Nationalist Regime Dumps Lechin

Juan Rey

Labor Action, 22nd November, l954


Nationalist Regime Dumps Lechin

Santiago, November l0th. -[.....] Parallel to all this, the government party is absorbing leading elements from the left, especially from the POR. Two former general secretaries of the POR, Edwin Moller and Jorge Salazar, and the POR theoretician Ernesto Ayala Mercada, as well as Lechin's ex - secretary Josa Zogada, have entered the MNR officially. Thus a part of the POR staff has capitulated to the MNR, as we predicted long ago. Ideological capitulation preceded the personal and organizational capitulation. The right turn of the MNR is complemented by the capitulation and disintegration of the "Left". [.....]


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