Communist Party of Honduras | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1954 |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism |
Communist Party of Honduras (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Honduras) is a communist party in Honduras. PCH was founded on October 10, 1954 by Ramos Dionisio Bejarano[1] and Rigoberto Padilla Rush.[2] It had its roots in the Honduran Revolutionary Democratic Party.
PCH was claimed by the government to be an illegal party. It developed a strong presence in the trade union movement, for example amongst banana plantations. In the mid-1960s, the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 2400.[3]
In 1990, PCH was dissolved, and merged into Patriotic Renovation Party.
The party was reactivated during the celebration of its fifth Congress in 2011.[4]
References
- ^ http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?h=1&word=Ramos+Bejarano,+Dionisio
- ^ http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/honduras/padilla.htm
- ^ Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H.. Communism and Economic Development, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 1. (March 1968), pp. 122.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2011-09-17.