Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that other parts of South America have enjoyed since World War II. But back of all these factors is a democratic climate and relative political peace. Minor plots still pop up occasionally and are duly put down, but between them the administrations of Velasco Ibarra and his predecessor, Galo Plaza Lasso, add up to the longest period free of successful Thursday-afternoon revolutions since...
...Faith is stronger than law," said Archbishop Luis María Martínez, drawing deeply on his cigarette. "Despite what has happened in the past, we are really not doing too badly." Outside, a brown-cowled Franciscan hurrying along the plaza bore out the Archbishop's point, for this was Mexico City, capital of a country whose 38-year-old constitution 1) forbids monastic orders, and through a statute also bans any kind of religious garb in public; 2) declares all churches, rectories and convents government property, and 3) gives state legislatures the power to determine the number...
Traditionally, the Holy Thursday procession of Buenos Aires' Roman Catholics marches 13 blocks, from Congress Square to the spacious Plaza de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from the Plaza. Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt. But some of the younger men, alert as scouts advancing into enemy territory, pushed on to see what the cops would do. They did nothing...
...columns slowly started up again. The throng swelled to an estimated 35,000, as bystanders and homeward-bound workers joined the parade. In the forbidden Plaza de Mayo, the marchers halted before the buff-colored cathedral and waved their white handkerchiefs. The sea of white signified not surrender, but support and defiance-support for the church, defiance for President Juan Perón, who last October began waging an off-and-on war of harassment against the church (TIME, April 4 et ante...
...Batlle Berres. It was a scene that could not have occurred in any of a dozen other Latin American countries, where the defeated candidate would have been exiled, sulking or plotting a revolution. In democratic Uruguay winner and loser greeted each other warmly, and a big crowd in the plaza shouted for them both...