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Any movement by the new government toward a liberalization of the Spanish political system would almost certainly enrage much of the rightist Establishment that has been reaping most of the political benefits of Franco's long reign. As the only party through which the factions backing the regime have...
By war's end, Franco had assumed command of the country's political forces as well as its army. He took over the program and rhetoric of the Falange, a fascist party dedicated to violence and armed revolution, and vowed to build "a totalitarian instrument" that would "reinforce...
The Herrera incident, which a Santiago lawyer active in human rights cases swears is true, symbolizes a grim fact about life in Chile today: the torture stories that were the hallmark of the military junta's first year still continue. True, midnight arrests and unexplained detentions are rarer now...
The 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...
To the last man, political observers expected Echeverría, a cashier's son who grew up to become a lawyer and political scientist, to win an easy victory this week over his sole opponent, Efrain Gonzáles Morfin of the conservative Partido Acción Nacional (P.A.N...