Word: prying
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...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's major newspapers to print some of the thousands of telegrams of support sent the president by Mexican leaders. In conjunction with administration flag-waving, there have been stepped up military operations across the country. Along the well-travelled Cuernavaca-Mexico City Highway soldiers...
...recent series of gun battles between police and guerrilla-banditos has exacerbated the tension in Guerrero, which has traditionally been Mexico's most warlike and trouble-some section. In March a former state governor and PRI chief was assassinated there by left-wing terrorists. On April 22 a group calling itself the "Comite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" announced that if a Guerrero coffee millionaire did not pay 350,000 pesos ransom, his son would be executed. With the demand the group cited the names of six campesinos for whose murder the millionaire is allegedly responsible. On April 27 government...
...policy. Although it is still too early to see if his administration will be able to fulfill its promises. Echeverria has pledged to have legislation enacted that would substantially help Mexican factory workers and campesinos. There is every indication that he is sincere in this and will be successful. PRI, the party that selected him to be president, is nearly without opposition in its control of the nation's politics...
...PRI's influence is omnipresent, and as if to remind everyone of it the party has sprayed the countryside with its name and Echeverria's to an extent that Coke and Pepsi couldn't hope to match. For PRI, Echeverria just represents the next few years. The party has certainly chosen his successor already, and probably his successor's successor. The presidential term is six years long and PRI is wise in its choices. But it does not have a reputation for love of democracy. When in 1965 party chief Carlos Madrazo proposed a system for gubernatorial primaries in Mexican...
...lightly but in the last three days the headquarters of the opposition party, National Action Party, was bombed and the editor of Por Que, a leftist journal, has been kidnapped. Also, we have been struck by the reluctance of the Mexican intellectuals and professors to speak out against the PRI. They tell us in private of their hatred of the PRI and of its corruption. Fear for their jobs prevents them from speaking in public the things they tell us in private. Instead the braver ones use jokes and double entendre to reveal some of their true feelings as well...