Playing A Place Called Chiapas (clip 1)

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A Place Called Chiapas (clip 1)

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Contributed by Nettie

Length: 2 min 27 sec

License: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

Year of Production: 1994

Director:

Nettie Wild

Producer:

Betsy Carson

Charismatic Zapatista leader, guerrilla poet Subcomandante Marcos, is trapped in Chiapas's Locandon jungle surrounded by 30,000 Mexican troops and right-wing paramilitary death squads. Well versed in the ways of modern warfare, Marcos uses the international media to great effect, re-inventing himself for European journalists and photographers who come to see him.