Cartoon pokes fun at Subcom Marcos’ mask
Subcomandante Marcos, Mexico’s masked rebel figure who was one of the frontmen of the short-lived Zapatista uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas in 1994, is famous for always wearing a black ski mask.
The aim of the mask, allegedly, was anonymity, and an expression of the principle that “todos somos Marcos” — which translates as “we’re all Marcos.” But if it was anonymity he was after, the use of the mask has achieved quite the opposite effect, turning Marcos into a rebel icon for many, at home and abroad.
But the Mexican newspaper La Jornada today takes a poke at the jungle-dwelling rebel leader in the context of a nation trying to returning to normal after a H1N1, or swine flu, outbreak that created a near shutdown in Mexico City, with restaurants and businesses closed for days and schools shut across the nation.
The newspaper cartoon features a drawing of Sub Marcos saying: “I foresaw this a long time ago, that all of Mexico was going to use facemasks.”
Image: Marcos at a press conference in Mexico City, in 2007. Credit: Deborah Bonello / Mexicoreporter.com. Click here for more images of Marcos.
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Funny, and also a funny cartoon. But you say:
“…if it was anonymity he was after, the use of the mask has achieved quite the opposite effect, turning Marcos into a rebel icon for many, at home and abroad.”
Marcos is a conscious “icon” in the sense that he reinvents his backstory routinely. Marcos also is not the person under the masks name (as far as anyone knows) it stands for the territories that were taken back by the Zapatistas. He has identified himself as the oppressed in any nation, and is equally an artist as he is a revolutionary leader. So it’s not that he was after anonymity as much as he was after becoming a signifier for transnational struggle against neoliberalism.
Anyhow, I’m sure that you’re aware of this since you’re reporting on it. But I just have some concerns that your above treatment misrepresents the intentions of Marcos in the context of what the Zapatistas are trying to achieve. But of course, that’s also the risk that they take in the modes of communication they’ve chosen, so I’m also not saying in any way that your representation is “wrong”. Although I would disagree based only on the literature around and from Marcos.
Here’s Naomi Klein on him for additional analysis:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/mar/03/politics
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