People's Vanguard Party (Costa Rica)

People's Vanguard Party
Partido Vanguardia Popular
PresidentTrino Barrantes Araya
General SecretaryHumberto Vargas Carbonell
Founded16 June 1931 (as the Workers and Farmers Party)
HeadquartersDesamparados, Calle Fallas, Ciudadela Cucubres, de la plaza de deportes 50 metros sur, casa Nº 11
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationIMCWP[1]
Legislative Assembly
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Party flag
Website
Periódico Libertad

The People's Vanguard Party, or Popular Vanguard Party (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).

From 1931 to 1947, the party published Trabajo as a communist newspaper.[2] The PVP's current publication is El Popular.

  1. ^ "Communist and Workers' Parties". SolidNet. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. ^ La Hoz y el Machete. San Jose, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. 1986. p. 416. ISBN 978-9977-64-239-0. Retrieved 18 September 2019.