Word: almazan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns, organized demonstrations in all of Mexico's 28 States. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Confederation of Mexican Labor called on all its subsidiary labor organizations to make a fuss against "Yankee imperialism." Even supporters of the anti-Cárdenas Presidential candidate, General Juan Andreu Almazan, declared for publication they would not oppose whatever decision the President made. U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels got angry telephone calls denouncing the State Department...
...been little place for them. But President Cardenas is to retire next November, and now campaigning for July's Presidential election are two military men with strong backing, plenty of money and no particular revulsion to a little shooting now & then-Generals Manuel Avila Camacho and Juan Andreu Almazan...
General Avila Camacho is the candidate of the P. R. M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution), supports such Cardenas acts as the seizure of foreign-owned oil wells, and, although a dull campaigner, is most likely to win. General Almazan takes a line only slightly to the Right, agrees with his opponents about the oil wells, makes up for his lack of a program with lots of personal charm and chatty campaigning methods. Also likely to enter the race is one-eyed General Joaquin Amaro, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian who still had rings in his ears when he first...
...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 Almazán leader's body was next found...