Word: revolucionario
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hrer principle. But last week, by presenting the names of 46,270 members, they qualified as a Mexican political party under the name of Fuerza Popular (Popular Force). For the moment, they were the only other permanently registered legal political party besides the government's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.). Other opposition parties-the conservative Acción Nacional, Lombardo Toledano's Partido Popular, and the Communists-were trying to corral enough signatures to qualify for the June 30 permanent registration deadline...
...Government officials listened sympathetically. Said Hernan Siles, acting head of the dominant party, M.N.R. (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario): "Land should belong to the man who works it." The crowd applauded. But in backward Bolivia some 90,000 proprietors own the land inhabited by a rural population of 2,500,000. Land reform was still a somewhat remote ideal...
...improvement was not great. The men who left were suspect, but so were those who replaced them. Two of the new men are members of the MNR (Mommiento National Revolucionario). Still in power is Mastermind Estenssoro, leader of the MNR. Still outside the Cabinet is Jose Antonio Arze, leader of the leftist PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionario) and at present a favorite of the U.S. State Department...
...Bolivia itself, José Antonio Arze, leader of the leftist PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionario), was still unjailed. Far from instigating a counterrevolution when he returned to La Paz from exile in Mexico, he seemed more interested in joining the Villarroel Government if it met his conditions. They were: assurance of civil liberties; fair elections; and removal of Fascist elements from the Cabinet. Thus housecleaned, the regime might yet meet U.S. requirements. If others were plotting revolt, their movements were well concealed...
...these maneuverings might come a counterrevolutionary slate with Arze for President, General Toro for Minister of Defense. The Cabinet presumably would include "good" members from all major parties-perhaps eventually even the non-Fascists in the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) now in power...