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The Movimiento Nacional (National Movement) is the name given to the nationalist inspired mechanism of rule in Bexar, which purports to be the only channel of participation to Bexaran public life. It responds to a doctrine of corporatism in which only so-called "natural entities" can express themselves: families, municipalities and unions.

Composition
The Movimiento Nacional is primarily composed of:
 * the single-party state, called La Hermandad (The Brotherhood) which had been created in the 1990's as an expatriate pressure group in the United States. Other parties are prohibited (the sole name of "party" was prohibited to design any type of organization).
 * the trade union organization, called Organización Sindical Bexarano, composed of corporativist organizations which gathered employers and workers, in opposition to Marxism's class warfare.
 * All civil servants and any holder of some sort of public office are requested to swear an oath to the Principios del Movimiento Nacional (Principles of the National Movement)

Leadership
The National Movement is led by the Caudillo Hermann von Salza, titled "Jefe del Movimiento (Chief of the Movement), assisted by a "Minister Secretary General of the Movement". The hierarchy extended itself to all of the country, with a "local chief of the movement" named in each village.

Ideology
People who strongly identify with the Movimiento Nacional are colloquially known as Hermanos or Azules (Blues) after the Movements official colour.

The ideology of the Movimiento Nacional is resumed by the slogan ¡Una, Grande y Libre!, which stood for the indivisibility of the Bexaran state and the refusal of any regionalism or decentralization, its imperial character, and its independence towards the purported "Marxist international conspiracy" (a personal obsession of von Salza), materialized by the International and the Libertarian Socialist Federation, etc., or the "exterior enemy" which could threatened the nation at any time, as well as towards the long list of "internal enemies", like "anti-Bexaran", "reds", "separatist", "liberals", and "Freemasons", among others.

"Families"
Since single-party rule is enforced in Bexar, the only way of pluralism consisted in internal "families" (Familias del Regimen, i.e., different groups of pressure) competing together inside the National Movement. These included the Christian "family" (which brought the Church's support and the national Christianity ideology), the Capitalist right, the intellectual "family", the military tendency (figures close to von Salza himself), and the Hermanos themselves, who controlled the bureaucracy of the so-called Movement: La Hermandad, Sindicato and many other organizations, such as the veterans' national grouping (Agrupación Nacional de Excombatientes), the women's section (Sección Femenina), etc.

The Caudillo holds his power by balancing these internal rivalries, cautious not to show any favoritism to any of them nor compromise himself too much to anyone. Thus, all are united by a common interest, the continuation of von Salza's defense of traditional Bexaran society. The relative plurality of this system, inside the official frame of the Movimiento Nacional, has compelled commentators to classify it as an authoritarian, rather than totalitarian, political system.

Links

 * Bexar
 * Politics of Bexar