Subcomandante Marcos to embark on six-month tour

LA GARRUCHA, Chiapas The Zapatista rebels on Saturday struggled amid shouts and catcalls to hammer out the details of the new movement that they pledged would "shake this country up," starting with a six-month nationwide tour by rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos.
Marcos said he will embark without the rest of the rebel leadership on a roughly sixmonth tour starting on Jan. 1 and timed to grab attention away from the country's July 2006 presidential election.

The state-by-state tour aims to inspire what the rebels call "another way of doing politics." But no one on Saturday seemed exactly sure what the new movement dubbed "the other campaign" will really mean.

Marcos opened a gathering of about 1,000 rebel supporters with a harangue against electoral politics and his chief personal rival on the left, presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

"What we're going to do is shake this country up from below, pick it up and turn it on its head," Marcos told a cheering crowd of supporters.