Marcos Leonel Posadas Segura (born October 8, 1938,

Tampico Tampico is a city and port in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located on the north bank of the Pánuco River, about inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and directly north of the state of Veracruz. Tampico is the fif ...

) is a Mexican politician. Leonel Posadas joined the

Mexican Communist Party The Mexican Communist Party (, PCM) was a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1917 as the Socialist Workers' Party (, PSO) by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left-wing Indian revolutionary. The PSO changed its name to the ''Mexican Communist ...

in April 1956. He became an electrician in the petroleum sector by profession. In 1964 he was included in the Central Committee of the party. The following year he became the general secretary of the Mexican Communist Youth, a position he occupied until 1970. Between 1973 and 1978 he was the director of the official Communist Party newspaper ''Oposición''. In 1979 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party.Camp, Roderic Ai.
Mexican Political Biographies: 1935–1993
'. ILAS special publication. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr, 1995. p. 391 Posadas became a co-founder of the

United Socialist Party of Mexico The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (, PSUM) was a socialist political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party () in 1988. History The PSUM was founded in November 1981 by the merger of four socialist parties: *The Mexican ...

(PSUM). In PSUM he was responsible for Organization and International Affairs. He later became co-founder of the

Mexican Socialist Party The Mexican Socialist Party (, PMS) was a left-wing Mexican political party, and one of the immediate antecedents of the present Party of the Democratic Revolution. It was the last effort to unify the different Mexican left-wing parties, as well a ...

(PMS) and the

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(PRD).López Díaz, Pedro.
La clase política mexicana: diccionario
'. México, D.F.: La Jornada, 2006. p. 496

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