According to the Catholic tradition, it is the site where Saint Juan Diego met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December of 1531, and received the iconic image of the Lady of Guadalupe.
Tepeyac |
On January 5 of 1995 the Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma started a secret meeting process with Marcos called "Steps Toward Peace" They took place in the village of Guadalupe Tepeyac, belonging to the municipality of Pantelho, Chiapas.
Once Marcos was allegedly identified as Rafael Guillén, on 9 February 1995, in an counterproductive turn of events, the President Ernesto Zedillo took a series of decisions that completely broke with the strategy and action plan previously defined and the agreements he authorized his Secretary of Interior Lic Esteban Moctezuma to agree just a few days before in Guadalupe Tepeyac with Marcos.
The title Our Lady of Guadalupe commemorating the Virgin Mary's apparitions at Tepeyac, near Mexico City in 1531, was originally chosen because of the Mexican influence in the southwestern U.S., and was gladly brought along to the Northwest.