MEXICO CITY (AP) - The man who first caught the world's attention as the charismatic leader of an Indian rebel movement 11 years ago is now a member of Mexico's 'jet set,' appearing on the cover of a popular social magazine amid rumors of a love affair with a Mexican journalist.
Subcomandante Marcos' debut, on the cover of "Quien" magazine's Sept. 16 edition, coincides with the Zapatista National Liberation Army's recent announcement that it is launching a new nationwide leftist movement. The photograph is classic Marcos: face covered, as always, by a black ski mask that allows a peek only at his brown eyes, the ever-present pipe hanging from his lips. It is obvious from his eyes that he is smiling. | Causing lefty women to get all hot |
Marcos has never revealed his true identity but has been identified by the government as a former university instructor in Mexico City. He has hidden out in the southern jungles of Mexico since the short-lived revolution of January 1994 in which he led a ragtag band of Indians as it took over several cities in the name of Indian rights and socialism. | A dashing man of mystery, a hero of the revolution! |
The magazine article, titled "The Sub's Secret Love," describes Marcos as a "sex symbol of the jungle," and spills details of an alleged relationship with Mexican journalist Gloria Munoz Ramirez. | Rebel leaders get all the hot chicks |
Munoz Ramirez, 37, a former reporter with the left-leaning newspaper La Jornada, met Marcos more than 10 years ago. The magazine piece also shared rumors that the two have a son. In 1996, the magazine said, Munoz Ramirez abandoned her life in the capital to live in Zapatista communities in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. She then dedicated her life to studying Indian communities and to working alongside the Zapatistas. In 2003, she published a book about the group that includes a warm introduction written by Marcos.
Munoz Ramirez would be the fourth known lover of the 48-year-old Marcos. Others have included an Indian woman named Yolanda, whom the rebel leader allegedly married in 1987. The long magazine piece on "the intense love story" between Marcos and Gloria is accompanied by various photographs, one of which shows Marcos wearing a wedding ring. | engraved with; "To whom it may concern" |
Following their 1994 uprising, the Zapatista rebels quickly settled into a tense cease-fire with the government. Since then their movement has been largely nonviolent.
Last weekend, Marcos announced that he would soon begin a six-month tour of the nation to share a new alternate political movement. The movement, few details of which have been released, will "shake this country up from below, pick it up and turn it on its head," Marcos said. | So, when's the movie come out? |
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