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...political views must not be too far right or he will lose the support of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman (1946-52), who guided Mexican politics back to the middle of the road. Membership in the current Cabinet is almost essential. Three men fit this mold well enough to qualify for the slang adjective of presidenciable...
ANGEL BERNAL CARBAJAL, 57, is the President's closest friend and a "man with no bite." Like Aleman and Ruiz Cortines, Carbajal is a native of Veracruz and now holds the patronage-heavy post of Interior Minister. A onetime professor of history and Supreme Court justice, he is bald, calm and personable...
Coming to the presidency on a wave of national reaction against the free-spending glitter of the Miguel Aleman regime, Ruiz Cortines had recognized the need for a cleanup. He first weeded out corrupt officials, then went after the root causes of corruption: inadequate official pay and bureaucratic inefficiency. After devaluating the currency, he clamped on price controls, still spends several hours a week personally checking them...
...Miguel Aleman...
...slap the Mexican press when you say that it was too close to the game of Aleman and his cronies to chronicle much of it. Just what do you mean? That it was in jeopardy and therefore scared ? Shucks! Like yourself, the Mexican press isn't scared of anything this side of the grave . . . Probably the lack of the chronicles you miss is due simply to the fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter...