Word: almazan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweezy believes that Almazan would probably stop the distribution of land, and might return some of the properties to the large landowners; at least that is what the Mexican upperclass expects...
Unless the U. S. throws its influence behind Juan Andreu Almazan, contender for the Mexican presidency, Avila Camacho, President Cardena's candidate, is almost certain to come out on top of Mexico's boiling political stew...
...Most of the well informed people whom I met had fatalistic attitude that whatever happens depends on Washington," he said in an interview yesterday. He believes that to avoid the serious civil war which would result if the U. S. supported Almazan, Secretary of State Hull has indicated a slight preference for Camacho, whose party now seems predominant...
During his stay in Mexico Sweezy saw no evidence that German Nazis were openly supporting Almazan, though he believes that the powerful Spanish Falange, a fascist party which is probably allied with the Nazis, has backed the conservative candidate. Almazan has also received the support of American oil companies, who hoped that he would return their expropriated oil properties...
...Mexican air that Azcarraga wants to keep tidy has many peculiar aspects. Politics provides one of them. During the recent election General Juan Andreu Almazan was never permitted to fling a single amigos mios into a microphone, although his chief rival. General Manuel Avila Camacho, used XEFO, the 5,000-watt official outlet of Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution. Although Don Juan complained that XEFO was breaking the law prohibiting any station from broadcasting political controversies, the station management pointed out with fine Latin logic that as long as it restricted its mikes to Camacho and withheld them...