Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria
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The Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) is a center-left neoliberal party. Officially, it is a social democratic party and member of the Socialist International. Since 1989, however, it has participated in neoliberal governments and is considered one of the systemic parties.
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MIR was officially founded 7 September 1971 by dissident members of the MNR youth wing and the PDC that included Jaime Paz Zamora, Oscar Eid Franco, Antonio Aranibar Quiroga, Alfonso Ferrufino, and Guillermo Capobianco. The party represented a national-left position within the framework of the national revolution, through the concept of the synthesis (entroque histórico) between Marxist socialism and nationalism.
The party actively opposed the Banzer regime (1972-1978).
MIR was part of the UDP aliance. In 1982, when Hernán Siles Zuazo assumed the presidency, Paz Zamora assumed the vice presidency. Disagreements over economic policy led to a break, and MIR formally left the UDP coalition in 1984. The move led to a division within MIR itself, which broke up into three factions:
- Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria - Bolivia Libre (MIR-MBL) - Aranibar Quiroga, Ferrufino, Miguel Urioste
- Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria - Frente de Masas (MIR-Masas) - Wálter Delgadillo
- Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria - Nueva Mayoría (MIR-NM) - Paz Zamora, Eid Franco
MIR-NM represented the "official" faction, though it has continued to use its full name. MIR-MBL and MIR-Masas would eventually merge into MBL.
MIR since 1985
MIR since 2003
Gastón Encinas created a new faction MIR-Pueblo in Chuquisaca, April 2002.
