The Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party (, PRTP or PRTP-Macheteros) is a
far-left
Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single, coherent definition; some ...
political party in
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
.
The PRTP was formed in 1976, and in 1978 founded the
Boricua Popular Army
The ("Puerto Rican people#Boricua, Boricua Popular/People's Army"), also known as ("The Machete Wielders"), is a clandestine operation, clandestine militant and insurgent organization based in Puerto Rico, with cells in the broader US and othe ...
(EPB, more commonly known as the ''Macheteros'', ) as a mass organization. The EPB broke off from the PRTP in 1984.
The PRTP is affiliated with the
Socialist Front.
References
External links
PRTP web site
Political parties in Puerto Rico
Political parties established in 1976
Communist parties in Puerto Rico
1976 establishments in Puerto Rico
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