Word: almaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even for them. The constant attacks on Cárdenas, coupled with an almost total disregard of his would-be successor, meant clearly that a case for revolt was being built up and that, if it came, it would come soon-before Cárdenas leaves office in December. Almazánista leaders were hurriedly subpoenaed, ordered to appear before the First District Criminal Court of Mexico City on charges of sedition and "criminal provocation." The Almazánistas countered by preparing written declarations to be presented at the hearings instead. Outsmarted, the Camacho headquarters hastily resumed its former position...
This all's-well fiction continued to crumble as reports, vigorously denied by Cárdenas spokesmen, poured in from the provinces. Four men were killed in a skirmish in the northern state of Durango. A train was reported held up near Almazán's Monterrey stronghold. Armed men boarded a ship in Veracruz, seized stores of frozen meat from Argentina. A hurried visit to the capital by the military commander of Chiapas started a flood of rumors that trouble was brewing in the south...
North of the Border. All week long a stream of Almazán followers moved north through Mexico, crossed into the U. S. at Laredo and Brownsville, poured into San Antonio, whose 90,000 Mexicans stood almost solidly for Almazán. Thirty years ago onetime President Francisco Madero used this same town as a jumping-off place for the revolution which carried him to power...
...arrival of General José Mijares Palencia and Eduardo Neri in San Antonio touched off rumors that a revolutionary council was actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...
...Presidency because of his anti-expropriationism, was evidently waiting to see which way the cat would jump in Washington. Camacho has boasted that he will dine in the White House some time this month-and Washington has denied it. If he does, it will probably mean the end of Almazánismo...