authorized Zedillo CSG and paramilitaries in Chiapas Support, U.S. says
Report of the Defense Intelligence Agency mentioned the Army's participation
These armed groups were supervised by the Mexican military intelligence during the dates on which perpetrated the massacre of Acteal
- The National Security Archive filed documents
David Brooks - Correspondent
New York, 20 August. The Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States reported on the "direct support" of the Mexican Army paramilitary Chiapas, which since mid-1994 provided with the permission of then president Carlos Salinas, as part of the counterinsurgency strategy against the Zapatistas, and notes that these armed groups were under the supervision of the Mexican military intelligence during the dates of perpetrated the massacre in Acteal, and Ernesto Zedillo as the Executive. This is reflected in recently declassified U.S. official documents and presented today by the organization called the National Security Archive (National Security Archive).
A cable sent by the Defence Attaché of the United States in Mexico to head the Defense Intelligence Agency, (DIA, for its acronym in English), the Pentagon's request, dated May 4, 1999, reports that "by mid 1994, the Mexican Army had presidential authorization for military equipment institute responsible for promoting armed groups in conflict areas of Chiapas. The intent was to assist local personnel in resisting indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). In addition, during the slaughter of Acteal 1997, Army intelligence officers were involved in monitoring armed groups in highland Chiapas. "
In describing the "direct support" of the Mexican army armed indigenous groups in the area of \u200b\u200bChiapas where Acteal is located, the cable reports on a clandestine network of "human intelligence teams (intelligence officers) formed by the Army in mid-1994, with the approval of then-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. These teams were tasked to infiltrate communities to obtain information on "sympathetic" Zapatistas.
was these teams, he adds, armed groups who promoted anti-zapatista-that is, paramilitary, giving both "training" to protect against public safety authorities and military units in the region. The cable reports that these activities are already conducted from December 1997, when the massacre of Acteal.
"The most important thing about the DIA documents that directly contradict the official story of the massacre told by the government of President Ernesto Zedillo," said Kate Doyle, director of the Mexico Project at the National Security Archive, in its presentation of Your organization's documents obtained under freedom of information laws and released on its website. Doyle noted that the report of the Attorney General of the Republic, Jorge Madrazo, in 1998, the PGR said it had documented the existence of armed civilian groups in Chenalho, "no organized, created, trained and financed by the Mexican military or other government agencies, but its management and organization respond to a given internal logic of confrontation between communities and within communities, the Zapatista support bases.
DIA cable also provides details never before known about the functioning of teams of "human intelligence" of the Mexican Army in providing this support. The cable describes these teams were made "primarily by young officers with the rank of captain second and first sergeants as well as some selected that spoke dialects of the region. "
The report sent to the headquarters of the EIS says that the equipment human intelligence "consisted of three to four people, who were assigned to cover communities for a period of three or four months. After three months, officers from the teams were rotated to a different community in Chiapas. Concern for the safety of the teams was the most important reason for the rotation of these every three months. "
for Doyle, these documents lead to the conclusion that the logic of the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) was "a carefully planned counterinsurgency strategy that combined civic action programs, often announced by the Defense Department told the press-secret intelligence operations designed to strengthen the paramilitaries and provoke conflict against supporters of the EZLN. "
Doyle criticizes the lack of access and provision of the Mexican government to all documentation on Acteal. "Until the current administration decided to honor his obligation to inform their citizens about the truth of the slaughter of 1997, the clamor of the people by the facts remain lost in the unprocessed files. And we are only turning to the U.S. is seeking Information on the Mexican Army and Acteal. "
troop deployment
In the second of two declassified documents and presented by the National Security Archive, it transmits information on the deployment of 5 000 elements of troops by the Zedillo government to bolster the 30 thousand deployed permanently in Chiapas, or what is called "conflict zone" - immediately after the slaughter of 45 Tzotzil Indians in Acteal, 22 December 1997. Citing
"open source", that is, the media, as well as secret, the defense attache's office in the United States in Mexico reports to the DIA in the cable dated December 31, 1997, that about 2000 troops plus other forces were deployed in the area of \u200b\u200bChenalho to provide "law and order" in the region, as well as "social work" to indigenous communities, particularly communities displaced by the MIRA group. Indicates that members of the paramilitary group have ruled the area for "threats and violence in the region Chenalhó." At the same time, it is reported that other units were "put on alert to assist in the event of an uprising."
