The Story of a Single Person Stressner Had to Suffer

Before 1956 and 1966, stressner manipulated existing factional divisions to consolidate his own control over the Colorado party. Through skillful political maneuvering, stressner selectively purged real or perceived party opposition. Epifano Mendez-Flaitez, the major political rival to stressner, was isolated and exiled in 1956. In 1959, stressner responded to rebellion within the Colorado party by dissolving Congress,. sending troops onto the streets and exiling 400 members of the more reformist Colorado activists.