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Presidents & Peddlers. In each country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed...
...politics. No public official dared to say that it was an abysmal failure. Profits from the henequen were raked in by corrupt bureaucrats, while henequen growers and their families lived on barely $1 a week. Mexico's total production, despite a $1.900,000 annual subsidy started by President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in 1953 (TIME, April 13, 1953), dropped steadily. Last year it hit a low of 450,000 bales, compared with the World War I high of 1,000,000 bales...
...Adolfo Munoz Alonso, Spanish theologian and philosophy professor at the University of Madrid, found some Protestant leaflets in his morning's mail and went off like a cobalt bomb. Such literature, he wrote in the Falangist daily Arriba, is "simply an insult. This is not a social and political outrage but something even more repulsive-a lack of consideration." Nowadays, he wrote, Protestantism is not even a faith, "not a positive doctrine but a negative one. It is not an attempt at moral, spiritual or religious reform, nor an individualist explanation of the Gospel. Today Protestantism has lost...
...recent drastic 31% devaluation of the peso (TIME, April 26) caught the country by surprise, but the country's reaction-in soaring prices and roaring protests-has given the Mexican government almost as big a shock. Last week, in his first direct appeal to the people, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines spoke over radio and TV in an effort to dispel a mood of confusion and despair...
When he took office after an era of openhanded public spending, Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines suspended all government contracts to comb them for waste and graft. Construction industries soon felt the pinch and the whole economy slowed down. In 1953, output fell, the foreign-trade deficit rose one-third, and nearly all employers laid off help. Last week, faced by a worsening business recession, the President announced that he would shelve austerity and spend a record $400 million this year on pump-priming public works...