Word: almaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even as he spoke a second Congress met in secret, duly proclaimed itself legally elected, and two days later declared General Juan Andreu Almazán the next President. To clinch its claims it went even further. Finding Cárdenas in violation of the Constitution for "using public force to impose Avila Camacho and by rendering his last address before a congress of usurpation," it named its own substitute, General Hector F. López, to fill out the remainder of his term...
...General Almazán was obviously getting ready to push the shaky civil peace a notch closer to open war. Ever since election day he had left his followers dangling and disorganized while he "vacationed" in Havana, then in Guatemala. Fortnight ago he was still on tour, turned up in Mobile, two days later in Baltimore, where he took a modest apartment on quiet 32nd Street with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. He insisted that he was just a tourist. He visited friends, walked in Wyman Park, went to the movies, read U. S. and Mexican newspapers, answered...
...days after his rebellious Congress had convened, General Almazán went into action. He rushed to Manhattan, where he could get a good press, ripped off a fiery statement drubbing the Cárdenas-Camachistas up & down the line. He accused them of consorting with Communism, of falsifying the election returns, of failing to improve domestic conditions "after six years of short cuts to Utopia." Shrewdly he hinted opposition to the confiscation of U. S. interests in Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick...
Call to Arms. Stage-wise Almazánistas picked up their lines. While Government forces hunted its secret meeting place, the rump Congress whipped out a manifesto of its own. Reiterating Almazán's charges of Communism, it thought up some new angles, accused the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) of 12,000 political murders, among other crimes, concluded with a call to arms against Cárdenas...
...till now the complacent Cárdenas-Camachistas had busily pooh-poohed any danger of revolution. Government troops were patrolling highways, keeping a close watch on airports and railroads as a check on Almazánista movements. New troops were reported on their way to reinforce the 10,000 already in the capital. Graciano Sanchez had declared 80,000 trained members of his National Confederation of Peasants were ready to take up their rifles in support of Cárdenas and Avila Camacho...