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Labor Party Partido del Trabajo
Leader	Alberto Anaya
Founded	December 8, 1990 (1990-12-08)
Headquarters	Mexico City
Ideology	Democratic socialism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Progressive Movement (PRD+PT+MC)
Official colours	Red
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies	13 / 500
Seats in the Senate	5 / 128
Website
http://www.partidodeltrabajo.org.mx
Politics of Mexico Political parties Elections

National Executive Committee's offices of the Labor Party, located at Avenida Cuauhtemoc 47 in Mexico City.

The Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo, abbreviated as "PT") is a nationally recognized political party in Mexico. It was founded on December 8, 1990. The party is currently led by Alberto Anaya.

The PT's roots lay in a network of community organizations formed by Maoist activists. The party first participated in federal elections in 1991, but it failed to win 1.5 percent of the vote (the amount necessary to be recognized as a national party). In 1994, Rosario Ybarra, the prominent activist, became the presidential candidate but later declined in favor of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.

In 1998 the PT allied with the larger Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) for the first time in the state of Zacatecas. In the 2000 elections, the party took part in the PRD-led Alliance for the Good of All. As part of the Alliance, it won 7 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 seat in the Senate.

The PT ran separately from the PRD in the 2003 elections for the Chamber of Deputies. The party won 2.4 percent of the popular vote and 6 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.

In November 2005, the PT endorsed the PRD's candidate for President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the July 2006 elections. In these elections the party won 12 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 3 out of 128 Senators.

In October 2006, the PT further allied itself with the PRD and the Convergence Party to form the Broad Progressive Front (FAP for its Spanish initials), which was granted the register by the Federal Electoral Institute.

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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Francisco H. Vázquez, May 2007; photograph by Brenda C. Zander
Born	June 11, 1949 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Occupation	Professor of History, Philosophy at Sonoma State University, Nonfiction writer
Nationality	Mexican American
Period	1980-
Subjects	Latino Thought History Politics Culture Intellectual History
Spouse(s)	Rosa María
Influences Mexican Philosophers, European Philosophers, César Chávez
www.sonoma.edu/hutchins/vazquez/

Francisco H. Vázquez (born June 11, 1949 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican-American scholar and public intellectual. Vázquez is currently a tenured professor of the history of ideas and director of the Hutchins Institute for Public Policy Studies and Community Action at the nationally-known Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University. He is also the director of the Hutchins Institute for Public Policy Studies and Community Action. He co-authored the prominent book Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society, (Rowman & Littlefield) with University of California Irvine professor Rodolfo D. Torres in 2003. A second edition by Vázquez alone was issued on December 2008.

Early years[link]

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Vázquez was educated in the United States. His mother was born in Colorado and his father in Jalisco, and he has traveled between the two countries and the two cultures since the age of five. After going through an ESL program in San Pedro, California, he attended Phineas Banning High School from which he graduated with honors. He then entered Claremont Men's College (now McKenna) where he received a B.A. in philosophy and continued his studies at the Claremont Graduate University where he was awarded a Doctorate in European Intellectual History. 1

Early work[link]

After teaching and doing administrative work at the Claremont Colleges, he accepted the position of Chair of the Chicano Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Four years later he was offered a position at World College West (a private college in Petaluma, now closed) to direct the World Study and Mexico Program. This teaching position entailed living in Morelia, Michoacán, in the fall and winter, and in Petaluma in the spring, supervising a group of students doing language study and field research. During this time he established close relationships with the P'urhepecha people of Michoacán (also known as Tarascans). 1

Recent work[link]

After six years of changing realities every six months, especially after the birth of his daughter Sofia Eréndira, he and his wife Rosa María decided to settle in Sonoma County. Starting at Sonoma State University in the fall of 1989, Vázquez has taught in the Departments of Mexican-American Studies, History, English and in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies. Presently he is a tenured Professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies and faculty advisor of the Student Congress. 1

Publications[link]

In August 2002, along with his colleague Rodolfo D. Torres, Vázquez published the book Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society. "Latino/a Thought brings together the most important writings that shape Latino consciousness, culture, and activism today" --from the back-cover of Latino/a Thought. A second edition by Vázquez alone was issued on December 2008. It is available at http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/ISBN/0742563545

Other publications of Vázquez include "Philosophy in Mexico: The Opium of the Intellectuals or a Prophetic Insight," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1980) and "Chicanology: A Postmodern Analysis of Meshicano Discourse," Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, Vol. 3 (1992). 2

External links[link]

• Hutchins School of Liberal Studies homepage
• Vázquez' SSU homepage

References[link]

• Vázquez' SSU homepage
• Rowman & Litlefield, Inc.: Coursebook: Latino/a Thought