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Adiós, Subcomandante
“Hey, it’s very dark here, I need a little light.”
Then he stopped talking and straightened the papers on the table. The lights went out. In the penumbra, illuminated just by the faint light of a video camera, he stood up.
He walked a few steps toward the rear of the stage.
Walking slowly, he crossed the threshold.
He began to go down the wooden stairs.
And he slowly faded into the darkness.
And he ceased to exist.
Then a silence spoke out charged with gratitude and so many other things from thousands of hands clapping in unison, and the faces holding back tears, and the hearts repeating: Farewell, Subcomandante. “One, two, three,” the voice of Comandante Tacho was heard talking on the radio. The lights went on again. And Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, military leader and now also spokesperson of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, said: “Compañeros, compañeras, we are going to listen now to the voice of another compañero.”
From the speakers came the voice which until a few minutes ago, for the last twenty years, belonged to Subcomandante Marcos, now coming to life anew, mocking death. “Have a good pre-dawn, compañeras and compañeros. My name is Galeano. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano. Is anyone else called Galeano?”
Thousands of men and women responded together: “My name is Galeano!” “We all are Galeano!” “We all are Galeano!”
“So that’s why they told me that when I was reborn, I would do it collectively. So be it then. Have a good trip. Take care of yourselves, take care of us. From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.”
ENTRE LA LUZ Y LA SOMBRA: Últimas palabras del Subcomandante Marcos
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BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW
In La Realidad [Reality], Planet Earth
May 2014
Compañera, compañeroa, compañero:
Good evening, afternoon, or morning, whichever it may be in your geography, time, and way of being.
Good very early morning.
I would like to ask the compañeras, compañeros and compañeroas of the Sixth who came from other places, especially the compañeros from the independent media, for your patience, tolerance, and understanding for what I am about to say, because these will be the final words that I speak in public before I cease to exist.