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...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...
First ministers to resign were the four Generals in the Cabinet: Joaquin Amaro (Minister of War) ; Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian...
...cabinet sworn in by President Ortiz Rubio last week contained only two important changes. Ex-Provisional President Fortes Gil retired to his old post as Secretary of the Interior, prime Cabinet post, and handsome General Juan Andreu Almazan was rewarded for his slaughter of 1,000 rebels at the Battle of La Reforma (TIME, April 15) with the post of Secretary of Communications and Public Works...
Meanwhile the Mexican revolution (TIME, March 11 et seq.) was rapidly petering out. The diminished rebel army under General José Gonzalo Escobar retained control of only one state, Sonora. Federal General Juan Andreu Almazan was collecting an army of 10,000 men to complete the mopping...