Word: almaz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mourners were supporters of the anti-Administration candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán. As they slowly trudged past the offices of the Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana, which supported the Government's candidate Manuel Avila Camacho, marchers silently and sullenly raised their fists. General Avila Camacho was indifferent to their threat. He was, he declared, "completely satisfied with the low number of dead and wounded among the 20,000,000 population of Mexico. I am taking into consideration that in the U. S. thousands of persons are killed or wounded when a railroad train is derailed...
...counting was peaceful-and absurd. "Unofficial official results": General Avila Camacho, 2,265,199 votes; General Almazán, 128,574 votes. Impartial observers were unanimous in denouncing this count as unashamedly rigged. Somewhat more modest, but no more dependable, was the opposition claim that General Almazán had carried 150 out of 172 electoral districts. The result as both sides stuck to their figures and fingered their triggers, was a deadlock. As tension mounted, Federal police raided General Almazán's Mexico City offices and seized his personal and business papers. The Attorney General...
...Almazán's father was a wealthy landowner in the mountains south of Mexico City. Juan deserted medical school for revolution at 19, and at 29 was already a divisional general. Since 1921, when he was put in charge of the Seventh Military Zone, around Monterrey, he has built a spectacular model military city for his troops. It has long been a Mexican Government practice to buy off influential generals of doubtful loyalty; and General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages...
...promise was shattered. The PRM flying squadrons took over polls, even flagrantly established some in their own headquarters. At ancient Convento Vizacaines, Camachistas seized the polls, Almazanistas drove them off, Government soldiers drove them off and restored the booth to the favorite son. Camachistas foisted Camacho ballots on illiterate Almazán followers and made them mark them...
Once during the bloody Sunday afternoon 2,000 students paraded with a giant banner: Almazán IS PRESIDENT-and sang the stirring Mexican national anthem (less favored under the NEW Revolution than the Communist Internationale). Sadly Juan Andreu Almazán said: "I am moved to see the action of the people. How I would like to help them." Maybe he will one day. Sunday's shootings may have louder echoes when the Government publishes its election returns...