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Subcomandante Marcos
Sign in to saveAlso known as Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano, Subcomandante Galeano, Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Delegate Zero
Mexican activist (1957-)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 June 1957
- Works
- 51
Top works
- Apuntes sobre las guerras
- Contes mayas
- El correo de la selva
- Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World
- punto e a capo
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Film & TV
Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, former military leader, and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict. Widely known by his previous nom de guerre as Subcomandante Marcos, he has recently used several other pseudonyms; he referred to himself as Delegate Zero during the 2006 Mexican presidential campaign. In May 2014, he…
Known for
- KUI LELE — Subcomandante Marcos2025
- Spain: The First Globalization — Self - EZLN Leader (archive footage)2021
- 70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)2020
- People Without Faces — Self (archive footage)2015
- The Other Mexico — Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)2009
- Zapata's Path — Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)2001
- Zapatista — Self - EZLN Spokesperson (as Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos)1999
- A Place Called Chiapas — Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)1998
- Zapatista Women — Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)1995
- The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas — Self (as Subcomandante Marcos)1995
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-06-19 ) 19 June 1957 (age 68) , Tampico , Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Other names
- Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano Delegado Cero (Delegate Zero)
- Education
- Instituto Cultural Tampico
- Alma mater
- National Autonomous University of Mexico ( BA , MA )
- Occupations
- Spokesperson Writer
- Movement
- Neozapatismo
- Allegiance
- Zapatista Municipalities
- Branch
- EZLN
- Service years
- 1994–2014
- Rank
- Capitán , Subcommander (formerly)
- Conflicts
- Chiapas conflict , • Zapatista uprising
- Website
- Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sebastián
- Family name
- Guillén
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Place of birth
- Tampico
- Occupation
- author
- Educated at
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Religion
- atheism
- Official website
- www.ezln.org.mx
- Image
- SubMarcosHorseFromAfar.jpg
- Work location
- Mexico
- Political ideology
- Marxism
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- Subcomandante Marcos
- date of birth
- 1957-06-19
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- Subcomandante Marcos
- allegiance
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- name in native language
- Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente
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Encyclopedic overview
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente (born 19 June 1957) is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict, and a prominent anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal. Widely known by his initial nom de guerre Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (frequently shortened to simply Subcomandante Marcos), he has subsequently employed several other pseudonyms: he called himself Delegate Zero during the Other Campaign (2006–2007), Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano (again, frequently with the "Insurgente" omitted) from May 2014 to October 2023, which he adopted in honor of his fallen comrade Jose Luis Solis Lopez, his nom de guerre being Galeano, aka "Teacher Galeano." and since October 2023, Capitán Insurgente Marcos. Marcos bears the title and rank of Capitán (or "Captain" in English), and before that Subcomandante, (or "Subcommander" in English), as opposed to Comandante (or "Commander" in English), because he is under the command of the indigenous commanders who constitute the EZLN's Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee's General Command (CCRI-CG in Spanish).
Born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Marcos earned a degree from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and taught at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) for several years during the early 1980s. During this time he became increasingly involved with a guerrilla group known as the National Liberation Forces (FLN), before leaving the university and moving to Chiapas in 1984.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Subcomandante Marcos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.