section_path: 1970s and early 1980s: new challenges
section_name: 1970s and early 1980s: new challenges
paragraph_text: 1970s and early 1980s: new challenges
  
  As the PUP moved into the 1970s, it controlled the nation of Belize like never before. It had not lost an election, general or municipal, ever, and enjoyed the confidence of the Belizean people. But new challenges arose that would ultimately lessen Belizeans' confidence in the PUP.