El Capitan, Marcos, in this new series of articles, writes of the struggle and journeys. "Along the way we learned that the voice that teaches is Uma Kiwe, our Mother Earth; She indicates the path and the strategies," but then in 2016 all these others began to arrive, with isms, environmentalism, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, Maoism, institutionalism, developmentalism -- all bearing the seal of Western rationality.
"None contributed anything worthwhile. And of course, there were and will be people who only came to get what they could. And they left when they could get no more. They were not 'isms,' they were, and are, just scoundrels."
Images of Impossible Bridges: III A Letter
By El Capitan, Marcos
August 2024
Espanol, German, Italian
Actually, the letter is very short. It arrived from Cauca, in the geography called Colombia, with a request from the brother Nasa indigenous people. I think it was at the end of 2022. Wait… yes, it arrived on October 31, 2022. The Nasa brothers asked that an article be spread on the Enlace Zapatista page, that is, that it be published there.
I read the text carefully, compared the data and thought: “if it is published on the page, no one will pay attention to it. And I think that what they want is not to have many “views”, but rather that what is said there is read and understood here, in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Then we are going to do something better than publish it on the Enlace Zapatista page: I am going to pass it on to the Zapatista political-organizational leadership. Let them be the ones who value it for what it is: an impossible bridge.” Why “impossible”? Now you will see:
Actually, the letter is very short. It arrived from Cauca, in the geography called Colombia, with a request from the brother Nasa indigenous people. I think it was at the end of 2022. Wait… yes, it arrived on October 31, 2022. The Nasa brothers asked that an article be spread on the Enlace Zapatista page, that is, that it be published there.
I read the text carefully, compared the data and thought: “if it is published on the page, no one will pay attention to it. And I think that what they want is not to have many “views”, but rather that what is said there is read and understood here, in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Then we are going to do something better than publish it on the Enlace Zapatista page: I am going to pass it on to the Zapatista political-organizational leadership. Let them be the ones who value it for what it is: an impossible bridge.” Why “impossible”? Now you will see:
