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Rigoberta Menchu, 33, Guatemalan Indian-rights activist whose family was killed in her country's bloody civil war; from Mexico, where she fled in 1981, Menchu has fought against persecution by rightist forces of tens of thousands of Indians. She "stands out as a vivid symbol of peace and reconciliation across ethnic, cultural and social dividing lines," said the citation. (See related story on page...
THEN IT GOT really weird. What you might expect to be the usual sordid rightist military junta actually went on to implement, of all things, an APRA progressive reform agenda. The regime courted the Church, sympathized with the landless peasants, stressed social justice and generally confused the life out of every political scientist in the world. In 1980 the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people--the befuddled Belaunde...
Ireland described the formation of a loose coalition between rightist politicians, business conservatives and "anti-progressives" who favor segregation and oppose women's rights...
East and West, economic distress is also spurring the rightist revival. In the East, the breakdown of command economies has led to chaos and suffering that the painful birth of free markets has not yet relieved. Western Europe, though far more prosperous, nonetheless has been experiencing some of its highest unemployment rates since World War II. It has been easy for demagogues to blame immigrants who snatch away the jobs of the native-born -- though that happens far more often in right-wing mythology than in reality. The movement toward west European integration has also provoked a nationalist backlash...
...rightist sentiment is popping up in some unexpected places. In Belgium the anti-immigrant Vlaams Blok party increased its representation from two to 12 seats in November's parliamentary elections. Sweden, long considered the & socialist's dream of the earthly paradise, gave its Social Democrats their worst electoral defeat in 60 years in 1991. The European Community warned at its Maastricht summit in December "that manifestations of racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe...