Instituto Cultural Tampico
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Tampico, Tamaulipas Mexico |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | Duc in Altum: "Put out into deep water" |
| Established | 1962 |
| Principal | Luis Gerardo Moro Madrid, S.J |
| Grades | 1–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,000 |
| Color(s) | Gray and maroon |
| Mascot | Wolf |
| Affiliations | Catholic, Jesuit |
| Website | ICT |
The Instituto Cultural Tampico (ICT) is a K-12 private school founded in 1962 by the Society of Jesus in the city of Tampico, Mexico. Its primary and secondary education programs are validated by the Secretaría de Educación Pública. Its high school is affiliated to the Sistema Universitario Jesuita (SUJ).
ICT became worldwide famous because of former alumnus Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, whom the Mexican government accepted to be the guerrilla leader Subcomandante Marcos. This theory gained traction after dissident Zapatista Comandante Salvador Morales Garibay gave to the Mexican Government the identity of his former fellow Zapatistas, among them Subcomandante Marcos. The direct intervention of Rafael Guillén of the Instituto Cultural Tampico and his childhood friend Max Appedole played a major role in avoiding a military solution to the Zapatista crisis in 1995, when the Mexican government revealed his identity by demonstrating that contrary to the accusations announced by President Ernesto Zedillo,Rafael Guillén, was no terrorist. Advised about the terrible consequences of a tragic outcome with a military solution in place at the Military Site at the Zapatistas camp in 1995 in Chiapas. Time showed that the fight against a military solution to the conflict and the strategy to achieve a peaceful solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis was legal, politically and honorably correct, saving many lives in Mexico. Max Appedole recognized Rafael's literary style in all his manifestos that where published in the media and linked them to their literary tournaments organized by the Jesuit schools in Mexico, leaving him no doubt that Subcomandante Marcos was his friend Rafael Guillén, a pacifist. Max Appedole sought help from Eden Pastora, "Commander Zero" of Nicaragua, to prepare a report for Mexico's Under-Secretary of the Interior Luis Maldonado Venegas, Secretary of the Interior Esteban Moctezuma, and President Ernesto Zedillo, about Subcomandante Marcos's natural pacifist vocation and the terrible consequences of a tragic outcome. Luis Maldonado Venegas achieved with Subcomandante Marcos the re-initiation of dialogue and all the necessary agreements in accordance with the law to start formal Peace Talks between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Mexican government. The charismatic leader of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Marcos, led the Zapatistas to leave arms aside and begin the dialog for peace agreements with the Mexican Government. Time showed that this effort against a military solution to the conflict – the strategy to achieve a peaceful solution to the 1995 Zapatista Crisis – was legal, politically and honorably correct, and saved many lives in Mexico.
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