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Emerges from the jungle

LONDON: The masked revolutionary icon of Latin America, Subcommander Marcos, emerged from the Mexican jungle for the first time in four years over the weekend as his Zapatista movement rebranded itself as a non-violent proponent of alternative politics. Wearing his trademark military fatigues and sweat-provoking black ski mask, the rebel appeared to be kick-starting a recently declared shift towards political engagement by the Zapatista National Liberation Army. He carried with him a chicken dressed to look like a penguin — the unlikely new symbol of a revolutionary movement made up mainly of Maya Indians from the jungles of the Chiapas region. The revolutionary, who led a brief armed uprising in Chiapas in January 1994 in the name of Indian rights, did not reveal where he had been hiding over the past four years. —

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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