"Naci¢ hace once a¤os en la selva Lacandona y
desde entonces ha vivido, bebido, comido y
dormido al lado nuestro, los ind¡genas
chiapanecos; Marcos, al igual que todos los
miembros del CCRI, no sabe nada y no es
nada, Marcos es solo un representante m s, al
igual que el CCRI, de los ind¡genas y del
pueblo chiapaneco"."
"Born eleven years ago in the Lacondonian jungle, he has drunk, eaten and slept alongside us, the natives of Chiapas. Marcos, like all members of the CCRI, knows nothing and is nothing, Marcos is only one more representative, like the CCRI, of the natives and the people of Chiapas."
babelfish often does better than that. .... 'knows nothing and is nothing' - that's a little hyperbole there - for several years now his importance has been played down, but he remains to the outside world the figurehead, the symbol, of the movement. If they shot him - and they would very much like to - the movement would live on. Stronger, likely, with another martyr to follow Zapata.
'born eleven years ago' - his 'marcos' identity was born then ... for a long time many people were convinced that he had in another life been a universidad profesor from Monterrey, but now there are those who doubt so. In any case, it is the movement of the people to shake off the system imposed on them by the lieutenants of Cort‚s that counts. |
