Lucio Cabañas

Lucio Cabañas
Cabañas as a guerrilla leader
Born
Lucio Cabañas Barrientos

(1938-12-12)12 December 1938
Died2 December 1974(1974-12-02) (aged 35)
Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero, Mexico
OrganizationParty of the Poor

Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (Latin American Spanish: [ˈlusjo kaˈβaɲas βaˈrjentos]; December 12, 1938 – December 2, 1974) was a Mexican social leader, schoolteacher, union leader, and guerrilla leader who founded the social and political movement Party of the Poor in 1967. Under his leadership, the party later became a guerrilla organization that was active in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range of Guerrero.