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Guatemalan Party of Labour – Communist Party (in Spanish: Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo – Partido Comunista) was an underground communist party in Guatemala. Guatemala (República de Guatemala) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west the Pacific Ocean to the southwest Politics of Guatemala takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic Republic, whereby the President of Guatemala is The title of President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1839 when that title was assumed by Mariano Rivera Paz. Álvaro Colom Caballeros (born 15 June 1951 in Guatemala City) is the President of Guatemala for the 2008-2012 term Vice President of Guatemala is political position in Guatemala which is since 1966 elected concurrently with position of President of Guatemala. Dr José Rafael Espada is the Vice President of Guatemala and a former cardiothoracic surgeon The Congress of the Republic (Congreso de la República is the unicameral Legislature of the Republic of Guatemala. Political parties in Guatemala lists political parties in Guatemala. Elections in Guatemala include on the national level a Head of state &ndash the President &ndash and a unicameral Legislature. A General Election was held in Guatemala on 9 November 2003. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President (and Vice-President a new legislature A general election was held in Guatemala in two rounds on 9 September and 4 November 2007. |||} Guatemala is divided into 22 departments ( departamentos) Alta Verapaz Baja Verapaz Chimaltenango The departments of Guatemala are divided into 332 municipalities or municipios. Guatemala 's major diplomatic interests are regional security and increasingly regional development and economic integration Information on politics by country is available for every Country, including both De jure and De facto independent A Political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of Communism through a communist form of Guatemala (República de Guatemala) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west the Pacific Ocean to the southwest PGT-PC was formed in 1978 as a split from the Guatemalan Party of Labour (PGT). The Guatemalan Party of Labour ( Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo) was a Communist party in Guatemala.
The founders of PGT-PC belonged to two groupings within PGT. One section which participated in forming PGT-PC had only a brief period of membership in PGT. They had belonged to the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR), but had left FAR to join PGT. The Rebel Armed Forces ( Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, FAR) was a 1960s Guatemalan guerilla organization The other section was made up by members of the Military Commission of PGT (i. e. the armed branch of the party) in the Central Regional Committee and the Alamos Zonal Committee.
In the early 1980s PGT-PC expelled Carlos Quinteros (nom de guerre: Miguel). Carlos Quinteros ( Nom de guerre: Miguel was a Guatemalan communist A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Quinteros had joined PGT-PC after having participated in the formation of the National Directing Nucleus of PGT (PGT-NDN). National Directive Nucleus of the Guatemalan Party of Labour (in Spanish: Núcleo de Dirección Nacional del Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, PGT-NDN a splinter-group Quinteros was captured by state forces on October 9 1983. Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Quinteros become a collaborator of the government armed forces. He provided information to the military about the whereabouts and identities of leaders and key cadres of PGT, PGT-NDN and PGT-PC. The arrests and killings that followed wiped out PGT-PC. Only a small section of the party remained active, regrouping itself as the Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos. Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos (in Spanish: Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo – Alamos) was an underground Communist party in Guatemala [1]