Epilogue and Reflections of Mireles, from Todos Somos Autodefensas

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from the Book "Todos Somos Autodefensas" by Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde

After almost three years of the start of the judicial process that appears perpetual, Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde defines from prison part of his ideas both political and human. Like wisp's of the rescue of his actual condition, Mireles positions ideologically about what happened nationally with written reflections, compiled from different letters sent from his cell, and is open to different interpretations.

"People that are sleeping and submissive, will be a people lost and defeated".

It is a key moment for all Mexicans, all united, we can make a true social change, a change that comes to mitigate our lack of trust, a change that will create liberty, peace and tranquility.

It is to awaken consciousness now, to not to have buy the will to act tomorrow. Sometimes I think that for this, I want to finish with public education, because we will learn more. Because we will also learn that when the right contravenes justice, justice must prevail, as it does not come from the hands of the people themselves.




Gentleman of the green olive, please don't carry your cannons to the people, remember that you also are of the citizens, we are brothers, we are Mexicans, we are all Mexico.

I continue and will continue to be from my country where ever I am. We are not going to cry because of our pain or burden. It is a habit that we must leave behind for life to continue... it is essential that it not a habit that we learn that life is like this.

I am not a friend of the way of hate. I cannot give myself the luxury of hating anyone, nor follow those who commit abuses against the autodefensas. Hate is not constructive, it is very destructive to ones life, even of the most noble of people.

To fight for the legitimate defense is essential among men of good faith. I can say , with no fear, that I don't believe in any form of justice in Mexico, well in all its forms of justice are related with the necessity of vengeance against a tyrannical, dictatorial and repressive system, against the weakest protest of a sleeping people, who have sunk into misery and submission.

There exists the enormous necessity to wake up the consciences of the people to unify and remove all the obstacles that the system with its power puts up to eliminate and emasculate the truth and real democracy.

I am not a fanatic of my ideals, I am passionate about my principles. For me, its most important after the constitution and justice, are my feelings of freedom, equality and brotherhood between we Mexicans, my brothers.

It determines our future, but never forget, because how are we going to forget about all that has happened or they made happen? The aside is to know how to overcome it and to live with this, to pardon and eliminate our prejudices.

Above all, education is needed at all levels and in state politics, parties should consider freedom as a way of governing and living. Those at the top are controlling all of the national economy for the government, meanwhile the grand majority of the people, even if they work are dying of hunger for lack of food so the parasites can enjoy the opulence of our nation.

The autodefensas always acted in the legitimate defense of their lives, of our families and our property. The next revolution must be done in the polls and from there to our thinking, without putting the ideology above reality.

Justice, in reality is neither a bandage or a balance, but a sword, if, we are permitting it to be tyrannical oppression. The autodefensas must fight for the betterment of their lives and not for immorality. One knows that we are fighting for ideals, for utopia, but we cannot sacrifice the wellness of the people for ideals.

We must search for a good agreement with the military and they should forget that their obligations are only to safeguard the sovereignty of the nation, but to support the people in cases of disaster.

We need a system of government that can reconstruct the nation socially, without nepotism, and without giving to the capitalist entrepreneurs, generating  self management for the workers, utilizing technologies produced in the big Mexican universities, as well as cultural technologies, without the exploitation of men for the sake of it, and without having the necessity of importing foreign technologies at the expense of the nation.

The Mexican men and women who have already reached middle age, we must eliminate the ideological traps that do not allow liberal thoughts. Self management is a good way to avoid the exploitation of men for the sake of it, or what is worse, the exploitation of men for machines.

For what conjecture, the Mexican political system to an international level, that we are not a prosperous country in all levels and in all social classes, what class have prospered in the last 100 years? it has been the political class, meanwhile the rest of the nation continues being poor, with hunger every day.