- Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo
Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo (
Pericos ,Sinaloa ,January 12 ,1925 ) is aMexican politician and leader of Mexican left, at present member of theParty of the Democratic Revolution , former leader of theMexican Communist Party and of theUnified Socialist Party of Mexico .Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo, native of Sinaloa, initiated since youth of his activities as the laborer, first in
Sonora and subsequently inMexico City , in 1946, he joinedMexican Communist Party , of the one that quick and became one of its noticeable leaders, in 1959 was chosen member of the Collective Secretariat that directed him and in 1963 was chosen as Secretary general of the Central Committee of the party was ratified successively until 1981.He was one of the protagonists of the political negotiations that in 1978 they flowed into in the first electoral reform of the state that permitted that the PCM obtained registration conditioned, could participate in the 1979 election, where obtained 18 depuites of which was performed as Parliamentary Coordinator.
In 1981, he directed the dissolution of the Mexican Communist Party and its fusion with other leftist forces that constituted the
Unified Socialist Party of Mexico , which advanced him to the presidency in the 1982 elections, before this, was abducted and freed after the payment of a rescue.Subsequently, he joined with the forces of
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano to the Presidency in 1988 elections and then the risingParty of the Democratic Revolution .ee also
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Mexican Communist Party
*Unified Socialist Party of Mexico
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