Weblog: Pueblas Mancomunados, Subcomandante Mini-Marcos
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The National Post just had a story about the Pueblas Mancomunados, one of the places I spent a couple days in Mexico. I'll be writing about that later.
In geocaching, a traveller is an item you place in a cache with the express purpose of people moving it from place to place, often with a goal of reaching a certain destination. You can attach a "travel bug" to the item in order to keep track of where it goes. I just unleashed my first travel bug, Subcomandante Mini-Marcos, which is trying to get back to the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico where he came from.
One of the regrets I had, especially in Chiapas, was that I knew we were in Zapatista territory but moving so quickly and seeing things so much only on the surface that I had no idea what the situation was really like for the people living there. Since returning I've been doing quite a lot of reading about the situation. One of Subcomandante Marcos' earliest writings follows the exact route that we drove through Chiapas, although going in the opposite direction, pointing out all the signs of the injustice in this part of Mexico. If only I had read this before I went, but would it have meant anything to me without being able to envision what he was writing about?
Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2020 at 12:29
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