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Weekly Report - 29 May 2014 (WR-14-21)
MEXICO: The transmogrification of ‘Subcomandante Marcos’
Even in Mexico, where the ‘Day of the dead’ is a national holiday, the death of ‘Subcomandante Marcos’ and his rebirth as ‘Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano’ last week was odd. Marcos, the enigmatic and reclusive leader of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) who shot to prominence in 1994 with an armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas, issued a long communiqué early on 25 May in which he said that he “no longer exists” and would cease to lead the movement. He said the new “chief and spokesman” of the EZLN would be ‘Subcomandante Moisés’.
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