Marco Antonio Yon Sosa (7 September 1929 – May 18, 1970) was the leader of the Revolutionary Movement 13th November, a Guatemalan guerrilla organization. Yon Sosa broke with the Stalinist Rebel Armed Forces in December of 1964 over the question of a ceasefire, which he opposed.[1]

He was affiliated to the Fourth International (Posadist)[1] from 1963 until 1966 when he was expelled from the International over accusing them of diverting funds which had been raised to support MR-13.[2][3]

Yon was killed in a shootout with Mexican border police in 1970, in the Chiapas area near the Guatemalan border.[3]

The circumstances of his death, however are disputed; Robert Lamberg notes in 1972 that Yon had been underground by that point for quite some time with the general circumstances making an armed confrontation with border forces unlikely.[4] Gino Perente notes that Yon Sosa hadn't died in some act of revolutionary heroism at all, but in a drunken car accident in downtown Guatemala City.[5]

Yon participated in the November 13, 1960, military uprising against president Miguel Ydígoras. Yon's father was a Chinese merchant,[6] and under his wing, MR-13 took on a decidedly Maoist orientation. He received part of his military training from the School of the Americas.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Gittlitz, A. M. (2020). I want to believe : posadism, UFOs, and apocalypse communism. London. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-78680-619-2. OCLC 1149149423.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Alexander, Robert J. (1991). International Trotskyism, 1929-1985 : a documented analysis of the movement. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 611. ISBN 0-8223-0975-0. OCLC 21594038.
  3. 1 2 Shipley, Peter (1976). Revolutionaries in modern Britain. London: Bodley Head. p. 72. ISBN 0-370-11311-X. OCLC 2325898.
  4. ↑ Lamberg, Robert F. (1972). Die Guerilla in Lateinamerika : Theorie u. Praxis e. revolutionären Modells. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag. p. 90. ISBN 3-423-04116-1. OCLC 752606.
  5. ↑ Perente, Gino. "The Genesis" (PDF). Marxists Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ "Yon Sosa". Washington Post. 1970-05-20.
  7. ↑ "The New Strategy". Time Magazine. 1965-04-23.
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