We though that in a short time we would be like you and next to you. With the same rebeliousness before the powerful one, but without the need of weapons. With the same dignity for the future, but without the face hidden by the black color of pain and the red color of blood. But we were wrong Frentista brothers and sisters. Peace is not near.
Peace is still far away.
Before and now the government uses the lie of a peace it only imagines as surrender and punishment. But we can no longer keep holding you back, or asking you to wait, not to advance, not to grow, not to become big, not to organize until there is a just and dignified peace and the EZLN can share with you the present and the future. A military force will not be the one to direct your steps and put them at risk. That cannot and should not be thus. In the last 20 months, what is now the FZLN has grown all over the national territory.