ABSTRACT
The precise starting date of the Frente Morazanista de Liberacion Nacional Hondurena, formed by a small splinter group of the Partido Comunista de Honduras, is difficult to establish, but it was clearly sometime after the 1967 breakup of the party's Maoist and Muscovite branches. In 1983, the Fuerzas Populares Revolucionarias (FPR) joined the umbrella organization of the Honduran insurgency movements, the Directorio Nacional Unido—Movimientos Revolucionarios Hondurenos, but it undertook no joint actions. The Honduran government claimed that the FPR amounted to nothing more than an extension of the Nicaraguan Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional, charging that the group was intent on publicizing the presence of anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans on Honduran soil. The Movimiento Popular de Liberacion Cinchoneros was an offshoot of the Partido Comunista de Honduras and was named after a peasant leader's profession. In 1983, the Partido Revolucionario De Trabajadores Centroamericanos Movimientos Revolucionarios Hondurenos, which supposedly also comprised the Morazanistas, the Cinchoneros, and the FPR Lorenzo Zelaya.
