Word: almazan
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...long depended on TIME'S "hew-to-the-line" reporting to keep facts clear for me in the melee of propagandas in which we live. Your July 15 Mexico election write-up shook my confidence. It seems your representative read a history, consulted some American investment interests, the Almazan campaign headquarters, then wrote...
...million members and which also declared for Camacho. A little arithmetic shows that Camacho strength can't help but total over two million votes. The total Mexican vote is under 2,500,000. If the election had been "properly democratic" and without a hint of any chicanery, Almazan would still have needed a miracle-or a Putsch...
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...
Where was Almazan? When the answer became known, Camachistas made much of it. The man, they said, was craven, guilty, shameful. He was, in point of fact, sensible...