I. The real terrorists.
The police-like and terrorist attitude of the rector and of his attorney is clear, the political persecution that they practice at the time of acting against companeros that are on their list is evident. It doesn't even matter whether they participated or not in a certain action, including whether they were or were not present at the moment in which the acts were taking place. This is the case of the companeros who already have legal reports before the PGR [Attorney General's Office] for the capture of the rectory building yesterday. ROBBERY? Who did we students rob by closing the rectory tower? To whom does it belong? De la Fuente? Migallon? We were carrying out an action of pressure against those who have not resolved our demands and who keep our companeros in prison. We were not thinking of staying to live there.
DAMAGE TO THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS? For breaking a window pane and a padlock? Why did they lock themselves in the rectory with a padlock? Why can't college students enter the rectory freely? What are they hiding? By the way, that which the authorities declared is false in the sense that lock-picking tools, hammers, and acetylene blowtorches were used. The only thing that was used was a hacksaw.
ILLEGAL DEPRIVATION OF FREEDOM? Of whom? De la Fuente and his employees were the first to abandon ship like rats, through the tunnel in the basement of the rectory and, by the way, they took a large amount of archives with them. What are they hiding in there? ALL of the workers and people who were in the rectory tower left within minutes at the request of the students. Who was deprived of their freedom?
De la Fuente continues stoking the fire with these new denunciations. We will not allow even one more of our companeros to go into their jails. When are the authorities going to understand this? When are they going to resolve our demands and free our companeros? How far are they going to take things? Enough already.
II. On the declarations of Juan Ramon de la Fuente.
1. Mr. De la Fuente, in his declarations yesterday regarding the seizure of the rectory: "this act of provocation seeks to destabilize our institution and to generate a national problem in particularly sensitive and important times for all Mexicans," illustrates with total clarity that which is his real and only preoccupation at the moment. It clearly reveals that which is the mission he was given by his patron, Zedillo, which is the reason he was given the job as rector: to break the CGH, to end all student organization at the University, to open the way to the governmental project of privatizing the Public Universities of the country; but in the short term that which preoccupies them most is presenting an image of "social peace" for the electoral process and for this, time is running out. Movements like the one at UNAM bother them because they bring into discussion throughout the populace, the rights that the government have come to snatch away from us.
Zedillo entrusted De la Fuente with a precise task and he failed. He is inept. According to government calculations, after the military evacuation of UNAM and the mass arrests, the CGH would have died and afterwards only the "reconciliation" of the university community would remain. Well, the dead breathes and the struggle continues. What were they hoping for? That we would forget everything? That fear would paralyze us? Does the fact that the student movement keeps fighting for a University for everyone make them uncomfortable? Are they in a hurry to end the university conflict? The easiest way to end the conflict: REALLY RESOLVE THE CGH DEMANDS, UNCONDITIONALLY FREE ABSOLUTELY ALL OF THE PRISONERS.
2. De la Fuente lies when he says that the actions undertaken by the CGH in schools and colleges have been rejected by the community. Those who dedicate themselves to trying to violate the accords of the Assemblies of the different departments, besides the directors and employees, are small groups of researchers, full-time professors, and a few students; who, at a phone call or e-mail's notice, quickly go to confront the students.
3. With his declarations, Mr. De la Fuente indirectly recognizes that which is clear to everyone, the discrediting and isolation of his rectorship. Who else but its directors is going to move a finger in defense of the rectory?
4. See how they lie! Not a day passes in which the rectory and its lawyer's
office does not "boast" of the "negotiations" they have carried out for the
release of the students that THEY put in jail. THEY LIE, the most
irrefutable evidence that they have not dropped everyones' charges is:
1)
last Friday, when they finally dropped the charge of robbery against a group
of companeros, they were able to leave immediately,
2) the 86 companeros
that were "granted" the right of provisional freedom yesterday, will be
prosecuted for the crime of robbery and rioting against the University and
3) the declarations of the director of Prepatoria 2, in regards to some of
the students that closed the building and those who carried out the
administrative act, have warrants out for their arrest; when, according to
the authorities, the remaining 20 warrants are only for non-students.
The only negotiations that the rectory are carrying out are to make sure that a group of companeros, who they consider to be the leaders, remain imprisoned in Reclusorio Norte. On the support that they offer for paying the bail fees, forget it. We don't want even one red cent from the same people who jailed our companeros, from the same people that ordered the crackdown, from the same people that started this conflict and who have extended it in a monstrous way with the strange illusion of dissolving inconformity.
III. On the unfolding of lies from the Body of Directors
1. Gentlemen, those who have put all of their determination into the re-establishment of "normality" and "reconciliation" in the University are Zedillo, Labastida, De la Fuente, and you all because you believe that classes will be the "balm" that, little by little, dilutes ten months of student struggle and that cures the profound indignation that the university community and the population feels against you, against your cowardly and repressive action. However, despite all of their persistence, they must know that they have not succeeded.
2. The only thing that the university authorities, of which you all compose the major part, have taken steps towards is the imprisonment of all of our companeros and the guarantee that a group of them will remain in the Reclusorio. Oh, of course, they are also trying to make sure that other companeros who are now free (some are persecuted and harassed by their bodyguards and law enforcement cronies) and who are on their list should be jailed and/or expelled from UNAM.
3. What dialogue are we blocking with the seizure of the rectory? Who permanently blocked dialogue over the past ten months? Who olimpically violated the accords that were signed on December 10th? Is there any limit to their sarcasm?
4. Of course we are stalling and will continue to stall the transformation of UNAM that you all are trying to impose. We are not going to allow you to expel the students of limited resources. We are not going to allow you to divide up the University. We are not going to allow you to cut off research on a whim, orienting it towards the exclusive service of industry. We are not going to allow them to manage the diffusion of culture as if they were dealing with soccer games. WE WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO THESE THINGS. WE WILL STOP THEM. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE THEM TURN AROUND.
5. Their cry for further repression of the student movement does not surprise us. During these past months, they have done nothing else. Have they not chosen the wrong profession? Is their vocation not better suited to running a prison, for example?
6. We agree with you in the sense that the violence that impedes the discussion of the future of our institution must be put to a stop. Stop the violence of the Rector and his University Council, which imposes measures behind the backs of the members of the University community. Stop the violence of the directors who raid student spaces, threatening and carrying out university and judicial acts, providing confidential UNAM files to the PGR, targeting the prisoners who can not get out of jail, pointing out those who haven't yet been arrested, and filling the university facilities with bodyguards and legal thugs. Stop the violence of putting the PFP [a type of military secret police specializing in student subversion and counter-intelligence] in UNAM. Stop the violence of jailing university students who express dissent towards the authorities. STOP.
Press Committee
CGH-UNAM
The original ducument in Spanish is available on-line at: http://www.geocities.com/baja/mesa/9813/boletines/bol07mar00.html
(Translated by Shannon)