Communist Party of Honduras

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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/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.
↑ http://mltoday.com/subject-areas/national-liberation/honduran-communists-reactivate-party-1171.html

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