Valentín Campa

1904–1999 (age 95)

Biography

Valentín Campa Salazar (14 February 1904 – 25 November 1999) was a Mexican railway union leader and presidential candidate. Along with Demetrio Vallejo, he was considered one of the leaders of the 1958 railway strikes. Campa was also the founder of the National Railroad Council and the defunct underground newspaper The Railwayman.

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