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Eclectic Platform. Behind the scenes, Maria Eugenia runs her father's party, the Alianza National Popular, known simply as ANAPO. As majority leader of Bogota's city council, she is also de facto mayor of the capital...
...ANAPO has representatives in at least 700 of Bogota's 900 neighborhoods. The first person to call on migrants pouring into the slums from depressed rural areas is usually an ANAPO recruiter. The party obtains jobs for 400 people a month in Bogota alone, offers free medical and dental care to members. With 24 cities of 100,000 or more people in Colombia (overall population: 21 million), that kind of urban organization could lead to an ANAPO victory in the 1974 elections. The established parties are painfully aware of that, and President Pastrana is pressing Congress for basic educational...
...along with similar inaction by the established politicians-helped bring a Marxist coalition to power in Chile last year and has spawned a predominantly leftist front in Uruguay, where elections were held early this week. Both movement are strongly nationalistic and directed to a large degree against foreign investment. ANAPO, using the same technique, calls for a state takeover of all mineral wealth, the import-export trade and the banking system. A probable target might be some of the $700 million private U.S. stake in Colombia, half of it in oil. But Rojas Pinilla himself does not openly oppose foreign...
Actually, ANAPO's eclectic platform, formalized earlier this year by a Marxist, a moderate leftist and a conservative, promises to reform everything but goes into few specifics. Rojas Pinilla is a conservative on land reform; he still owns substantial acreage picked up during his days as dictator. Thus, instead of calling for land expropriation, he speaks of "colonizing" new lands to increase production. Much of his party's appeal is rooted in the frustrations of the lower classes, and the party's overall thrust is to the left. But the magnetism of the old dictator...
Switch in Gender. If age, diabetes and a heart pulsed by a pacemaker keep Rojas Pinilla from running in 1974, Maria Eugenia would most certainly pick up the ANAPO banner. There is some question whether Colombians would vote for a woman; famous women in Latin America tend to be the mistresses of famous men. But a surprising number of Colombians, when asked about a woman President, told TIME'S David Lee: "Ah, but Maria Eugenia is muy macha"-a switch in gender of the word describing a virile...