Marcos Leonel Posadas Segura (born October 8, 1938, Tampico) is a Mexican politician. Leonel Posadas joined the Mexican Communist Party in April 1956. He became an electrician in the petroleum sector by profession. In 1964 he was included in the

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

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

Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, es, Partido de la Revolución Democrática, ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institut ...

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

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