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Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos never says a word against Fidel Castro, and insists that in politics he is a leftist "within the constitution." Yet López Mateos has not hesitated to come down hard on troublesome leftists at home. Last week his regime came down hard on Mexico's No. 1 leftist (and No. 1 artist), David Alfaro Siqueiros. 65. The Communist painter, who has already been behind bars for 20 months, was sentenced to eight years in the federal penitentiary for "social dissolution"-i.e., troublemaking during student demonstrations in August...
...week's end, the brass was still rumbling noisily. And Frondizi's Foreign Minister Adolfo Múgica. who originally leaked the news of the Frondizi-Guevara téte a téte, was asked to resign...
Watching the disturbing show, the governments of Venezuela and Colombia spoke out in alarm against the advance of Communism, and Guatemala urged the OAS to take action. Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos quietly ordered left-wing ex-President Lazaro Cardenas to refuse an invitation to the celebrations in Havana, and approved a speech by right-wing ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez, who said: "We must never permit ourselves to be dominated by outside powers or seduced by Utopian doctrines. Unfortunately, this has already occurred in the hemisphere of liberty...
...experts, Assistant Editor Raymond D. Higgins of the Hispanic American Report and Associate Professor Martin B. Travis of Stanford University. "Castro would surely be killed and become a martyr," they said. "Our action would be compared to that of the U.S.S.R. in Hungary. Democratic Presidents in Latin America like [Adolfo] López Mateos of Mexico or Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela would be forced to adopt an extreme position in order to prevent revolution in their own countries...
...Mexico's mines to sell control of their properties to Mexican interests within the next 25 years. Such moves help explain why new U.S. investment in Mexico was only $11 million in 1960 v. $14 million in 1959 and a whopping $80 million in 1957. Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos added to the unrest last summer when he publicly described his regime as "extreme left." Within the next few months three U.S. food-processing firms put on ice their plans to establish Mexican plants...