THE LIBERAL PARTY
IN OPPOSITION

It has been said that the Liberal Party is a fearful opponent when goes out of office. Is it true or a non confirmed hypothesis? ¿Is it ready to fulfill its responsibilities?

Since the business of opposing is learned away from office, maybe this assumption comes from the twenty five years in which the liberal party was kept from any political action (1933-1957), plus the military blackout (1963-1979), some 46 years with hardly six liberal years of president Ramón Villeda Morales (1958-1963).

During authoritarian or fraudulent legal governments and during the military de facto governments, the opposition, repressed and concentrated on regaining its political rights, gets valuable but brief experience, one different from the usual in democracy: publicly and freely debating the governments' actions. Furthermore, the four-year period of opposition for the liberal party during the democratic era started in 1980, and during the eighteen years of its ruling, some leaders got used to power, which is a probable cause of the party's arrogant attitude of invincibility, that somehow contributed to its recent defeat.

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THE LAUNDRY
OF CRIME

In September 2000, the president of the National Congress introduced a project to create a law for prevention and penalization of drug traffic money laundry, which is an instrument that intends to substitute the useless "Law against laundry of drug traffic money " approved in 1997. The new project was passed in august, 2001, but it was never discussed or was any official explanation given on the legislative process.

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