The Popular Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Popular Libertador, or FPL) was a reformist Guatemalan political party formed in 1944 largely patronized by the middle class[1] and university students.
[2] It was a part of the popular movement that overthrew dictator Jorge Ubico and began the Guatemalan Revolution.
[4] During the period that it was a part of the PAR, as well as in alliance with the PRN, it enjoyed a majority in the Guatemalan Congress for the entire presidential term of Juan José Arévalo, and until 1949, it was the largest of the parties involved in the Guatemalan Revolution.
In that year the party split between those who supported the presidential candidacy of Francisco Javier Arana, and those who opposed him.
[5] In the 1950 election, the remainder of the FPL formally endorsed Víctor Manuel Giordani, but some party members defected to support Jorge García Granados, another moderate civilian, while still others supported Jacobo Árbenz, the defence minister and the administration's candidate.