Guatemalan Party of Labour – 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 Guatemalteco del Trabajo – Partido Comunista) was 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 Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

. PGT-PC was formed in 1978 as a split from the Guatemalan Party of Labour

Guatemalan Party of Labour

The Guatemalan Party of Labour was a communist party in Guatemala. It existed from 1949 to 1998. It gained prominence during the government of Col. Jacobo Arbenz...

 (PGT).

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

Rebel Armed Forces

The Rebel Armed Forces was a Guatemalan guerrilla organization established in 1961 and lasting until the peace agreements in 1996.FAR is most significantly known for having killed the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, John Gordon Mein, in 1968. Also killed that year were two U.S...

 (FAR), but had left FAR to join PGT. 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

Carlos Quinteros

Carlos Quinteros was a Guatemalan communist. Quinteros was a member of the Guatemalan Party of Labour . When PGT split in 1978 he became a leading figure in the more militant PGT-NDN break-away group. However, he soon left PGT-NDN and joined Guatemalan Party of Labour - Communist Party...

 (nom de guerre: Miguel). Quinteros had joined PGT-PC after having participated in the formation of the National Directing Nucleus of PGT

National Directive Nucleus of the Guatemalan Party of Labour

National Directive Nucleus of the Guatemalan Party of Labour , a splinter-group of the Guatemalan Party of Labour . PGT-NDN was formed in 1978, following an internal rift within PGT...

 (PGT-NDN). Quinteros was captured by state forces on October 9 1983. 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

Guatemalan Party of Labour – Alamos was an underground communist party in Guatemala...

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