Caracol IV “Whirlwind of Our Words”
February 11, 2007.

To the national and international public opinion
To the national and international media
To the nongovernmental human rights organizations
To the compañer@s of the Sexta and the Other Campaign

FIRST – The Good Government Junta “Heart of the Rainbow of Hope” makes the following denunciations, according to direct information received from our compañeros and compañeras support bases of the autonomous municipalities: Olga Isabel and its regions, Vicente Guerrero, 1 de Enero, 17 de Noviembre, Ernesto Che Guevara and Miguel Hidalgo, who have all received death threats for working our recovered lands. These threats were issued by the organization OPPDIC, headed by Pedro Chulín, the delegate of the State government German de la Rosa Hernandez, and Silviano Velazco Gonzales, delegate of region two, Teopisca.

SECOND – The members of this organization, who are committing these human rights violations, seize our corn and beans, make armed death threats, and threaten to evict our compañeros support bases living in the new population centers from their communities.

THIRD – OPDDIC Members have tried several times to dismantle the seat of the autonomous municipality Olga Isabel, and threatened to destroy our offices. The council members even discovered small marijuana plantations, for which they were going to accuse us, while it is them who are the real authors behind the plantings.

FOURTH – In the community Agua Azul, a tourist zone, the OPDDIC bases of that community are firing shots, .22 and .38 caliber, in the air every day and they themselves also claim to possess high-powered weapons, such as the 7.62 so called ”cuerno de chivo” [AK-47]. These same people are requesting the presence of the federal army to install a military camp in the area. This Friday, February 9, 2007, two trucks from federal army arrived to examine the place, and in the same week a federal army helicopter flew over the area to reconnoiter the community where their presence is being requested.

FIFTH – On the territory of the autonomous municipality Vicente Guerrero the OPDDIC bases inhabitants of the ranch EL NANCE are calling for the intervention of the Department for Agrarian Reform (SRA) to legalize more than nineteen parcels of recovered land and turn them into an ejido. We autonomous authorities see that the SRA continues to use the same old methods as in the times of Absalon Castellanos in order to provoke confrontations, which are caused by the State government, between the indigenous and its institutions. The inhabitants of the ranch are cutting down trees in an with agreement with the OPDDIC, and the SAGARPA does nothing to stop them.

SIXTH – The OPDDIC and the ODICCS are joining forces to rob us of our land, which is being worked collectively by our support bases of the autonomous municipality 1 de Enero. These organizations are trying to provoke a confrontation between indigenous, because they have contacted the ranchers of the estates San Isidro la Valencia and Santa Rita in order to negotiate this, and the government delegate German de la Rosa is acting as their intermediary to provoke the death of indigenous.