Marcos: “Oaxaca Is Not Just an Emergency, It Is Also an Example to Follow”

Two thousand organizers of the Zapatista Other Campaign convened today in the Pantitlán neighborhood of Mexico City for a conference to “analyze the national situation,” a task made still more complicated nineteen hours earlier when the Mexican Armed Forces conducted helicopter surveillance flights on Saturday over the city of Oaxaca, six hours to the south of the nation’s capital. The flagrant participation by the national army added the specter of military intervention against the very citizenry that the institution is sworn to defend.