Word: democratica
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DIED. Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, 75, former energy czar of Venezuela and chief architect of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Pérez Alfonzo helped form the Accion Democratica party in 1941, became Minister of Mines on its rise to power four years later. He sought to organize a union of oil-producing nations, a goal realized in 1960; and to nationalize Venezuelan oil, which was done in 1976. In recent years he admitted that as "the father of OPEC, I sometimes feel like renouncing my offspring...
Critics of the regime can point to recent incidents that have discredited the "liberal" image fostered by the government since the death of Franco. Last month, for example, two leading leftist organizations, the Junta Democratica and the Plata Forma, announced plans for a mass demonstration in downtown Madrid to protest the slow pace of political reforms. The regime's response was to display thousands of security forces who took up places in the Plaza de Colón, where the rally was to be held, and sealed it off from demonstrators...
...cannot end fascism with a center-left policy that excludes the Communists. The junta democratica is the best solution. If the democratic forces do not come to power in Spain, the country could go the way of Portugal. By that I mean there could be a serious radicalization of the political situation, a radicalization that could include the young officers of the Spanish army. That is a great danger because the way to socialism in Western Europe must be democratic...
Juan Carlos is in effect the son of Franco. All Franco's structures will have to disappear, including Juan Carlos. The junta democratica believes in free elections. If there is a monarchy, if the people decide they want one, then the monarch will be [Pretender to the Throne] Don Juan, not Juan Carlos. If the people decide for a republic, it will be neither one nor the other. Political parties will surface. They are almost on the surface now, and among them, of course, is the Communist Party. This will happen independent of whether Juan Carlos wants...