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The Mexican Workers' Party (in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores, PMT) was an old Mexican political party of left, that had legal registration in the 1980s, its main political figures were Heberto Castillo

Heberto Castillo

Heberto Castillo Martínez was a Mexican civil engineer and political activist.Castillo was born in Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University...

and Demetrio Vallejo

Demetrio Vallejo

Demetrio Vallejo was a railroad worker and union activist from Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Vallejo began working as a railroad employee in 1928, later joining the Partido Comunista Mexicano in 1934. Vallejo was eventually promoted to Regional Director of the PCM in Oaxaca, however later expelled...

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The PMT had its origin in the years of Student Movement of 1968, especially the Tlatelolco massacre

Tlatelolco massacre

The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco , was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City...

, and with the participation of noticeable intellectuals and social fighters as Heberto Castillo

Heberto Castillo

, Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...

, Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...

and Luis Villoro that gave origin of National Committee of Auscultation and Coordination, after the exit of some of these personages, was constituted in political party in 1975, but would manage to obtain its registration to 1984, participating in the Legislative elections of 1985.

In 1987 and in an effort to unify the different forces of the left in Mexico, the PMT and the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico

Unified Socialist Party of Mexico

The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico was a far-left political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party in 1988...

fused and created the new Mexican Socialist Party

Mexican Socialist Party

The Socialist Mexican Party was the former left-wing Mexican political party immediate antecedent of the present Party of the Democratic Revolution, it was the last effort of unification of the different Mexican parties of left and the last political party that the socialist word in its name was...

, two years later this would be the main origin of the Party of the Democratic Revolution

Party of the Democratic Revolution

The Party of the Democratic Revolution is a democratic socialist party in Mexico and one of 2 Mexican affiliates of the Socialist International...

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