Background
Martínez Verdugo, Arnaldo was born on January 12, 1925 in Pericos, Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico. Son of a peasant and agricultural industry worker.
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Arnaldo Martínez Verdugo
Edit ProfileJoined the Workers and Peasants Alliance of Mexico
Education
Early education unknown. Studied painting at the La Esmeralda School of Painting and Sculpture, Secretariat of Public Education, 1944-1946.
Career
Joined the Mexican Communist Party, 1946. Director, Organizing Committee of Mexican Communist Party’s Communist Youth, 1948-1950. Member of the Regional Committee of the Mexican Communist Party in the Federal District, 1950-1954.
Alternate member of the Central Committee of the Mexican Communist Party 12th Congress, 1954. Member of the Regional Committee of the Mexican Communist Party in the Federal District, 1959. Member of the Organizing Committee of the Mexican Communist Party 13th Congress.
Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Mexican Communist Party, 1960. Secretary General of the Mexican Communist Party, 1967-1983. Secretary General of the PSUM, 1981-1982.
Presidential candidate of the PSUM, 1981-1982. Employee, industry, 1940-1943. Moved to Mexico City to work as an employee in the San Rafael Paper Company, 1943.
Defeated Alejandro Gascón Mercado for presidential candidacy of the PSUM, 1981.
Religion
Roman Catholic
Membership
Joined the Workers and Peasants Alliance of Mexico, 1947. Member of the Executive Committee, Section 4, National Union of Paper Workers.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Mexican Communist Party