Tuesday morning Marcos sat down in Televisa's studio and did a one hour interview on Mexico's most popular morning show.
Last week, Marcos challenged Mexico's corporate media, in particular Televisa and TV Azteca, to "tell the truth" about the situation in San Salvador Atenco and the Other Campaign. He also said he would only agree to be interviewed if it was unedited and uninterrupted. Perhaps this was Televisa's response to those challenges?
So far, I've only been able to find a 90-second clip of the interview on YouTube. Hopefully more of it will be up later. In the clip Marcos discusses the Zapatistas' opposition to the presidential candidacy of the "leftist" Lopez Obrador and the composition and functioning of the political class.
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Thanks for the blog post Angry White Kid. Keep up the good work!
Comandante Marcos (he is still a shrewed Commander whether Sub- Citizen- or not) certainly has a strong defiant way about him in his strong stance for the truth and does not need to be edited or censored!
I want to blog this on the De Todos Para Todos Blog and will naturally include this Link from here to there:
http://angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog/2006/05/marcos_on_telev.html
Know in your soul that I for one appreciate the work that you do for all of us. Know that your struggles are my struggles as I know that our struggles are your struggles.
In the end, we will see we are one people on one planet involved in one struggle for truth and justice.
A key part of the whole struggle is the struggle for the sublime truth in this land of fascist lies, mass deception and mass psychology I refer to as AmeriKa!!!
Venceremos Unidos!
Peta de Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
Posted by: Peta de Aztlan | May 10, 2006 at 01:35 PM
Thanks Peta!
Posted by: scott | May 10, 2006 at 02:32 PM
Hello.
I am a little new to the recent resistant efforts in Mexico. I have heard of the EZLN, Zapatistas etc. Who is Marcos? And what is his role though? Is he the Top Commander?
Also, where can I look for more subject matter into this in English? I understand a lot of Spanish, but not all of it and can pick up a little of what was said on that clip.
Thank you for your time, excellent blog.
Mr Denali
Posted by: mr.denali | May 11, 2006 at 08:38 PM
I don't know where video or audio of the interview is, but here is the transcript:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1794.html
Posted by: Tim | May 12, 2006 at 03:08 AM
Thanks for the link, Tim, but actually that's a different interview Marcos did with Bellinghausen. I'm looking for the one he did on Televisa.
Mr. Denali, Marcos has the rank of "sub-commander" and is the main spokesperson for the Zapatistas. During the armed rebellion period he was also one of the main military strategists. More info on him can be found on Wikipedia here. I haven't read it, so I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it should give a decent description of him.
The link in Tim's comment will take you to an extended interview that Marcos just did, that's a good place to start. He's written lots of books, so you can read those, too. Glad that you like the blog.
Posted by: scott | May 12, 2006 at 10:46 PM
My bad.
Posted by: Tim | May 13, 2006 at 04:34 AM