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This week Adolfo Orive de Alba, President Aleman's Minister of Hydraulic Resources, is deep in this tierra caliente, finding suitable spots for work camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide...
Modest, young (39) Adolfo Drive Alba, the new minister, seemed just the man for the job of spending it. A serious-minded crusader who specialized in hydraulic engineering at the University of Mexico and had thought of practically nothing else since, Orive Alba was a top example of the nonpolitical character of most of Alemán's new Cabinet...
Because only 12% of Mexico's land will ever be fit for cultivation (though two-thirds of the people now try to live on the land), Orive Alba would be happy if Mexico succeeded only in growing enough to feed herself. But he also holds that opening up new lands will raise the rural standard of life. By providing hydroelectric power, the impressive new dams would also speed up industrialization, thus balancing the ratio of urban to rural population...
Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...
...went to construction jobs, offered his services as an albañil, or bricklayer. At last he landed a temporary...