Marco Antonio Yon Sosa

Marco Antonio Yon Sosa (7 September 1929 – May 18, 1970) was leader of the Revolutionary Movement 13th November, a Guatemalan guerrilla organization Revolutionary Movement 13th November (MR-13) left the Rebel Armed Forces in 1969.

Yon was allegedly killed by Mexican border police, in the Chiapas area, near the Guatemalan border, however this is 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.[1] 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.[2]

Yon participated in the November 13, 1960, military uprising against president Miguel Ydígoras. Yon's father was a Chinese merchant,[3] 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.[4]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Perente, Gino. "The Genesis" (PDF). Marxists Internet Archive.
  3. "Yon Sosa". Washington Post. 1970-05-20.
  4. "The New Strategy". Time Magazine. 1965-04-23.
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