August 8, 2001
Birthdate
of General Emiliano Zapata
Narco News 2001
The
Communiqué
FARP
Takes Credit for Bombing Banamex
"The sale of Banamex to
Citigroup
is not a simple, tax-free, stock deal. It is a criminal act..."
- Revolutionary
Armed Forces of the People (FARP)
Mexico
City, August 9, 2001
Translated
by The Narco News Bulletin
Thursday, August 9, 2001, 07:14 p.m.
To the media;
To the Mexican people;
To the peoples of the world:
My
General Zapata: Here we are and here
we continue for your ideals and example that still live in the
memory of the Mexican people.
The actions of the limited military attack
realized by troops of our Armed Revolutionary Forces of the People
have as their goals:
1. To reject and condemn the sale of the Mexican
bank to foreign interests. The sale of Banamex to Citigroup is
the largest financial deal in the history of Latin America. The
deal for $12.5 million dollars includes important cultural treasures
that should be the property of the nation.
The sale of Banamex is not a simple, tax-free,
stock deal. It is a criminal act that lacerates and offends the
dignity and decorum of the Mexican people.
The dance of the millions seduces and
charms the national and foreign oligarchy, while the grand majority
of the Mexican people see their life expectations more reduced
every day with despair and anguish.
2. To demand the live presentation of all the disappeared
political dissidents. Fox is obligated to resolve this elemental
demand of justice. The worry, uncertainty and prayers of the
families of the disappeared must end. The guilty parties must
be unmasked and punished. Our country can not aspire to democracy
without having resolved this painful and repugnant debt.
3. To express our rejection of the constitutional
counter-reform that is the Indigenous Rights and Culture Law.
The insensitivity, closed-mindedness, authoritarianism and lack
of real will for dialogue and peace is evident. The campaign
promise to resolve the situation in Chiapas remains forgotten.
We can see with satisfaction that the political attitude of the
Fox government toward the EZLN gives us arguments to justify
armed struggle. But we also live with the hope for dialogue and
possible peace in Chiapas.
However, the warlike attitude of the state
is visible. The war is not good for anybody, nor desired by anybody.
War must not be the path to seek democracy, justice and freedom.
But the government, the traditional and right-wing political
class, as well as the oligarchy, are guided by their compulsion
to maintain their privileges forever.
4. To refuse the fiscal reform proposal of Fox. Because,
it does not contain real solutions to the economic and social
problems of the Mexican people, but rather privileges the interests
of those who have everything.
5. To call upon the farming people to organize and
fight against the mistaken and unfair government farming policies.
It is clear that we are confronting and oppressive government
that is only concerned with defending the interests of the powerful,
resulting in more poverty to those who are always exploited.
6. To condemn and reject the presence of Gari Prado
as the Bolivian Ambassador in Mexico. We do not accept the presence
of one of the assassins of the internationalist revolutionary
Ernesto Che Guevara in our country.
If the justice system of the powerful
punishes and assassinates the noble and just revolutionary men
it must also be applied against criminals.
7. To condemn the repression by the Italian government
against the anti-neoliberal movement in Genoa, Italy. We renounce
the assassination of the youth, Carlo Giuliani.
8. To call upon the revolutionary, democratic and
progressive organizations, parties and armies to make our best
effort to combat the old practices and political attitudes that
harmed the movement and to seek relations and necessary political
agreements to advance toward coordination and unity.
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias del Pueblo
FARP
Mexican Republic
August 9, 2001
Communiqué
of the Military Sector
To the media;
To the Mexican people;
To the peoples of the world:
On
the 8th of August of the present year,
military troops of our Armed Revolutionary Forces of the People
realized three actions of limited military attack, of a propagandistic
nature, against the same number of offices of Banamex.
After the completion of these actions
the troops retreated and reported themselves without casualties.
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias del Pueblo.
FARP
Mexican Republic, August 9, 2001.
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