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Probable first Alemán move: fire Pemex Director Efrain Buenrostro. After that, anything might happen, including the return, in some form, of foreign interests (TIME, Aug. 5). There might even be kerosene for Josefina's stove...
...five oppositionist deputies in Mexico's new Congress comes from Monterrey. It is no secret that his election was mainly due to the well-organized vote of the independent unions. But Monterrey also hopes for much from President-elect Miguel Alemán. José (Don Pepe) Muguerza, the driving chieftain of the "brewery group," campaigned for him, admires him as an administrator and for that quality most urgently required by the regiomontano, "ability to get things done...
Last week the great wolf was in a political trap. The police announced, after he had been missing four days, that they held Lasso as a confessed conspirator in a plot to kill President-elect Miguel Alemán and his prospective chief minister, Colonel Carlos I. Serrano...
...army officer reported that he was approached by a man who wanted to buy two grenades for "well-digging." In no time the cops claimed to have caught him handing the grenades to two torpedoes. They said the torpedoes confessed they had been hired to use the grenades on Alemán and Serrano. Lasso, they said, also confessed after only a brief chat...
...forestall popular protest, politically astute Miguel Alemán would have to deal with wealthy independents, mostly Texans, rather than the familiar major oil empires. A reorganized Pemex would undoubtedly supervise the new setup in order to sustain the necessary fagade of national control. But the independents have reservations: they want guarantees of long tenure, assurances against labor strife. It will probably take a lot of gelatine to make the scheme jell...