Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dilemma that the church leadership faces. Even while it opposes the radical nature and methods of liberation theology, it supports the battle against social ills and in justice. Referring to Latin America, it condemns military dictatorships, corruption and economic exploitation. These ills, the decree says, "nourish a passion for revolt among those who thus consider themselves the powerless victims of a new colonialism in the technological, financial, monetary or economic order." And the logic and language of Marxism, it declares, are "incompatible with the Christian vision of humanity...
...power over men that only he can understand. Then there is Gallileo Gall, a proto Marxist Scot shipwrecked in Brazil, who sees Canudos as the revolutionary commune he left in Paris in 1871. On the other side is Morcira-Cesar, the military leader who vows to eliminate the religious revolt or die trying...
...aides happily spread the word that some 50 delegates who had been unpledged or in Mondale's camp had expressed interest in voting for Hart out of disgust over the Lance affair. Mondale's retreat, however, took much of the steam out of the fledgling revolt...
...response to this wave of political repression, Aprista bases and militants embarked on a spree of violence which included several organized armed revolts. These revolts were unsuccessful, due to both the vacillation and conflicting advice of the Aprista leadership and the limited size of the PAP's bases. The Trujillo "revolution" of July 1932 is the most famous of these Aprista revolts. During the uprising, a large number of military officers were killed. When the revolt was finally quashed by the military, Aprista rebels were massacred en masse. In 1933 Sanchez Cerro was assassinated by an Aprista fanatic and replaced...
...private security force for the country's landowners, who helped to pay the salaries; when peasant uprisings got out of hand, the landlords organized bands of vigilantes to assist the guardsmen. In 1932, when Farabundo Marti, the father of El Salvador's revolutionary movement, led a revolt, paramilitary squads were sanctioned to aid the army in squashing the rebellion. The estimated toll: at least 10,000. The lines between official and illegal violence blurred further after the National Democratic Organization (ORDEN) was formed in the mid-1960s. ORDEN's dual purpose was to teach peasants about...