People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica)

The People's Vanguard Party, or Popular Vanguard Party (in Spanish: Partido Vanguardia Popular) is a communist party in Costa Rica. PVP was founded in 1931 as the Workers and Farmers Party, but was soon renamed to the Communist Party of Costa Rica (Partido Comunista de Costa Rica).

"Vanguardia Popular" redirects here. For the Chilean fascist party known in Spanish as Vanguardia Popular Socialista, see Popular Socialist Vanguard.
Vanguardia Popular
PresidentTrino Barrantes Araya
General SecretaryHumberto Vargas Carbonell
Founded1943
HeadquartersDesamparados, Calle Fallas, Ciudadela Cucubres, de la plaza de deportes 50 metros sur, casa Nº 11
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationIMCWP[1]
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From 1931 to 1947, the party published Trabajo as a communist newspaper.[2] The PVP's current publication is El Popular.

History

In 1943 the party was renamed as PVP, in order to facilitate its alliance with the Catholic Church and the government, whose reformist policies the party supported.[3]

In 1949 the party was banned. Its militants began working under the name 'Partido Acción Socialista Obrera'.[4]

In the mid-1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 300.[5]

In 1970, the party again could contest elections.[4]

In 1984, a severe internal crisis appeared in the party. At the 14th party congress, two of the party MPs, Arnoldo Ferreto Segura and Humberto Vargas Carbonell took over the party leadership and deposed Mora (who had led the party since 1934). Mora's followers continued to use the name PVP, thus there were two parties with the same name. In 1984 Mora's party took the name Costa Rican People's Party.[4]

Electoral performance

Presidential
Election Leader First round Coalition
Votes % Position Result
1936 Manuel Mora Valverde 4,594 5.3% 3/3 Lost -
1940 Manuel Mora Valverde 10,825 9.8% 2/3 Lost -
1944 Teodoro Picado Michalski 52,830 75.1% 1/2 Won Victory Bloc
1948 Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia 44,438 44.7% 2/2 Lost Victory Bloc
1953 Banned
1958
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1978 Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz 22,740 2.7% 3/8 Lost United People
1982 Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz 32,186 3.3% 4/6 Lost United People
1986 Rodrigo Gutiérrez Sáenz 9,099 0.8% 3/6 Lost Peoples' Alliance
1990 Víctor Daniel Camacho Monge 9,217 0.7% 3/7 Lost United People
1994 Did not participate
1998 Norma Vargas Duarte 3,075 0.2% 10/12 Lost United People
2002 Walter Coto Molina 3,970 0.2% 8/13 Lost Change 2000
2006 Humberto Vargas Carbonell 2,291 0.1% 13/14 Lost United Left
2010 Did not participate
2014
2018 Humberto Vargas Carbonell 12,309 0.6% 11/13 Lost Workers’ Party

See also

References
  1. IMCWP. "Communist and Workers' Parties". IMCWP. Retrieved 16 February 2019.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. La Hoz y el Machete. San Jose, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. 1986. p. 416. ISBN 9789977642390. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  3. Aguilar Hernández, Marielos. Costa Rica en el siglo XX: Luchas sociales y conquistas laborales. San José: Editoral Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001. p. 22
  4. Rouquié, Alain/Arnaud, Hélène. Les Forces politiques en Amérique centrale. KARTHALA Editions, 1991. p. 39-40
  5. Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H.. Communism and Economic Development, in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 1. (Mar. 1968), pp. 122.
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