Popular Socialist Party of Mexico (, PPSM) is a communist party in

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, formed in 1997 after a split from the Popular Socialist Party (PPS). Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo is the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the party, Juan Campos Vega is the Second Secretary. Other Central Committee members are Belisario Aguilar Olvera, Dolores del Carmen Chinas Salazar, Adrián García Enríquez, Martha Elvia García García, Luis Miranda Reséndiz, Mario Ochoa Vega, José Santos Cervantes, Jorge Tovar Montañés and José Santos Urbina. The youth wing of PPSM is the Youth for Socialism (''Jóvenes por el Socialismo''). PPSM publishes ''Teoría y Práctica''. Ahead of the 2006 presidential election, PPSM declared that it would not support any candidate. The party is not recognized by the

National Electoral Institute The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (Spanish for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute) (, IFE) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relat ...

International relations

The PPSM is politically close to the

Workers' Party of Belgium The Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) is a Marxist and socialist political party in Belgium. It is the only Belgian party represented in parliament that is a fully national party, representing both Flanders and Wallonia. Having historically be ...

(PTB), and participated in the annual international seminar hosted by WPB.

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* 1997 establishments in Mexico Communist parties in Mexico Far-left politics in Mexico Political parties established in 1997 Political parties in Mexico International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties {{Mexico-party-stub