Paquita, mother of the Secretary of Culture of the National Directorate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Tomás Pliego Calvo, had a long history of revolutionary struggle which began at a very young age, leading up to the ephemeral Zapatista Urban Front (FUZ).

She died as she lived, always fighting. She resisted in intensive care for 25 days after suffering from a long illness. She passed away yesterday when she was going to be discharged, her son said.

The FUZ was a small group of thinkers like her, whose dream was to turn Mexico into a politically and ideologically advanced nation through a government attached to Marxism-Leninism, which could never prosper.

On September 27, 1971, at the age of 31, she led the guerrilla group that carried out the first political kidnapping in Mexico City. Her executioners were arrested and she served several years in prison and was tortured.

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