Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contemporary youth, and above all the Latin American young person, has contracted a responsibility with history, with his people, with the past of his country. Youth cannot be sectarian; youth must understand. We in Chile have taken an important step: the political base of my government is formed by marxists, non-religious people and Christians, and we respect Christian thought; it interprets the word of Christ that expelled the money-lenders from the temple...
Sectarianism, dogmatism and bureaucracy freeze revolutions, and revolution is a process of increasing consciousness, a process which is very profound and must begin with youth. But youth is facing problems that are not only economical, but problems that unfortunately appear with even more destructive violence in the contemporary world...
Without saying that youth will be the revolutionary spark and the essential factor of revolutions, youth will be crucial. Youth is crucial because youth has a clearer conception of life, youth has not surrendered to the vices caused by years of bourgeois prosperity, youths must understand that they must be studious and hard-working. The young person must go to the factory or to the land. You have to do voluntary work; it is good that the medical student learn how much weight the peasant must carry on his back and the long distances he must carry...
...cameras. She flew over the flood-ravaged pampas in order to dramatize the need for relief. During the campaign she made an eight-stop tour of the north. She even managed to enlist the support of her most vocal enemies, the party's left-wing youth. They organized a huge crowd for her at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque airport, which significantly cheered both Peron and Isabelita. In all, it was precisely the kind of stumping Evita made famous among the descamisados (shirtless ones), who loved her as much for her queenly air as for the hard cash she bestowed...
Isabelita has prudently remained silent on her own political opinions and ambitions, limiting herself to loyal praise of "mi general." Her foes fear she will use the vice presidency to consolidate and expand her power. The major stumbling blocks are the left-leaning Peronist youth, who are wary of her rightist views, and the military. They accepted her candidacy only after reaching a "gentlemen's agreement" with Peron...