Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Zapatista spokesman Subcommander Marcos decreased his public appearances between 2007 and 2014, but simultaneously increased the depth of his analysis. Collected here in English translation for the first time, these talks include some of his most explicit, detailed, and inspiring criticisms of capitalism, political parties, electoral democracy, disingenuous solidarity, and much more. Subcommander Marcos was the leading spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) until 2014. Nick Henck is Associate Professor at Keio University and the author of Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask. Henry Gales is a freelance translator living in Mexico City.

Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

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“I'm not going to bore you by talking about the emotional mess of Elías Contreras, who, like all Zapatistas, chose to love with defiance. As if the emotional bridge that extends toward the other were not already in itself complex and complicated, Elías Contreras still added to it the distances and walls that separate calendars and geographies, in addition to knowledge of—that is, respect for—the other's existence. As if by doing so he (and with him, the collective that we are) decided to do everything possible for a deed as ancient, ordinary, and everyday as the existence of the human being to become something extraordinary, terrifying, wonderful.”

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage quotes

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