Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo
Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo (born January 12, 1925 in Pericos , Sinaloa , † May 24, 2013 ) was a Mexican politician on the left wing. From 1963 to 1981 he was party chairman of the Partido Comunista Mexicano (PCM) and, after its dissolution, chairman of the Partido Socialista Unificado de México (PSUM). Most recently he was a member of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD).
Martínez was already politically active as a teenager, first in Sonora and later in Mexico City . In 1946 he joined the Partido Comunista Mexicano, where he belonged to the PCM collective secretariat from 1959 and took over the party chairmanship in 1963. After the PCM was merged with three other left-wing parties in the Partido Socialista Unificado de México in 1981, he was elected party president there. In the presidential elections in 1988 he joined the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano and then the Partido de la Revolución Democrática, which was growing in importance.
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| SURNAME | Martínez Verdugo, Arnoldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican left-wing politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pericos , Sinaloa |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 2013 |