ABSTRACT
After 1966, the terror was engineered by a series of right-wing death squads such as the MANO Blanca and Ojo por Ojo—a by-product of the dirty counterinsurgency war. Organized by the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) and financed by the bourgeoisie, they were allegedly clandestine and beyond official control. One target of the death squads was that small sector of the petty bourgeoisie–professionals, university students, and professors–that maintained its identification with the Revolution of 1944-1954 and its alliance with the popular classes. The dynamics of economic growth and diversification, begun under the reformist model of the Revolution, continued into the post-1954 period but without the ameliorating attempts to plan growth with equity. The Christian Democratic Party, initially a rightist party, came under the control of more moderate leadership in the late 1960s and was finally able to run candidates in the 1970 election–although by that time, radicalized sectors were leaving the party.
