Subcomandante Marcos
Subcomandante Marcos ( b. 1957, exact date unknown) or Delegate Zero is the pseudonym of a Mexican revolutionary and author. He refers to himself as the voice of the EZLN ( Zapatista Army of National Liberation ). His true identity is only speculation, and its role in the EZLN is controversial.
Marcos of the EZLN
On the occasion of the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada on 1 January 1994 Indio guerrillas occupied the EZLN five Mexican regional capitals. As speaker of the " Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command " turned to the masked Subcomandante Insurgent Marcos mestizo for the first time to the media.
The mask and the non- publication of his biography, he explained the program of this movement, which withdrew after the military presence in positions of self-defense and explained, not the political power to fight, as he once said, " It is not necessary, to conquer the world. It is enough to re-create. "
In ironic, with Spanish-speaking or French poetry by translated articles and letters - he is derisively, he often get from the jungle Beetle Durito dictated - combines the defense of the Mayan culture, the struggle for Mexican civil rights and radical post-socialist critique of neoliberal globalization. 1996, for example, he hosted a " Intergalactic Encounters against neoliberalism " in areas controlled by the EZLN.
Marcos also shows its solidarity with other protest movements around the world, when he received, for example, once for a lecture U.S. $ 500, he is said to have this donated the same time striking factory workers in Italy to the phrase 'Be Your struggle our struggle " to underline.
The term Subcomandante derives from the fact that Marcos his " commands " allegedly from the General Command ( " CCRI -CG - Secret Revolutionary Indigenous Committee "), which consists of elected representatives of the communities obtained.
As in the presidential elections of 2000 the bourgeois- conservative National Action Party ( PAN), the 71 -year autocratic rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI ) broke, Marcos accepted the rhetorical offer of talks on constitutional rights of the indigenous people of President Vicente Fox. With a bus convoy drove Marcos and other leaders of the EZLN in Chiapas to Mexico City, symbolically on the stations of the campaign Emiliano Zapata of 1917.
Identity Marcos '
After secret knowledge " deputy commander " Marcos Rafael Sebastián Guillén was born in 1957 and be from a middle class, Spanish -born family in Tampico ( Tamaulipas ) to originate. He was a student of philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM) and was later a lecturer at the University in Mexico City and was originally influenced by the ideas of Mao Zedong, Louis Althusser, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. His opponents claimed frequently that he had received in Cuba and Sandinista Nicaragua in a guerrilla training. Meanwhile, this will no longer denied entirely by supporters.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, who sympathized with the Zapatistas and was invited by Marcos personally interviews, identifies as a source Cuban intelligence officers Manuel Piñeiro, who affirmed a stay Marcos ' in Cuba and then expressed the belief that Marcos had there given such training.
When once asked an interviewer Marcos for his identity, he answered: " Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, Asian in Europe, an anarchist in Spain, Palestinians in Israel, Indio in San Cristóbal ( Chiapas ), a Jew in Germany. " When asked about his age, Marcos said: "I'm 518 ."