Communist Party of Nicaragua

Communist Party of Nicaragua

Partido Comunista de Nicaragua
Communist Party of Nicaragua Partido Comunista de Nicaragua
Founded	12 October 1967 (as the Socialist Workers' Party)
Split from	Nicaraguan Socialist Party
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism;
Political position	Far-left
	Politics of Nicaragua; Political parties; Elections;

The Communist Party of Nicaragua (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Nicaragua, abbr. PCdeN or PCN) is a communist party in Nicaragua. Founded as the Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Obrero Socialista) in 1967, the core founding members were Juan Lorio, Augusto Lorío, Elí Altamirano (who later served as the party's secretary general^[1]) and Manuel Pérez Estrada, who all had been expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party on 23 April 1967.

The party adopted its current name on 13 December 1970.

The PCdeN was a member of the U.S.-funded National Opposition Union (UNO), a coalition of mostly right-leaning political parties which defeated the Sandinista government in the 1990 general election.

For the 1996 Nicaraguan general election, the party nominated secretary general Elí Altamirano as its presidential candidate, who obtained 0.27% of the votes.

References

Citations

^ Robinson & Norsworthy 1985, p. 96.

Sources

Books

Casanova Fuertes, Rafael (2013). Bordes ocultos: El entretejido de nuestra historia: ensayos y artículos sobre la historia de Nicaragua (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. ISBN 978-9-99-640204-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Journal articles

Robinson, William I.; Norsworthy, Kent (1985). "Elections and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua". Latin American Perspectives. 12 (2): 83–110. doi:10.1177/0094582X8501200205. ISSN 0094-582X. JSTOR 2633991. S2CID 143604581.

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