The Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement - 20th Century was a political party

Political party

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 in Bolivia

Bolivia

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. MNRI-Siglo XX was founded in August 1984, after a fraction of technocrats broke away from Hernán Siles Zuazo

Hernán Siles Zuazo

Hernán Siles Zuazo was a politician from Bolivia. He served as his country's constitutionally elected president twice, from 1956 to 1960 and again from 1982 to 1985....

's ruling Revolutionary Nationalist Leftwing Movement (MNRI). The main leader of MNRI-Siglo XX was Mario Velarde Dorado, former Minister of Foreign Affairs. The party dissolved itself as it merged with the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

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Political outlook

The founders of MNRI-Siglo XX accused MNRI of sectarianism and opportunism, said to be the causes behind the debacle of UDP. The new party identified itself as the 'revolutionary tendency' that had emerged out of MNRI. The manifesto of the party declared it as seeking 'the hegemony of the working class

Working class

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 and popular sectors in the national liberation process'. The party stated that it sought to promote a mixed economy

Mixed economy

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, with a strong cooperative sector. In international politics, the party claimed to represent anti-colonial and anti-imperialist

Anti-imperialism

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 viewpoints, favouring non-alignment.

Leadership

The National Command of MNRI-Siglo XX consisted of Mario Velarde Dorado, Franklin Anaya Vásquez, Orlando Cossio Romero, Marcelo Barrón Rondón, Reynaldo Mercado Uribe, Joaquín Monasterio Pinckert, Enrique Ipiña Melgar, Marcos Tufiño Banzer, Marcial Tamayo Sáenz, José Rivero Vargas, Jorge Rivero Vargas, Gladys San Martín de Rodríguez, María Escobar, Casta Jaimes, Sandra Urquidi Collins, Martha Arévalo, Jorge Rioja Pérez, Guido Menacho, and Guillermo Bazoberry.