This year the presidential primaries are taking place in Mexico. On the democratic and revolutionary news site "solrojista", Mexican revolutionaries give their assessment, emphasizing that these elections are a circus show by the big bourgeoisie to push through the imperialist megaprojects that are still being fought over. By imperialist megaprojects we mean large infrastructure projects that we have already reported on several times. Among them are the so-called "Mayan Train" with the participation of the German Federal State Railway and the so-called Interoceanic Corridor, a railroad line and industrial project between the Pacific and the Atlantic in the southern Mexican isthmus with the complex participation of imperialist and bureaucratic capital from all over the world.
The assessment also denounces the militarization of the country promoted by the landlord-bureaucrat-capitalist state, as well as the so-called balkanization of the national territory and the war against the peoples of Mexico that is taking place in this context. The assessment places particular emphasis on the violence in the countryside which is directed against poor peasants and indigenous peoples. On this basis, it is explained that at the present moment it is all the more important that the popular resistance maintains its political and economic independence and does not submit to the electoral farce of the old state and its corporatist policies. The comrades continue to call for a second edition of the National Resistance Forum to rearticulate the forces of the people and define concrete tasks and practical agreements to mature new scenarios of unity in action.
A new Terravante song was published on the democratic and revolutionary news website of the newspaper "A Nova Democracia". The version of the song "Conquer the land" has been adopted by the Poor Peasants' League as their anthem.
The National Commission of the Poor Peasants' League has issued a strong statement denouncing the recent armed attack on National Front of Struggle - Rural and Urban (FNL) leader Geraldo Pires. Geraldo was attacked on January 3 as he was leaving the Prata Farm Camp in Pirapora, in the state of Minas Gerais, when he was shot in the hand and had to be hospitalized. The LCP described the attack as a cowardly assault on a regional leader with a combative activity in the north of Minas Gerais. The organization also pointed out that the incident was not an "isolated event" and called for the immediate investigation of this attack and the arrest of those who ordered and carried it out. In conclusion, the LCP stated that the actions of the gunmen will not stop the struggle for land and that Geraldinho will soon be supported by his comrades in the struggle. The full statement can be read on A Nova Democracia.
Two so-called "city guards" were found dead in the state of Maranhão on January 3 of this year. "City guards" are one of the many forms of security personnel of large landowners in Brazil who are linked to the old state and used against poor peasants. As in other cases, the two dead were members of a public authority, more precisely they were employed as municipal guards by the municipal of Cândido de Mendes. In the wake of their deaths, the recently formed Solidarity Committee for the Land Struggle released a statement linking the deaths of the two landlord lackeys to developments in the state and explaining how the deaths are part of a larger development in which armed forces of the old Brazilian state systematically stand as armed servants of the landlords to repress the peasant and popular movement. The full statement can be found here.
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