The other was profound political reform that guaranteed liberty and democracy for all Mexicans. They stated to us that, although there were deficiencies in the political system, the regimen of Salinas de Gortari represented astonishing economic advances. We responded then that the country was living a lie, that economic bonanzas could not exist without political freedoms. Our voice was first lost in the soccer euphoria, and then later in the electoral hopes. We did not shoot.
Patience is a virtue of the warrior.
Before a year had passed since our small and crazy voice had asked, in San Cristobal de las Casas, for the renunciation of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the entire country awoke from the stupefying dream of the economic bonanza. Millions of Mexicans demanded, and demand, that the person who tricked for all these years be punished. Today we are demanding a dialogue with national themes. We are demanding a broad national dialogue in which a new social and political pact is discussed and agreed upon. To many people it appears to be a new example of the Zapatista propensity for delirium.