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Recently, however, there have been stirrings of counterrevolution. Again the early warning signs are in Latin America. In February an obscure Venezuelan army officer, Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias, came within a hairbreadth of toppling President Carlos Andres Perez. Three weeks ago, President Alberto Fujimori of Peru pulled off an auto-golpe, or self-coup, and in effect imposed martial...
What was most disturbing, and certainly most paradoxical, about both these flagrantly antidemocratic actions was that they had widespread local support. Just before he was hauled off to jail, Chavez, resplendent in his uniform, was allowed to make a televised valedictory. He was a great hit, not just in the fetid barrios around Caracas but in many middle-class households as well. Likewise, when Fujimori threw in his lot with his own restless colonels and put many legislators under house arrest, his popularity initially skyrocketed...
...Eric M. Chavez '93, co-captain of Harvard'scheerleading squad, said he senses a lack ofcamaraderie among the students as a whole...
...When I'm on the football field, I see the lowattendance and there isn't much spirit from thosewho are there," Chavez said. "There seems to be anoverall lack of enthusiasm on campus, although Ithink the students could show more if given theright circumstances...
Torres said that Cesar Chavez's talk on migrant farm workers on April 7 was well-attended. Chavez urged students to support continued efforts to improve treatment of migrant farm workers...