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Popular Movement for National Liberation

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The Popular Movement for National Liberation (Spanish: Movimiento Popular de Liberación Nacional, MPLN) was a left-wing political party in Bolivia. In 1972, Ramiro Velasco Romero split from the Revolutionary Left Movement and founded the Popular Movement for National Liberation.[1]

In 1978 the political party took out a pamphlet where they explain its origin, where they talk about its influence from the Ñancahuazú Guerrilla, the Foquismo, and the social and political crisis lived in Bolivia.[2].In 1978, 1979, and 1980 the MPLN took part in an electoral coalition Democratic and Popular Union backing Hernán Siles Zuazo. [3]

In 1983, the Popular Movement for National Liberation merged with the Socialist Party-One. [4][5]

The Socialist Party-One presented Ramiro Velasco Romero as its presidential candidate in 1985 and 1993. [6]

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  1. ^ Omar Chávez Zamorano, Susana Peñaranda de del Granado. Jaime Paz Zamora: un político de raza. S. Peñaranda y O. Chávez, 1997. P.102.
  2. ^ "Explicación sobre el origen del MPLN" (PDF). cedema. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  3. ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151.
  4. ^ Raúl Rivadeneira Prada. El laberinto político de Bolivia. Ed. CINCO - Centro de Investigación y Consultoría, 1984. P.63.
  5. ^ "Solidaridad con Bolivia obrera y popular (Adhesivo)" (PDF). Cedema. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  6. ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.152.