Communist Party of Venezuela
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Communist Party of Venezuela
Partido Comunista de Venezuela |
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| Abbreviation | PCV |
| General Secretary | Óscar Figuera |
| Founded | March 5, 1931 |
| Headquarters | Calle Jesús Faría, Parroquia San Juan, Caracas |
| Newspaper | Popular Tribune |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth of Venezuela |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Great Patriotic Pole |
| Regional affiliation | Foro de São Paulo |
| International affiliation |
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar |
| Slogan |
El socialismo sigue siendo la esperanza de los pueblos! "Socialism is still the hope of the people!" |
| National Assembly |
2 / 165
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| Governors of States of Venezuela |
0 / 23
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| Mayors |
8 / 335
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| Website | |
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The Communist Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV) is a communist party and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela. It remained the main leftist political party in Venezuela from its foundation in 1931 until it split into rival factions in 1971.
The PCV was founded in 1931 as a clandestine organization during the military dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. It was initially led by Juan Bautista Fuenmayor and Francisco José "Kotepa" Delgado. The PCV became the Venezuelan affiliate of the Communist International. A forerunner of the PCV, the Venezuelan Revolutionary Party, had been founded in exile in Mexico in 1926 and attempted a rebellion in Venezuela in 1929.
The PCV remained an illegal organization until 1941, when it entered into an alliance with the progressive military regime of Isaías Medina Angarita, following orders from Comintern for communist parties throughout the world to support governments that aided the allied war effort. During this time it published the weekly newspaper ¡Aquí Está!. The PCV was outlawed during the conservative military dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1948–1958), when it played a key role in organizing the clandestine resistance to the regime, alongside activist from the (also banned) Acción Democrática party.
In 1952, despite remaining an illegal organization, PCV provided key support to the non-communist leftist party URD in elections organized by the military regime to legitimize its rule. When URD's election victory became apparent, the military ordered the ballot counting process stopped and refused to accept its defeat at the hands of the communist-supported opposition. The episode shifted the balance of power in the military from relative moderates to the hard-line faction led by Marcos Pérez Jiménez, which substantially stepped up efforts to repress the clandestine opposition.
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