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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2005 
Mexican Rebel Leader on Cover of Magazine
 Angela Moscarella - Associated Press
Mexico City - Subcomandante Marcos, who first caught the world's attention as the charismatic leader of an Indian rebel movement, has appeared on the cover of a popular celebrity magazine amid rumors of a love affair with a Mexican journalist.
Subcomandante Marcos' debut on the cover of "Quien" magazine coincides with the Zapatista National Liberation Army's recent announcement 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.
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 January 1994 revolt in which he led a ragtag band of Indians as it took over several cities in the name of Indian rights and socialism.
The magazine article, titled "The Sub's Secret Love," describes the 48-year-old Marcos as a "sex symbol of the jungle," and spills details of an alleged relationship with Mexican journalist Gloria Munoz Ramirez.
Munoz Ramirez, 37, a former reporter with the left-leaning newspaper La Jornada, met Marcos more than 10 years ago and, according to the magazine, 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, studying Indian communities and working alongside the Zapatistas.
In 2003, she published a book about the group that includes a warm introduction written by Marcos.
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. |
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