Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo

Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo (12 January 1925 – 24 May 2013) was a Mexican socialist politician and democracy activist. A long-standing leader of the Mexican Communist Party and the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM), Martínez promoted political self-criticism, refused to support regional guerrilla movements, condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and promoted the unification of the political left.

Biography

Martínez was born in Pericos, a small town in Mocorito, Sinaloa, into a family of farmers. His parents were Yssac Martínez Ortega and Silvina Verdugo Verdugo. he joined a faction that succeeded in overthrowing the long-time leadership of Stalinist , who had led the party from 1940 to 1960.

Martínez was a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), a political institution he helped to found and finance in its early years.

In popular culture In the alternate history of the Apple TV+ show For All Mankind, Martínez Verdugo was elected President of Mexico on 1986.

Publications (in ) Mexico City: , 1971. (The Mexican Communist Party and the Political Reform) Mexico City: , 1977. (Political crisis and Communist alternative) Mexico City: , 1979. (The Creation of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico) Mexico City: , 1982. (March for Democracy) Mexico City: , 1982. (The Socialist Project) Mexico City: , 1982. (History of Communism in Mexico), Mexico City: Grijalbo, 1985.