Word: amaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams have multiplied in the last ten years. Mexico City's best professional baseball team, the Aztecas, is fully as competent as most C league teams in the U. S. Dignitaries like onetime Secretary of War General Joaquin Amaro, General Jaime Quinones, Julio Miller, whose father-in-law is Mexico's Minister to England, play fair polo at their club near Mexico City. The country's boss, Plutarco Elias Calles. prefers poker but he also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs with...
...resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity in the Capital" brought Boss Calles back temporarily as Minister of War. Of the four, whose "loyalty, disinterest and patriotism" Boss Calles praised, three have not been returned to cabinet rank, including Cardenas' good friend & fellow-Tarascan Joachim Amaro, "Father of the Mexican Army," unofficially suspected of plotting the 1931 untranquillity. When Abelardo Rodriguez was moved up from Minister of War to succeed Ortiz Rubio who had fallen out with Calles, Cardenas moved into the War Ministry...
...Mexico's leaders are white men. Calles is the illegitimate son of an unknown and a peasant woman. Ortiz Rubio is reputedly three-quarter Spanish, one-quarter descendant of Michoacan Indian kings. President Rodriguez is a halfbreed, speaks Yaqui fluently. Both Cardenas and Amaro are pure Indian. Observers have long noted the virility of the Mexican Indian blood, the emergence of an Indian dynasty in Mexican politics...
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...
...motive behind my acceptance of the office of Minister of War and the act of loyalty, disinterest and patriotism on the part of General Amaro is to facilitate the path of the Government of the Republic in solving a political crisis...