Socialist League (Venezuela)

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Socialist League
Liga Socialista
Founder Jorge Antonio Rodríguez
Founded1973
Dissolved2007
Merged into PSUV
Headquarters Caracas
Ideology Communism
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Political position Far-left

The Socialist League (Spanish: Liga Socialista) was a Venezuelan political party. It was established in 1973 in a split from the Revolutionary Left Movement. [1] [2]

The League was founded by Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, who was its Secretary General [1] [2] [3] and the father of Delcy Rodríguez Gómez and Jorge Rodríguez Gómez, both of whom have held high positions in the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. [4] It agreed in 2006 to merge into the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), [5] which was founded by Chávez and coordinated in its early days by the son of Jorge Antonio, Jorge Rodríguez Gómez. [4]

According to El País , the "League was a tiny party that promoted armed struggle between the 1970s and 1980s", that "demobilized" after its showing in the 1988 Venezuelan general election. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rodríguez, Jorge Antonio". Fundación Empresas Polar. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Cruz LaPeña, Silvia (October 27, 2020). "Delcy Rodríguez, la mujer que puso en jaque al gobierno de Pedro Sánchez" [Delcy Rodríguez, the woman who put Pedro Sánchez's government in check]. Vanity Fair . Archived from the original on July 4, 2022.
  3. ↑ Perozo Padua, Luis Alberto (July 7, 2022). "Carlos Lanz, la FALN y los secuestros de las hijas de Renny Ottolina y de Niehous" [Carlos Lanz, the FALN and the kidnappings of the daughters of Renny Ottolina and Niehous]. El impulso. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 Alvarado, Sinar (April 15, 2024). "Jorge Rodríguez, el psiquiatra frío que espera su turno para suceder a Nicolás Maduro" [Jorge Rodríguez, the cold psychiatrist who awaits his turn to succeed Nicolás Maduro]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on April 15, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  5. ↑ Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN) (21 December 2006). "Liga Socialista se adhiere al PSUV". Aporrea (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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