La Causa Radical
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The Radical Cause
La Causa Radical |
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| Leader | Alfredo Maneiro |
| President | José Ignacio Guédez |
| Mayor of Ciudad Bolivar | Victor Fuenmayor |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Ideology |
Democratic socialism Laborism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Democratic Unity Roundtable |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colors | Blue and yellow |
| Seats in the National Assembly |
4 / 167
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| Seats in the Latin American Parliament |
0 / 12
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| Governors of States of Venezuela |
0 / 23
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| Mayors |
2 / 337
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| Website | |
| lacausarbolivar.com | |
The Radical Cause (Spanish: La Causa Radical, LCR), stylized as La Causa Я, is a working class political party in Venezuela, part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Nicolás Maduro. Although La Causa Я no longer has a true national presence, it remains influential in its home region of Guayana.
La Causa R was founded as a revolutionary socialist political party of syndicalist tendencies. It was formed in 1971 by Alfredo Maneiro, an intellectual and one-time Communist Party of Venezuela guerrilla who believed that the Communists and the Movement towards Socialism were not serious enough about organizing the working class as a revolutionary force.
The party's focus throughout the 1970s and 1980s was on organizing factory workers in the Guayana Region (officially: Bolivar (state)) through the so-called Matanceros Movement, as well as workers on the west side of Caracas (Catia).
Maneiro's premature death of a heart attack in 1982 left the party's leadership in the hands of the young labor activists he had trained.
With the 1989 introduction of elections for local and regional offices, La Causa for the first time had the opportunity to compete electorally with a chance of success. In December 1988 La Causa sent three deputies to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies. In 1989, one of La Causa's leaders, Andrés Velásquez, became the first Venezuelan elected governor who did not belong to either of the two major political parties (Accion Democratica and COPEI), winning the Bolívar governorship on the Causa R ticket.
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