Beginning with the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, author Stephen Gregory examines the intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left's drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left, frustrated attempts at the left's unity in the 1960s, the creation of the center-left Broad Front in 1971, and the defeat of all left endeavors and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup a prelude to a twelve-year dictatorship in ...
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Beginning with the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, author Stephen Gregory examines the intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left's drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left, frustrated attempts at the left's unity in the 1960s, the creation of the center-left Broad Front in 1971, and the defeat of all left endeavors and all dialogue in the 1973 military coup a prelude to a twelve-year dictatorship in which the military substituted themselves for intellectuals. The story continues in 1985, reversing the earlier trend in a record of dispersal and diversity. The author details the initial post-authoritarian anarchic cultural outburst part celebration, part frustration; the intellectuals' role in the disputes that accompanied the Broad Front's move from democratic socialism to social democracy, and from opposition to government in 2004; and recent excursions into
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