Alberto Anaya Gutiérrez (born 15 November 1946) is a Mexican politician and senator. He is the founder of the Labor Party. He has been a federal deputy, senator and coordinator of its parliamentary group. He studied economics at the

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. In 1990, he founded the PT with several work unions, some left student organizations and some neighborhood organizations, the PRI even accused the party to have influence of Raúl Salinas, brother of former PRI President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The PT enjoys support in Anaya's home state of

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, and other parts of Mexico. Anaya has both a democratic and socialist background; he led a social movement called "Tierra y Libertad" in the 1980s. In the 2006 Mexican election, he supported the

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, and in the 2018 Mexican election, he led the Together We Will Make History coalition. Upon his release, he began his drive to form his political party, after having been closely linked to other democratic and socialist parties, some civilian organizations. In 2008 and 2009 he worked closely with former PRD presidential candidate

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, fighting the oil privatization in México. The PT is member of FAP (Frente Amplio Progresista - Wide Progressive Coalition). The PT publishes several magazines, among them: ''Unidad Nacional'' and a magazine for analysis and social research: ''Poder Popular''. On 29 March 2009, the

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n government's

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reported Alberto Anaya's declaration of support for the North Korean regime. On 12 September 2017, nine days after North Korea tested its first Hydrogen bomb the North Korean government's Korean Central News Agency reported Alberto Anaya had sent greetings to Kim Jong Un claiming "The Korean people's heroic struggle for the country's sovereignty and the dignity of the nation and peace of the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world serves as a model of all the revolutionaries and the progressive peoples struggling for global independence."

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Partido del Trabajo, official website
1946 births Living people Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Labor Party (Mexico) politicians Politicians from Aguascalientes City Deputies of the LVIII Legislature of Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni {{Mexico-politician-stub