The Clandestine Colombian Communist Party (in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: Partido Comunista Clandestino Colombiano) is an underground communist party

Communist party

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 government...

 in Colombia

Colombia

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. It is politically linked to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army is a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization based in Colombia which is involved in the ongoing Colombian armed conflict, currently involved in drug dealing and crimes against the civilians..FARC-EP is a peasant army which...

 (FARC), which founded the party in 2000. After the FARC officially broke with the Colombian Communist Party

Colombian Communist Party

The Colombian Communist Party or PCC is the legal communist party of Colombia. It was founded in 1930, as the Colombian section of the Comintern...

, a separate FARC-based party structure came into de facto

De facto

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 existence during most of the 1990s, until the PCCC was officially founded in 2000. The party's founder and leader was FARC's Guillermo León Sáenz, also known as "Alfonso Cano

Alfonso Cano

Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas , more commonly known by his nom de guerre Alfonso Cano was the commander of the militant group known as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...

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