Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela)

Revolutionary Left Movement
Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria
LeaderDomingo Alberto Rangel
Founded8 April 1960
Merged intoMAS, 1988
IdeologyMarxism
Political positionLeft-wing

The Revolutionary Left Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR) was a left-wing Marxist political party in Venezuela. It split from Acción Democrática in 1960 and became involved in armed guerrilla struggle against the Venezuelan state.

MIR merged with the Movement for Socialism (MAS) in 1988.

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