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Some 65 miles south of Nicaragua's border with Honduras, at a cluster of settlements known as Tasba Pri (Free Land), Sandinista officials hail what they describe as a model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above...
...game begins, the constant negotiation. The government tells these people, 'We can't give you what you're asking for. You're illegal.' " At the same time, it expects them to vote for the PRI in exchange for services...
...banking to supermarkets and parking lots. Some 1.5 million bureaucrats now occupy 3,500 Mexico City buildings, and nothing seems to work very well. Four years ago, city officials proclaimed the establishment of block committees to express community needs, but those that exist serve mainly as organs of PRI patronage. About the only system that actually functions is amiguismo, roughly "friendshipness." Says Meyer: "When the water stops, our neighbor runs over to the waterworks and tells a friend, who sees to it that somebody turns on the right valve...
While the PRI is much criticized for its inertia and ineptitude, it has largely succeeded in one of its original purposes: to achieve conciliation in a violence-ridden land. Some 2 million had died in more than a decade of civil strife that followed the revolution of 1910, and it was the assassination of ex-President Alvaro Obregón that led to the founding of the PRI as a coalition of compromise. Yet it is emblematic of Mexico City that the severed hand of General Obregón is still on display in a jar installed in a monument...
Mondale's unity drive fared much better with former pri mary foe George McGovern, who not only endorsed him but predicted that the Minnesotan might turn out to be "the best President since Franklin Roosevelt." That is the kind of talk Mondale would like to hear from all of his party's leaders...