Subcomandante Marcos

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Subcomandante Marcos


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In the picture:Subcomandante Marcos who the Mexican government believes to be Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente^[1]. Subcomandante Marcos denies he is Rafael.
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When the Zapatista uprising occured in the 90's its spokesman, media savy, Subcomandante Marcos shot to prominence. In Mexico he is viewed with as a celebrity, famous for his pipe and black face mask. This Marcos image became famous because of the Zapatista uprising but also by Western youth who latched on to the revoluntionary spirit much the same way Che's image beacame the symbol for revolution.

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Subcomandante Marcos

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos is the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) but many feel he also the leader of the movement. He is famous for his pipe and always covering his face with a black mask. Even the Indian peasants who make up the support base of the Zapatista movement say they haven't seen him unmasked. Marcos is known for his use of media and technology and many call him the new wave of revolutionaries.

While Marcos denies it the Mexican government believes Marcos to be Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente who was born June 19, 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Rafael graduated from Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) in Mexico City and then received a masters' degree in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He then disappeared. His family says they have no idea what happened to him but the Mexican government say that he joined or founded the Zapatista movement. From 1992 through 2006 Marcos has been very puting his beliefs down on paper and has wrote more than 200 essays and stories and published 21 books.

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Zapatista Army of National Liberation

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Founded on November 17, 1983 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in one of the poorest states of Mexico, Chiapas. While they have some support in urban areas and around the world most of thier base are the indigenous people of Mexico. The name Zapatista comes from the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata who's revolution have inspired the EZLN.

The Zapatistas became a world wide news item when on January 1, 1994, the day that the NAFTA agreement went into effect they seized control of five municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico. The Mexican army had a few clashes with the group but by January 12 of the same year the EZLN entered talks with the government and a unilateral ceasefire was declared that is still in place as of 2006. As a revolutionary group they are very media savy and utilize satellite telephones and the internet to garner support around the world. The movement want the constitution to be changed to recognise the rights of the country's indigenous Mexicans. In the wider scope of beliefs commentators consider the Zapatistas as part of the wider alter-globalization, neo-socalist movements.

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