Alberto Anaya
President of the Labor Party
Assumed office
8 December 1990
Preceded byParty established
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Proportional representation
In office
1 September 2012 – 31 August 2015
Senator for Mexico
National list
In office
1 September 2006 – 31 August 2012
Personal details
Born
Alberto Anaya Gutiérrez

(1946-11-15) 15 November 1946
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Political partyLabor Party (1990–present)

Alberto Anaya Gutiérrez (born 15 November 1946) is a Mexican politician and senator. He is the founder of the Labor Party.

He has been a federal deputy, senator and coordinator of its parliamentary group.

He studied economics at the UNAM.

In 1990, he founded the PT with several work unions, some left student organizations and some neighborhood organizations, the PRI even accused the party to have influence of Raúl Salinas, brother of former PRI President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The PT enjoys support in Anaya's home state of Aguascalientes, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Mexico City, and other parts of Mexico. Anaya has both a democratic and socialist background; he led a social movement called "Tierra y Libertad" in the 1980s.

In the 2006 Mexican election, he supported the Alliance for the Good of All, and in the 2018 Mexican election, he led the Together We Will Make History coalition.

Upon his release, he began his drive to form his political party, after having been closely linked to other democratic and socialist parties, some civilian organizations. In 2008 and 2009 he worked closely with former PRD presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, fighting the oil privatization in México. The PT is member of FAP (Frente Amplio Progresista - Wide Progressive Coalition).

The PT publishes several magazines, among them: Unidad Nacional and a magazine for analysis and social research: Poder Popular.

On 29 March 2009, the North Korean government's Korean Central News Agency reported Alberto Anaya's declaration of support for the North Korean regime.[1] On 12 September 2017, nine days after North Korea tested its first Hydrogen bomb[2] the North Korean government's Korean Central News Agency reported Alberto Anaya had sent greetings to Kim Jong Un claiming "The Korean people's heroic struggle for the country's sovereignty and the dignity of the nation and peace of the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world serves as a model of all the revolutionaries and the progressive peoples struggling for global independence."[3]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2009-03-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test". NPR.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". www.kcna.co.jp. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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