Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias Lorenzo Zelaya (Revolutionary Popular Forces Lorenzo Zelaya), was a clandestine politico-military 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 ...
. FPRLZ was formed in 1980 by dissidents of
PCMLH. FPRLZ was inspired by the
Nicaraguan Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution ( es, Revolución Nicaragüense or Revolución Popular Sandinista, link=no) encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation Fr ...
of 1979, and unlike the traditional communist parties (the
PCH and PCMLH), FPRLZ advocated
guerrilla struggle.
FPRLZ maintained relations with
Salvadoran
Salvadorans (Spanish: ''Salvadoreños''), also known as Salvadorians (alternate spelling: Salvadoreans), are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvado ...
Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, and later with
FMLN when the front was more consolidated. In 1990 FPRLZ merged with other tendencies to form
Partido Renovación Patriótica
Partido Renovación Patriótica (Patriotic Renewal Party) is a leftist group in Honduras formed in 1990 as a re-groupment of various leftist tendencies, such as Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias Lorenzo Zelaya, people from the dissolved Partido Co ...
.
FPRLZ was named after the peasants leader
Lorenzo Zelaya
Lorenzo may refer to:
People
* Lorenzo (name)
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, who was murdered in 1965.
Communism in Honduras
Defunct political parties in Honduras
Guerrilla movements in Latin America
Paramilitary organizations based in Honduras
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