Lucio Cabañas Barrientos

Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (born December 12, 1938 in El Porvenir, Atoyac de Alvarez, † December 2, 1974 in Tecpan de Galeana) was a primary school teacher and revolutionary in Guerrero , Mexico .

Life

His parents were Rafaela Barrientos and Cesáreo Cabañas Iturio. He was born into a large family that lived in the village of El Ticuí. His brothers are David and Pablo. His grandfather was General Pablo Cabañas Macedo, a guerrilla who attempted an uprising after the death of Emiliano Zapata and was defeated by Guerrero by the latifundists of the Costa Grande. In his childhood he worked as a coffee picker. Cabañas studied teaching at the Escuela normal de Ayotzinapa . During his studies he was a student representative. In 1962 he was elected General Secretary of the Federación de Estudiantes Campesinos Socialistas de México .

He got a job as a teacher in a primary school in Mexcaltepec, in the municipality of Atoyac about 100 kilometers in the mountains (Sierra de Atoyac). As a teacher, he campaigned against injustice and called for a peaceful demonstration in Tecapan on May 18, 1967, where the motorized police carried out a massacre. One brother and six other teachers were killed in the massacre. The Guerrero state government charged Cabañas with agitation, tried to blame him for the crime, and had him searched. This is why Cabañas was forced to flee to the Sierra de Guerrero , where he succeeded in mobilizing farmers who defended against cacism, the abuses, the rape, the unhealthy living conditions and the unjust distribution of wealth and founded the Partido de los Pobres (PDLP), a guerrilla .

In 1970, the first kidnapping of a politician brought in 100,000 Mexican pesos. For the next three years the PDLP devoted itself to bank robberies. On March 2, 1971, 400,000 Mexican pesos were fetched from the Banco del Centro de Aguascalientes and on April 13, 1973 , two million pesos were carried away by the Banco Comercial Mexicano, which was located in the Ministry of Education. On June 25, 1972, a vehicle column of the Mexican army was ambushed at Arroyo de las Piñas between San Andrés de la Cruz and Santiago de la Unión . On August 23, 1972, a convoy of vehicles of the Mexican army was ambushed near the Río Santiago on the way from Atoyac de Álvarez to San Vicente de Benítez. Many of the abductees included Jaime Farril Novelo, Jaime Castrejón and Margarita Saad.

On May 30, 1974 at 9:00 am, the PRI candidate for governorship for Guerrero , Rubén Figueroa Figueroa, his cousin Febronio Díaz Figueroa, his private secretary Gloria Britos and two uncles of Lucio Cabañas Barrientos, Luis and Pascual Cabañas took the guerrilla Partido de los Pobres (PDLP) and were abducted. According to the retired Major Elías Alcaraz, the group was liberated on September 8, 1974 after a 15-minute exchange of fire at La Pascua near Zacualpan in Atoyac de Alvarez, 10 kilometers off the road. Febronio Díaz Figueroa and Luis Cabañas were injured in the exchange of fire, Luis Cabañas later died as a result of the injuries. David Cabañas Barrientos stated that the abductees were guarded by 40 guerrillas, of whom Sixto Huerta Sabás was killed during the liberation. Major Elías Alcaraz stated that 50 guerrillas had been killed.

On the morning of December 2, 1974, there was an exchange of fire with government troops in Otatal. In order to avoid the torture by the government troops, he called out to his persecutors "Well, you finally did it, but I assure you that I will not do you a favor by killing me". He then aimed his M2 Carbine at his neck, pulled the trigger, and fell fatally. Capitán Bravo Torres ran to the body and shot the lifeless body again.

Guerra Sucia

The liberated Rubén Figueroa Figueroa became governor of Guerrero , as was common with PRI candidates at the time .

From the special commission that had been set up to find the abductees, Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro Escápite stayed in Guerrero and became head of the Policia de Justicía . He had suspects of membership in the PDLP murdered and dropped by an IAI Arava over the Pacific .

The remains of Lucio Cabanas were found on the evening of December 3, 2001 in the Panteón municipal de Atoyac de Alvarez and buried on December 2, 2002.

literature

• Carlos Montemayor reconstructs the history of the Partido de los Pobres in his novel Guerra en el paraíso , Diana, 1990, War in Paradise .
• In 2005 Gerardo Tort shot, based on a screenplay by Marina Stavenhagen, La guerrilla y la esperanza: Lucio Cabañas .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La Jornada, 25 de julio de 2007, David Cabañas: Calderón pretende abrir un "nuevo capítulo de la guerra sucia"
2. ↑ El Sur, 2000 / octubre / 02, Pide David Cabañas que se investigue si el Ejército enterró campesinos en La Pascua ( Memento of the original of November 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ El Sur de Acapulco , 13 de Agosto de 2002, Sí es de Lucio Cabañas el cadáver sepultado en Atoyac, confirman peritos ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Proceso , 12.02.02, Sepultan en Atoyac restos de Lucio Cabañas
5. ↑ Review of it: Carlos Montemayor , War in Paradise , Verlage Libertäre Association, Schwarze Risse, Rote Strasse, Hamburg / Berlin 1998. http://latein Amerika-nachrichten.de/?aaartikel=krieg-im-paradies
6. ↑ La Jornada , 4th April 2006, Prepara Gerardo Tort nueva cinta sobre Lucio Cabañas

Footnotes

1. ↑ en: Atoyac de Álvarez (municipality)
2. ^ Es : Técpan de Galeana