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...That spectacle alone shows how much Mexico has changed since Marcos - the pseudonym of a non-Indian former university instructor born Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - led a few hundred Mayan Indian guerrillas in the southern state of Chiapas into a brief armed uprising in the first days of 1994. Back then, the National Palace and most other governmental offices were still occupied by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico for close on seven decades. But its hold on power was already slipping, and an insurgency invoking the name of a the fabled and beloved early-20th-century...
...Model Senate is a way to introduce freshmen to Harvard Model Congress," said co-president Magda C. Guillen'02. By having them serve as delegates, they can "see both sides of the picture." The organization hopes that Saturday's participan ts will join the staff of Model Congress, helping to organize the February conference...
...been under intense pressure to end the year-old rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas, dispatched hundreds of troops and police to capture the leaders of the uprising. For the first time, Zedillo identified the elusive guerrilla commander, known as "Subcomandante Marcos," by his full name: Rafael Sebastian GuillEn Vicente...
...across Mexico, security forces were on the lookout for the mysterious rebel spokesman known as Subcomandante Marcos. Last week the Chiapas leader, who has always been masked in public appearances, was revealed by Zedillo to be Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente...
...nationally televised speech, Zedillo announced the issuing of arrest warrants for Guillen and four other E.Z.L.N. leaders, who were, contrary to public belief, ``neither popular, nor indigenous, nor from Chiapas.'' The charismatic rebel spokesman and his fellow rebel leaders, the President charged, were former members of a 1970s student revolutionary group. Government aides added that Guillen had grown up in comfortable circumstances in Tampico. He attended private religious schools and the Autonomous University of Mexico, and later taught communications at another university before disappearing in 1983. According to press reports, Guillen lived for several years in Nicaragua, where he worked...