Popular Movement for National Liberation

{{Short description|Former political party in Bolivia}}

The Popular Movement for National Liberation (Spanish: Movimiento Popular de Liberación Nacional, MPLN) was a left-wing political party in Bolivia. In 1972, Ramiro Velasco Romero split from the Revolutionary Left Movement and founded the Popular Movement for National Liberation.Omar Chávez Zamorano, Susana Peñaranda de del Granado. Jaime Paz Zamora: un político de raza. S. Peñaranda y O. Chávez, 1997. P.102.

In 1978 the political party took out a pamphlet where they explain its origin, where they talk about its influence from the Ñancahuazú Guerrilla, the Foquismo, and the social and political crisis lived in Bolivia.{{cite web|url=http://www.cedema.org/uploads/MPLN_1978-Origen.pdf|title=Explicación sobre el origen del MPLN|work=cedema|accessdate=2020-04-18}}.In 1978, 1979, and 1980 the MPLN took part in an electoral coalition Democratic and Popular Union backing Hernán Siles Zuazo.

Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.151.

In 1983, the Popular Movement for National Liberation merged with the Socialist Party-One.

Raúl Rivadeneira Prada. El laberinto político de Bolivia. Ed. CINCO - Centro de Investigación y Consultoría, 1984. P.63. {{cite web|url=http://www.cedema.org/uploads/MPLN_Adhesivo.pdf|title=Solidaridad con Bolivia obrera y popular (Adhesivo)|work=Cedema|accessdate=2020-04-18}}

The Socialist Party-One presented Ramiro Velasco Romero as its presidential candidate in 1985 and 1993.

Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.152.