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...hrer Dietrich does not openly support either President Cárdenas' hand-picked candidate General Manuel Avila Camacho, or his more conservative opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán. He is banking on a revolution and his man is believed to be General Joaquín Amaro, dark, chunky, glass-eyed ex-War Minister who is known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposición. Uncommitted politically, he is regarded...
Troublesome already is General Joaquin Amaro, who made himself unpopular with the Army by putting it to work and now talks like a fascist. Nazi agents, who immigrated as refugees, help to spread his ideas. Though General Amaro's followers are few, his nuisance value is great. Among rumors floating around Mexico last week was one that backers of Cardenas would persuade him to "oppress" General Amaro, thereby driving him to insurrection. If a "state of unrest" exists at election time, the election can be postponed...
...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 rode into Mexico City some 25 years ago. General Amaro forthrightly condemns expropriation, wants to exterminate "fascist and communist tendencies characterizing the present regime." He was Secretary for War under President Calles...
...full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...
...Cardenas justifies the expropriations on patriotic grounds, there is no question that they have almost brought Mexico to its knees economically. Oil exports have fallen 50%. Cost of living is sharply up. And Cardenas has promised that within ten years Mexico will compensate for all it has taken. General Amaro was the first Presidential candidate to broach this issue. "I deem it unpatriotic," he stormed, "to create obligations of an international character for the country in the knowledge that we have not the financial capacity to comply with them...