Editing Guillermo Lora

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'''Guillermo Lora''' (Uncia, [[Potosí|Potosi]], 31 October 1922 &ndash; [[La Paz]], 17 May 2009) was a [[Trotskyist]] leader in [[Bolivia]] who was active in the [[Revolutionary Workers' Party (Bolivia)|Revolutionary Workers' Party]] (POR) from the early 1940s and was its best known leader.

Lora became active in the POR when it was in the process of building links with the Bolivian [[labor movement]], most notably the [[Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia|Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers]] (FSTMB). Following the POR's participation in the 1952 "Bolivian National Revolution", its power was quickly circumscribed by the ruling [[Revolutionary Nationalist Movement]] (MNR). In the 1960s, when a faction of the POR sought to follow the example of [[Che Guevara]] and engage in [[guerrilla warfare]], Lora led a second group, generally referred to as 'POR(Masas)', that maintained its focus on the labor movement. Though Lora sympathized with the [[International Committee of the Fourth International]], his faction of the POR did not affiliate with any international [[socialist]] grouping during the time. In 1988, POR(Masas) founded the Liaison Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International (CERCI).

During the years of [[military dictatorship]] in Bolivia in the 1970s, Lora and his faction of the POR were an important ally of [[Juan Lechín Oquendo]] (the president of the miners' union). Though it is far smaller than at its height in 1952, Lora's POR still remains as one of the largest Trotskyist groups in Bolivia.

==External links==
*[http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/lora/ Writings by Lora] (Marxist Internet Archive)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111007153445/http://grupoapoyo.org/basn/node/5585 Death Notice] {{in lang|es}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060349/http://www.le-militant.org/carnet/lora.htm Guillermo Lora (1921-2009),la conscience ouvrière bolivienne, by Vincent Présumey ] {{in lang|fr}}

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