The People's Vanguard Party, or Popular Vanguard Party () is a

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. PVP was founded in 1931 as the Workers and Farmers Party, but was soon renamed to the Communist Party of Costa Rica (''Partido Comunista de Costa Rica''). From 1931 to 1947, the party published '' Trabajo'' as a

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newspaper. The PVP's current publication is ''El Popular''.

History

In 1943 the party was renamed as PVP, in order to facilitate its alliance with the

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and the government, whose reformist policies the party supported. In 1949 the party was banned. Its militants began working under the name 'Partido Acción Socialista Obrera'.Rouquié, Alain/Arnaud, Hélène. ''Les Forces politiques en Amérique centrale''. KARTHALA Editions, 1991. p. 39-40 In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 300.Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H..
Communism and Economic Development
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, Vol. 62, No. 1. (Mar. 1968), pp. 122. In 1970, the party again could contest elections. In 1984, a severe internal crisis appeared in the party. At the 14th party congress, two of the party MPs, Arnoldo Ferreto Segura and Humberto Vargas Carbonell took over the party leadership and deposed Mora (who had led the party since 1934). Mora's followers continued to use the name PVP, thus there were two parties with the same name. In 1984 Mora's party took the name

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Electoral performance

Presidential

References

External links

Official Website
1931 establishments in Costa Rica

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History

Electoral performance

Presidential

See also

References

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