Marco Antonio Yon Sosa was leader of the Revolutionary Movement 13th November

Revolutionary Movement 13th November

Revolutionary Movement 13th November was a leftist movement in Guatemala. MR-13 was founded in 1960 by a group of dissident officers. It was led by Luis Augusto Turcios Lima, Marco Antonio Yon Sosa and Luis Trejo Esquivel. Alejandro de León, co-founder of the group, was captured and shot by the...

, a Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

n guerilla organization.

MR-13 left the Rebel Armed Forces

Rebel Armed Forces

The Rebel Armed Forces was a Guatemalan guerrilla organization established in 1961 and lasting until the peace agreements in 1996.FAR is most significantly known for having killed the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, John Gordon Mein, in 1968. Also killed that year were two U.S...

 in 1969. Yon was killed by Mexican border police, in the Chiapas

Chiapas

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 area.

Yon participated in the November 13, 1960, military uprising against president Miguel Ydígoras

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes

General José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes was President of Guatemala from 2 March 1958 to 31 March 1963. He took power following the murder of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas....

. Yon's father was a Chinese

Chinese people

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 merchant, and under his wing, MR-13 took on a decidedly Maoist orientation. He received part of his military training from the School of the Americas

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation , formerly the United States Army School of the Americas is a United States Department of Defense educational and training facility at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia in the United States...

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