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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Zapatista Chief Takes Society Bow
 BBC News
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The Mexican rebel leader who rarely appears in public and never shows his face has been pictured on the front of a top-selling Mexican society magazine.
Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos is described as a "sex symbol" by Quien magazine, which prints details of an alleged lengthy jungle love affair.
The Mexican rebel leader who rarely appears in public and never shows his face has been pictured on the front of a top-selling Mexican society magazine. Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos is described as a "sex symbol" by Quien magazine, which prints details of an alleged lengthy jungle love affair.
The magazine was published as Marcos detailed plans to travel around Mexico with the Zapatistas early next year.
Marcos says he will use the tour to launch a national leftist movement.
Quien's front cover is devoted to a picture of Marcos, wearing his traditional black ski mask and smoking a pipe.
An accompanying headline reads: "The Secret Love of the Sub".
The magazine is widely read in Mexico and regularly features stories about international celebrities, royals and leading Mexican society figures.
Jungle lover
Inside, the magazine reveals alleged details of a 10-year love affair between Marcos and a journalist who left Mexico City in 1996 to work alongside the Zapatistas.
Calling the enigmatic commander, 48, a "sex symbol of the jungle", Quien reported rumours that the pair have a son.
Subcomandante Marcos has kept his identity secret for more than 10 years, since emerging into public life at the head of an armed uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
His Zapatista movement, which campaigns for the rights of Mexico's indigenous population, briefly took over several towns and cities in Chiapas in 1995.
Since then the organisation has worked to further its agenda through largely peaceful means.
The Zapatistas have re-emerged in recent months, with Marcos denouncing mainstream politicians jockeying for support in a presidential election due next year.
The six-month political tour of Mexico, due to culminate in election season, will "shake this country up from below, pick it up and turn it on its head," Marcos has said. |
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