Zapatista National Liberation Army,
Mexico
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July 1998

To the Mexican Federal Army
To the Guatemalan Army
To the Interpol in Paris
To the CISEN in Polanco

Gentlemen:

YEPA, YEPA, YEPA!
ANDELE, ANDELE!
ARRIBA, ARRIBA!
YEPA, YEPA!

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
(Alias "El Sup Speedy Gonzalez", also known as "the stone in the shoe")

Mexico, July 1998

Communique of the
Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee
General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army,
Mexico
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July 1998

To the people of Mexico
To the peoples and governments of the world

Brothers and Sisters:

"¡NEMI ZAPATA!
¡NEMI ZAPATA!
¡NICAN CA NAMOTATA,
AYEMO MIQUI!
¡NEMI ZAPATA!" *

* "Long live Zapata! Long live Zapata! Here is your father, he has not yet died! Long live Zapata!", in Nahuatl.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast,
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

For the Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee,
General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

General Headquarters
Mexico, July 1998.

 

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