Word: movimiento
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...nine-hour session, grappling with both the Sahara crisis (see story page 41) and the imminent succession. At the meeting Premier Carlos Arias Navarro continued the search for a consensus that he had begun earlier that week, when he had huddled with leaders of Spain's Establishment-the Movimiento National (the sole party allowed), the military and Franco's family. His goal: to gain enough backing to allow him to tell the enfeebled dictator it was time to step aside. Only the family members and some of Franco's closest and oldest aides refused to concur. When...
...year 1952 is a watershed in Bolivian history, perhaps the first time the peasants in the Bolivian countryside were affected on a large scale by political activity since the days when Pizarro came searching for gold some four centuries earlier. The Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR), an essentially middle class party engineered a revolution in 1952 that transformed Bolivian society by mobilizing support among the nation's poor...
...first public announcement of the arrest was made at a police press conference on Sept. 17, at which Mexican authorities exhibited a group of prisoners--including Hyland and one other American--who they said were members of a revolutionary organization called the Movimiento de Accion Revolucionario (Revolutionary Action Movement). Police charged that the group was responsible for a series of bank robberies in Mexico City and elsewhere...
Dean Dunlop described the move as standard procedure in cases where degree requirements are not complete. However, Chuck Aclula, a second-year law student who is head of the Harvard chapter of Movimiento Estudentil Chicano de Aztlan (MECHA), an organization of Chicano students--called the Faculty's decision "selective application" of academic regulations to minority groups. Dunlop called this impression quite wrong...
...incident which has received the most attention was the arrest of twenty allegedly North Korean trained Mexican revolutionaries for plotting the government's overthrow. The uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the Soviet Union, has given President Luis Echeverria's administration excuse to expel five too-ranking Russian diplomats and begin what some say is a new wave of political repression. In a Nixonian gesture, Echeverria appealed for national unity in the face of crisis while his Partido Revolucionaria Institutional (PRI) bought pages of advertisements in the country...