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Subject: Group To Finance Marcos Book
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:04:30 EST
Group To Finance Marcos Book
.c The Associated Press
By CARL HARTMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A private foundation will replace the $7,500 refused by the
National Endowment for the Arts to support a children's book written by
Mexican guerrilla leader Subcomandante Marcos, the publishers said today.
``We'll be able to pay our printer's bill, and we're glad about that,'' said
Susannah Byrd, the daughter of Bobbie Byrd, who heads the small family firm
called Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas. The press has already printed
5,000 copies of the Marcos book's English edition and is distributing them.
The money has been promised by the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, N.M., which
has a special interest in books about indigneous peoples, Byrd said.
The same foundation in 1989 gave $35,000 to the Washington Project for the
Arts so that it could exhibit homoerotic photographs done by Robert
Mapplethorpe, after the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington had canceled the
Mapplethorpe show.
The Corcoran had received some of the money for the Mapplethorpe exhibit from
the NEA.
On the Marcos book, the endowment's chairman canceled a grant for $7,500 to
Cincos Puntos Press just hours after a reporter for The New York Times pointed
out that the Mexican revolutionary was the book's author.
The grant was canceled because some of the money might have reached Marcos, at
odds with the Mexican government since he led a brief uprising five years ago
in the southern state of Chiapas, said NEA chairman William J. Ivey.
The book, ``The Story of Colors,'' is a tale about the Mayan gods still
revered by many in Chiapas, an area known for its Mayan ruins. The book was
first published in Spanish by a Mexican press without any help from the U.S.
federal agency. The U.S. grant would have helped print and distribute an
English vesion.
The U.S. edition includes a photo inside the front flap of Marcos in his
signature black ski mask, with an ammunition belt across his chest.
Meanwhile, a spokesman at the Mexican embassy in Washington, Jose Antonio
Zabalgoitia, said the embassy agreed with Ivey's decision to cancel the grant.
AP-NY-03-11-99 1403EST
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