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Word: revolucienaria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...incident which has received the most attention was the arrest of twenty allegedly North Korean trained Mexican revolutionaries for plotting the government's overthrow. The uncovering of this group, which calls itself the Movimiento de Accion Revolucienaria and was supposedly aided by the 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...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Letter from Mexico Sabotage and Violence South of the Border | 5/6/1971 | See Source »

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