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...these words, Haya identified himself with such leaders of Latin America's anti-Communist left as Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Just as opposed to dictatorship of the left as of the right, Haya's fellow leftists have reached power proclaiming the compatibility of representative democracy and basic social reform. Having returned to Lima, Haya hopes to win power himself in Peru's presidential elections next year...
...little incidents are the most disturbing, because they suggest the abuses that deep faith so blindly perpetrates. The dicta of the Puerto Rican bishops were a mere public scandal, for they didn't manage to unseat Munoz Marin, and de Gaulle's proposal to subsidize parochial schools (a sharp break with French secular tradition) is mostly fodder for hard shell baptists. But the Bakimore YMCA, which denied space for a birth control clinic because the Church threatened to boycott the United Fund Appeal, like the Santa Fe Mexican who was threatened with excommunication if her son attended a non-parochial...
...four years of 70-hour weeks in Washington; he declined with thanks. Chester Bowles passed up the job in favor of his State Department Under-Secretaryship. Adlai Stevenson, who toured Latin America early in 1960, was a possibility, but he went to the U.N. Puerto Rico's Governor Munoz Marin was approached; he, too, turned it down because he wanted to complete his program of economic development on the island...
Over 80 per cent of the island's population, including Munoz himself, is Catholic, but fewer than one-fourth practice, and the power of the Church is relatively small. The Christian Action Party, formed this summer under unofficial Church sponsorship for the sole purpose of defeating Munoz Marin, won only 6.5 per cent of the popular vote...
...Munoz Marin's only non-religious opposition, the Statehood and Independence Parties, won together less than 34 per cent of the vote...