... officers called the “hardliners.” The “hardliners” favored radical, revolutionary policies designed to end the careers of a large number of political leaders of the Vargas generation and to restructure the political system in general. Through the use of military police investigations, the “hardliners” were...

... considerably but that official American policy still regards Castro as a menace, a stepchild of Moscow, and a violator of inter-American principles. In fact, as Professor Bender points out, the United States obdurately refuses to repudiate its hardline policy toward Castro, though it has apparently...

...Brian Loveman Decidedly critical of the Communists, Christian Democrats, and nonrevolutionary Socialists (that is, those Socialists who didn’t support Carlos Altamirano), Smirnow’s analysis represents a “conventional” hardline Marxist-Leninist perspective. However, beyond chiding the Unidad...

... in the volume. The one glaring flaw in this otherwise sensitive rendition of U.S.-Dominican relations is its badly chosen title, taken from the words of anti-Communist hardliner Thomas Mann, a State Department honcho and Johnson’s closest advisor during the crisis of 1965. Despite the favorable view of Juan...

... , for much of the evidence points to a poorly conceived response to Allende, UP and everything they stood for, more typical of the Nixon years than of admittedly hardline policies directed towards some other Latin American regimes. Certainly Secretary of State William Rodgers’ declaration that “the Nixon...

... the banking system and privatize the economy. This failure, more than any other factor, led to the popular defeat of Daniel Ortega’s hardliners by Violeta Chamorro’s UNO coalition in 1990. Sandinista Economics in Practice, by Alejandro Martínez Cuenca, former minister of planning and budget...

... virulent attack from hardline exiles in Miami, with protesters marching in front of his bank with signs accusing him of treason—“Benes, Agente de Fidel,” read the pickets. The interesting intellectual question is how much Benes’ private negotiations contributed to the prisoner release and the family...

... is a magic or mysterious name for all good people.” 35 This “love of king” thesis among Spanish policy-makers failed to restore loyalty on the part of the Americans. The restoration was dominated by hardliners and militarists, those closest to Ferdinand and most influential in his councils, whose view...

... not entirely a favorable one, since it was strengthening the position of the hardliners among Batista’s followers who wanted to clamp down. Nonetheless, when don Cosme urged the Auténticos to meet with representatives of other parties and the government, Varona declared that his appeal had “such patriotic...

... of the spread of heresy in the bishopric and placed the blame directly on his Dominican predecessors who had done little to combat deviance in their parishes. 67 The unique case of the Cofradía of the Twelve Apostles was an opportunity for the bishop and other hardline Dominicans to initiate new debate...

... Jarrín, one of the leaders of the 1968 movement and a prominent member of the regime until his retirement. Mercado was representative of the hardline, nationalist-authoritarian group of army officers who would find many of Velasco’s policies too liberal. His best known piece of writing prior to 1968...

... control. The abrupt 1948 shift to the hardline pro-U.S. military regime of General Manuel Odría brought a classic “war” mentality to drugs, including punitive narcotics codes, anticoca congresses, the formation of a national antinarcotics squad, a drive to establish a supervisory state coca/cocaine...

... organizations that kidnapped the US ambassador in 1969, recalled: “ desbundando was a word invented by the hardliners in the vanguard for all those who didn’t support the armed struggle. Then it came to refer to those who had revealed information under torture. . . . At one point the torturers even used...