34 Facts About Subcomandante Marcos

In 2006, Subcomandante Marcos made another public tour of Mexico, which was known as The Other Campaign.

In May 2014, Marcos stated that the persona of Subcomandante Marcos had been "a hologram" and no longer existed.

Many media outlets interpreted the message as Subcomandante Marcos retiring as the Zapatistas' military leader and spokesman.

Subcomandante Marcos is a prolific writer, and his considerable literary talents have been widely acknowledged by prominent writers and intellectuals, with hundreds of communiques and several books being attributed to him.

Subcomandante Marcos has been hailed by Regis Debray as "the best Latin American writer today".

Subcomandante Marcos began working as a professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University while finishing his dissertation at UNAM, but left after a couple of years.

Debate exists as to whether Subcomandante Marcos visited Nicaragua in the years soon following the Sandinista Revolution that took place there in 1979, and, if he did, how many times and in what capacity.

Subcomandante Marcos is rumored to have done so, although no official documents have been discovered to attest to this.

Subcomandante Marcos made his debut on 1 January 1994, the first day of the 1994 Zapatista uprisings.

However, with the wounding of a subordinate, whose duty it was to transport the weapons just captured from the police station to the central town square where most of the Zapatista troops were amassed, Subcomandante Marcos took his place and headed there instead.

Subcomandante Marcos would devise, convoke and host of the August 1994 National Democratic Convention that brought together 6000 members of civil society to discuss how to organize peaceful struggle that aimed to make Mexico freer, more just and more democratic.

On 9 February 1995, President Ernesto Zedillo, armed with this recently acquired information, publicly announced that Subcomandante Marcos had been identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente, and immediately ordered the Mexican military to go on the offensive and capture or annihilate Marcos and the Zapatistas.

Third, Subcomandante Marcos himself capitalized on this sudden, hostile action, issuing some eloquent communiques in which he lambasted the government's treachery, or at least duplicity, and portrayed himself as self-effacing mock heroic guerrilla.

The document concluded that the complaints of marginalized groups and the radical left in Mexico had been vented through the Zapatistas movement, while Subcomandante Marcos remained open to negotiation.

Subcomandante Marcos generally appears to prefer indirect expression, and his writings often take the form of fables or allegorical children's stories, though some are more earthy and direct.

In 2005, Subcomandante Marcos wrote the detective story The Uncomfortable Dead with the whodunit writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II.

Subcomandante Marcos has written an essay in which he claims that neoliberalism and globalization constitute the "Fourth World War".

Subcomandante Marcos termed the Cold War the "Third World War".

Subcomandante Marcos explains the effect of the financial bombs as "destroying the material bases of their [nation-state's] sovereignty and, in producing their qualitative depopulation, excluding all those deemed unsuitable to the new economy ".

Subcomandante Marcos believes that neoliberalism and globalization result in a loss of unique culture for societies as a result of the homogenizing effect of neo-liberal globalization:.

Subcomandante Marcos sees the EZLN as one of many "pockets of resistance".

Subcomandante Marcos called Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Nicaragua's current president Daniel Ortega, whom he once served under while a member of the Sandinistas, traitors who have betrayed their original ideals.

Ultimately, this has led Subcomandante Marcos to reject the label "revolutionary", preferring instead to self-identify as a "rebel", because.

Marcos's popularity was at its height during the first seven years of the Zapatista uprising, A cult of personality developed around the Subcomandante based on the romantic premise of a rebel confronting the powerful in defense of society's underdogs, and an accompanying copious press coverage, sometimes called "Marcos-mania".

Zapatista events Subcomandante Marcos presided over were attended by people from all over the world by the thousands, including media organizations, and he appeared on the front pages of innumerable magazines, and on the covers of many books and DVDs.

Subcomandante Marcos was visited by Oliver Stone, Danielle Mitterrand and Regis Debray[57], and he acted as host at the Intercontinental Encuentro For Humanity and Against Neoliberalism, which drew around 5,000 participants from 50 countries, including documentary makers, academics and reporters, some of whom published the interviews that Marcos granted them on the event's sidelines.

Subcomandante Marcos's face appears on the cover of Thievery Corporation's album, Radio Retaliation.

Subcomandante Marcos experienced a general uptick in popularity in 2006 when he toured Mexico on the Other Campaign.

Subcomandante Marcos is often credited with putting Mexico's indigenous population's poverty in the spotlight, both locally and internationally.

Subcomandante Marcos's popularity served the Zapatista cause well in two very concrete ways.

Second, Subcomandante Marcos was able to capitalize on his popularity to win public support, garner international solidarity, and attract media attention to the Zapatistas.

Subcomandante Marcos has continued to attract media attention, and to be seen both in the company of celebrities and as a celebrity himself.

In 2005, Inter's president Massimo Moratti received an invitation from Subcomandante Marcos to have Inter play a football game against a team of Zapatistas with Diego Maradona as referee.

Subcomandante Marcos asked Inter to bring the match ball because the Zapatistas' ones were punctured.