Comandante Ramona
January 6, 2005
Tonala
Today Comandanta Ramona died. One of the best -known and most-respected commanders of the EZLN, Ramona fought for 20 years as part of the EZLN and the CCRI (Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee) and helped write the Zapatista Revolutionary Law for Women. Much has been made of Ramona’s tiny stature and enormous courage, her near illiteracy and powerful words. She was the first Zapatista to break the military enclosure of the insurgents in Chiapas when she went to Mexico City in 1996 to receive a kidney transplant for the same illness that eventually took her life. In that trip she spoke to millions in the zocolo, previewing what would come ten years later with the Sexta: “We hope that all of you walk with us. We want to unite our small Zapatista voice with the big voice of all of you that fight for a new Mexico. We came here to shout, with all of you, the ‘ya basta,’ enough, never again a Mexico without us. This is what we want, a Mexico where we all have a place, a dignified place.”
The Sup receives the news in the middle of a town meeting in Tonala. After an hour’s mysterious wait, he returns to announce her death, stating, “In this situation it is very difficult to speak. What I can say is that the world has lost one of those women who births new worlds. Mexico has lost one of the kind of fighters it needs, and we have lost a piece of our hearts.” The tour is suspended for 2 days as the EZ and the communities mourn Ramona’s death.
Tonala
Today Comandanta Ramona died. One of the best -known and most-respected commanders of the EZLN, Ramona fought for 20 years as part of the EZLN and the CCRI (Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee) and helped write the Zapatista Revolutionary Law for Women. Much has been made of Ramona’s tiny stature and enormous courage, her near illiteracy and powerful words. She was the first Zapatista to break the military enclosure of the insurgents in Chiapas when she went to Mexico City in 1996 to receive a kidney transplant for the same illness that eventually took her life. In that trip she spoke to millions in the zocolo, previewing what would come ten years later with the Sexta: “We hope that all of you walk with us. We want to unite our small Zapatista voice with the big voice of all of you that fight for a new Mexico. We came here to shout, with all of you, the ‘ya basta,’ enough, never again a Mexico without us. This is what we want, a Mexico where we all have a place, a dignified place.”
The Sup receives the news in the middle of a town meeting in Tonala. After an hour’s mysterious wait, he returns to announce her death, stating, “In this situation it is very difficult to speak. What I can say is that the world has lost one of those women who births new worlds. Mexico has lost one of the kind of fighters it needs, and we have lost a piece of our hearts.” The tour is suspended for 2 days as the EZ and the communities mourn Ramona’s death.
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