Vicente Lombardo Toledano

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Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Lombardo Toledano in 1938
Governor of Puebla
In office 10 December 1923 – 20 March 1924
Preceded by	Froylán C. Manjarrez
Succeeded by	Francisco Espinoza Fleury
Personal details
Born	(1894-06-16)16 June 1894 Teziutlán, Puebla, Mexico
Died	16 November 1968(1968-11-16) (aged 74) Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
Resting place	Panteón de Dolores
Political party	Popular Socialist Party
Education	National Autonomous University of Mexico

Vicente Lombardo Toledano (July 16, 1894 – November 16, 1968) was one of the foremost Mexican labor leaders of the 20th century, called "the dean of Mexican Marxism [and] the best-known link between Mexico and the international world of Marxism and socialism."^[1] In 1936, he founded the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), the national labor federation most closely associated with the ruling party founded by President Lázaro Cárdenas, the Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM). After he was purged from the union after World War II, Lombardo Toledano co-founded the political party "Partido Popular" along with Narciso Bassols,^[2] which later became known as the Partido Popular Socialista.