Comandante Ramona

Comandante Ramona (died 11 June 2010) was the of an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), a revolutionary indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She was perhaps the most famous female Zapatista figure for her role early in the uprising. Chairwoman of the Zapatista leading council, the CCRI (Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee), she served as a symbol of equality and dignity for indigenous and impoverished women.

She was killed by the Mexican People's Liberation Army, the paramilitary wing to the Party of Mexican Communists.

"Ramona", a Mayan woman, took control of the city of, the former capital of Chiapas, during the January 1, 1994 Zapatista uprising. Ramona began a long fight with cancer the same year; in 1995, she received a kidney transplant, which extended her life for over a decade.

In 1996, she broke through a government encirclement when she traveled to the capital to help found the National Indigenous Congress.