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...years, under the wavering hand of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia, there has been little development, and even less unity. The economy is in tatters, while the front has split into so many quarreling factions that its official candidate in the May 1966 elections, Liberal Carlos Lleras Restrepo, withdrew from the race...
...serious person." Even the presidential campaign has ground to a halt. Under the seven-year-old Liberal-Conservative coalition, which alternates the presidency every four years, the Liberals are due for office next time around. Four months ago, however, the coalition candidate-Liberal Leader Carlos Lleras Restrepo-withdrew his name after a series of noisy intraparty squabbles. The Liberals have yet to pick another...
Valencia's lackluster Conservative government is partly to blame. Beyond that, there has long been widespread feeling against the Front's 1966 candidate-Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a longtime Liberal firebrand and a man with many enemies. This month, the Front's divisions exploded into the open when a splinter faction of Valencia's own Conservative Party and a dissident Liberal group joined with followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to form an anti-Front coalition. With 126 of Congress' 282 seats, the coalition has more than the one-third necessary to block all government...
...long the dissidents will hang together-and how many votes they can muster on their own-is open to serious doubt. As of last week, they had succeeded in at least one major objective: forcing the resignation of Lleras Restrepo as the Front's presidential candidate in 1966. "I am the victim of an intense and obstinate propaganda campaign to destroy the country's institutions," said Lleras Restrepo. And sure enough, its institutions were growing shakier by the day. Toward week's end, university students protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic went on a seven-hour...
About all that the Conservatives still have in common is their revulsion for Liberal Party Leader Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 56, the Liberal choice for coalition candidate in the 1966 elections. A cousin of Lleras Camargo and one of Valencia's most sulphurous critics, Attorney Lleras is nicknamed "el Prematuro" by his foes because of his visible eagerness for the presidency...