TO THE PEOPLES OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD,
TO THE SOCIAL AND POPULAR ORGANIZATIONS WORLD-WIDE,
TO THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS,
TO THE PROGRESSIVE AND HONEST MEDIA,

As part of the criminalization of social protest in our country, several military and police actions against the Mexican people have been ordered under the systematic policy of State Terrorism implemented by Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa, since he became the spurious and illegitimate president on December 1, 2006 after a technical coup d'etat.

The electoral fraud of July 2, 2006 concited a widespread social and political movement headed by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Millions of citizens took the streets and their voices were silenced through the mainstream media and subjugated bureaucrats, in payment of the privileges they have been granted. The ballot recount ( voto por voto) demanded by a huge segment of society resulted in the instrumentation of the so called "lawful state" which is sold to the public by marketing campaigns full of distortions and slander in favor of the oligarchy.

The assumption of power by Felipe Calderon on December 1st, 2006 before the military hierarchy, was a crystal clear message about the fundamental role that the federal army would play during this administration, with the implementation of a state terrorism ordered from Los Pinos (the presidential residence). Within this context, Oaxaca and San Salvador Atenco were targeted as priorities for extermination.

The incarceration of the main leaders of the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan Peoples (APPO) and the lifetime imprisonment (67 years!) of the heads of the Popular Front for the Defense of the Land of San Salvador Atenco is part of the criminalization of the social demonstrations in Mexico (which are consecrated by Article 9 of the Mexican Constitution). In order to achieve his goal of silencing social protest, Calderon Hinojosa pushed the amendment of Article 139 of the Federal Penal Code, in order to legalize what clearly constitutes a gruesome violation of the individual guarantees that our Maximum Law establishes for every Mexican citizen.

Once the militarization was implemented, the federal army took control of the streets: federal roads, towns and communities, municipalities and entire states became dressed in olive green and grey (the colors of the police and military uniforms), under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Veracruz, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, are examples of this paramilitary policy which up to date has resulted in unlawful and extra judicial executions. We recall the brutal treatment of indigenious women in the Sierra de Zongolica, Veracruz, with the execrable rape, torture and murder of 73-year old elder Ernestina Ascencion Rosario, and the posterior threats and intimidation of her family by paramilitaries and minions inserted in the local and federal powers. We also recall the multiple violations perpetrated by the army in Michoacan and Coahuila; also, the torture and assassination of an entire family in La Joya, Sinaloa.

Within the same context, the human rights organizations and the population in general have become the ideal target of harassment, illegal detentions, housebreaking, torture and forced disappearances.

These militarization and paramilitarization policies are not new in our country. They started in the 60's and 70's with the implementation of a dirty war which has produced more than 1,000 forced disappearances, mainly in the State of Guerrero, under the excuse of fighting insurgence and communism, to eliminate legal and open dissidence. As examples of these unhealed wounds are the violations and killings in Aguas Blancas in 1995; in Acteal in 1997; El Charco in 1998; the systematic repression in the Loxicha region since 1996, resulting in dozens of assassinations, forced disappearances, and 12 political prisoners still fighting for their freedom; in the mine of Pasta de Conchos, Coahuila; in SICARTSA; in San Salvador Atenco; in Oaxaca, and last but not least, the repression against the Council of Communities of La Parota (CECOP) in defense of their land.

Under the instrumentation of a so called "lawful state" and military and paramilitary policy, no individual or organization are safe from the risk of being detained, tortured and disappeared. Within this terrible context, we denounce that in a manifest published by several electornic and written media, we reported that on May 25 in the State of Oaxaca, Raymundo Rivera Bravo and Edmundo Reyes Amaya, members of the PDPR-EPR were detained and that their physical and psychological condition is still unknown.

Mexican society in its majority, along with social, political and human rights organizations who subscribe this document, demand the cessation of the dirty war in our country, along with the presentation alive of the disappeared citizens. We also express our absolute condemnation of all acts of torture, forced disappearances, harassment and grievous crimes against humanity aimed at and perpetrated against all social, political and human rights organizations, its leaders and activists by the administration of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and the Yunque.

FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

PRESENTATION ALIVE OF ALL DISAPPEARED!

NO MORE TORTURE OR FORCED DISAPPEARANCES!

The undersigned:

Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), Omar Garibay Guerra PC de México (ML); Federación de Estudiantes Campesinos Socialistas de México (FECSM); Movimiento Estudiantil Revolucionario Internacionalista (MERI); Colectivo Universitario Libre de Investigación y Teoría del Arte (CULITA); Colectivo la Guillotina, Centro de documentación Simón Bolívar, Colectivo Ernesto Guevara, (FCPyS) ; Cooperativa Libertas Anti Corp; Juveniles Libertarias (DF); Ocupación Ernesto Che Guevara (FFyL); Andrés González, (OPC_CLETA_Machete) ; Doctora Fernanda Navarro (UMSNH); Espacio Cultural la Peña del Son; Comité de Derechos Humanos de las Huastecas y Sierra Oriental (CODHHSO); Asociación de Familiares desaparecidos de México (AFADEM); Comité Cerezo; Liga Mexicana por la defensa de los derechos Humanos (LIMEDDH);Movimient o Proletario Independiente (MPI); Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo(FNLS) : Frente Democrático Oriental de México "Emiliano Zapata" (FDOMEZ), Organización Campesina de la Sierra del Sur (OCSS), National Council of Civic Communicators (CONACC); Organización Campesina Independiente "Mariano Matamoros" (OCI-MM), Movimiento de Resistencia Popular del Sureste (MRPS), H. Ayuntamiento Popular Indígena de San Juan Lalana Choapam, Organización Campesina Emiliano Zapata (OCEZ), Frente Indígena Mixteco Popoluca Náhuatl, Timocepanotoke Noche Altepeme Macehualme (Unión de todos los Pueblos Pobres) (TINAM), Frente Popular Obrero Campesino (FPOC), Movimiento Social Independiente, Movimiento Democrático de la Huasteca Veracruzana, Unión Campesina Emiliano Zapata Vive (UCEZ), Organización Campesina Indígena Popular "Ricardo Flores Magón" (OCIP-RFM), Coordinadora Democrática Ricardo Flores Magón (CODI-RFM), Organización Campesina de la Sierra Oriente de Puebla (OCSOP), Foro Estudiantil Democrático (FED), Casa del Estudiante Emiliano Zapata (Puebla), Liga Estudiantil Democrática (LED), Colectivo Carlos Marx, Colectivo Estudiantil Independiente, Colectivo Tsoblej de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la UNACH, Colectivo Niukame, Movimiento Social de Izquierda (MSI), Unión Campesina Popular Francisco Villa (UCPFV), Comité de Lucha Magisterial (COLMA), Activistas del Nivel de Educación Indígena, Organización de Pueblos Indígenas Zapotecos (OPIZ-LOXICHA) ; Colectivo Conciencia y Libertad FCPS-UNAM; Dr. Joel Heredia; Lic. Marcos López Pérez; Lic. Marissa Revilla; Lic. Martha Figueroa Mier; Organización Internacionalista Vasca ASKAPENA; Noemí Lafuente Redón; Stichting Play Fair Europe-Amsterdam; Teóloga Feminista: Isabel Ascencio-Grupo Solidario de Mujeres de El Salvador; CISPES-Los Angeles; Proyecto Alto a la Impunidad; TASSC International; Comités de Base del FMLN-Los Angeles; Kinal Antsetik; Jolom Mayaetik; Patricia de La Fuente Castro; Dra. Ma. Del Carmen García, Mercedes Gómez Llanos (Brigada Internacionalista, País Vasco).