Slideshow: EZLN “destroys” Subcomandante Marcos to revive the fallen Galeano
All photos – copyright Tim Russo. Hear and read the audio and text report, available here. Click on any image to launch slideshow.
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- Signs painted by the Zapatistas calling for justice dotted the landscape into the depths of the Lacandon Jungle.
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- Zapatista women look on as visitors and supporters arrive in La Realidad.
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- A Tojolobal woman rests by her camp.
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- Zapatista insurgents and militia stand in formation next to a mural that reads “Never again a Mexico without us.”
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- Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos made his final speech as spokesperson for the EZLN, announcing he was being relieved of duty, bringing an end to a “character” that had become a “distraction” to the movement.
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- Subcomandante Insurgente Moises salutes Zapatista civilians and supporters.
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- Zapatistas insurgents stand guard in La Realidad during an homage to their fallen compañero Galeano, killed in a paramilitary attack against Zapatista members in La Realidad on May 2, 2014.
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- Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos rides horseback before Zapatista support base members in La Realidad.
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- Zapatista health care providers gathered in La Realidad holding art that demands justice. The Zapatistas have an extensive autonomous health and education system that they built throughout their communities.
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- A group of young indigenous Zapatista boys in La Realidad, 2014. Indigenous Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolobal, Chol, Zoque, and Mam peoples form the majority of the Zapatista civilian communities.
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- Tojolobal indigenous Zapatista women form a line in La Realidad during the event. Women and youth have been given many new roles in the civilian structure of the organization.
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- “Long Live Galeano” reads the banner in the background, signed by the National Indigenous Congress. Thousands gathered in La Realidad to demand an end to the on-going violence directed towards Zapatista indigenous communities in Chiapas.
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- Thousands of Zapatista civilians and supporters form line, waiting to visit the grave of Galeano.
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- Zapatista supporters places stones on Galeano’s grave in La Realidad, Chiapas.
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- Artists stand before Zapatista supporters in La Realidad.
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- Subcomandante Insurgente Moises stands on the stage before Zapatista civilians and supporters.
