But the government says it is false that they play at peace while making war. At the same time we learned of your letter, we received confirmation of the assassination of our companera Guadalupe Mendez Lopez, in an attack by the Public Security police of the state of Chiapas against a peaceful demonstration at the municipal head of Ocosingo on January 12th. As a response to the great mobilizations for peace with justice and dignity which occurred in several cities in Mexico and in the world, the police forces of the government shot at a civil demonstration of indigenous. But the government says it is false that they play at peace while making war. In the community of La Realidad, for example the federal Army doubles the number of artilleries vehicles, of military patrols.
Military airplanes carry out daily and nightly flights at different times.
By day they carry out maneuvers used in aerial combat for the bombing and strafing of fixed positions. Perhaps they rehearse the future. But the government says it is false that they play at peace while making war. By the time this letter reaches its destination, our companeros and companeras of the support bases will have already buried Guadalupe Mendez Lopez in the Zapatista mountains. But the government says it is false that they play at peace while making war.