Subcomandante Marcos

Also 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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Acting · 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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Chiapas
Active from: 1957

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Listeners: 183
Total plays: 2,073

Subcomandante Marcos (Date of birth unknown),[1] is the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), a Mexican rebel movement. In January 1994, he led an army of Mayan farmers into the eastern parts of the Mexican state of Chiapas in protest of the Mexican government's treatment of indigenous peoples.[2] Marcos is an author, political poet, adroit humorist, and outspoken opponent of capitalism. Marcos has advocated having the Mexican constitution amended to recognize the r

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
<i>Planck</i> 2018 results
· 2020 · cited 13,331x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures
· 2000 · cited 10,911x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x

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Quotes

“The storm is here. From the clash of these two winds the storm will be born, its time has arrived. Now the wind from above rules, but the wind from below is coming…. The prophecy is here. When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world but something better.”
“As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.”
“Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable — this is Marcos.”
“Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.”
“La libertad es como la mañana. Hay quienes esperan dormidos a que llegue, pero hay quienes desvelan y caminan la noche para alcanzarla.”
“The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.”

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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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Official website

E - Z - L - N

ezln.org.mx →

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Sebastián
Family name: Q18402510
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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Commons category: Subcomandante Marcos
date of birth: 1957-06-19
Commons gallery: 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.