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- Title
LA RESISTENCIA DEL PARTIDO ACCIÓN NACIONAL A SER IDENTIFICADO CON EL MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL DEMÓCRATA CRISTIANO.
- Authors
Alarcón Menchaca, Laura
- Abstract
The National Action Party (PAN) refused to join the Organization of Christian Democracy of America (ODCA) in the early sixties of the twentieth century. The leading group of young panistas promoted joining the ODCA, declaring it neither right nor left wing, but Christian Democratic. However, the elite party leaders refused, arguing that Mexico presented legal impediments to membership in an international organization, as well as noting the disadvantage of alliance with a denomination or clear religious trend. The young party members' eagerness to join the organization began in 1958 when the PAN's first Youth Assembly was held, with this sector extolling its necessity and importance for the party's advancement. In Europe and Latin America, there were ODCA representatives who favored PAN membership, with the Venezuelan Rafael Caldera among the most prominent. The changes in the reality of Latin America in the late 1950s and early 1960s were marked by the Cuban Revolution. The influence it exerted on the region's liberation movements was mainly due to the fact that some young people considered that this was the way to achieve a just, egalitarian and democratic society. The debate on Christianity and communism, as well as the Second Vatican Council, brought about strong changes in young people who were perceived as the subjects of change. In the present article I intend to analyze how opposition to PAN membership in the ODCA was due not only to the above factors, but even more, to resistance to being identified with or obstructed by the Christian Social Democratic Movement. The ruling elite feared that confused or intermixed interests would end up contradicting the principles of the party. However, the discussions around the issue led to the reform of the principles of the party's doctrine that gave it a new impetus.
- Subjects
PARTIDO Accion Nacional (Mexico); CHRISTIAN democratic parties; SOCIAL movements; CUBAN Revolution, 1959; NATIONAL liberation movements; COMMUNISM
- Publication
Historia 396, 2023, Vol 13, p7
- ISSN
0719-0719
- Publication type
Article