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St. Pauli, the ‘kult’ team that admires Che Guevara and the Zapatistas, returns to Germany’s soccer elite

Andrés Rodríguez — Thu, 16 May 2024 11:45:46 GMT

It seemed to be any given Sunday, but this one was different. The atmosphere was typical at the Millerntor-Stadion in Hamburg, with thousands of brown shirts, flags bearing the pirate skull, and others with the rainbow of the LGBTQI+ community, Palestine, or the famous image of the revolutionary guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara. From a Zapatista performing an overhead kick on top of a red star to an image of two men kissing accompanied by the legend “the only thing that matters is love,” each mural on the stadium walls, a canvas of free expression, seemed to unite in song with the fans who impatiently awaited the 90 minutes that would mark the conclusion of the game.

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The silence of Captain Marcos

Alejandro Santos — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:20:34 GMT

The captain no longer gives orders. He doesn’t want to be seen too much. Nor does he want to speak in public. Maybe he’s a little wistful because he wasn’t a captain before. He was the subcomandante. Subcomandante Marcos, the sup’, to his friends. Then he changed his nom de guerre to Galeano, but he was still the subcomandante. Now he has been demoted, or they have demoted him. At least he has been able to regain his name. The fact is that the most famous guerrilla in history — with a nod to Che Guevara — is no longer the visible face of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Or at least he tries not to be, because no matter how much he insists that he is no longer in charge, people don’t care. The guy with the balaclava and the pipe in his mouth is still getting all the attention. He is the last living rock star of the left. Which at this point — the death of ideologies, rampant capitalism and all that — is perhaps not saying much.

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And they shouted ‘enough’: The 30-year-long Indigenous uprising that rewrote Mexican history

Alejandro Santos — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:32:50 GMT

The seams burst into the air. It was a murmur hidden for years. Centuries of rage, deep in the Lacandon Jungle, in the mountains, the villages, the cornfields. An open secret, cooked over slow fire. The dispossessed, without a decent roof over their heads; without land, without work, without healthcare, without food, without education, without freedom, without rights, without peace, without justice. Nobody expected the uprising, because nobody wanted to listen to them. “Them” being the ones who always died quietly, without a fuss.

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Mexico’s Zapatistas warn Chiapas is on ‘the verge of civil war’

Alejandro Santos — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:42:35 GMT

On May 22, Jorge López Santíz was hit by a bullet. It was an attack that also hit the heart of Mexico’s Zapatista Movement, the far-left group that controls territory in the southern state of Chiapas.

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