Francisco Martins Rodrigues

Francisco Martins Rodrigues
Titles	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (1960-1982)
Date of Birth	1927
Date of Death	2008
Political Party	Portuguese Communist Party Communist Party of Spain

Francisco Martins Rodrigues was a Portuguese-Spanish Communist revolutionary who was driven out of his birth nation of Portugal by the Salazar dictatorship. He fled to Spain and allied himself with its Communist party, eventually becoming its General Secretary.