Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it grows increasingly conservative with the years, Mexico's one-party government still calls itself revolutionary and acts the part by occasional nationalization of foreign private enterprise. Last week President Adolfo López Mateos was onstage in full revolutionary uniform as a $26 million plan to buy out 365 of Mexico's leading cinemas went into effect. The intention: to clip the wings of the theater owner, U.S. Citizen William O. Jenkins, 82, a mysterious buccaneer-businessman who has built the biggest personal fortune in Mexico, a money pile estimated anywhere from $200 million...
Mexico. President Adolfo López Mateos, frightened by the support for Castro shown by Mexico's old national hero, ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, has been jailing leftists without trial. In less stable countries, such highhandedness could lead to rebellion, but López Mateos is still backed by the all-powerful Revolutionary Institution Party and a growing anti-revolutionary middle class...
...week was carefully calculated to woo a political minority with whom Dick Nixon so far strikes few responsive chords: the big Mexican-American communities of Texas and California. At Del Rio, Texas, the President crossed the Rio Grande to pay a farewell call on his good friend, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos. Despite a steady drizzle, thousands jammed the plaza of Ciudad Acuña to hear Eisenhower proclaim the indestructible friendship of the two neighbors...
...three-phase process of nation building-revolution, industrial development, prosperity-Mexico is well into Phase 2, and President Adolfo Lopez Mateos is determined to keep going. To do the job, he needs political stability. Instead, Lopez Mateos is now bedeviled by leftist demonstrations and violence that resulted last week in the jailing of Mexico's No. 1 artist and No. 1 Communist, David Alfaro Siqueiros...
...company. Chile's President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo, said Mambi, plotted the recent uprising against Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt...