Vicente Lombardo Toledano

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Vicente Lombardo Toledano

Vicente Lombardo Toledano (born July 16, 1894 in Teziutlán / Puebla ; † November 16, 1968 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican trade unionist and politician , founder of the Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM) , the Partido Popular (PT) and the Universidad Obrera de México.

biography

Vicente Lombardo was the son of a mining engineer from Italy.

Lombardo, who belonged to the " Generation of 1915 ", studied law at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria , completed his habilitation in philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de México (later UNAM) and also taught at both universities. In 1923 he was accepted into the Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM) , from which he left again in 1932. He was director of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and was a co-founder of the Universidad Obrera de México .

In February 1921 he became “Oficial Mayor del Gobierno” in the Distrito Federal de México , was interim governor of the state of Puebla from 1924 to 1925 , in 1925 in the city council of Mexico City and from 1925 to 1928 was a member of the Partido Laboral in the Congress of the Union of Mexico . From 1936 to 1940 he served as general secretary of the Confederación de Trabajadores de México, which he founded, was general secretary of the Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina (CTAL) and from 1945 to 1965 Vice-President of the World Trade Union Confederation .

In 1948 he founded the Partido Popular , from which the Partido Popular Socialista (PPS) emerged . In the presidential election in Mexico in 1952 he ran for the PPS, but with only 72,482 of 3,651,483 votes (= 1.98%), he came fourth. From 1964 to 1968 he was again a member of the Mexican parliament for the PPS.

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SURNAME Lombardy Toledano, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican labor leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Teziutlán , Puebla
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1968
Place of death Mexico city