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EZLN - Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion National
We are the descendants of the ancient so-called "Mesoamerican" civilizations that covered an area from Aztlan (the so-called U.S. Southwest) to the area called Costa Rica in Central America.
This land which the Aztecs called "Anahuac".
We founded our mother Olmeca civilization independent of any other civilization sometime before 1800 B.C. . We created this civilization out of our own genius.
Europeans and others have a problem accepting that we could invent, philosophize, and develop a civilization that produced El Tajin, Chichen Itza, Tikal, and Copan; that we could triumph through the Maya genius for mathematics, astronomy, and the calendar.
It bothers them that we excelled with the magnificence of Teotihuacan and the beauty and brilliance that was the Mexica Empire. They cannot accept that we did this by ourselves.
They would rather believe that Europeans, Jews, Africans or people from Mars created the beauty of our civilization.
They would rather believe in Atlantis and the lost tribes of Israel than to believe that we "stupid, barbaric, brown savage Indians" developed one of the most ancient and most beautiful civilizations on the face of the earth.
Around 300 B.C. in Teotihuacan we had begun what was to become the largest city in the world by 500 A.D., with a population of over 200,000 inhabitants.
In 1325 we founded Tenochtitlan with a population of 350,000, larger than any city in Europe.
In 1519 when the Europeans came to Anahuac (Mexico) they did not come to trade with us, nor to discover new lands. They came to enslave us, to steal from us, to kill us and to destroy our civilizations.
They imposed on us their government, religion, language, and they branded us with their Spanish surnames.
The Spaniards knew what they were doing.
By destroying our cities, killing our leadership and murdering our educated classes, they left our people poor, ignorant, enslaved, empty of pride, and robbed of land, dignity, identity and destiny.
We've been taught generation after generation for 500 years to identify with Europeans and to despise the Original Inhabitant people of Anahuac, to despise ourselves. Our own self-hate, to believe we are white and to celebrate the rape and theft of our land and people.
We've been given the false identities of Mestizo, Hispanic, Latino, and Raza, as a way to keep our true identity and our Indigenous history buried, by reinforcing the rejection of our Original identity, languages, race, and our ownership of the land.
A living nightmare, courtesy of the Europeans and there descendants.
Before this language, English/Spanish... before Cortez killed our last emperor Tlatoani Cuauhtemoc... before we were left Spanish slaves, Spanish tainted, slaves in our blood and names...
Before all of that, there was Tenochtitlan, capital city of the Mexicans, largest city of the Mexican empire of the Anahuac nation. Great sacred city, Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
We are still Anahuac! And we are just waking to that reality, as if we had been drugged... We are just waking! We are just waking to being Mexican! Arise Mexicans! Defend your people! We are still Mexican! Defend the future of our people!
Mexica Tiahui
Aztlan Y Anahuac
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