Title: Historia del Pacto Militar Campesino
First published: 1994
Description: "Brief, interesting history of the pact between Bolivian armed forces and  campesinos from early 1960s-74. Describes its formation thanks to Gen. René Barrientos Ortuño who mobilized and armed important peasantry sectors of Cochabamba's central valleys in order to catapult himself to power. Following his death, the pact grew fragile as successive military governments failed to reinforce established patrimonial links. The pact essentially ended in Jan. 1974 when then President Gen. Hugo Banzer Suárez ordered the air force to strafe a peasant protest in the town of Tolata. Subsequent military governments had little capacity to mobilize the peasantry"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Civil-military relations, Government relations, Peasantry, Indians of South America, Peasants
Places: Bolivia
Time periods: 20th century, 1952-1982
LC classification: F3326 .S68 1994