Word: revolucionaro
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...overreaction. Mexico's students are neither hard-core revolution aries of the Paris model nor U.S.-style dropouts from society. What they do have in common with students everywhere is disenchantment with the Establishment. Mexico's government is more established than most, and the all-powerful Partido Revolucionaro Institutional suffers from the arteriosclerosis of absolute power held too long. While proclaiming the high ideals of revolution embodied in the constitution of 1917, it has turned increasingly to the power of the army to put down revolts in the impoverished countryside and to quell demonstrations of dissent...
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