Further to the information already available through your Regional Documentation Centre, please find attached several documents which refer to the Honduran Patriotic Front (FPH) and at least one trade union federation reportedly affiliated to the FPH. The attachments indicate that the FPH was an active electoral alliance in the early 1980s, although it failed to win seats in the Honduran congress. The available reports do not provide a detailed list of parties and organizations that formed the FPH. However, one document describes the FPH as:
an alliance of some 30 small groups that included the Communist Party of Honduras and the Communist Party of Honduras-Marxist-Leninist (Partido Comunista de Honduras-Marxista-Leninista - PCH-ML), which had been organized some years earlier by a number of Maoist-oriented PCH dissidents (Banks 1991, 288).

Another report states that the Communist Party of Honduras (PCH) and the Socialist Action Party of Honduras (PASOH) participated in the FPH in 1981 (Hobday 1990, 394-395). A publication on trade unions states that the United Federation of Honduran Workers (FUTH), which was founded in 1981, has had links to the FPH alliance (Upham 1992, 206). The FUTH has strongly opposed "the pro-United States orientation of the government" and participated in "radical politics through the Co-ordinating Committee of Popular Organizations" (Ibid.).

Finally, a 1991 publication states, in reference to the FPH:
After a long period of relative inactivity, interest in the coalition is again on the rise and the FPH is currently seeking legal recognition as a party to enter the 1994 elections (Barry and Norsworthy 1991, 17).

Additional and/or corroborating information could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB.

Banks, Arthur S., ed. 1991. Political Handbook of the World: 1991. Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications.

Barry, Tom and Ken Norsworthy. 1991. Honduras: A Country Guide. New Mexico: The Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center.

Hobday, Charles. 1990. Communist and Marxist Parties of the World. 2nd edition. Chicago: St. James Press.

Upham, Martin. 1992. Trade Unions of the World 1992-93. 3rd edition. London: Longman Current Affairs.

Banks, Arthur S., ed. 1991. Political Handbook of the World: 1991. Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications, p. 288.

Barry, Tom and Ken Norsworthy. 1991. Honduras: A Country Guide. New Mexico: The Inter-Hemispheric Education Resource Center, pp. 16-17.

Central America Report [Guatemala]. 28 August 1992. "Honduras: Resurgent Political Violence."

. 20 December 1991. "Honduras: Army Quashes Power Plant Strike."

Hobday, Charles. 1990. Communist and Marxist Parties of the World. 2nd edition. Chicago: St. James Press, pp. 394-395.

Upham, Martin. 1992. Trade Unions of the World 1992-93. 3rd edition. London: Longman Current Affairs, p. 206.