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Using that momentum, protesters organized reform-minded groups pushing for more government transparency and accountability. The groups have vowed to continue even after learning that their martyr effectively killed himself. "We are not disappointed because of the case," says Alejandro Quinteros, who founded Movimiento Civico Nacional, the most prominent new reform group. "We are disappointed because our government is not doing anything to reduce crime in Guatemala...
Word reaches Cambridge that Richard E. Hyland '69-'70, a leader of the 1969 seizure of University Hall, has been arrested in Mexico City for alleged revolutionary activities. Mexican police charge that he is a member of the Movimiento de Accion Revolucionario, a group allegedly responsible for a series of bank robberies. Later allegations link him to the Comando Armando del Peuble, a Marxist urban guerilla group. Authorities do not level a specific charge. Under Mexican law, Hyland may be held in prison for as long as a year before charges are brought...
Students from Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan a campus Chicano group, and Despierta Boricua (DB), Yales's Puerto Rican group, initially proposed the concentration...
...police claim that Soto, a high school student who had no police record, and Rosado, who had been charged earlier with illegal possession of firearms, belonged to the Movimiento Armado Revolucionario, a tiny radical cell with no ties to the mainstream political parties. One of the group's five members, Alejandro González Malavé, 21, was an undercover agent for the police. He and the two youths stopped a cab on the outskirts of Ponce last July 25. At gunpoint they forced the driver, Julio Ortiz Molina, to take them up a remote mountain road...
...P.C.E., with between 20,000 and 70,000 clandestine members, is Spain's most organized political movement and has deeply infiltrated the unofficial labor movement and key bourgeois professional organizations. The bunker is solidly rooted in the military, the church, the government-controlled official unions and the Movimiento Nacional. It can also call its forces out onto the streets-old Civil War veterans for mass marches and youthful terrorists, such as the Guerrillas of Christ the King, to intimidate the left and reformers...