Heberto Castillo
Heberto Castillo Martínez (August 23, 1928 – April 5, 1997) was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist.[1]
Castillo was born in
He became a political activist and got involved in several workers' rights struggles, leading to imprisonment by the federal government in the infamous
During his lifetime he co-founded three political parties: the Mexican Workers' Party (Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores, PMT), the Mexican Socialist Party (Partido Mexicano Socialista, PMS) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD). In his last years in politics he became a staunch critic of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas and, crucially, voluntarily withdrew from the presidential race in 1988 to support the unified candidacy of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.
He died on April 5, 1997 at the age of 68, in Mexico City and received the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (postmortem) that same year.
References
- ^ Sam Dillon (7 April 1997). "Heberto Castillo Martinez, 68, Leftist Political Leader in Mexico". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
External links
- (in Spanish) The Heberto Castillo Foundation
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