Galeano subcomandante marcos biography
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Subcomandante Marcos: Never more… or forever?
Mexico
The premeditated murder in Chiapas of José Luis Solís, a Zapatista “votán” (guardian) and teacher committed to his community, and the avalanche of international solidarity from all over the planet, condemning the crime and empathizing with the Zapatista cause, was the moment “Subcomandante Marcos” chose to leave the stage. He will reappear as Insurgent Subcomandante Galeano, the annat namn Solís once took due to his admiration for Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano.
Jorge Alonso
Death will go away, fooled bygd an indigenous man whose nom dem guerre was Galeano, and those rocks that have been placed on his tomb will once igen walk and will teach whoever will listen the most basic tenet of Zapatismo, which is, don’t sell out, don’t give in, don’t give up…. Death commits us to the life it contains. So here we are, mocking death by fooling death in La Realidad.
Compas: Given the above, inom here declare, at 2:08 am on May 25, 2014,
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Subcomandante Galeano has “died” to give way to Capitán Insurgente Marcos
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano, of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), who “was born” in May 2014, “died” and has given way to Captain Insurgente Marcos.
“SupGaleano died. He died as he lived: unhappily. Of course, he took care, before passing away, to return the name to the one who is the flesh and blood inherited from the teacher Galeano. He recommended keeping him alive, that is, fighting. So Galeano will continue walking in these mountains,” wrote the now Capitán Insurgente Marcos.
In a document released this Sunday on their official website (https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx), signed by the Captain himself, he adds: “Otherwise, it was something simple. He started humming something like ‘I know I’m mad crazy, crazy, crazy,’ and, just before he expired, he said, or rather asked: ‘Do dead people sneeze?’ And that’s it. Those were his
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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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