Word: revolucionarios
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Echeverría's ambitious reform program, which includes modernizing governmental machinery, fighting corruption, uplifting the rural sector, and tax and banking reforms, has been opposed by businessmen and conservatives within his own party, the P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), not to mention Mexico's political bureaucracy. The President spends much time traveling round the country on what he calls giras de trabajo (working tours), during which he spends hours listening to the problems of campesinos and calling on the people to support his liberal reforms. He has also traveled more widely abroad than his predecessors, having visited...
...Partido Revolucionario Institucional), which has ruled Mexico for the past 45 years. They are, however, a symbol of the profound discontent that is increasingly surfacing from beneath the P.R.I.'s outdated revolutionary slogans. Though the economy has grown at a rate of over 7% a year in recent times, it has become obvious that most of the workers and the peasants are being left behind by policies that favor the rich and the upper middle class. Added to that is one of the highest population-growth rates (3.5%) in the world; in the past 25 years the population...
...year 1952 is a watershed in Bolivian history, perhaps the first time the peasants in the Bolivian countryside were affected on a large scale by political activity since the days when Pizarro came searching for gold some four centuries earlier. The Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR), an essentially middle class party engineered a revolution in 1952 that transformed Bolivian society by mobilizing support among the nation's poor...
...position of the presidency. The executive is by far the most important branch of the government. Some "Mexicanologists" see the president as holding complete dictatorial power, limited only by a six-year term. Not only is the president the law-maker, he is the head of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the one party in a virtually single party system. PRI has won all presidential and senatorial elections since the end of the Mexican Revolution, 50 years ago. Yet the government has institutions even stronger than PRI for directing Mexican life and progress. These are three occupational sector organizations--labor...
...first public announcement of the arrest was made at a police press conference on Sept. 17, at which Mexican authorities exhibited a group of prisoners--including Hyland and one other American--who they said were members of a revolutionary organization called the Movimiento de Accion Revolucionario (Revolutionary Action Movement). Police charged that the group was responsible for a series of bank robberies in Mexico City and elsewhere...