Zapatista rebel chief launches attack on Mexico’s politicians
The leader of Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement emerged from hiding and for the first time in four years showed his masked face to the public, launching a broadside against the country’s politicians.
He told supporters in San Rafael: ‘’They’ll pay for everything they have done to us. They are a bunch of shameless scoundrels.”
The leader, known as “Subcomandante Marcos", was speaking near the jungles of Chiapas state, where the rebels have their stronghold.
He targeted the former mayor of Mexico City and front-runner in next year’s presidential elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. “They say: ‘Maybe Lopez Obrador doesn’t steal.’ But his team has shown its ability and appetite to do so.”
He was referring to an incident last year when one of the mayor’s advisers was filmed accepting cash. “Marcos", identified as a former university professor, Rafael Sebastian Guillen, announced a Zapatista campaign to oppose the traditional parties.
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