Worker-Peasant Party () was a
communist party in
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
. It was mainly based in
Cartago Province
Cartago (), which means Carthage in Spanish, is a Provinces of Costa Rica, province of central Costa Rica. It is one of the smallest provinces, however probably the richest of the Spanish Colonial era sites and traditions.
Geography
It is loca ...
. The party was led by Juan Diego Fernández, and was of
Maoist
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic o ...
orientation.
[Rouquié, Alain/Arnaud, Hélène. ''Les Forces politiques en Amérique centrale''. KARTHALA Editions, 1991. p. 55]
References
Political parties established in 1977
Communist parties in Costa Rica
Defunct Maoist parties
Defunct political parties in Costa Rica
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
Political parties with year of establishment missing
Maoism in North America
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