José María Reyes Mata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José María Reyes Mata

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1943

Place of Birth: San Francisco de Yojoa, Honduras

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: physician, politician

Nationality: Honduras

Zodiac Sign: Libra

José María Reyes Mata (1943-1983) was a Honduran revolutionary sympathizer of Fidel Castro and trained as both a doctor and in internationalist revolutionary thought in Cuba.
He participated in Che Guevara's ill-fated Bolivian revolution and after surviving prison moved to Chile.
With the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Reyes Mata returned to Honduras and fought with Nicaraguan Sandinistas, hoping to gain their support for a Revolutionary United Front to be established in Honduras.
In 1983, he led a group of Honduran rebels from Nicaragua into Honduras and was captured by military forces.
The date of his death remains unclear and his body has never been located.