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Workers' Vanguard Party
The
Workers'
Vanguard Party
was a small
Trotskyist
political party
in
Bolivia
.
The Workers' Vanguard
Party
was
established
by a dissident
fraction
which broke
away
from the
Communist Vanguard of the Revolutionary Workers' Party
in
1978
.
It was led by
Filemón Escóbar Escóbar
and
Ricardo Catoira Marín
.
The
VO
took part in
elections in 1978
and presented as its
presidential candidate
Ricardo Catoira Marín and Filemón
Escobar
as vice-presidential candidate.
In 1980 the VO took part in an
electoral coalition
Democratic and Popular Union
backing
Hernán Siles Zuazo
.
In 1984, the
Workers' Vanguard
Party merged with the
Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle
to form the new
Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified
.