Who named Marcos "the best Latin American writer today"?
Régis Debray
Gabriel García Márquez
Mario Vargas Llosa
Junot Díaz
Answer
Régis Debray, a French philosopher, named Marcos "the best Latin American writer today" in 1996. Debray had met Marcos several years earlier in Chiapas, Mexico, where Marcos is the leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Debray was impressed by Marcos's intelligence and charisma, and he believed that Marcos was a powerful voice for the indigenous people of Chiapas.
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