Radical Cause
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The Radical Cause (
At its peak in the early 1990s, the party came within touching distance of winning the
History
Early history
LCR was founded in 1971 by es:Alfredo Maneiro, an intellectual and former guerrilla who had been expelled from the Communist Party of Venezuela.[1] The new revolutionary socialist party grew quickly, benefiting from the collapse of the Communist Party.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the party focused on organizing factory workers in the Guayana region of
Maneiro's premature death, caused by a heart attack in 1982, left the party's leadership in the hands of the young labor activists he had trained.[2]
Electoral challenges
With the 1989 introduction of elections for local and regional offices, LCR had its first opportunity to compete electorally with a chance of success. In December 1988, LCR sent three deputies to the
In the 1992 local elections,
In the
Split
In 1997, the party split into two factions, a radical faction led by
After losing a majority of its members, LCR's influence was diminished. It retained its name, moderated its radical ideology, and later went into opposition to the Chávez government. The party remained strongly opposed to the Chávez government, joining the Coordinadora Democrática in 2002, supporting Manuel Rosales in the 2006 presidential elections, and opposing the 2007 proposed constitutional reform.
The party won four seats in the 2000 Venezuelan general election, but lost them all four years later. In the 2008 Venezuelan regional elections, held on November 23, Andrés Velásquez narrowly failed in his bid to win the Bolívar State governorship once again, due to splits within the opposition. LCR's Victor Fuenmayor was elected mayor of the state's second largest city, Ciudad Bolívar, the party's best result in the election. The party earned less than 1% of the nationwide vote for the various governorships.[citation needed]
External links
Further reading
- Nogueira-Budny, Daniel (2014). "Great Promise, but Poor Performance: Understanding the Collapse of Venezuela's Causa Radical". Journal of Politics in Latin America. 6 (1): 109–136. S2CID 55279130.
References
- ^ a b "'Teochoro' Petkoff, the man who stole the workers' benefits". 12 November 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- ISBN 0191525138.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ Margarita López-Maya, "The Rise of Causa R in Venezuela", in Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos M. Vilas, Katherine Hite, Scott B. Martin, Kerianne Piester, Monique Segarra (editors), The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, p130
- ^ "Venezuela se sacude del fraude". El Tiempo. 12 December 1993. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/732