Party of Anticommunist Unification

Party of Anticommunist Unification (Partido de Unificación Anticomunista, PUA). PUA was a far right-wing party in Guatemala. The Party was founded in 1948 (October, 12) by General Francisco Javier Arana, a presidential candidate in the election of 1950. “Viewed as the major opposition candidate to the radical Revolutionary Action Party's nominee, Jacobo Arbenz, Arana was assassinated shortly before he elections”. [1] The party supported the President Carlos Castillo Armas (1954-1957). It disbanded after the 1963 coup. PUA was re-founded in 1983 by Leonel Sisniega Otero. “The re-founder and leader of the party was previously a prominent member of the National Liberation Movement, but went into temporary exile and left the party after allegations in August 1982 that a coup was being planned against the Rios Montt regime. He went on to found the PUA, which attracted the support of some former National Liberation Movement members. [2]


References

  1. ↑ Political Parties of the Americas: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Breen, Richard,1996. Pp. 422.
  2. ↑ Latin American political movements. by Ciarán Ó Maoláin Published in 1985, Facts on File Publications (New York, N.Y). Pp. 150.
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