COMMUNIST AND MARXIST PARTIES OF LATIN AMERICA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1961
• Content Type: LIST

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January 1961
Country
Name of Party
Legal
Membership
Sympathizers
Status
Argentina
1.
Partido Comunista
Legal
80, 000
120, 000
de la Argentina
(Communist)
2.
Movimiento Obrero
Revolucionario
(Trotskyite)
Legal
5, 000
3.
Movimiento Obrero
Comunista
(Marxist)
Legal
2,000
Bolivia
1.
Partido Comunista
Legal
2, 000
4, 500
de Bolivia
(Communist)
2.
Partido Obrero
Revolucionario
(Trotskyite)
Legal
1, 500
3.
Partido Izquierda.
Revolucionario
(Marxist)
Legal
1, 000
Brazil
Partido Comunista
Illegal
35,000
300,000
do Brasil,
(Communnist)
Chile
1,
Partido Comunista
Legal
25, 000
50, 000
de Chile
(Communist)
2.
Partido Obrero
Re v'oluc ionario
(Trotskyite)
Legal
400
3.
Li.ga de los Comun-
is3tas (dissident
leftist Communist)
Legal
400
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Country
. Name of Party
Legal
Membership
Sympathizers
Colombia
Partido Comuriista
Legal
7
500
25
000
de Colombia
(Communist)
,
,
Costa Rica
Partido Vanguardia
Illegal
300-350
Popular (Commun=.
ist)
Cuba
1.
Partido Socialista
Legal
18
000
Im
ossibl
,
p
e
Popular
(de "facto)
to judge at
(Communist)
present time
2.
Movimiento. 26 de
Julio (Marxist
oriented)
Legal
(de'factd)
3.
Directorio Revo-
lucionario
(Marxist oriented)
Legal
(de: Taot4)
4.
Partido Obrero
Revolucionario
(Trotskyite)
Illegal
(de facto)
Negligible
Negligible
Dominican
Partido Socialista
Illegal
30
---
Republic
Popular Domini -
-
cana (Communist)
Ecuador
T~^
Partido Comunista
Legal
3,000
12
0'00
de Ecuador
(Communist)
,
El Salvador
1.
Partido Coxnunista
Illegal
449-500
600
600
Salvadoren'oo
(Communist)
-
2.
Partido Revolu-
cionario de Abril
y Mayo (pro-Cuban-
Communist)
Illegal
5, 000
3.
Frente Nacional de
Orientacion Civica
(unity front)
None
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Country
Name of Party
Legal
Membership
Sympathizers
Status
Guatemala
1.
Partido Guatemal-
Illegal
1,100
2, 500
teco del Trabajo
(Communist)
2.
Partido Socialista
Guatemalteco.
(dissident)
Not
Legal
50-60
Negligible
3.
Partido de Unidad
Revolucionarip
(Communist
oriented)
Legal
Unknown
20, 000
4.
Partido Nacional
Revolucionario,
.(.Mar.ki$t_.f.?'artyains-
filtrated by PGT)
Legal
Unknown
22, 500
Haiti
1.
Parti Socialiste
Illegal
Unknown
60-200
Populaire
(Communist)
2.
Mouvement Haitien
de Liberation Na-
tliona.l- (unity front)
None
Honduras
I.
Partido Comunista
Illegal
400
Negligible
HonduretNio
(Communist)
2.
Frente Democraticd
None
Popular Hondureno
(unity front)
Mexico
1.
Partido Comunista
Legal
3, 500
4, 000
Mexicano
(Communist)
(Not reg-
'. istered)
4, 000
20. Partido Obrero-
Campesino
Mexicano (dissi-
dent Communist)
Legal
(Not reg-
istered)
400-500
600
3,
Partido Popular
Socialista ("Marx-
ist-Leninist')
Legal
38, 000
120, 000
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Country
Name of Party Legal Membership
Sympathizers
Status
Mexico
4. Part&i Obreko None
Negligible
Negligible
(continued)
1t0.v Luc e n .rio
(Trotskyite)
(Not reg-
istered)
5.
Frente Obrero
(Marxist; plans
to form Partido
Obrero Inde-
pendiente)
None
(Not reg-
is4ered)
Nicaragua
Partido Socialista
Illegal
50
150
Nicaraguense
(Communist)
Panama
Partido del
Illegal
150
300
Pueblo
(Including
(Communist)
75
militants)
.Paraguay
Partido Comun-
Illegal
3,000
5, 000
ista Paraguayo
(Communist)
Peru
1.
Partido Comunista
Legal
7, 500
32,000
Peruano (Commun-
ist)
(de facto)
2.
Partido Obrero
Revolucionario
(Trotskyite)
3.
Partido Obrero
Revolucionario
(Trotskista)
(Trotskyite)
NOTE: The Trotskyite Movement in Peru is divided into
the two rival. factions above. Their combined
membership is estimated at 2, 500.
Uruguay 1. Partido Comunista Legal 3,400 348 000
de Uruguay
(Communist)
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Country
Name of Party
Le
al
M
b
g
em
ership
Sympathizers
Status
Uruguay
2.
Partido Obrero
Legal
41
5
(Continued)
Comunista (fol-
lowers of Eugenio
Gomez, dissident
Communist)
,
3.
Partido Obrero
Revolucionario
(Trotskyite)
Legal
Negligible
4.
Slav Communists
Resident in Uru-
guay (Responsive
to Headquarters
in Prague)
None ,
1,500
5.
Spanish Commun-
ists Resident in
Uruguay
None
1, 300
Venezuela
Partido Comunista
Le
al
35
000
Ve ne z olano
(Communist)
g
,
100,000
French Possessions
Martinique
1.
Parti Comuniste
L
al
2
000
eg
,
-
11,000
Martiniquais
(Communist)
3, 000
2.
Front Martiniquais
(Communist; unity
front)
Guadeloupe
Parti Comuniste
Le
al
3
000
French
Guadeloupeen
organized CP
g
,
20,000
GVI-ana
Negligible
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Country Name of Party Legal Membership Sympathizers
Status
British
Guiana
Peoples? Progres- Legal 6,000 55,000
sive Party (Ja$an
group) (Commun-
ist front)
Trinidad 1. West Indian Inde- None
pendence Party
(Communist-front)
2. Youths' National None 75
Congress (Commun-
ist=front)
Jamaica Peoples' Freedom None 150
Movement (Com-
munist-front)
295,5Z8 939, 350
*Based on maximum figures
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