Chiapas, And the Women?

Compiled and Edited

by

Rosa Rojas

Originally published

by

Editiones La Correa Feminista,

Centro de Investigacion y Capacitacion de la Mujer A.C.

Mexico 1994

Original Title: Chiapas, y las mujeres que?
Novembre-Decembre 1994

Compiled and Edited by: Rosa Rojas
Acquisition of texts: Ursula Zoeller
Correction of style: Rosario Galo Moya
Design: Ximena Bedregal
Impresion y encuadernacion: Ursula Zoeller

Collection: Del Dicho al Hecho
Coordination: Ximena Bedregal

Ediciones del Taller Editorial La Correa Feminista
Centro de Investigacion y Capacitacion de la Mujer A.C.
Ap. Postal 4-053, Mexico D.F. 06400
tel: 518-64-29

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Frauen Anstiftung de Alemania. The articles in this book can be reproduced in any media as long as it is for non-profit purposes, the source is cited and two copies of the publication are sent to the publisher as indicated above.

The following English translation has been produced by a team of volunteer translators, coordinated through the Internet. The name of the translator are attached to each chapter of the book that they were involved in translating.

Introduction

PART I: The EZLN Uprising and Women

I. 1 Women in the Days of War

Between War and Peace by Rosa Rojas

Anguish and Desperation for the Youth Who Join the Guerrilla by Linaloe Flores

I. 2 The Official Voice of the EZLN: Between the Revolutionary Law and the Communiques

EZLN: The Women's Revolutionary Law

The First Uprising: In March of 1993 by Subcommander Marcos

DO NOT LEAVE US ALONE! Interview with Comandante Ramona by Matilde Pérez U. y Laura Castellanos

I. 3 War and Peace: Reflections of Feminists, Voices of Women

Chiapas: Considerations from our Feminist Point of View Based on reflections of the CICAM Collective, by Ximena Bedregal

War and Feminism by Gloria Hernández J., Adela Hernández Reyes, Salvador Mendiola

A Feminist Vision Faced with the Chiapanecan Situation by Elizabeth Maier

The New Generation Faces the War by Guadalupe Sánchez Nettel

Women in the Zone of Conflict in Chiapas: A Work Proposal

Feminism and Indigenous Struggles, a dialog with Mirna Cunningham

Mirrors, Illusions and Transgressions: The Memory of My Own Steps by Elizabeth Alvarez Herrera

PART II: More Violence Against the Indigenous, More Violence Against Women

II. 1 Rapes

Soldiers Rape Three Tzeltal Women By Sara Lovera

Tzeltal Women Raped: Chronology of Another Outrage By Sara Lovera

Aftermath of Violence in Chiapas by Sara Lovera

Day Against Violence Against Women: Demand Civil Justice for Three Raped Women by Sara Lovera and Gaspar Morquecho

II. 2 Expulsiones in the Highlands of Chiapas

Expulsions: More Violence Against Chamula Indigenous by Gaspar Morquecho

II. 3 The Criminalization of Abortion in Chiapas

Abortion Recriminalized in Chiapas by Candelaria Rodriguez

The EZLN, the Vatican, Abortion Rights and the Mexican State by Martha Lamas.

Marcos denies that the EZLN demands the penalization of abortion

PART III: Between Violence and Which Peace?

III. 1 Women in the Dialogue at San Cristobal de las Casas

The Demands of the EZLN in relation to women

Response from the Government to the EZLN in Regards to Women

III. 2 Others Affected: the Small Property Owners

Ranchers' Wives...in solidarity with Women on a Hunger Strike by Candelaria Rodriquez and Jose Gil Mirna Camacho

Mirna Camacho Stops Hunger Strike after 16 days (Government purchases her occupied estate) Laura Mayagoitia Continues Her Hunger Strike in Tuxtla

Laura Mayagoitia Continues Her Hunger Strike in Tuxtla by Candelaria Rodriguez

III. 3 Women in the National Convention

Our Presence in the CND

Toward a New Social Code Elaborated by Women by Marcela Lagarde

III. 4 Speaking in the First Person, the Voice of the Indigenous

Indigenous Women, Rights and Tradition

Summary of the Final Resolutions from the First Session of the State Women's Convention. San Cristobal de las Casas, July 28 and 29, 1994

Summary of the Final Agreements of the Second Session of the State Women's Convention San Cristobal de las Casas, October 1st and 2nd, 1994

The Roadblocks Women Encouter; Problems with the EZLN too by Gaspar Morquecho

III. 5 The Declaration of Indigenous Autonomy, And the Women, When?

Indigenous Autonomy in Chiapas: The Women Are Missing by Rosa Rojas