Eraclio Zepeda

Eraclio Zepeda studied at Universidad Veracruzana. The recorded working language is Spanish. Positions recorded include Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico. Works named in the authority record are Benzulul, Asalto Nocturno, De la marimba al son y otros cuentos, Los trabajos de la ballena y otros cuentos, Las grandes lluvias and Tocar el fuego. Distinctions recorded are Xavier Villaurrutia Award, Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor and National Prize for Arts and Sciences.

• Name — Eraclio Zepeda • Birth Name — Eraclio Zepeda Ramos • Born — 24 March 1937 • Birthplace — Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas • Died — 17 September 2015 • Place of death — Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas • Occupation — * Writer • politician • poet • actor • Language — Spanish • Education — Social Anthropology • Alma Mater — Universidad Veracruzana • Spouse — Elva Macías • Awards — Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1982) Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (2014)

He attended college at the Universidad Militarizada Latinoamericana, where he started a Marxism study group with Jaime Labastida, Jaime Augusto Shelley and Nils Castro. He read Social Anthropology at Universidad Veracruzana, where he joined leftist political groups, which reflects on his literary works. In 1960 he attended the first Youth Latin America Congress in Cuba and during the Bay of Pigs Invasion he enrolled as a soldier with Carlos Jurado, Nils Castro, and Roque Dalton, being named the official responsible for the Combat Special Unit.

He participated in a series of movements against the governor of Chiapas, Efraín Aranda Osorio, because of his actions of social dissolution. from 1958 to 1959, Zepeda was a member of the Rural Worker's Party, and then moved on to the Mexican Communist Party, the party that would be most active from 1969 to 1981. In the MCP, he was a member of the central committee and the political correspondent commission in Moscow called "La Voz de México" ("The Voice of Mexico"). He was cofounder and a member of the central committee of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico and of the Mexican Socialist Party, being a candidate for the presidency and a candidate for senator of Chiapas. He was federal deputy of the USPM in the LIII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico. In 1989, he was cofounder and a member of the warranty commission of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. Between December 1994 and April 1997, he was secretary of government in the state of Chiapas, with governors Eduardo Robledo Rincón and Julio César Ruiz Ferro.

• Benzulul (1959) • Asalto nocturno (1979) • Ratón-que-vuela (1989) • Horas de vuelo (2001) • Quien dice la verdad

• Las grandes lluvias (2005) • Tocar el fuego (2007) • Sobre esta tierra. • Viento del siglo.

• El tiempo y el agua (1960)

• La espiga amotinada (1960) • Ocupación de la palabra (1965) • Elegía a Rubén Jaramillo (1963)