I. The law of the big stick against all social movements.
The Zedillo-Labastida government is loosely applying the "law of the big stick" to all of the "incidents in history": A media campaign citing "intransigence", "dark intentions", "interference by outside groups", followed by a judge who solicited; a "surgical" operation by a certain repressive body (PFP, riot cops, police, army, etc.), in a pre-dawn raid that allowed them to detain the largest number of people possible, with the respective certification by notaries and observers of "human rights"; in prison with a ream of absurd charges and arrest warrants for those who remain free after the recourse of forgetfullness, nothing happened here, along with the usual role of "reconciliation". This is the prescription that the government uses to try to defeat the CGH. The same applies to the normalists of El Mexe and the "shot in the butt" that came out of it (as summed up by El Mexe "There is an intervention by outside groups in the conflict: PRD, FPFV, CGH;" the normalists struggle "doesn't have any substance, no preoccupation, is fundamentally educational and academic" declared the employees of SEP and the government of Hidalgo. Where have we heard this speech before?). And now they're at it with the EZLN, accusing them of being unwilling to compromise and insighting all types of provocations in Chiapas. The government is utilizing popular discontent, it is lighting a time bomb. The big stick will not bring down social movements, solution to the demands is the way to resolve the conflicts.
II. Now the blood of our parents is that which is being spilled.
The parents of our imprisoned companeros have decided to draw out their blood to demand freedom for their children, an action that the students joined in. What more will the voracity of the federal government and its minion, De la Fuente, demand?
III. More lies from De la Fuente, the University's problems are not resolved, only more complicated.
It continues to be shown everyday that the problem is NOT resolved, the authorities, made bold because they can sic the military on the students to make them pay, for this reason, they will instate fees as they wish. The authorities have nothing to say and it shows, now that the General Regulation of Payments of 66, that of the 20 centavos [2 cents], will be in effect until the University Council "analyzes and defines some possible modification", not as if their intention was to say "until Congress defines its way around it" like the very University Council that approved it and that was put up to voting in the fraud-plebisite. Anyway, the schools will charge what they want until as students, we close the doors to fees.
Our companeros remain imprisoned, De la Fuente's declaration is a lie, the charges have not been dropped, and in certain cases, the directors have ratified the legal reports. Furthermore, they keep our companeros in very bad conditions, causing illness in the more than 20 companeros who find themselves sick. Do they not realize that this is destroying entire families? Reaching the point that the parents, in their desperation, are ready to give their own lives?
What remains of the demands constitutes a very serious problem for the university. De la Fuente doesn't want to resolve the problem, we will continue fighting with all of our strength to resolve this through dialogue. Our companeros know that the seven points of own list of demands are just, for this reason, there is no normality in the the university. We are all pressing for a resolution in a manner most rapid and best suited for the benefit of everybody.
IV. There is no normality in the University.
On the much-announced normality in the university, we have been informed that in ENEP Aragon professors and full-time students of Economics have decided to quit.
While in ENTS the doors are again closed to the proceedings, in CCH-O the halls are closed and there will be no classes, all of this continues to demonstrate that the problem has not been resolved and to make it understood that there will be no normality until the demands of the CGH are resolved.
V. The march was a success.
The CGH's march today was a complete success, thousands of thousands of students, teachers, and parents marched today towards University City, chanting loudly "and they say and they say that we are". On our way past the various colleges, companeros joined in the march which arrived at the esplanade of the Office of the Rectory, where a meeting was taking place, demanding: the resignation of De la Fuente, the fufillment of the list of demands, and the release of All of our imprisoned companeros.
VI. We will retake political action from our schools.
In these moments the CGH is retaking the path of political action, despite all of the outreach limitations and harassment towards professors, students continue sending out the brigades. We are informing people in the marketplaces, in the hospitals, in the subway cars of the metro. We are calling upon all students to go to their assemblies and to spread the word about the march on Friday the 25th at 4pm from Plaza de la Tres Culturas to the Zocalo.