Movimiento popular de Liberacion Cinchonero Honduras

The People's Liberation Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Popular de Liberación) also known as the Cinchoneros, was a paramilitary socialist organization active in the 1980s in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

. The PLM was one of the primary militant organizations in Honduras at the time, along with the

Lorenzo Zelaya Popular Revolutionary Forces Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias Lorenzo Zelaya (Revolutionary Popular Forces Lorenzo Zelaya), was a clandestine politico-military movement in Honduras. FPRLZ was formed in 1980 by dissidents of PCMLH. FPRLZ was inspired by the Nicaraguan Revolut ...

History

The group was born in september of 1979 Inspired by the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua by former members of the

Communist Party of Honduras Communist Party of Honduras ( es, Partido Comunista de Honduras) was a communist party in Honduras. PCH was refounded on October 10, 1954 by Ramos Dionisio Bejarano and Rigoberto Padilla Rush. It had its roots in the Honduran Revolutionary Democra ...

(PCH) which was going through a division between those who were more oriented to support the

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and those towards the

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. The group took its name from 19th century Honduran peasant leader

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(nicknamed ''Cinchonero''), who was executed by decapitation in 1868 for leading a rebellion. The MPL was believed to be linked to other leftist movements in

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, and

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. Although the group acted against multinational corporations in Honduras and in favor of less favored groups in the country, it also became involved in the hijacking of airplanes, kidnappings and hostage-taking. The group was suspected of assassinating General Gustavo Álvaro Martínez leader of the death squad battalion 3-16 in 1989. Despite the efforts of the organization to create a popular uprising in Honduras together with other groups of a revolutionary nature such as the

, a revolution was never created as it happened in neighboring countries due to the military reformism of the administration of the military meetings of the 60s and 70s. After the

collapse of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

the group began to lose strength to the extent that it began to resolve itself.

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Terrorist Group Profiles. DIANE Publishing, 1989
Defunct political parties in Honduras Guerrilla movements in Latin America Paramilitary organizations based in Honduras {{honduras-stub

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