Poetic Obituaries: A historian and linguist whose academic work

centered on indigenous culture and rebels, [Carlos] Montemayor was sympathetic to the armed Zapatista uprising in 1994 in the southern state of Chiapas.

Montemayor, who had been battling stomach cancer, "distinguished himself for his social activism, especially in favor of the most vulnerable groups in Mexico," Random House Mandadori said in a statement.

from Associated Press: Mexican author Carlos Montemayor dies at 62
also El Universal: Muere el escritor Carlos Montemayor

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