Among the "open source" cited in the document, including some publications referred to La Jornada, which is referred to as "a newspaper considered to be well written, leaning to the left, with good news coverage."
New York, 20 August. The Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States reported on the "direct support" of the Mexican Army paramilitary Chiapas, which since mid-1994 provided with the permission of then president Carlos Salinas, as part of the counterinsurgency strategy against the Zapatistas, and notes that these armed groups were under the supervision of the Mexican military intelligence during the dates of perpetrated the massacre in Acteal, and Ernesto Zedillo as the Executive. This is reflected in recently declassified U.S. official documents and presented today by the organization called the National Security Archive (National Security Archive).
A cable sent by the Defence Attaché of the United States in Mexico to head the Defense Intelligence Agency, (DIA, for its acronym in English), the Pentagon's request, dated May 4, 1999, reports that "by mid 1994, the Mexican Army had presidential authorization for military equipment institute responsible for promoting armed groups in conflict areas of Chiapas. The intent was to assist local personnel in resisting indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). In addition, during the slaughter of Acteal 1997, Army intelligence officers were involved in monitoring armed groups in highland Chiapas. "
In describing the "direct support" of the Mexican army armed indigenous groups in the area of \u200b\u200bChiapas where Acteal is located, the cable reports on a clandestine network of "human intelligence teams (intelligence officers) formed by the Army in mid-1994, with the approval of then-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. These teams were tasked to infiltrate communities to obtain information on "sympathetic" Zapatistas.
was these teams, he adds, armed groups who promoted anti-zapatista-that is, paramilitary, giving both "training" to protect against public safety authorities and military units in the region. The cable reports that these activities are already conducted from December 1997, when the massacre of Acteal.
"The most important thing about the DIA documents that directly contradict the official story of the massacre told by the government of President Ernesto Zedillo," said Kate Doyle, director of the Mexico Project at the National Security Archive, in its presentation of Your organization's documents obtained under freedom of information laws and released on its website. Doyle noted that the report of the Attorney General of the Republic, Jorge Madrazo, in 1998, the PGR said it had documented the existence of armed civilian groups in Chenalho, "no organized, created, trained and financed by the Mexican military or other government agencies, but its management and organization respond to a given internal logic of confrontation between communities and within communities, the Zapatista support bases.
DIA cable also provides details never before known about the functioning of teams of "human intelligence" of the Mexican Army in providing this support. The cable describes these teams were made "primarily by young officers with the rank of captain second and first sergeants as well as some selected that spoke dialects of the region. "
The report sent to the headquarters of the EIS says that the equipment human intelligence "consisted of three to four people, who were assigned to cover communities for a period of three or four months. After three months, officers from the teams were rotated to a different community in Chiapas. Concern for the safety of the teams was the most important reason for the rotation of these every three months. "
for Doyle, these documents lead to the conclusion that the logic of the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) was "a carefully planned counterinsurgency strategy that combined civic action programs, often announced by the Defense Department told the press-secret intelligence operations designed to strengthen the paramilitaries and provoke conflict against supporters of the EZLN. "
Doyle criticizes the lack of access and provision of the Mexican government to all documentation on Acteal. "Until the current administration decided to honor his obligation to inform their citizens about the truth of the slaughter of 1997, the clamor of the people by the facts remain lost in the unprocessed files. And we are only turning to the U.S. is seeking Information on the Mexican Army and Acteal. "
troop deployment
In the second of two declassified documents and presented by the National Security Archive, it transmits information on the deployment of 5 000 elements of troops by the Zedillo government to bolster the 30 thousand deployed permanently in Chiapas, or what is called "conflict zone" - immediately after the slaughter of 45 Tzotzil Indians in Acteal, 22 December 1997. Citing
"open source", that is, the media, as well as secret, the defense attache's office in the United States in Mexico reports to the DIA in the cable dated December 31, 1997, that about 2000 troops plus other forces were deployed in the area of \u200b\u200bChenalho to provide "law and order" in the region, as well as "social work" to indigenous communities, particularly communities displaced by the MIRA group. Indicates that members of the paramilitary group have ruled the area for "threats and violence in the region Chenalhó." At the same time, it is reported that other units were "put on alert to assist in the event of an uprising."
Among the "open source" cited in the document, including some publications referred to La Jornada, which is referred to as "a newspaper considered to be well written, leaning to the left, with good news coverage."
