The Communist Party of Nicaragua ( es, Partido Comunista de Nicaragua,

abbr. An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...

PCdeN or PCN) is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

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 ...

. Founded as the Socialist Workers' Party () in 1967, the core founding members were Juan Lorio, Augusto Lorío,

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 ...

(who later served as the party's secretary general) and Manuel Pérez Estrada, who all had been expelled from the

Nicaraguan Socialist Party The Nicaraguan Socialist Party (''Partido Socialista Nicaragüense'') is a political party in Nicaragua. Founded in July 1944 by Dr. Mario Flores Ortiz. PSN operated as the official communist party in the country. At the time of its foundation, P ...

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 National Opposition Union ( es, Unión Nacional Opositora, UNO) was a Nicaraguan wide-range coalition of opposition parties formed to oppose president Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the 1990 election. Its candi ...

(UNO), a coalition of mostly right-leaning political parties which defeated the Sandinista government in the 1990 general election.

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