And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: - This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. Comments and volunteers are welcome. Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOTE: Clinton and staff are being cc'ed with the following letter..Ish) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:29:50 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "PRENSA NUEVO AMANECER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Questions for Clinton/LJ Mexico TRANSLATION BY LESLIE LOPEZ ***************************** La Jornada, Saturday, February 13, 1999 Luis Gonzales Souza Questions for Clinton Mr. President Clinton: almost two years have passed since your last visit to Mexico. On that occasion we were forward enough to write you, in these very same pages, a couple of letters--which, as we had supposed, were never answered. Not even an indirect answer, because the true problems between your country and ours continue to worsen. I know that people like us are nobodies compared to you, but even so you ought to take some interest in unofficial and unofficious visions of the current state of affairs in the Mexico/US neighborhood. And it was precisely in those letters that we offered a critical and constructive vision which, moreover, is shared by many citizens, including more than a few belonging to the United States. I'm not taking it too badly, but this time I'll keep it short, and it won't be a letter, but a series of questions. Perhaps you don't know that Mexico still has a good reserve of dignity. But it would be enough if you could just take a good look (not a colonialist or pragmatic one) at the zapatista insurgency. That same dignity obliges us to write you a brief note, in strict correspondence to the brevity of your visit: less than 24 hours, and far away, in the beautiful lands of the Yucatan. Is your government seriously interested in improving the neighborhood you share with Mexico? Do you believe in dialectics enough to promote improvements that bring nothing but damages? I'll limit myself to two or three examples. Do you feel really proud of Operation Casablanca? Do you really not know, or do you just not give a "peanut" that said operation was a bald-faced violation of Mexican sovereignty as an international right as well as of the bilateral agreements to combat drug trafficking? And you still want us to remain silent? You still dare not only to deny the extradition of your delinquent officials, but to demand it of those who escaped your vandalizing operation? Do you really think that will improve the cooperation between our nations? In regards to matters of migration, what happened to your beautiful promises to promote a humanistic focus, as opposed to that of the Republicans? Isn't your repressive legislation in this area, namely the Act of 1996, just an amplification of the 187 Initiative by the racist, Pete Wilson? What kind of humanism is that that we see reflected in your death-oriented operations (Blockade, Guardian, Safeguard)? Are you really just seeking a silencing genocide against Mexican immigrants, whose crimes amount to seeking out a little corner of this so-called global market? How many murders of compatriots will be tolerated in the current atmosphere of incendiary anti-yankee sentiment? And that's improving our neighborhood? Up to what point are you going to promote or let develop anti-Mexican sentiment in your paradise of freedom-tolerance-democracy? Is Mexico your enemy now? who is more the enemy of whom? What happened to the associate status offered in NAFTA? Indeed, why is the US violating this treaty, on an Olympic scale, in the few areas in which Mexico seems to be most competitive? Isn't this formula just a little too dialectic: better neighbors among those who are more confrontational and those who are more aggrieved? Dignity includes making good on one's promises. We promised brevity and we'll stop right here, even though we are awash in questions for you. But you must be tired of interrogations (all Monica's fault). And so, just as being polite doesn't detract from one's bravery, the dignified know how to conduct themselves with amiability. Clarifying P.S.: The offerings of the privatization of electricity and the new anti-drug plan are not from the Mexican people, but from the not-very-dignified group that governs us. Self-critical P.S.: The fact that our neighborhood is so atrophied is ultimately our fault, located in the deficit of governmental dignity as well as the combativeness of our citizenry. Backsliding P.S: Having accepted our own guilt, when are you going to stop feeding off of the blood of the fallen and the downtrodden? When will you start practicing what you preach about freedom and democracy? ___________________________________________________ NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-N.A.P.To know about us visit: http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm (spanish) ******************* In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107,this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest. This information is for non-profit research and education purpuses only. **We encourage you to reproduce this information giving credit to NAP.** General Director:Roger Maldonado-Mexico Director Europe: Darrin Wood-Spain Advisor and Special Correspondent:Guillermo Michel-Mexico. NAP Coordinator:Susana Saravia *************[EMAIL PROTECTED]************* "If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. . .But if you have come because your liberation is bound with mine, then let us work together." --Aboriginal Woman ************************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher://eco.utexas.edu. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
