The following text is a fragment from
the introduction of the book Barbosa El
Traidor del Pueblo by the artist, writer
and journalist Claudia Martínez Sánchez.
The Sierra Negra Poblana is a marine
color eclipse, from it bright a light
that combines the divinity’s mother life
with the indigos of the mountains. From
the big rocks slide purple colors. Its
beauty is an inheritance from the mother
life and the mother water. Its wild
mountains are a bright whirl.
When
you come into the universe of its
spirals, the sky and earth get naked and
becomes lovers; they both kiss each
other, but in the downing the play as
winter, spring and wetness to reach the
eternity.
Their sons and daughters
are a heritage from the bronze skin.
They are those who preserve the blood of
our antecessors, the indigenes, also the
guardians of the earth. Their expressive
and ripped dark eyes hold grooves of the
sun, there are built with the work of
the earth. The men are sons of the
apple-tree and plum-tree. The women are
sprouts of the peach’s flower. All of
them are brothers of
the pine and
the oak, maybe this is the reason for
they to defend with his freedom and life
their forests, mountains and rivers.
Some walk through lanes with wood on
their backs, others carry water cubes
and look for the light of the day with
the first ray from the sun to work the
earth. Their children are genes from the
bloody conquest and, as a damn, are
still pursued.
The Celestina is a novel that makes a
well honor of the wordplay which is
so-called the Celestinos in the Sierra
Negra de Puebla. The Celestina is a
strumpet and tricky witch who practice
the sorcery to get her sinister and dark
wishes. In Puebla, Araceli Celestino
Rosas, elected federal deputy, looks as
she went out from the Fernando de Rojas
work, but in the current times of drug
traffic and governmental simulation.
Araceli fits in the style of jefa de
plaza of the Sierra Negra for her
operation at service of the mining
companies the organization of criminal
groups to submit and terrify all the
town. At this day, there more than 20
complaints against this public servant
for threats, persecutions, dispossession
of lands and other violations of the
human rights of the Coyomeapan natives.
On May 9th, 2022, the Puebla government
gave indications for the assassination,
with the use of the statal police, of
indigene defenders of the Sierra. Among
them, they killed a 14 years old child,
Omar Herrera Raymundo, and the indigene
farmers Marcelo Carrera Reyes and
Teófilo Barrera Herrera.
They
know that its mother is ambushed. It′s
the Sierra Negra, mother of all nahua
zapoteca natives.
It has been
outraged as just as its sons. Its louds
are strident, very strident; nobody
listens. They loud: Help, justice,
freedom! They strongly loud, very
strong, nevertheless, nobody listens.
Sierra Negra de Puebla whipped by
caciques and criminal groups.
The
Coyomeapan′s wind smells like coffee,
tabaco and fear. In its emerald
thickness, the hills hold the spirits
and souls of the natives in the Sierra
Negra′s region, in a place by the
capricious blue colors of the nature.
Only they are blessed in the good living
of the mother earth: so close from the
sky, the clouds, the rains... and so far
from justice.
In the dawn of June
6th, it listened the fear from the
mountains of Coyomeapan: hooded men,
from Nayarit and Veracruz, with large
weapons began to terrify the golden
carpet of fireflies which enlightened
the darkness to love them between the
forests; everyone at the Sierra
identifies them as the Celestinos, the
town caciques, authors of the insecurity
and violence in these lands.
The
indigene families that go inside in the
Sierra are the ones whose lives from
what the earth provides them. These
families, that lives in tejamaní and
wood huts, have been the most pursued
ones for 11 years, since the Celestino′s
arrival. But on June 6th, the
Celestino′s abuses went to far: many
homes were attacked along the dawn by
this criminal group to force them, with
gun in hand, to vote for the candidate
that belongs to this mafia, Rodolfo
García López, from Nayarit ―husband of
the recently elected federal deputy,
Araceli Celestino Rosas―. Those which
had the best part, were those who
received a 1000 to 2000 MXN offer for
their vote and those who were snatched
their credentials.
Even it′s known that the Sierra
Negra is a land of oblivion,
indifference, margination, inequality
and discrimination, it′s also known that
it has never been whipped by criminal
groups as the Celestinos, until that
come the presence of the Minera Autlán
to the region with its hydroelectric
project.
Since 11 years ago, the
Celestinos have applied the revolver′s
law: the one who don’t kneel down before
their law, is jailed, disappeared or
killed. The natives in the Sierra Negra,
embed in the region of God and the
authority′s oblivion, had been report,
since one year ago, the dispossession of
large areas of their lands for the
construction of their houses and the
exploration of the earth with bores as
part as the hydroelectric project that
pretends to devastate all the Sierra
Negra.
The media barely get into to
realize a journalistic radiography of
the sceneries of margination, poverty
and fear that the Coyomeapan natives
have suffered for 11 years. Just a few
of journalists deeply investigate the
corruption in the Sierra Negra around
the Minera Autlán.
The state government purpose was realizing a slaughter to all the native defenders of human rights, which just want to safeguard the water, the land and its forests...
See the next pages:
- The World (introduction 2)
- The Comfort Zone (introduction3)
- The Fetish
- The Information pathology - term and application
- The Connection of image and truth
- The Individual
- I have to change my life