Word: almazanistas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) came out with a fantastic story, which Almazan denied, of a Nazi-backed Almazanista plot to overthrow the Government. From a pile of swastika-sprinkled documents it said it had decoded papers accounting for 12,000 cases of ammunition and eight knocked down planes, smuggled in off a Nazi freighter. Maps were produced showing Almazanista military centres and broadcasting stations. Almazan's strength was put at 250,000 men under onetime Labor Boss Luis M. Morones, backed by a Nazi warship and 14 more planes. Police uncovered plans...
...Next day Almazanistas ambushed five Federal agents investigating the plot, killed two of them. The Government countered by starting a roundup of Almazanista leaders, jailed 100 within 48 hours...
Last year General Almazan asked Reporter Frank Gibler, who had spent some 20 years shuttling between Mexico and the U. S., to be Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from...
...Chihuahua, across the Rio Grande from El Paso and San Antonio, revolt did break out on Independence Day, but it was a fizzler, not a firecracker. Lieut. Colonel Cruz Villalba, defeated Almazanista candidate for Governor, led "between 100 and 700" men into the hills in what the Government described as "a hostile attitude." The Government paid little attention at first, but two days later admitted that a large Federal force under General Antonio Guerrero had taken the field against the rebels. So rugged is the State of Chihuahua that a few well-armed men can carry on guerrilla warfare against...
...President-elect, he would extend adequate guarantees to both Mexican and foreign investors. This just about completed the platform on which General Almazán campaigned. Within 24 hours General Emilio Madero (brother of onetime President Francisco Madero, who ousted Dictator Porfirio Díaz), president of the Almazanista PRUN, announced that if Avila Camacho carried out his promises, he himself would give support to the new President...
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