...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...

... Duke University Press 2019 Kevin Young's Blood of the Earth is a study of nationalist and statist Bolivia between 1920 and 1980, with a special emphasis on the national revolution of 1952 and the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) government of 1952–64. The book focuses on La Paz and...

... in reshaping the government agrarian agenda but also used the new legislation to regain lands lost to hacienda landlords since the late nineteenth century. In contrast to the Aymara intelligentsia's later denouncements, the MNR's nationalist agenda did not simply silence Indian communities' demands...

..., a few weeks after Perón took office, Buenos Aires deployed activists, arms, funds, and agents in support of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), who had supported Villarroel. At the same time, Perón also tried to exert pressure over the conservative administration in favor of bilateral...

... struggle by a diverse coalition to fulfill a promise first made after the 1952 Bolivian Revolution: just distribution of plentiful water to all. When Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) leaders proclaimed the revolution's agrarian reform in Cochabamba's hinterlands on August 2, 1953, they promised...

... Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia (AD, APRA, and MNR). Originating in the student, labor, and popular insurgencies of the 1930s, these anti–status quo parties had briefly risen to power after World War II, but they were subse- quently ousted and persecuted by rightist military regimes. When they did return to...