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...campaign for the forthcoming election Führer Dietrich does not openly support either President Cárdenas' hand-picked candidate General Manuel Avila Camacho, or his more conservative opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán. He is banking on a revolution and his man is believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposici...
Against him stands honest-to-goodness General Juan Andreu Almazán, who is supported by the Right and talks Left. He claims the backing of the Mexican Revolutionary Party (which supports Cárdenas) and has promised peasant ownership of the land in place of the present collectivist system. He also has the backing of many business interests, would probably play ball with foreign business. A favorite game of the Almazanistas is to rip down Avila Camacho posters during the night, replace them with Almazan posters, which are in turn ripped down the next night and replaced by Avila...
...General Almazán has announced that he does not expect the election to be honest. Therefore he intends to have all his voters cast ballots for him in a private election, either before or on the same day as the general election. If his private votes do not tally with the official returns, General Almazán promises trouble...
Eyes Abroad. Few people believe that Lázaro Cárdenas would stoop to such a device. He could insure a peaceful election by throwing his support to Almazán, but that would probably mean the end of Mexico's New Deal. The future of the Cárdenas revolution depends to a large extent upon paradoxical international relations. Although politically aligned with the democracies, Mexico's economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage...
When Candidates Avila Camacho and Andreu Almazán began their serious campaigning a few months ago, the pistoleros also began their shooting. Since then few days have gone by without clashes between camachistas and almazanistas. First, the rival gunmen got tangled up at Tacubaya, with one killed, two wounded. Next, at a Camacho meeting in Mexico City, Almazan men showed up uninvited and the result was one killed, 19 wounded. A few weeks later Almazán supporters riding on a train near Tlatilco were attacked by men shouting Viva Avila Camacho! Two were killed, "several" injured. An Almaz...