San Cristobol de las Casas

Hey, do you like lychees? They are spikey, but you don´t eat the spikes, and inside you find a taut little white fruit that measures up within an inch of it´s spectacular outwardly appearance.

Also, we are in San Cristobol de las Casas. It was here that the Zapatistas, the Chiapan-Mexican rebel group (popularily referred to as the ¨first postmodern revolutionaries¨) took over from the national government in the mid 1990´s. They took over the city in the name of democracy at all levels of Mexican government, land rights for the indigenous and social justice in general. They are awesome. Nowadays they sell little black-masked figurines affixed to earring posts and on silk-screened T- shirts, which I find infinitely preferable to the ¨I Heart Tacos¨ t-shirts and it´s souvenier market ilk.

I could live here.

Love,

Sub-Commandante Donohue