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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~->May 10, 2004 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, Narco News South American Bureau Chief Alex Contreras Baspineiro files two more reports from the "low intensity war" zone of Chiapas, Mexico. Contreras tracks recent (failed) efforts by some Mexican officials to (again) link the base communities of the Zapatista indigenous movement to narco-trafficking... Efforts that, for the past ten years, including recently, have blown up in those officials' faces as the facts came out that showed it was Mexican army and police agencies, in each case, who were involved in the drug trade and not the rebels. Contreras speaks to the Minister of Justice for the Zapatista community of La Realidad, who explains to Narco News how his and other towns decided, democratically, to abstain from drug and alcohol consumption, yet without participating in or cooperating with the government's "war on drugs." "'Before, many indigenous families had problems as a result of alcohol consumption, and that is not good,' said Brian, minister of justice for this town�s Good Government Council. 'Also, we live in a permanent state of war, and alcohol can make you talk too much. That is not good either.' "Banning alcohol and drug consumption was not imposed on the Zapatista territories; rather, doing so was a collective decision. Zapatista revolutionary laws are passed in assemblies of men and women, youths and elderly, who do not impose nor obey the laws of the federal government..." Contreras reports how the local "drug policy from below" works more effectively than top-down imposed policies in part because the Zapatistas do not use prison as a punishment for those who violate the local laws: "The punishments, they told us, can include cutting enough wood every day to fill a truck, clearing paths with machetes, or building latrines. It all depends on the on the needs and decisions of the community. There are no jails or corporal punishments in the Zapatista justice system. Rather, there are moral sanctions that the community agrees upon together..." http://www.narconews.com/ In a separate article, Contreras offers an in-depth report on the "mysterious silence" maintained by the Zapatista rebels to the Commercial Media and the the Mexican government, while at the same time advancing the development of their own radio and other communications systems between the base communities within the movement. 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