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Nahuel Moreno (April 24, 1924 - January 25, 1987) (real name Hugo Miguel Bressano Capacete) was a Trotskyist leader from Argentina. Moreno was active in the Trotskyist movement from before World War II until his death.

During the 1953-1963 split in the Fourth International he backed the International Committee faction led by the Socialist Workers Party in the USA. For much of this time he publishing a journal called Palabra Obrera, and organised a group which sought to act as the left wing of the Peronist movement^{citation needed}.

Prior to the reunification of the two factions in 1963, the International Secretariat's best-known leader in Latin America, J. Posadas, left to form his own Fourth International (Posadist). After Posadas' departure, Moreno to become the central leader of the International's Latin American Bureau. When the reunified Fourth International was established in 1963, his current helped to found the Revolutionary Workers Party in Argentina.

In the 1970s divisions surfaced over guerrilla warfare inside the International, he lead the pro-SWP faction of the PRT which eventually established a public faction, the PRT-La Verdad. This group oriented around union fights and party building. In 1973, it fused with the pro-Trotskyist Socialist Party of Argentina to found the Socialist Workers Party (PST) of Argentina. The PST sided with the SWP as Moreno had side with them for several years. As factional differences within the International peaked, the American SWP formed the Leninist Trotskyist Faction, of which Moreno's PST was a part.

After the LTF was dissolved, The PST helped to formed a Bolshevik Faction which left the International late in 1979, partly in opposition to the USFI's support for the FSLN-led revolution in Nicarague.

Moreno formed a new international grouping with Pierre Lambert's supporters but this lasted until 1981. Moreno and his supporters then formed their own international grouping, the International Workers' League (IWL), mostly, but not exclusively, based in Latin America around the Argentine Movement for Socialism (MAS) and the Brazilian Socialist Convergence, now the United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU).

At one point in the mid-1980s, the MAS grew to be the second largest left organization in Argentina and was the largest Trotskyist organization in the world with over 13,000 members.

External links

• (Spanish) Moreno's writings
• (English) Moreno's writings
• (Spanish) Moreno's writings
• (Spanish) International Workers Unity - Fourth International (UIT-CI)
• (Spanish) Izquierda Socialista - Argentina
• International Workers League - Fourth International