The Communist Party of Nicaragua ( Spanish : Partido Comunista de Nicaragua , abbr. PCdeN or PCN ) is a communist party in Nicaragua . Founded as the Socialist Workers' Party ( Partido Obrero Socialista ) in 1967, the core founding members were Juan Lorio, Augusto Lorío, Elí Altamirano (who later served as the party's secretary general) and Manuel Pérez Estrada, who all had been expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party on 23 April 1967.
6-467: The party adopted its current name on 13 December 1970. The PCdeN was a member of the U.S.-funded National Opposition Union (UNO), a coalition of mostly right-leaning political parties which defeated the Sandinista government in the 1990 general election . For the 1996 Nicaraguan general election , the party nominated secretary general Elí Altamirano as its presidential candidate, who obtained 0.27% of
12-551: A package of $ 49.75 million in 'nonlethal' aid to the Contras , which funded their pro-UNO propaganda campaign. Some villages reported threats of murder from the Contras if they voted for the FSLN in the elections. In the presidential election held on 25 February 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro won 55% of the popular vote against Daniel Ortega's 41%. The UNO disbanded in the mid-1990s, after
18-631: The 1990 election . Its candidate Violeta Chamorro eventually won the race. UNO traced its origins back to the Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinating Group ( Coordinadora Democrática Nicaragüense —CDN), which was formed in 1982 by different opposition groups. At the time of the election, of the UNO coalition's fourteen political parties, four were considered conservative , seven could be characterised as centrist parties, and three – including Nicaragua's Communists – had traditionally been on
24-422: The far left of the political spectrum. Despite the internal struggle, the UNO coalition under Violeta Chamorro succeeded in its campaign centered on the economic downfall and promises of peace. Chamorro promised to end the military draft, initiate democratic reconciliation, and restore economic growth. Many Nicaraguans felt that the contra war and bad economy would continue if the FSLN remained in power, because of
30-682: The strong United States opposition to the FSLN (in November 1989, the White House had announced that the economic embargo against Nicaragua would end if Violeta Chamorro won. ). Meanwhile, resources and organisational help were given to the UNO by the United States government's National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which in June 1989 had received $ 2 million from U.S. Congress, which had also approved in April 1989
36-491: The votes. This communist party –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Nicaragua political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Opposition Union National Opposition Union ( Spanish : Unión Nacional Opositora , UNO ) was a Nicaraguan wide-range coalition of opposition parties formed to oppose president Daniel Ortega 's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in
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