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Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the EZLN, announcing fly-overs by military airplanes in the zones of the five caracoles. [Audio Transcription]

Compañeros, Compañeras, Good day. We always make our appearance in urgent situations.  Allow me to read this communiqué that we are issuing at this time. It says:

August 14^th, 2013, mid-morning.

Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, Mexico.

To the people of Mexico:

To the people of the World:

To the Sixth:

To the students of the Zapatista Little School across the world:

Compañeros and Compañeras:

We are notifying you that on August 12^th and 13^th 2013, during the night, military planes were doing flyovers over the zones of the five Zapatista caracoles, the places where they are teaching the course “Freedom According to the Zapatistas.”

Maybe, serving their masters, the Mexican soldiers are spying for the US government, or, the North American planes are doing the work of spying directly. Or maybe the soldiers want to see what is taught in the Zapatista communities that they have attacked so much, but have been unable to destroy.

We say to the government of Peña Nieto, that if your soldiers want to learn in the little school, they should ask to be invited. We won’t, however, invite them. But then they can use the pretext that they are spying because we didn’t invite them. That’s all.

Democracy, Liberty, Justice

From San Cristóbal de las Casas

Chiapas, Mexico

For the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, Mexico.

Comandante Tacho

México, August 2013

Thank you compañeros. That’s all.

Okay…well, continue studying compañeros, you’ve heard the communiqué.

That’s all, Thank you.

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Translation by “El Kilombo Intergaláctico”
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