“Women, slaves of the slave: encourage your comrades to shake off the yoke that oppresses us all equally. Reject the lies and deceit of the vestmented executioners: throw their “relics” and their ridiculous suits to the pigs and swell the ranks of the libertarian women who, united with the rebels, make propaganda with the pen, the word, and also with the rifle or dynamite, destroying the dens where the wolves of power, money and religion dwell. Forward libertarian women!”
Francisca J. Mendoza, ¡Tierra! #481, December 28, 1912
At approximately 10 p.m. on September 9, 2023 we placed an explosive device made with dynamite and butane gas in a cargo truck on 31st Street in Escarcega, Campeche, with the intention of sabotaging the war that the Mexican government is waging against the jungle with the construction of the so-called “Mayan train”.
I. IT IS NOT JUST A TRAIN, IT IS NOT MAYAN!
It is a project of destruction by territorial reordering that intends to establish a model of “development poles” leading to the expansion of fully capitalist relations in the Yucatan peninsula, which will provoke proletarianization, forced displacement, generalized contamination, dispossession and destruction of our ways of life. WE DO NOT ACCEPT IT.
This project was imposed through the operation of the militaristic state machinery in collusion with the agrarian mafias that have operated in the Yucatan peninsula since colonial times; and in the rigged “consultations” that were carried out, we women of the region were never asked our opinion. THAT IS WHY WE HAD TO RESORT TO PROPAGANDA OF THE DEED, TO MAKE CLEAR OUR REJECTION OF THE PROJECT.
We don’t want to see the jungle destroyed! we don’t want to leave our communal ways of life! we don’t want our daughters to become their cooks, their servants or their rape objects! And that is what the violence of your “development” offers us with this train.
Our daughters will be free! Free as the jungle! We do not want violence, but it has been the government and the exploiting bourgeoisie that is destroying our ways of life, our bodies, our territories with violence! And we will defend ourselves!
In this scenery of amphitheaters and devastation that they want to impose on us, the ethics of care in our hands will have to acquire the sweet smell of dynamite!
II. WOMEN’S DISGUISE. PATRIARCHAL SKIN
Today, the commentators of power boast -as if it were an “advance”-, that in the next elections in the territory occupied by the Mexican state, the presidential candidates will be women. As if just changing the body would change politics. But we want to tell these ladies that their bourgeois, white, racist, elite feminism is garbage that we will not digest. We clearly understand that the State is the juridical form that organizes the violence of patriarchy, capital and colonialism to subjugate us. That is why the State must be attacked, because it is the source of patriarchal violence! NOTHING THAT COMES FROM THE STATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE AND RACISM NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY PUT ON A MASK WITH A WOMAN’S BODY!
We are not women of the jungle, we are the jungle defending itself!
From somewhere in the jungle in the Yucatan Peninsula,
Coordinating committee of anarchist women for the defense of our body-territory
Freedom for anarchist prisoners! Freedom for Monica Caballero, Francisco Solar and Alfredo Cospito!
p.s. We salute the compas of the informal feminist commando of anti-authoritarian action that have acted in other places of the territory occupied by Mexico, because they inspired us to take this path.
