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...Mexico, there is a legend that Miguel Alemán wins by the hand of death. He got into congress when the man for whom he was an alternate died. In 1936, he stepped into the governorship of his native Vera Cruz when the governor-elect was assassinated. His chance for the presidency opened last year when death came to Maximino, brother of President Manuel Avila Camacho, and Alemán's chief political enemy...
...more than luck went into the making of Miguel. Hard worker, shrewd opportunist, Alemán was always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance...
...last week's shooting in the León square was slight, gold-toothed José Valades, national organizing secretary of the Sinarquistas. He thought it would boost Sinarquista membership. In national political terms, the massacre would cost P.R.M.'s probable candidate, Miguel Alemán, some votes in the July presidential elections, gain some for ex-foreign minister Ezequiel Padilla, who is supported by Catholic rightists...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
Because he already had the tentative backing of the Government P.R.M. (Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana), Candidate Alemán seemed at present to have the blue chips on his side...