''Avance'' ('Advance') was a newspaper published in

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

, the central organ of the

Communist Party of Nicaragua The Communist Party of Nicaragua ( es, Partido Comunista de Nicaragua, abbr. PCdeN or PCN) is a communist party in Nicaragua. Founded as the Socialist Workers' Party () in 1967, the core founding members were Juan Lorio, Augusto Lorío, Elí Alta ...

.Ameringer, Charles D.
Political Parties of the Americas: 1980s to 1990s : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies
'. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 455 Founded in October 1971 by

Elí Altamirano Eli Altamirano Pérez (1934-2006) was a Nicaraguan politician and trade unionist. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Nicaragua for a quarter century. Biography Altamirano was born in Chinandega on February 27, 1934. His par ...

. Altamirano, also serving as the main leader of the party, served as its editor for decades. ''Avance'' was shut down by the government for a period in 1980 early, as it had called for strikes.Molero, María.
Nicaragua sandinista: del sueño a la realidad, 1979-1988
'. Managua, Nicaragua: Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, 1988. p. 65 By late February 1980 ''Avance'' was officially branded as 'counter-revolutionary' in the government discourse. As of the 1980s and early 1990s Avance was published weekly.Skytte, Göran.
Det smutsiga kriget: om massmedia i det sandinistiska Nicaragua
'. Stockholm: Latinamerika-institutet i samarbete med SIDA, 1990. p. 57 As of the late 1980s, ''Avance'' generally carried twelve pages. The Communist Party claimed that ''Avance'' had a circulation of 20,000 copies, but that figure was believed to have been heavily inflated at the time. ''Avance'' was almost entirely dedicated to political themes, and expressed a militant anti-Sandinista stance. However, albeit the Communist Party had participated in the UNO coalition of

Violeta Chamorro Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (; 18 October 1929) is a Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the first and, as of 2022, only woman to hold the position of president of Nicaragua. Born into ...

in the 1990 general election, ''Avance'' expressed criticisms against Chamorro's government for alleged failures in providing services to the poorer sectors in Managua. In later years, the Communist Party has published occasional issues of ''Avance''.''La Prensa''.
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