Subcomandante Marcos
Subcomandante Marcos
Subcomandante Marcos or Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, was the nom de guerre used by the main ideologist and spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a Mexican rebel movement fighting for the rights of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Subcomandante Marcos, the character, the constructed persona, the hologram, the "colorful ruse," was created by the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee of the Zapatistas, because " can only see those who are as small as they are. Let's make someone as small...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionActivist
CountryMexico
The world has lost one of those women it requires. Mexico has lost one of the combative women it needs and we, we have lost a piece of our heart.
The Zapatista delegation will start out where it started 12 years ago on January 1 2006, in San Cristobal de las Casas.
What follows is not a new political party on the left, but a huge front made up of political and social organizations.
The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.
The movement is growing, more people are coming in, we are getting to know people that we did not know before.
(President Ernesto) Zedillo destroyed any confidence in his government. Without confidence, it is impossible to reach agreements. If there are no agreements, why hold a dialogue? ... July 1998 from the mountains of southeastern Mexico.
Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.
There is a difference between an inconsequential left and a consequential right, the difference is they both do the same things, but one says they don't.
We don't care who gets elected on July 2, because whoever it is will be overthrown.
With its military and media campaign, the government has managed only to reduce the already narrow space for intermediate positions,