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Originally published in Spanish by the FZLN
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Translated by irlandesa
From: FZLN@fzln.org.mx Date: Saturday, July 13, 2002
Speech concerning Atenco's List of Demands, July 12 Dialogue with the Federal Government: As a consequence of its repressive actions of July 11, and ever since the publication of the expropriation decree, the State Government has demonstrated its failure as a conflict resolution body with the communities which were affected. The government, presided over by Arturo Montiel, has once again demonstrated its ineffectiveness in providing information concerning the whereabouts of our compañeros and their state of health — especially that of the compañero Zapata. It has attempted to engage in dialogue with San Salvador Atenco without establishing guarantees for its implementation. It has not provided information about the detainees, it lacks the authority to resolve the land conflict and the withdrawal of the Federal Preventive Police from the area. Nor has it demonstrated any signs of détente in the current conflict, which it created, through the withdrawal the State Police. The federal government, however, has removed itself from the conflict, acting as a spectator, when the person who is primarily responsible for social dissent in the towns of Atenco and Texcoco is the President of the Republic, Vicente Fox Quezada, by decreeing the expropriation of 5384 hectares of our communities. The Executive has primary responsibility for resolving the conflict, and it has the legal and political authority to do so. On July 12, the President stated that the conflict should be resolved through dialogue. In response to this - and remembering that it has been the President, on previous occasions, who has refused to engage in dialogue with us — we are presenting the terms and conditions under which we are willing to engage in dialogue: NECESSARY DÉTENTE MEASURES FOR CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR DIALOGUE For Atenco: - Opening up traffic routes - Turning over detainees For the Federal Government: - Withdrawal of state and federal security forces. - Immediate medical attention to our injured compañeros. - Release of all our compañeros and cancellation of arrest warrants. It is necessary for the federal government to recognize the Peoples Front in Defense of the Land as valid interlocutors in the conflict. We, in turn, recognize the federal Government as the single and direct interlocutor for resolving the conflict over the airport construction project. DIALOGUE AGENDA Cancellation of the expropriation decree of October 22, 2002. NATURE OF DIALOGUE Public and decision-making. With interlocution from a federal government representative who is capable of decision-making. That the accords agreed upon by the parties be definitive. Peoples Front in Defense of the Land July 2002. The following individuals are proposed as intermediaries for the dialogue: Don Samuel Ruiz. Doña Rosario Ibarra de Piedra. General Francisco Gallardo. Proposed as observers is a: Plural Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.