PRESS RELEASE EMERGENCIAMXindependent group conformed by Mexican film makers and communicator denounces the attack to their website and requests for urgent international support from all the independent and honorable media, cultural and artistic groups, as well as from civil society in general, in order to stop the war in Mexico.
The so called war against drugs in Mexico is a massive business for a few, and a great disgrace for us all. The war is a lie and a fraud. The war is the last state of power. It is death and fear to death. It is the night of times. It is not abstract, but starkly concrete.
His case is iconic to the national situation, and one further proof of the absurdity of this war. Nepomuceno Moreno Núñez: his 17-year-old son had been disappeared. He was kidnapped, along other youngsters the 1st of July 2010, in several patrols and particular cars by members of the state and local police. The Federal Attorney General has denied access to the security videos taken on the convenience store where he was abducted, as well as those from the federal highway. Blackmail calls have been made from this same Federal Attorney General. He was deceived by justice. He was threatened by the police and by criminals. He demanded protection to the President, who left this assignment to the Minister of the Interior, who “accidentally” died, being him the second one in this charge to have this fate in the six-years presidency period. On Monday the 28th of November Nepomuceno Moreno Núñez was killed, four blocks away from the District Attorney’s Office, six blocks away from the State Congress and only a few meters from the University of Sonora, just in the middle of Hermosillo’s city centre. Two days later he was indicted by the Federal Attorney General itself, for belonging to the organised crime, as part of the cruel legal logic: dead cannot defend themselves. The UN itself energetically condemned Nepomuceno’s murder, and members of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity have already warned that this case will be taken to the highest levels of international justice.
Worldwide newscast covered this case. In the US, from CNN and FOX news to DemocracyNow published brief reports regarding this matter. Mexico’s communication media such as Milenio TV and programs like Carmen Aristegui’s made reports on the video likewise. Almost all of them used as a resource the video made by EmergenciaMx.org.
In this context we publicly denounce that on Saturday the 1st of December 2011, members of the team of EmergenciaMx.org detected a virtual attack against the group’s website www.emergenciamx.org by means that tried to force the publication of a violent video in the system. The attack was not effective and without a doubt it was another hate demonstration, such as all the existent nowadays through the net.
Napomuceno’s video could have been made by any of the so many groups and individuals that, within their efforts, try to make visible the national tragedy through the voice of the victims and their families. While mass media uses those audiovisual materials without facing any risk, the producers remain in this, so wisely dangerous, semi-obscurity.
The collection of testimonies in video and audio from the victims and family members, is not only important, but fundamental to generate the single possible Mexican “Wikileaks” of this war. It is the direct families of the victims the only ones that truly run deep investigations on the cases in our country, and with their own money pay unsuccessful ransoms, and hire investigators and informants.
They are discriminated and extorted in all governmental and attorney levels; they gather, with the effort of whole families, the needed documentation to present their cases in the legal manner. However the flow these documents follow seems infinitely long, dark, unaffordable and even counterproductive. As a counterpart, the video testimonies that autonomous groups and supportive individuals broadcast through social networks are not intended to appeal any tremendous court, they pretend to plead human judgment.
In this sense, the attack to our site is added to the uncountable attacks and trolls that the independent media and families of the victims suffer, both through the net as radio frequencies. However the actual situation can be considered as a chain of serial attacks, murders and kidnaps against the members of the “Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity” (MPJD) on a national level. This happening just after a few weeks from the murder attempt against Norma Andrade, founder of the group “Nuestras hijas de regreso a casa” (Our daughters return home) in Ciudad Juárez; a few days after the murder of Nepomuceno Moreno; a few days after the forced disappearance of Marcial Bautista Valle and Eva Fe Alarcón Ortiz, -the former president and the latter coordinator of the “Organización de Campesinos Ecologistas de la Sierra de Petatlán y Coyuca de Catalán, A.C.” (Organisation of Environmental Peasants from the range of Petatlán and Coyuca of Catalán), moreover, members of the MPJD-; and the murder of the singer and activist Julia Michán.
This past 6th of December a bus with almost 20 members of the MPJD was captured while traveling on the Caravan of Observation to Ostula, municipality of Aquila, Michoacán. As a result of the negative given by the Federal Police’s escort, a paramilitary group stopped and threatened them with long weapons. J. Trinidad de la Cruz Crisóforo, communal leader, was traveling along with the caravan. “Don Trino” did not make it back to the bus again, and on the next day he was found dead with severe signs of torture.
The cases of Napomuceno Moreno and Trinidad de la Cruz are added to the more than 67,000 deaths and 10,000 disappearances of the six-years presidency period. A woman is raped every 18 seconds in national territory. Numbers of over 1.5 million displaced people are presented. These are the war measurements that Mexico is suffering at the present.
By this means we support the “Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity” and we ask for urgent international support from all independent and honorable media, cultural and social groups, as well as from the civil society in general. We specifically ask for the support of DEMOCRACY NOW, TELESUR, AL JAZEERA and all non-corporative honest broadcasters, in the defense and promotion, through all media, of these testimonies.
In this war the only one accused is the victim, the only investigator is the family of the victim, the only reporter is the supportive friend and the only government is civil society. In the middle of this circulation, in this come and go, between promises and deceptions, the Mexican society will have to come out, once more, from the night of its own history. With no fear and peacefully, we all have to stop this war; nobody else will do that for us. It is time to wakeup.
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