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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read. Mexico captures drug gang leader blamed for wave of violence. The most acute act of related violence, after those initial few days of the uprising, took place in December when 47 people at a prayer meeting were massacred by anti-Zapatista paramilitaries.

Even though the conflict never fully flared again, Marcos' status as the new icon of Latin American revolutionary politics helped keep international attention on the movement, and international solidarity funds flowing. His literary comuniques also stoked indignation at continued small-scale agressions against Zapatista communities, as well as the government's failure to honor promises to implement peace accords recognizing indigenous rights that were negotiated early on, and then seemingly forgotten.

In the subcomandante led a caravan of the Zapatista indigenous leadership around Mexico where he spoke to packed plazas. Vendors sold t-shirts with his speaking venues and dates on the back, as if he were a rock star.

The government provided a discrete police escort. In Marcos was off around the country again. This time he began the trip by driving out of the jungle on a motorcycle and held smaller gatherings in which he sought to join the struggle for indigenous rights to those of other groups that felt excluded from the political process — from transvestite prostitutes to sacked electricity workers.