Baja Farmers Seize World's Largest Salt Mine, with the EZLN Other Campaign
October 16 2006
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There is no time to write you a longer alert as we are once more on the road with the Zapatista Other Campaign, heading
up the Baja California Peninsula toward the US border, but something significant happened last night that is now
reported on Narco News.
Farmers and Ranchers near Vizcaino, Baja California Sur, hours before Subcomandante Marcos and the Other Campaign were
scheduled to pass through their town on Highway 1, seized and shutdown the world's largest salt mine, owned by the
Mexican government jointly with Mitsubishi corporation. They stopped Delegate Zero on the road and invited him and the
caravan to join them in the occupation of the pumping stations and 39,000 hectares of land: the Zapatista spokesman and
allies from the Other Campaign spent the night there.
The ranchers and farmers demand that the Exportadora del Sal corporation pay them a just rent on their lands or "que se
largan" ("get out of town").
Read all about it:
Once more, the path of the Other Campaign and its vow that "no one fights alone anymore" has provided a context for real
people to take control of their lands and work. And here, in the allegedly "conservative" Mexican North, an Other Mexico
rises from below and to the left.
Salud. Gotta run...
From somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher, Narco News
Coordinator, Road Team - The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign