2019 and drew applause from the audience.

From Radio Amiltzinko, Samir informed the eastern part of Morelos and part of Puebla about the consequences of the PIM and Obrador’s betrayal when in 2014 he said “we do not want a gas pipeline in Morelos, installing a thermoelectric plant in the land of Zapata is like installing a landfill in Jerusalem, what is wrong with them, they are crazy” in so many words. His amplified words against the PIM and his conviction cost Samir his life.

Why Samir? Because he committed the gravest of sins that power cannot tolerate: to continue fighting when the circumstances seem hopeless and, to overcome… to build autonomy, to continue fighting… The construction of the gas pipeline was imposed in Amilcingo in 2014 by means of public force and gunfire on the population, 5 of the community were wounded by bullets and dozens of police officers were injured by the stones hurled at them in waves by the community. The people defended themselves with everything, but the power of the government-capital was too great against a single community and they buried the gas pipeline. But the people did not stay still, nor were they defeated, on the contrary, they woke up more, they continued to fight, to throw parties and to rebel, building up the radio, community health, solidarity, government by uses and customs, the defense of their educational spaces and the promotion of new educational spaces, as was the last demand that Samir left unfinished in Amilcingo, (besides the cancellation of the PIM), a high school for the community.

The violence, illegality, racism and arbitrariness with which the Morelos Integral Project has been imposed has reached the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), so in the coming months the peoples of the volcano and the Mexican State will deliver to the IACHR the evidence and arguments about the problematic installation of the PIM in an area of eruptive risk and without the consent of the peoples. We demand justice for Samir and the peoples of the Popocatepetl volcano!

Hundreds of communities and cities are immersed in a narco-state that is displacing our peoples, instilling terror and disorganization. Murdering and disappearing journalists and defenders of mother earth and human rights, but also thousands of sisters and brothers in the country who have been touched by organized crime and bad government. Yes, there is a narco-state, Samir is proof of this, of the murder of a defender by the narco-state in the interests of gringo, European and multinational capitalism, who benefit from the PIM.

Claudia Sheinbaum says that there is no narco-government in Mexico, but the criminal network behind the murder of Samir says otherwise, we see that in the municipal authorities of this narco-government, there are criminal groups, that the middle managers (state government) are many times tagged in narco-banners and their photos expose them with leaders of the drug cartels. Cuauhtémoc Blanco, ex-governor of Morelos and Hugo Erik Flores, ex-federal superdelegate in Morelos sent by López Obrador, are examples of this and so are hundreds of politicians- deputies, congressmen, senators, all levels of government, in the 3 branches in the country, there is the narco-state. What are we going to do, sisters and brothers, we ask ourselves? The only answer is to organize ourselves, to imagine, to build ties, and to not let go.

We demand progress in the investigations, prosecution, capture and punishment of the material and intellectual murderers of Samir, mainly, we DEMAND:

1. Dismantling and capture of the criminal group of “Los Aparicio” and punishment for their participation in the murder of Samir;

2.Investigation, prosecution and punishment of the intellectual authors of Samir’s murder, such as Hugo Erik Flores, Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Andrés Manuel López Obrador;

3. Cancellation of the Morelos Integral Project.

Here we are the rebellious dignity, the forgotten heart of the land.

Samir lives, the struggle continues! Water yes, thermo no! Stop the war on the Zapatista communities! Stop the genocide and displacement of Palestine! Death to the narco-state and the bad government! Death to capitalism, long live life! Long live the peoples of Mexico and the world!

Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala

National Indigenous Congress

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Call for a Global Day of Action: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! After Six Years of Impunity!

TO THE SIGNATORIES OF THE DECLARATION FOR LIFE

SISTERS, BROTHERS:

It has been 6 years since they took the life of our brother Samir Flores Soberanes, six years that those who ordered him to be killed still govern, six years of continuous deceit, suppression and contempt for our peoples, six more years of resistance, of rebellion, of struggle for life, of being Samir, inspiration, seed and encouragement to build autonomy, of another possible world.

“Justice for Samir!” cries the resistance for life against the Morelos Integral Project and against the narco-government, and justice cries out in each one of the towns, places and hearts that knew him before or after his death. “Justice!” we shout from the struggle for life in Gaza, in Chiapas, in Ostula, in the struggle against the Cholula garbage dump, in the clamor of the families of our disappeared sisters and brothers, in the struggle against the military so-called Mayan train, against the inter-oceanic corridor, xenophobia and forced displacement, the mine, the dam, the train, the corridor, the gas pipeline, the thermoelectric plant, fracking, the real estate cartel, the garbage business, the defense of rivers, seas and bodies of water, of forests and autonomous spaces on earth or in the air. Samir built justice during his life.

Six years after his cruel murder on February 20, 2019 in Amilcingo, Morelos, three days before the consultation imposed by Lopez Obrador to “legitimize” his change of heart and finish imposing the Morelos Integral Project (PIM), Samir’s murderers are still free and in power. It has been 6 years of impunity, 6 years of the impossibility of the guilty being punished because the guilty are in the government and can easily escape the justice of the State, because they are the State….

But justice is in the struggle for life, and yes, in our demand, perhaps absurd, to demand that the executioner be prosecuted and punished, to strip the capitalist king, the Mexican narco-government that ordered Samir’s death.

Six years after Samir’s assassination, we call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to dedicate a moment, an instant, a sowing of memory, of life and rebellion to our comrade Samir Flores Soberanes on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, to build in a dislocated way the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity.”

On those days, in Mexico, the United States, Euskal Herria, France and Italy, 6 busts of Samir will be installed, sowing his memory in the dignified territories of our sisters and brothers, in countries whose companies are or were involved in the crime of the PIM: Elecnor (Euskal Herria), Saint Gobain (France), Bonatti (Italy), Macquaire (United States), NarcoGobierno (Mexico), so that the responsibility of the capitalist global government for the death of Samir and the struggle for life will not be forgotten.

But not only do we plant the memory of our comrade with the installation of these busts, but also in the struggle for decent housing of the Otomi community of Mexico City that founded and resists the House of the Peoples “Samir Flores Soberanes,” formerly the central offices of the INPI. In a tree in the resistance camp in Lutzerat, Germany, in a song, a poem, a drawing, a talk, a video, a conversation, a photo, a painting, an engraving, a flower or a fruit, in all of them is our brother Samir Flores Soberanes.

We call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to join with an action or a word to the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity,” on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, 2025 or when their realities allow them to do so.

Justice will come from below and to the left, in common.

For the integral reconstitution of our peoples

Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala

National Indigenous Congress

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

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