Avance (newspaper)

Avance
Type Weekly
Publisher Communist Party of Nicaragua
Editor Elí Altamirano
Founded October 1971
Headquarters Managua
OCLC number 145395187

Avance ('Advance') was a newspaper published in Nicaragua, the central organ of the Communist Party of Nicaragua.[1] Founded in October 1971 by Elí Altamirano. Altamirano, also serving as the main leader of the party, served as its editor for decades.[2]

Avance was shut down by the government for a period in 1980 early, as it had called for strikes.[3][4][5] By late February 1980 Avance was officially branded as 'counter-revolutionary' in the government discourse.[5]

As of the 1980s and early 1990s Avance was published weekly.[1][6][7] As of the late 1980s, Avance generally carried twelve pages. The Communist Party claimed that Avance had a circulation of 20,000 copies, but that figure was believed to have been heavily inflated at the time.[6]

Avance was almost entirely dedicated to political themes, and expressed a militant anti-Sandinista stance.[6] However, albeit the Communist Party had participated in the UNO coalition of Violeta Chamorro in the 1990 general election, Avance expressed criticisms against Chamorro's government for alleged failures in providing services to the poorer sectors in Managua.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ameringer, Charles D. Political Parties of the Americas: 1980s to 1990s : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 455
  2. ↑ Partido Comunista (Nicaragua). Biografía de Elí Altamirano. Nicaragua: Buró Político del Comite Central, Partido Comunista de Nicaragua, 1995. p. 10
  3. ↑ Abbassi, Jennifer, and Sheryl L. Lutjens. Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender. 2002. p. 328
  4. ↑ Vilas, Carlos María. Perfiles de la revolucion sandinista. La Habana: Casa de las Americas, 1984. p. 303
  5. 1 2 Molero, María. Nicaragua sandinista: del sueño a la realidad, 1979-1988. Managua, Nicaragua: Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, 1988. p. 65
  6. 1 2 3 Skytte, Göran. Det smutsiga kriget: om massmedia i det sandinistiska Nicaragua. Stockholm: Latinamerika-institutet i samarbete med SIDA, 1990. p. 57
  7. ↑ Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Reforma Agraria (Nicaragua). Participatory Democracy in Nicaragua. [Managua?]: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de la Reforma Agraria, 1984. p. 121

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