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...Leonard Cardenas, Jr. Military Intervention in Bolivia: The Overthrow of Paz Estenssoro and the MNR . By Brill William H. . Washington , 1967 . Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems . Political Studies Series, 3 . Notes. Bibliography . Pp. i , 68 . Paper...

...G. Earl Sanders The Legacy of Populism in Bolivia: From the MNR to Military Rule . By Mitchell Christopher . New York , 1977 . Praeger Publishers . Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 167 . Cloth . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The great...

... Revolucionario (MNR) state's rightward turn, local elites had regrouped to challenge revolutionary change. Meanwhile, José Rojas—a powerful peasant leader and key MNR ally—faced a crucial crossroads. Repeatedly tapped by state authorities to pacify San Pedro de Buena Vista, Rojas vacillated between asserting...

...Kevin A. Young Abstract After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, oil assumed an increasingly important role in Bolivia's economy and popular consciousness. Oil nationalists were deeply divided, however. While the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) regime sought economic modernization, labor...

... Washington and dropped three cabinet members, including two of the top leaders of the MNR, Augusto Céspedes and Carlos Montenegro. Nonetheless, Washington stuck to its guns and cabled its Ambassadors in Latin America on February 17 that “it is not felt that these shifts have materially altered the character...

... was the vehicle for revolutionary land seizures, after the MNR (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario) insurrection created a power vacuum in the rural sector. Land is the measure of wealth and the existential focus of peasant life. The Bolivian peasantry served three empires (Tiwanaku, Inca, Spanish) before...

... public opinion. The author tests this hypothesis in a study of the newspapers associated with the Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR), the party that led the 1952 uprising in Bolivia that resulted in one of the few genuine social revolutions in Latin America. Unfortunately, this interesting attempt...

... The Falange, with its constituency almost exclusively limited to the nation’s towns and cities, mounted numerous revolts against the MNR regime. For a brief discussion of the Falange, see Patch, “The Bolivian Falange,” American Universities Field Staff (May 14, 1959); for the reported arrest of three...

... and the agrarian reform were supposed to overcome. 69 The 1954 decree provoked such criticism from leading government supporters like Urquidi that the MNR seems almost to have hidden its existence. While the agrarian reform decree was signed by the president in front of 20,000 peasants in Ucureña, the 1954...

... an excellent explanation of how economic ideas motivated Bolivian popular sectors, MNR leaders, and US policymakers and of how the agendas of these three groups determined the course of Bolivian history. Popular pressure for resource nationalism put limits on what MNR and post-MNR governments could do...

... revolution, which was led by the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). Carmen Soliz's extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of land tenure in three provinces at the core of Bolivia's hacienda system explains not only the mechanics and shape of land reform but also its profound effects...

... decades, the Movimiento Nacionalist Revolucionaria (MNR), produce some exaggeration and a couple of surprising omissions. The author vigorously defends the MNR’s commitment to reform on the eve of the 1952 National Revolution. Alexander notes that some scholars have argued that “the MNR had not originally...

... integrated into the U.S.-dominated hemispheric system that collapsed during the Great Depression and set off a wave of nationalism and radicalism across the republics in the 1930s. By far the most fascinating period of U.S.-Bolivian relations, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionaria (MNR) years...

... University Press 1970 The central insight of this slender, fact-studded, and generally excellent volume is that the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionaria (MNR) was not revolutionary at all in financial policy during its tenure of power from 1952 to 1964. Rather, the MNR continued the policies actually...

... of the Bolivian MNR. Most of these speeches were made in the Bolivian legislature in the late 1950’s. It is an interesting if not valuable book because it defines clearly the thinking of the majority section of the MNR, now over a decade in power. It shows the innate anti-Americanism and the constant courting...

.... The book has an introduction entitled “A Frame of Analysis,” followed by three parts: a quick survey up to the end of the Chaco War; from 1936 until the 1952-MNR revolution; and the period of the MNR until the fall of Paz Estenssoro in 1964. Then there is a well presented chapter called “conclusions...

..., and who was constantly engaged in playing off one group against another to maintain his own position, is largely correct. Lora is on more solid ground when he gets to the period after the overthrow of the MNR in November 1964. He graphically details the struggles of the miners against the efforts...

... raises important questions about the similarities of the MAS with the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) of 1952. He argues that by recognizing that they are building on the past of the MNR, the MAS could avoid repeating some of the same mistakes. Whitehead hopes for a “constrained originality...

... exclusively on MNR newspapers for an analysis of tin magnate Simón I. Patiño, “hardly a complete or objective source.” Of course not. The object was to present the propaganda image of Patiño as put forth in the combative MNR press. Finally, my approach to the use of newspapers in historical methodology...

... on that basis alone; equally intriguing, however, is the diplomatic reaction of the United States to the abrupt seizure of power by the MNR in Bolivia in April 1952. Initially distrustful, the American government soon performed an unusual about-face—actually unique for the time—and began a generous aid...