Subcomandante Marcos

En febrero de 2007, después de varios mese de estar trabajando con Laura Castellanos, descubrí que ella había cubierto el conflicto zapatista desde sus inicios y que podría buscar una entrevista con el Subcamandante Marcos para escribir un perfil sobre un hombre que había desaparecido completamente de los medios. Este libro es producto de esa idea. El texto de Lauro y las fotos de Ricardo Trabulsi, publicadas en diciembre de esta mismo ano en la revista Gatopardo tuvieron un éxito arrollador y fueron reproducidos en distintos medios en varios idiomas en muchas partes del mundo.

A stylized reissue—featuring bonus materials, including an interview with Subcomandante Marcos by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.In alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with two intersecting storylines. The chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. There, the fictional "Subcomandante Marcos" assigns Elias Contreras—an odd but charming mountain man—to travel to Mexico City in search of an elusive and hideous murderer named "Morales." The second story line, penned by Taibo, stars his famous series detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the urban sprawl of Mexico City . . . Readers expecting political heavy-handedness will be disarmed by the humility and playful self-mocking that runs throughout the book.

The Zapatista revolution of the 21st century has at its core a fair-skinned, urban, university-educated poet-warrior-spokesman who has fused the white/mestizo, modern western/traditional sides of the movement for rights and democracy for indigenous peoples. These are his writings.

This wonderful folktale reveals some of the down-to-earth wisdom of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas. At the same time, it provides us with a fresh perspective on the struggles of the people there. They fight to conserve their culture and a vision of the world which they see as flowering with holiness—a holiness that cannot be measured in dollars or defined by politics. The text for La Historia de los Colores is taken from the communiqué dated October 27, 1994 from Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to the Mexican People. Originally published in Mexico with illustrations by Domitila Domínguez as La Historia de los Colores © 1996 by Colectivo Callejero, Guadalajara.

Since the 1994 uprisings in the Mexican state of Chiapas, the spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a masked rebel who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, has become a symbol of revolt in the post-cold war era. Here are the words of Marcos, words that recast Mexican politics and revived rebel imaginations everywhere. They look back to the traditions of Indian resistance and the dormant ideals of the Mexican revolution; they look forward to political strategies, styles, and theories that challenge the dominance of capitalism. The Introduction by John Ross situates the Zapatistas in the context of Mexican history and the Afterword by Frank Bardacke discusses their language and politics, as well as their meaning for the U.S. left. This edition also includes an "exclusive" prologue by Subcomandante Marcos and his speech to the Zapatista's August 1994 national convention.

The Other Campaign is a collection of texts by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros that articulate a vision for “change from below,” a call to create social change beyond the limits of electoral politics. As Mexico approaches the presidential elections, Marcos and supporters are touring the country in an effort to build a broad-based movement. The book includes a recent interview with Marcos and speeches made by Zapatista comandantes, as well as the Zapatistas’ “Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle,” which places the indigenous struggle for democracy in its historical context and articulates an evolving vision for democracy, dignity, and justice.

Contains the English and Spanish translations of two folktales about the Zapatista revolution.

Two neo-Mayan folktales from the jungles of Chiapas full of color illustrations. For Zapatistas of all ages.

A series of communications from the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, including several by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, with maps of Chiapas, Mexico, a glossary, and other material.