Paraguayan Communist Party Partido Comunista Paraguayo | |
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| Leader | Najeeb Amado |
| President | Evaristo González |
| Founded | 19 February 1928 (97 years ago) (1928-02-19) |
| Headquarters | Brasil 228 c/España,Asunción |
| Newspaper | Adelante! |
| Youth wing | Juventud Comunista Paraguaya |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Left-wing tofar-left |
| Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| Colours | Red and yellow |
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TheParaguayan Communist Party (inSpanish:Partido Comunista Paraguayo) is a communistpolitical party inParaguay. PCP was founded on 19 February 1928. Later, it was recognized as a section of theCommunist International. It was brutally suppressed during the military regimes in the country. It gained legality for a brief period in 1936 and then again in 1946–1947. After the fall of theAlfredo Stroessner regime, the party re-emerged as a legal party.
After theCuban Revolution, the PCP began an armed struggle. Its armed wing was theUnited National Liberation Front (FULNA). It was defeated in 1963.[1] In 1967, the party split, and the pro-China wing formed theParaguayan Communist Party (independent). The general secretary of the PCP is Najeeb Amado.
The PCP was a founding member of theUnited Left (IU) in 2002, but later withdrew in 2003. However, a fraction of the PCP, theMovimiento por la Recuperación Democrática del Partido Comunista Paraguayo, chose to continue to work within IU. The withdrawal was motivated by differences over electoral strategy and candidacy.
On 20 September 2004, a communist party of Paraguay (PC-Paragauay) was founded by faction that split from the PCP, with the secretary general being Miguel Flores.[2][3]
During the2008 presidential election, PCP supported the candidate of thePatriotic Alliance for Change,Fernando Lugo, who won the election.
PCP publishesAdelante (Forward).[4]
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