Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandated by a treaty that the Senate had passed and President Carter had signed -could not have been worse. The furor at home over the Soviet combat troops in Cuba was an uncomfortable reminder that the Caribbean was no longer an "American lake." Those troops, as well as the leftist tinge of the Cuban-assisted revolution that overthrew Nicaraguan Strongman Anastasio Somoza, raised fears that the canal faced a remote threat...
...British Labor Party. At a mauling annual conference in Brighton last week, a successful left-wing challenge wrested effective control of the party from moderate Leader James Callaghan. It pointed toward a radical policy shift that could shake up British politics for years to come. It catapulted leftist Chieftain Tony Benn into a front-running position as heir apparent to the party leadership...
Founded in 1929 by the republic's second postrevolutionary President, Plutarco Elias Calles, and shaped by a leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official...
...protest with crippling strikes. To accommodate such pressures, Mexican Presidents usually swing away from the direction of their predecessors, in an effort to appease whatever faction was left most dissatisfied by the previous administration. Echeverria, for example, was considered a conservative before assuming office; but he launched a leftist "democratic opening" to defuse the mounting pressure for social and economic reform that had exploded into riots and bloodshed during Diaz Ordaz's regime. López Portillo, in contrast, has worked hardest at wooing disaffected conservatives who were angered by Echeverria. But he has also sought to create new opportunities...
During the erratic presidency of Luis Echeverria, the system came closer to breaking down than at any other time since the 1910 revolution. Frightened by his leftist economic proposals, like forming state enterprises and financing them with freshly printed money, many businessmen quietly transferred funds to safer havens, in Europe and the U.S. Inflation and a declining balance of trade forced Echeverria to devalue the peso in 1976 by about 50%, incurring the anger