Bremen: Switch Off Tren Maya / disrupt Deutsche Bahn

We got together last night to set fire to two Deutsche Bahn [DB] vehicles with incendiary devices. This company is not only synonymous with expensive rail links and crumbling infrastructure, but is also deeply involved in the arms industry, exploitation and neo-colonialism. In concrete terms, we attacked the DB to make visible the struggles against the Tren Maya in Mexico.

We light rebel fires for the indigenous populations of Chiapas, Comunidad Indígena Otomí, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana. We say: “Compañer@s! you are not alone, your resistance is with us!”

As part of the huge Tren Maya infrastructure project, two railroad lines have been built through the Mexican jungle, with the main aim of bringing mass tourism to the indigenous provinces. Deutsche Bahn, which also strives to present itself as green and sustainable, is part of the project, making money by destroying the Mexican forest – in cooperation with arms companies, the Mexican army and the USA.

In addition to mass tourism, the Tren Maya is also used for counter-insurgency and migration control. The Mexican army is responsible for administering and defending sections of the line. Military bases are set up along the railway line. The military presence is directed against indigenous resistance and used in the state’s control of people fleeing Central and South America and the Caribbean. For the region is one of the world’s largest migration corridors. Not surprisingly, the project was preceded by friendly discussions between Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and then-US President Donald Trump. The Tren Maya also serves the geopolitical interests of the United States and its border policy.

Sold as a progressive infrastructure project, the Tren Maya is being imposed by force against all resistance from the people directly affected. Intact ecosystems and self-managed, mostly indigenous communities are to be replaced by tourism, resorts, factories, animal fattening farms and monocultures. Ongoing expropriations and evictions are tantamount to the commodification of living things and the long-term militarization of territories. We don’t care about your green progress and profit-driven world. The Tren Maya and consequently the conditions of domination must be destroyed.

We’re making a radical start to the New Year ourselves, and looking forward to many warm nights ahead.

Autonomous groups

We regret that the two fires consumed uninvolved vehicles. We had calculated many things, but underestimated the wind that night.

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Translated by Act for freedom now!