Commander Ramona, one of the Zapatista rebel movement’s most important women’s rights advocates, died here on Friday. Her death, after a long battle with kidney disease, was announced by the rebel leader Subcommander Marcos at a stop in Chiapas during his six-month nationwide tour to build a new leftist movement. He said that the group was suspending its trip for two days to honor Ramona and that he planned to attend a funeral on Saturday in Oventic, which was closed to the public. Full Story