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
begin building corrupt country mexico overthrow powerful rich rise simple supreme
We are going to rise up to overthrow the supreme governments, to overthrow corrupt officials, to throw all the rich and powerful out of this country and begin building a new Mexico with humble, simple people.
powerful military war
We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.
powerful war desire
The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. Today there is a ‘NO’ which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the ‘NO’ to war.
alone blood brothers feet flesh history lands oldest pain repeated saying shame sisters spoke truth walk word
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.
lost mexico needs piece women
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.
confidence destroyed hold impossible july mountains reach
(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.
indians indigenous society sure
We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.
war
We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.
aim bind build learn leftist listen national rebel resistance support together
The aim is to listen and learn about the struggles, the resistance and rebel movements, support them and bind them together to build a national anti-capitalist, leftist program.
follows front huge party political social
What follows is not a new political party on the left, but a huge front made up of political and social organizations.
government media military narrow reduce space
With its military and media campaign, the government has managed only to reduce the already narrow space for intermediate positions,
both difference left says
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.
care elected gets july whoever
We don't care who gets elected on July 2, because whoever it is will be overthrown.
calendar follow impose learned ourselves schedules subject time
We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.