Word: almazan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Government Candidate Avila Camacho and Independent Juan Andreu Almazan both claiming they had won the July 7 Presidential election, both preparing to take office, both promising a full-dress Congress to support them, the lid last week suddenly popped off Mexican politics...
Next day, speaking in confidential tones to 60 visiting American educators sitting in a Cultural Relations Seminar, Foreign Editor Cesar Ortiz of the CTM organ El Popular made a fabulous charge. Conservative Candidate Almazan, he told them, is just a tool of exiled Leon Trotsky. Together, he confided to the educators, the two aimed "to wreck Mexico's liberal education system. . . . Trotsky would like to go into the U. S. to destroy your institutions, also . . . exert his influence over all South America. You can count on that...
Naturally this was linked in pro-Government minds to Oppositionist Almazan. Naturally all the elements which oppose the imposition of Avila Camacho were willing to see the labor blow-up go sky high. And that was a danger last week. If labor fell down on the Government, the Government would have to fall back on the Army. Once again the six-year-old NEW Revolution wabbled between the mastery of the State and the labor unions...
...Army, trouble brewed last week. It was revealed that certain soldiers of the 38th Infantry Battalion, strategically posted on the fringe of the Federal District, and others "in the country," had been caught with "visiting cards" on which was printed the legend: "Soldiers, take arms against your usurpers when Almazan orders...
...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 Camacho posters. Camachistas and Almazanistas between them have accounted for an estimated 300 pre-election killings to date...