Government
As of March 2012, the mayor is Miguel Velasquez of the United Democratic Party. The current councillors of the Benque Viejo Town Board are Mario Ineco, Elmer Guerra, Manuel(Tatch) Contreras,Fredi Cruz, Carlos Cortez, Marcos Moises Kotch. All are members of the UDP.
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“The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.”
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)