Communist Party of Honduras ( es, Partido Comunista de Honduras) was a

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. PCH was refounded on October 10, 1954 by Ramos Dionisio Bejarano and Rigoberto Padilla Rush. It had its roots in the

Honduran Revolutionary Democratic Party The Revolutionary Democratic Party of Honduras ( es, Partido Democratico Revolucionario de Honduras) was a political party in Honduras. It was formed by members of the short lived Partido Democratico Revolucionario (formed in 1946) and non-Marxist ...

. From the beginning, he maintained a strong presence in the workers union movement, especially the banana movement against the UFCO activities in Honduras.

History

1928-1932

The first Communist Party of Honduras was founded in 1928 by Manuel Calix Herrera and Juan Pablo Wainwright Nuila, who had attempted to found a

Socialist Party of Honduras The Socialist Party of Honduras ( es, Partido Socialista, abbreviated PASO) was a small left-wing political party in Honduras. PASO was founded in November 1978. Most of its founders hailed from the Movement for Socialism (MAS) tendency, expelled ...

a year earlier. The first Plenum of the Communist Party of Honduras was held in the house of Juan Pablo Wainwright in 1930.

1931 elections

The Communist Party of Honduras would participate in the presidential elections of which

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would be the winner. The first Communist Party of Honduras was dissolved with the execution of Juan Pablo Wainwright, in 1932, by the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico of

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and the death of Manuel Calix Herrera, in 1935.

1954-1990

PCH reborn in 1954 and was claimed by the government to be an illegal party. It developed a strong presence in the

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movement, for example amongst

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plantations. In the mid-1960s, the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 2400. However in 1965 the party split into two factions because of the

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. The party was between the traditionalists who supported the

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and those who supported the Maoist model of the

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Dissolution

In 1990, PCH was dissolved, and merged into Patriotic Renovation Party.The party was reactivated during the celebration of its fifth Congress in 2011.

References

External links

US Library of Congress study
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