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Heberto Castillo Martínez ( 23 August 1928 – 5 April 1997 ) 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 . An accomplished engineer, he taught several courses at the UNAM and at the National Polytechnic Institute , wrote several textbooks and invented the Tridilosa . He became a political activist and got involved in several workers' rights struggles, leading to imprisonment by the federal government in the infamous Lecumberri Penitentiary . Castillo was one of the first among leading Left-wing politicians to express dismay at the Dictatorial nature of Soviet-bloc governments, starting a movement towards a Social Democracy -based left wing and away from a Moscow -based left leaning opposition in Mexico. During his lifetime he co-founded three ''(Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD)''. In his last years in politics he became a staunch critic of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas and, crucially, voluntarily withdrew from the presidential race in 1988 to support the unified candidacy of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas . He died on April 5 , 1997 in Mexico City and received the Belisario Domínguez Medal Of Honor postmortem that same year. External link
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