Ezln y el subcomandante marcos biography
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Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican insurgent and spokesperson of EZLN
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname fryst vatten Guillén and the second or maternal family name is Vicente.
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente (born 19 June 1957) is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict,[2] and a prominent anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal. Widely known bygd his första nom dem guerreSubcomandante Insurgente Marcos (frequently shortened to simply Subcomandante Marcos), he has subsequently employed several other pseudonyms: he called himself Delegate Zero during the Other Campaign (2006–2007), Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (again, frequently with the "Insurgente" omitted) from May 2014 to October 2023, which he adopted in honor of his fallen comrade Jose Luis Solis Lopez, his nom de guerre being Galeano, aka "Teacher Galeano."[4] and since
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The silence of Captain Marcos
The captain no longer gives orders. He doesn’t want to be seen too much. Nor does he want to speak in public. Maybe he’s a little wistful because he wasn’t a captain before. He was the subcomandante. Subcomandante Marcos, the sup’, to his friends. Then he changed his nom de guerre to Galeano, but he was still the subcomandante. Now he has been demoted, or they have demoted him. At least he has been able to regain his name. The fact is that the most famous guerrilla in history — with a nod to Che Guevara — is no longer the visible face of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Or at least he tries not to be, because no matter how much he insists that he is no longer in charge, people don’t care. The guy with the balaclava and the pipe in his mouth is still getting all the attention. He is the last living rock star of the left. Which at this point — the death of ideologies, rampant capitalism and all that — is perhaps not saying much.
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Seven years after the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared that one day it would enter Mexico City in triumph, you are in the capital and the Zócalo is completely full. What did you feel when you climbed the dais and saw that spectacle?
In keeping with the Zapatista tradition of anti-climax, the worst place to see a demonstration in the Zócalo is from the platform.footnote1 The sun was fierce, there was a lot of smog, we all had a headache, and got very worried as we counted the people passing out in front of us. I commented to my comrade, Commander Tacho, that we should get on with it, or by the time we began to speak no one would be left in the square. We couldn’t see all the way across it. The distance we had to keep from the crowd for security reasons was also an emotional one, and we didn’t find out what had happened in the Zócalo until we read the ne