The Movement for Socialism ( es, Movimiento al Socialismo, abbreviated MAS) was a political movement 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 ...

, active inside the

Christian Democratic Party of Honduras The Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (Spanish: ''Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras),'' known by the abbreviation DC, is a political party in Honduras. At the legislative elections, held on 25 November 2001, DC won 3.7% of the popula ...

(PDCH).}

History

The split inside DC had begun to emerge in 1975. MAS was constituted at the Sixth National Plenum of the party in March 1976. MAS was founded by a younger generation within the PDCH, with leaders like José Antonio Cruz Oliva, Efraín Díaz Arrivillaga, Rodolfo Sorto Romero, Rafael Alegría, Oswaldo Discua, Juan Ramón Dermit, Melba Reyes and others. Many of its leaders came from university-based organization. Inside PDCH MAS confronted the "El Palo" faction for influence over the organization. MAS sought to replace the leaderships inside popular organizations linked to the Christian Democratic movement. MAS activists founded the peasants organization ''Unión Nacional de Campesinos Auténticos de Honduras'' (UNCAH) in September 1977. The MAS tendency was expelled from the party at the Seventh National Plenum of the party. Some MAS members, who had been expelled from PDCH, founded the Socialist Party (PASO) in November 1978. The MAS split significantly weakened the PDCH.

References

{{Reflist Defunct political parties in Honduras Socialism in Honduras